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Pretty 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.youtu…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq2HkAYbG5o&index=2&list=PLA...
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
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
I believe that if you talk about Oracle without going into Nazi allegory, than some understanding has been left on the table. In fact, I firmly believe that if you were talking to someone who hadn't heard of WWII but was an Oracle customer, that you would explain the Nazis to them in Oracle allegory:
Wow. Really?
Yes, it's true: Larry Ellison owned a whole country
Oh god! The humanity! Just imagine the licences on that thing
I know, it was terrible dude, just ask Poland
Also, for another excellent talk by Bernhardt, this time about the differences in philosophy between Python and Ruby, which gives a very fair critique of them both: https://vimeo.com/9471538.
not a high tech talk, or particularly technically complex, but it shows a common blindspot in a way that is both clear, enlightening and frightening.
"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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
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
It's like a tech talk combined with a stand-up comedy, two-in-one.
Standout moments from his talks:
-"The Lawnmower"
-"Nazis in Oracle Allegory"
-"AWK"
-"Architectural Review Board (Keep your compiler people in little boxes)"
-"madvise MADV_DONTNEED writes lazily to disk?"
-"A piece of on-the-fly software engineering (or: you're f*ked)"
Also, from Brendan Gregg's lighning talk in 2013:
-"SO LET's JUST CUT THEM OFF!"
-"Their reporting software also couldn't handle decimal points"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc
Detailed discussion of how to get the most out of your memory cache and memory bandwidth, focusing on games development. It's full of examples of how understanding both the problem and the hardware, and working in a straightforward way, can give you huge performance gains over using poorly suited abstractions. It shows how low level thinking is still important even with modern compilers. I recommend people interested in performance optimization watch it.