Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 6:38 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?

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Post by beyondcompute » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 6:39 PM UTC

Bret Victor is pretty interesting though a bit philosophical.

The best practical talk is of course this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asLUTiJJqdE - Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin, Clean Architecture and Design

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?

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Post by cgag » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 6:42 PM UTC

dkasper wrote: post #12

dudul wrote: post #2

Big fan of Rich Hickey. I found most of his talks really great, and applicable beyond the Clojure universe. My favorites: "Are we there yet?" and "Simple made Easy".

Simple Made Easy is one of those talks that never gets old to me. Never heard anyone talk about the power of reducing complexity in such a clear way. Here's the link for those who are interested. https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy

This is my favorite. I also really like hammock-driven development (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc)

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?

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Post by superplussed » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 6:46 PM UTC

React-motion, the react animation package that boils all of the animations down to one concept, a spring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tavDv5hXpo

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?

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Post by cgag » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 6:47 PM UTC

Simple made easy is my favorite but I'd also just generally recommend everything by Rich Hickey, Gary Bernhardt, and Jonathan Blow.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?

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Post by someone7x » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 6:47 PM UTC

sssilver wrote: post #32

Raymond Hettinger's talk about good code reviews -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-BqAjZb8M Carmack's talk about functional programming and Haskell -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PhArSujR_A Jack Diederich's "Stop Writing Classes" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9pEzgHorH0 All with a good sense of humor.

Came here to add "Stop Writing Classes", a fantastic talk to show how to refactor away from dogmatic OOP.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?

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Post by slantedview » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 6:49 PM UTC

cgag wrote: post #65

Simple made easy is my favorite but I'd also just generally recommend everything by Rich Hickey, Gary Bernhardt, and Jonathan Blow.

Agree. I've watched a ton of talks over the years on a variety of topics/technologies, and Simple made Easy just feels like a classic, and is timelessly relevant.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?

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Post by Malic » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 6:51 PM UTC

grin Here we go...

For "laughing at ourselves" and oddities of computer languages, there is "Wat" by Gary Bernhardt: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

For an opinion on the Sun to Oracle transition, there is "Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos" by Bryan M. Cantrill, Joyent. His Larry Ellison rant makes me smile: https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=33m00s

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?

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Post by cconroy » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 6:53 PM UTC

Doing with Images Makes Symbols, Alan Kay. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2LZLYcu_JY

The title says it all. It's really a summary of several software systems with good ideas abound. I believe all the software is 80s or prior.

Edit: I also forgot to mention some psychology and math.

Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?

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Post by maaaats » Tue, Oct 04, 2016, 6:54 PM UTC

agumonkey wrote: post #7

After lots of talks I started going to the library and found out it's a lot more effective to grow knowledge. Maybe I'm too ADHD-able when watching videos.

Talks are a great way to discover interesting ideas, technologies, concepts etc. And if the talk inspired, one can then later invest in reading a book.