The most humorous would have to be the "Wat" talk by Gary Bernhardt: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
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Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?
#42Making impossible states impossible" by Richard Feldman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcgmSRJHu_8 has really changed the way I approach dealing with data in my code and was very insightful.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?
#43Probably one of the best introduction/starter to network programming with Golang. I love this talk. The speaker doesn't just throw a bunch of terms and theory at you, or slides, he just gets into the code and solves the problems as they arise. Pretty good talk even if you are not interested in the network programming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afSiVelXDTQ&t=1208s
Did you mean to start the video half way through?
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?
#44Guy L. Steele, "Growing a Language" (1998) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0)
As far as technical presentations can be, this is a work of art, and in spite of its age still completely relevant.
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#45Rob Pike - 'Concurrency Is Not Parallelism'
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#46Raymond Hettinger - Beyond PEP 8 -- Best practices for beautiful intelligible code - PyCon 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-BqAjZb8M
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#47Programming with nothing by Tom Stuart
https://codon.com/programming-with-nothing
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#48I'm not a Closure coder but I loved this talk on how as your tooling becomes more complex and automated, you start to lose sight of simpler solutions to problems. It's all about woodworking!
Tim Ewald - Clojure: Programming with Hand Tools https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShEez0JkOFw
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?
#49Guy L. Steele, "Growing a Language" (1998) ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0 ) As far as technical presentations can be, this is a work of art, and in spite of its age still completely relevant.
And YouTube doesn’t even really capture his use of beautiful crayoned transparencies in the live version of the talk!
Also, any talk where Richard Gabriel and Guy Steele get together will be a treat. I really miss those old quirky OOPSLA days.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?
#50Not 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 )
This is the only video where she mentions working on the problem - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7rzFqP3daI