Robert Lefkowitz's keynote from Pycon 2007: "The Importance of Programming Literacy" I was listening while driving home and had to keep driving around my neighborhood because I wasn't ready to turn it off.
A similar talk: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Own-89vxYF8
Ask HN: What's the best technical talk you've heard?
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Re: Ask HN: What's the best technical talk you've heard?
#42Guido did a talk at Uber, about the reasons behind the decisions/trade-offs in how cPython is implemented. The pypy guys were there, and it was interesting to hear how different groups could implemented such different interpreters for the same language. It was much deeper than most of the technical talks I've heard in the bay area.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best technical talk you've heard?
#43Bret Victor: Inventing on Principle http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII
I second this. Actually, I'm an even bigger fan of his "Stop Drawing Dead Fish" talk, but unfortunately I don't think it is online yet.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best technical talk you've heard?
#44Guy Steele's "Growing a Language". A very cool idea for a talk! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0
I Second this nomination. I re-watch this talk about once a year. Very entertaining.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best technical talk you've heard?
#45Human Computation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlzM3zcd-lk
Captcha creator on how we can trick humans into doing useful work via "games with a purpose".
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#46Architecture: The Lost Years is a fantastic talk by Robert Martin http://www.confreaks.com/videos/759-rubymidwest2011-keynote-...
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#47Richard Feynman - The Character of Physical Laws
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3mhkYbznBk
Incredible talk for both the content and the form ! There is so much we could learn from him.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best technical talk you've heard?
#48One of my favorites is Alan Kay "Programming and Scaling"
http://www.tele-task.de/archive/video/flash/14029/
Re: Ask HN: What's the best technical talk you've heard?
#49Eric Pickup on scaling YouPorn [SFW]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlkCdM_f3p4 [edit] Spoiler alert: Everything's in Redis!
I think that's the first time I've seen "[SFW]", but I appreciate that you made it explicit.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best technical talk you've heard?
#50Single best is difficult, here are some favourites of mine:
"You and your research" by Richard Hamming:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zDuOPkMSw
"How to design a good API and why it matters" by Joschua Bloch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAb7hSCtvGw
Google TechTalk on Git by Linus Torvalds:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8
All talks ever given by Alan Kay, for example: