> It's been a weird year, wonder if there were still good tech talks in 2020.
If anything there are likely more than ever, because a lot of the ones that used to be delivered in person and not recorded may have been recorded this year.
Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?
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Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?
#32For me, it was Art of Code by Dylan Beattie, but mostly because that talk has the best ending[0] I have seen. Also, introduced to me a side of programming that I instinctively knew existed but never sought out. [0]: https://youtu.be/6avJHaC3C2U?t=3366
I second that! It's such a great talk because it showcases some powerful concepts while being very entertaining.
That's one of these talks you can watch with an interested layman as well, which I very much enjoy and find valuable.
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#33I am not sure if this qualifies, but I found the discussion between Scott Hanselman and Dr. David Kellermann on "Effective Remote Teaching with intention and creativity" fascinating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LaTamAIinc They mix a number of fairly simple technologies to achieve some really cool new ways to teach remotely. Also, Scott Hanselman makes a series of well-made videos on "Computer Stuff They Didn't T…
Thank you for this suggestion! Teaching is very challenging in of itself, remote makes things even more difficult. I hope to find some inspiration from this.
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#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there any evidence that the query is actually censored, beyond conspiracy theories?
I attached the proof pic. edit: To the comment below saying I'm lying. Yes it does query. The first time I query, it doesnt give results. Then I query it again and it shows all results (same query, pressing the search icon again). This is stealthy censorship and an unsuspecting person wouldn't notice. This doesn't happen for any other query. And it only happens with my work ip address, not a VPN. Edit2: Still not wor…
> This doesn't happen when I use a VPN.
That points at your network (ISP, LAN) more than DDG. You might try other less popular search engines (maybe Bing) to see if this behavior happens there as well.
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#36I watched this in 2020 even though it's from EuroBSDCon 2019. I'm talking about Patricia Aas keynote "Embedded Ethics": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfNIiitVFtc Hasn't aged one bit. If anything Patricia is spot on pretty much everything. If you don't have time to spend on this, you may want to take a look at the slides: https://www.slideshare.net/PatriciaAas/embedded-ethics-eurob...
Just want to jump
in on this - watch the video, read the slides. It's powerful
stuff. No all the answers are not there, hell most of the questions are not there, but just take 2 minutes and read it.
Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?
#37I am not sure if this qualifies, but I found the discussion between Scott Hanselman and Dr. David Kellermann on "Effective Remote Teaching with intention and creativity" fascinating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LaTamAIinc They mix a number of fairly simple technologies to achieve some really cool new ways to teach remotely. Also, Scott Hanselman makes a series of well-made videos on "Computer Stuff They Didn't T…
How excaty did you find "useful" [ one of the fine qualities to name it as best ] this video?
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#38Minor personal confession, and a minor shameless plug.
I really enjoyed the Online Lisp Meeting talks[0] that have happened throughout this year. They show a lot of amazing and recent developments that have been occurring in various parts of the worldwide Lisp landscape, despite how much energy seems to go into repeatedly proclaiming the Lisp family of languages dead, over and over and over.
It was a good choice to host these talks regularly after this year's European Lisp Symposium. I'm glad that I did the work related to that, and I'll be glad to do more of this.
[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgq_B39Y_kKD9_sdCeE5S...
(Disclosure: two of the talks there are by me; my above comment, naturally, doesn't refer to them.)
Re: Ask HN: Best Talks of 2020?
#39All Day DevOps happened online this year, all the talks are here: https://content.sonatype.com/2020addo
Maybe I'm weird, but I really like talks like Outcomes over Outputs (https://content.sonatype.com/2020addo-ct/addo2020-ct-rangana...). Basically: are the metrics you're tracking helping the business, or just your team? (Also I thought this one was well composed and presented!)
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#40Basically anything by Prof. Chelsea Finn for the sole reason that they represent the cutting edge thinking around getting robots to act in intelligent ways in the real world.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=chelsea+finn&sp...