Not at all high-brow, but I revisit the in-the-trenches case study of "Scaling Pinterest" on Infoq from time to time because I find their fighting through the pain inspirational for my own scaling troubles.
Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?
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Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?
#102Mike Bostock's talk on visualizing algorithms is one of my favorites: https://vimeo.com/112319901
> Visualizing Algorithms – A look at the use of visualization and animation to understand, explain and debug algorithms.
Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?
#103My 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.
Very entertaining, thanks!
Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?
#104My favourite talk is:
"What the heck is the event loop anyway?" by Philip Roberts
Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?
#105Elevator hacking (seriously) https://youtu.be/oHf1vD5_b5I
Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?
#106It's an old talk but I really enjoyed it at the time, Paul Graham on Great Hackers: http://web.archive.org/web/20130729231533id_/http://itc.conv...
Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?
#107Aside from a lot of the classics here, one that stands out is this AMAZING live demo at pycon by David Beazley:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCs5OvhV9S4
The simple and followable progression to more and more complex ideas blows my mind every time.
Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?
#108Linus Torvalds talk about git https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8
Was going to post the same one. Great talk!
Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?
#109Pretty much anything by David Beazley or Bryan Cantrill
Discovering Python (David Beazley)
http://pyvideo.org/pycon-us-2014/discovering-python.html
David finds himself in a dark vault, stuck for months sifting through deliberately obfuscated pile of old code and manuals. All seems lost, but then he finds Python on a vanilla Windows box.
Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of Illumos (Bryan Cantrill)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc
History of Illumos, SunOS, Solaris, the horribleness of Oracle
These are not technical, but they are entertaining.
Re: Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?
#110That guy fat from the Bootstrap team - What Is Open Source & Why Do I Feel So Guilty?