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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 the_duke »

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've had the same idea a few years ago and started working on it, but never found the time to push it over the finish line.

Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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Post by no_wizard »

jll29 wrote: post #59
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 fo…

>I think this is a great idea for a startup

Ideally, this runs like wikipedia or Lichess, if I'm being honest. I don't think its a great business model for a VC backed startup[0]. Perhaps a more traditional business inception might work, if you are selling it to the big conference organizations / hosts and make it attractive enough for it to be their go to for posting videos and such.

I think it ends up imploding against the pressures that come with it with being a VC startup though.

[0]: I'm taking the term startup to mean shorthand for venture backed startup, as it is usually used on HN and other places.

Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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Post by culi »

datadrivenangel wrote: post #21
culi wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

popularity ≠ quality

Having watched a lot of the goto talks, I'd say that they're like a good tech conference: ~5-10% of the talks could have a major impact on your work/career, 20-30% of the talks are interesting and slightly useful, and the remaining talks are basically product pitches / sponsor slots, which can be useful but are often biased.

If I'm not asking for too much, I'd love to see an example of a talk you consider a member of the "could have a major impact on your work" bucket

Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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Post by Ygg2 »

darksaints wrote: post #52

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.

What do you mean? That wasn't a Q&A session, they interrupted the speaker and ate all the time arguing. The speaker didn't get to finish his presentation.

This makes me think, whoever wrote these top 100 talks has either questionable tastes or just did a simple query and filter (SELECT * FROM youtube.video WHERE tag = tech SORT BY youtube.video.views LIMIT 100).

Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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Post by wslh »

apwell23 wrote: post #57
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

I don't think this is about a niche but rather a broader need for lists, more specifically, integrated lists from users. Pinterest, for example, is built around lists, Amazon has wishlists, IMDb[1] provides movie rankings, etc.

From a data portability perspective, the real challenge is getting users to connect all these platforms to a kind of unified list, making it accessible for queries, machine learning, or other applications. This, in my view, is a traction problem rather than a technical one, independent of whether it justifies a business. FriendFeed[2] was a very interesting project where users could connect their profiles with many services and their followers saw their updates. It seems their Tornado web server keeps getting updated [3].

More than a decade ago, I explored some of these ideas [4][5], conceptualizing a directed acyclic graph (DAG) model where data operations could be performed at a global level, dynamically recalculating like a spreadsheet.

Going to more complex topics there are resources such as differential dataflows [6].

[1] My movies ranking: https://www.imdb.com/user/ur0601133/ratings/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FriendFeed

[3] https://github.com/tornadoweb/tornado

[4] https://blog.databigbang.com/ideas-egont-a-web-orchestration...

[5] https://blog.databigbang.com/egont-part-ii/

[6] https://timelydataflow.github.io/differential-dataflow/intro...

Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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Post by swyx »

simonw wrote: post #34
rgreasons wrote: post #4

Really surprised at the lack of “big” names on the list. My gut reaction was “really, no PyCon?” But when I went to the PyCon channel, even the keynotes from last year barely cracked a thousand views.

I just checked and my PyCon keynote got 6,200 - pretty happy with that! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1-KQZZarpc

hmm sounds like your AIE keynote was bigger than PyCon :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTTMUWP5B0s

Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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Post by weitendorf »

no_wizard wrote: post #62
jll29 wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 fo…

>I think this is a great idea for a startup Ideally, this runs like wikipedia or Lichess, if I'm being honest. I don't think its a great business model for a VC backed startup[0]. Perhaps a more traditional business inception might work, if you are selling it to the big conference organizations / hosts and make it attractive enough for it to be their go to for posting videos and such. I think it ends up imploding aga…

It's much more like wikipedia than Lichess IMO.

The hard part with going completely free is building enough of a community of strong contributors that they are able to effectively curate the contents for quality's sake, rather than the obvious commercial and career incentives to advertise their own work (or sneak in less educational content). That could be very hard to bootstrap without doing a ton of the curation yourself initially, and it requires an ongoing commitment to manage the community once it is established, which is also time consuming.

> I'm taking the term startup to mean shorthand for venture backed startup, as it is usually used on HN and other places.

I don't agree with that characterization because there are plenty of viable and useful "start up" opportunities that require zero outside funding, or only enough to get started. Also, VC funding is literally just debt that can convert to equity (it's a loan that can have an extremely high effective interest rate if you're successful), so you actually want to avoid it as much as possible if you think you have a good shot at accomplishing your goals without it. I think a surprisingly large number of founders and people working in SV/startups don't fully understand that.

Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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Post by BeetleB »

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…

> Likes/dislikes restored

Why? It leads to a lot of abuse.

Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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Post by stavros »

EncomLab wrote: post #33
paxcoder wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jai has been in development for a decade. I would appreciate if it were finally open-sourced.

Considering the fact that Jon despises open-source you might be waiting a long time.

Why does he despise open-source?
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