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

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Post by cvwright »

Gary McGraw: Cyber War, Cyber Peace, Stones, and Glass Houses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCULzMa7iqs

I like how this talk cuts through a lot of the BS in security. One of his points is that the US and other rich Western countries have a lot more to lose from a possible "cyber war" than our potential adversaries do.

Another key point is that we'll never make much progress unless we can somehow start building better systems in the first place, with fewer vulnerabilities for an adversary to exploit.

I think the second point has become a lot more widely accepted in recent years since McGraw started giving this talk. Unfortunately it sounds like a lot of government folks still haven't got the memo on point #1.

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

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Post by josh_carterPDX »

acchow wrote: post #49
azeirah wrote: post #14

By far my favorite talk is and has been for a very long time Bret Victor's inventing on principle, for me, nothing comes close, except for some of his other work I suppose. https://vimeo.com/36579366

Agreed. Was gonna post this if it wasn't up already. After this, The Birth and Death of Javascript: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death... He could've taken the concept further tho. I think there are real hardware simplifications you could do if the OS is a jitting VM - no memory mapping unit and take out the expensive fully-associative TLBs.

This is great. I love that he goes into the future. :)

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

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Post by mattste »

hackaflocka wrote: post #38

Paul Buchheit - Startup School Europe 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5w-0H-hq6E Anjana Vakil: Learning Functional Programming with JavaScript - JSUnconf 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-5obm1G_FY Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle https://vimeo.com/36579366 Philip Roberts: What the heck is the event loop anyway? | JSConf EU 2014 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aGhZQkoFbQ

I definitely recommend Philip Roberts's talk. I watched it a couple of months into learning Javascript and then everything "clicked."

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

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Post by [deleted] »

Malic wrote: post #68

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

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

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Post by caub »

acchow wrote: post #49
azeirah wrote: post #14

By far my favorite talk is and has been for a very long time Bret Victor's inventing on principle, for me, nothing comes close, except for some of his other work I suppose. https://vimeo.com/36579366

Agreed. Was gonna post this if it wasn't up already. After this, The Birth and Death of Javascript: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death... He could've taken the concept further tho. I think there are real hardware simplifications you could do if the OS is a jitting VM - no memory mapping unit and take out the expensive fully-associative TLBs.

this is quite outdated
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