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Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?

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Post by ldng »

tminima wrote: post #50
havardk wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm guessing it could be Anna Patterson ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Patterson )

This is the only video where she mentions working on the problem - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7rzFqP3daI

Hum, no it was not her. I think it was a Google I/O on googlevideo at the time but I could be wrong. My memory is a bit fuzzy.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?

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Post by pasta »

GOTO 2016 • Secure Coding Patterns • Andreas Hallberg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqd9bxy5Hvc

Simple advice to create more secure and imho bug-free code.

Some of his advice:

Let functions return what they promise. Don't return null or false, but throw exceptions.

Use immutable objects.

Use domain objects.

Don't black-list: white-list.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?

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Post by komuW »

1. Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible? - James Mickens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajGX7odA87k

2. James Mickens on JavaScript - James Mickens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5xh0ZIEUOE

3. Creating containers From Scratch - Liz Rice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fi7uSYlOdc

4. 2013 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: The Existence of Nothing - Panelists: J. Richard Gott, Jim Holt, Lawrence Krauss, Charles Seife, Eve Silverstein. Moderator: Neil deGrasse Tyson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OLz6uUuMp8

5. 2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Is the Universe a Simulation? - Panelists: David Chalmers, Zohreh Davoudi, James Gates, Lisa Randall, Max Tegmark Moderator: Neil deGrasse Tyson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgSZA3NPpBs

6. Zig: A programming language designed for robustness, optimality, and clarity – Andrew Kelley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4oYSByyRak

7. Concurrency Is Not Parallelism - Rob Pike https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN_DpYBzKso

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?

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Post by tjoff »

growtofill wrote: post #65
dnautics wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

His boundaries and functional core, imperative shell are less funny but life changing.

They're both in my to-watch list: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/funct...

Thanks, without knowing the title of the talks I could not for the life of me parse parent.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?

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Post by mabbo »

abhishekjha wrote: post #8
jhammons wrote: post #3

"Is it really Complex? Or did we just make it Complicated?" (Alan Kay): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY

This reminds me of a comment on a book titled ‘Discrete mathematics and its application’ by Kenneth Rosen which was along the lines of how smart the author was at the same time not being able to explain the concepts to someone else in an easy manner and to be honest I had the same feeling. I understood those concepts from other texts which definitely means that it isn’t me who was was inadequate or not upto the task.…

I TA'd a fist year University course using, I believe, that textbook during my final two years of undergrad.

The material itself is difficult to learn and harder to teach well. At my University, it seemed that the Prof had to teach the subject for 3 or 4 years before they could reasonably get half the class to pass the final exam.

At the same time, I've often felt like I would have no harder of a time teaching the subject to 11 year olds. It's just a weird topic.

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