Here are some of my favorites:
How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAb7hSCtvGw
Agile Methods The Good, the Hype and the Ugly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffkIQrq-m34&t=420s
Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?
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Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?
#32Hammock Driven Development by Rich Hickey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?
#33John Carmack's talks, especially the ones from his id days at QuakeCon. Watching somebody get on stage and just talk for hours in detail without notes about a whole range of technical topics that they mastered and enjoy is pretty inspiring.
I’m by no means a gamer but have always admired Carmack for his sheer brilliance. I stumbled over one of his talks while doing something else and jumped to various points in the talk. _Every. Single. Time._ he was talking about something profound and the talk is friggin several hours long.
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#34Not the best I've seen but definitively one I would like to recover the link to : a Googler presentation where she explain how they took about 2 years developing a memory optimisation (circa 2007~2009 IIRC) and manage to finish a few months before it became indispensable because they were about to have an hardware shortage. They were consuming hardware faster than the industry could produce. I just can't remember who…
I'm guessing it could be Anna Patterson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Patterson)
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?
#35The most humorous would have to be the "Wat" talk by Gary Bernhardt: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
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#36"Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?" by Karsten Nohl and Nemanja Nikodijevic from CCC 2016. It exposes how insanely ancient and insecure the global flight booking system is, allowing for stealing of personal information and even other people's flight tickets.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?
#37Hammock Driven Development by Rich Hickey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc
Adding to that Simppe Made Easy, also by Rich Hickey
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#38Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development if illumos by Brian Cantrill https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc Quote copied from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5170246 "As you know people, as you learn about things, you realize that these generalizations we have are, virtually to a generalization, false. Well, except for this one, as it turns out. What you think of Oracle, is even truer than you think it is. There…
How did I know that I'd find this talk at the top when I poked my head in here :). I must rewatch that segment at least once every 6 months even when not prompted by people linking to Brian's other, often more technically rewarding talks.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?
#39David Beazley: Python concurrency from the ground up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCs5OvhV9S4
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#40Kent Beck - 3X