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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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I didn't expect so many C++ talks in this list. Not bad for a supposedly dying language :) "Introduction to Wait-free Algorithms in C++ Programming" by Daniel Anderson ( https://youtube.com/watch?v=kPh8pod0-gk ) is a very good talk, btw!

Reports of C++ death are greatly exaggerated.

Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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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…

Network egress fees are going to kill you, unless you have sufficient capital to run your own DC

Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Why does he despise open-source?

There are many rant videos available online - but in general the core of his software philosophy is based in minimal, clean, extremely optimized code. Open-source rarely results in any of those things. Jon is the last guy wandering in the desert, still devoted to concise code - I love him for it.

Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why does he despise open-source?

There are many rant videos available online - but in general the core of his software philosophy is based in minimal, clean, extremely optimized code. Open-source rarely results in any of those things. Jon is the last guy wandering in the desert, still devoted to concise code - I love him for it.

I feel like he's barking up the wrong tree, opening up his source code doesn't mean the code will get dirty. He can simply refuse any contributions.

Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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post #64

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).

It clearly says the most watched talks, so yes. The author mentions in the article "from the conferences I follow"

Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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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 really want to learn his methodology to writing software

Check the Data Oriented Design talk: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc

Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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post #68

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.

What you see as abuse some would see as user agency. User agency is a very powerful thing, and it's shortsighted to squash it just because your users aren't using it strictly to enhance your content in the way you want.

It's especially shortsighted to squash it just because they used it on some of your advertisers' content and your advertisers yelled at you about it.

Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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post #77
post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Likes/dislikes restored Why? It leads to a lot of abuse.

What you see as abuse some would see as user agency. User agency is a very powerful thing, and it's shortsighted to squash it just because your users aren't using it strictly to enhance your content in the way you want. It's especially shortsighted to squash it just because they used it on some of your advertisers' content and your advertisers yelled at you about it.

I think my point is that it requires a (perhaps opaque) algorithm to work well. A pure popularity metric never led to good quality in my experience.

So even if you have your up/down votes, expect that how videos are presented to you are not strongly reflective of the vote count.

Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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There was a post on HN that just got removed a minute ago about a Syrian tech conference. Inevitably someone asked if there were any women speakers of note. Out of curiosity I counted up the femme speakers in this list. By the time I finished counting the thread was deleted so I'm gonna post my findings here:

13 out of 100

There were a couple with multiple speakers but they were always all masc except for one that had like 10 speakers

Re: Most-Watched Software Engineering Talks of 2024

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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…

There's a good directory of conferences at https://confs.tech/ and at https://dev.events/
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