My current favorite is Jake Archibald's offline-first progressive web apps talk at Google I/O 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmGr0RszHc8
It's a terrific window into the future of web application development.
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#52Resilience in Complex Adaptive systems by Richard Cook at Velocity Conf 2013:
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#53For reasons completely unrelated to the content, Identity 2.0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrpajcAgR1E
Watching that talk brought me over to the "a picture or a few words per slide" style of presentation, rather than the "wall of bullet points" style. It also helped me move from "stop talking, change slides, start talking again", to smooth transitions while talking.
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#54Linus Torvalds on Git. It's funny, and it really does tell you a lot about why Git is the way it is. Bryan Cantrill's 2011(?) Lightning talk on ta(1). It's fascinating, but it also shows you just long-lived software can be. Randall Munroe's Talk on the JoCo cruise. Because it's effing hilarious, and teaches everybody the important art of building a ball pit inside your house. Finally, an honorable mention to three pa…
> "Finally, an honorable mention to three papers that don't qualify, but which I think you should read anyway."
If we're going for papers, then I'm guessing books are allowed too. If so, for anyone interested in giving themselves a grounding in the fundamentals, it's worth checking out Code by Charles Petzold. I've been going through it, it's excellently written, and has helped me fill in gaps in my understanding of how computers work.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Sof...
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#55James Mickens at Monitorama: https://vimeo.com/95066828
Aside from the comedic aspect (which makes the talk incredible), Mickens is a genuinely brilliant thinker and has a marvelous way with words.
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#56"The Last Lecture", by Randy Pausch. While it's by a well-known CS professor (who was dying of cancer at the time), it's not a technical talk, but about life and work, and how to make the most of it. One of the most inspiring things I've ever seen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo
Another fantastic one is Steve Jobs' 2005 commencement address at Stanford:
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#57I see a couple of Bret Victor videos here, but the one I loved the most was "The Future of Programming":
https://vimeo.com/71278954
Really set me on a path of re-examining older ideas (and research papers), for applications that are much more contemporary. Absolute stunner of a talk (and the whole 70's gag was really great).
"What would be really sad is if in 40 years we were still writing code in procedures in text files" :(
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#59Growing a Language by Guy Steele (video and transcription):
http://dropclickpaste.com/#7d1673d81ee5a0bb7994e80a4f394997c...
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#60Dynamic Languages Wizards Series - Panel on Runtime: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LG-RtcSYUQ