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Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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Post by atombender »

eximius wrote: post #26
EncomLab wrote: post #14

Wish Jon Blow would get back out there! He was asked on a recent stream and said he has turned down invites while trying to get Jai pushed out the door.

I do think that the `SOA` struct modifier keyword is maybe the most interesting thing out of Jai. Other languages would do well to think about adopting a mechanism to support something like it.

My understanding is that it's been moved to a convenience macro and is no longer a syntax-level thing. The original videos where Blow talked about SOA at the language level is very old now, and the language has gone through a lot of changes.

Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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Post by darksaints »

I watched a little bit of the filesystems in rust talk and while it was a fairly straightforward talk, I was shocked at the q&a session. Emotionally hyperbolic ranting, jumping to conclusions, and wild accusations. I had no idea the linux community was so childish and reactionary towards rust.

Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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Post by sangeeth96 »

I really wish there existed a central platform that tracks/links to all tech conference videos from past to present because YouTube just plain sucks for this and in general, to focus. They've had DECADES to polish this experience (in general for any educational content), at least under the premium tier and I've given up all hopes of them ever getting this right.

Off the top of my head, such a platform could:

    1. Encourage and foster great discussions (and support markdown!)
    2. Have a "community notes" kind of feature to highlight outdated info, errata, related talks etc.
    3. Expose brand new conferences and lesser known ones
    4. Allow people to share curated lists
    5. Likes/dislikes restored
    6. View count tracking from across multiple sources (some confs host on their site before YouTube upload)
    7. Support for interactive viewing of decks, source code etc.
    8. Speaker profiles (w/ verification)
    9. Automation to help conferences/speakers/etc. to submit/update content they own/keep things in sync
etc.

I don't think such a platform exists today but would love to be wrong.

Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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Post by apwell23 »

sangeeth96 wrote: post #55

I really wish there existed a central platform that tracks/links to all tech conference videos from past to present because YouTube just plain sucks for this and in general, to focus. They've had DECADES to polish this experience (in general for any educational content), at least under the premium tier and I've given up all hopes of them ever getting this right. Off the top of my head, such a platform could: 1. Encou…

this sounds like a lot of work for something this niche

Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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Post by jll29 »

sangeeth96 wrote: post #55

I really wish there existed a central platform that tracks/links to all tech conference videos from past to present because YouTube just plain sucks for this and in general, to focus. They've had DECADES to polish this experience (in general for any educational content), at least under the premium tier and I've given up all hopes of them ever getting this right. Off the top of my head, such a platform could: 1. Encou…

I think this is a great idea for a startup.

As a scientist, I would definitely be a paying customer, and on top I could deduct that membership from my taxes or have my lab pay for it like we (like many others) are paying Overleaf just under $1000 a year only to have LaTeX run in a Web browser to collaborate on papers (now my most important online service/app).

We usually know where to find the talks and recordings for the conference venues of our own specialist areas, but if there was a general "ScienceTube"-type Web site, you could also check out talks from neighboring disciplines. God knows, this might be as useful/addictive as HN.

Should you want to launch this & need someone for the scientific advisory board, please get in touch.

EDIT: typo fixed

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