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Re: Ask HN: What's the best technical talk you've heard?

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Post by michaelwww »

I wouldn't want to use the term "best" because there are so many good ones in various areas, but this talk by Steve Yegge was both entertaining and informative.

Stanford Seminar - Google's Steve Yegge on GROK (large scale source code analysis)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTJs-0EInW8

Re: Ask HN: What's the best technical talk you've heard?

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Post by kenjackson »

chollida1 wrote: post #20

Guy Steele's "Growing a Language". A very cool idea for a talk! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0

Great talk. One of the best. His talk with Gabriel, 50 in 50, is not as good, but still quite fun. Well worth watching, but it is much better in person than on video (saw it at HOPL):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nii1n8PYLrc

Re: Ask HN: What's the best technical talk you've heard?

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Post by asdfs »

"Inseperable from Magic: The Manufacture of Modern Semiconductors" — an overview of semiconductor fabrication (and its current challenges) by a former Intel engineer. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4

"The Atomic Level of Porn", by Jason Scott — a history of low-bandwidth pornography, from ham radio to telegraphs to BBSes. http://vimeo.com/7088524

How to build your own X-ray backscatter imager (aka "airport body scanner") by Ben Krasnow http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUf75_MlOnw

"The Secret History of Silicon Valley" by Steve Blank. Other, more recent versions of this talk exist, but the audio quality is poor in them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo#t=1m42s

Re: Ask HN: What's the best technical talk you've heard?

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Post by stretchwithme »

rustc wrote: post #7

Two great ones by Rich Hickey, the creator of Clojure - Are We There Yet? - http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hic... Simple Made Easy - http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy

Yes, I was quite impressed with the second one. Haven't seen the first one.

Re: Ask HN: What's the best technical talk you've heard?

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Post by jdietrich »

Meredith Patterson's astonishing CCC talk on computing and linguistics. It's a tour de force, presenting a systematic and practical proposal for how we can build an open and secure future for computing. I can't imagine a better example of the joys of inter-disciplinary thinking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEfedtQVOY

Re: Ask HN: What's the best technical talk you've heard?

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Post by NicoJuicy »

bwlandstreet wrote: post #10

not to be cliché, but, Steve Jobs.

A talk about expressions (c#), it's very usefull if you use the entity framework a lot (like i do).

To bad the author lost the video files (everyone recorded their screen), other video's of the virtual conference are available: http://www.mvcconf.com/videos )

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