I always enjoyed Ryan Dahl's casual at-home talk on the history of Node.JS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAc0vQCC6UQ
Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?
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#122Edsger Dijkstra's Turing Award Speech:
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#123One of my favourite talks is by James Mickens at Monitorama 2015: https://vimeo.com/95066828
I was going to post this one as well - it's my all time favorite. He does a great job of making truly funny, yet incredibly intelligent jokes.
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#124grin 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
"His Larry Ellison rant makes me smile" +1 great talk
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#125By 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
Best talk open ever: "Unlike the previous session, I don't have any prizes to give out. I'm just going to tell you how to live your life"
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#126Propositions as Types: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOiZatlZtGU
I think this can really really change how we look at everyday programming tasks everywhere from the type of tooling we choose to how we approach problems.
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#127Everything by Mr. Bryan Cantrill! This one is special:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6XQUciI-Sc
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#128Jon Blow's "How to program independent games": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjDsP5n2kSM
It's about much more than games. To me, it's about identifying and not doing unnecessary work.
The second half of this video is a Q&A session, which I would skip.
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#129Cliff Click was the jvm architect at sun then spent a decade at azul systems as their jvm architect. The talk is "A JVM Does That?"
It's well worth watching if you are interested in vms at all.
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#130Rich Hickey "Simple Made Easy"
https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy