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

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Post by acangiano »

will_pseudonym wrote: post #171
peterkelly wrote: post #56

"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

Randy Pausch's Time Management lecture is also great. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tim1sjY7q8

Actual lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTugjssqOT0

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

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Post by mintplant »

qwertyuiop924 wrote: post #149
avodonosov wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's like a tech talk combined with a stand-up comedy, two-in-one.

That's Bryan's talks in a nutshell. And it is glorious. 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 rep…

Bryan is responsible for one of my favorite comments on this site:

> Anyone decrying Oracle as "evil" is falling into a trap that I have warned about: they are making the mistake of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4261851

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

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Post by 0xmohit » 

  How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters [0]
  The Principles of Clean Architecture [1]
  The State of the Art in Microservices by Adrian Cockcroft [2]
  "The Mess We're In" by Joe Armstrong [3]
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAb7hSCtvGw

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_TH-Y78tt4

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwpxq9-uw_0

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4

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

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Post by panic »

0xmohit wrote: post #216

How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters [0] The Principles of Clean Architecture [1] The State of the Art in Microservices by Adrian Cockcroft [2] "The Mess We're In" by Joe Armstrong [3] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAb7hSCtvGw [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_TH-Y78tt4 [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwpxq9-uw_0 [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4

On the subject of API design, this talk is also quite good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ5_u8Lgvyk

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

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Post by boulos »

In addition to Linus's git talk, I really enjoyed Jeff Dean's EE380 retrospective on Building Systems at Google (http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=modXC5IWTJI). Many people have mentioned Jeff's basic premise elsewhere ("Design a system for 10x your current need, but not 100x, rewrite it before then") but this talk gave several useful examples where tipping points occurred (at least with Search).

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

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Post by godd2 »

ptrincr wrote: post #132
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

Thanks for posting this, very much appreciated. Are there any tools available which allow you to live code in such a way? I did a quick search and found this - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9448215/tools-to-support-... It seems quite out of date though.

The closest thing I can think of is Clojurescript with Figwheel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZjFVdU8VLI

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