Are we there yet? - Rich Hickey https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hi...
Of all talks by rich Hickey, this is my favourite.
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#262The mother of all demos by Douglas Engelbart https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY How I met your girlfriend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5xRRF5GfQs&t=66s
I had the pleasure of working with Samy back at Fonality (my first job!) He's such a cool, smart, and just all around amazing dude. Anything he does is always fun, interesting, and hacker-ish.
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#263What Makes Us Uniquely Human? by Erwin McManus: http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/What-Makes-Us-Uniquely-Human-...
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#264grin 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
"Wat" has influenced me so much that, whenever I hear some cliched or meaningless argument, Watman projects himself onto my retina.
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#265One of my favorites. dhh showing once again his ruthless pragmatism:
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#266"An Introduction to SQLite" by Richard Hipp (who wrote the library) is actually a pretty good intro on to how to build your own DB engine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giAMt8Tj-84
Really good talk!
This is a newer and also really good talk about programming languages and their future:
"Uncle" Bob Martin - "The Future of Programming"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecIWPzGEbFc