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Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?
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#2SVG can do that?! (Sarah Drasner) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADXX4fmWHbo
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#3"Is it really Complex? Or did we just make it Complicated?" (Alan Kay): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY
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#4Define "technical". But when it comes to programming I always enjoy Sandi Metz's talks. I can highly recomend this talk she made at the RailsConf in 2014, about taking an ugly beast of code and turning it to something more digestable and beautiful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bZh5LMaSmE
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#5Simple Made Easy by Rich Hickey https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
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#6Bret Victor talks are inspirational:
- Inventing on Principal https://vimeo.com/36579366
- Stop Drawing Dead Fish https://vimeo.com/64895205
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#7Two of my favorites:
code::dive conference 2014 - Scott Meyers: Cpu Caches and Why You Care: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDIkqP4JbkE
CppCon 2014: Mike Acton "Data-Oriented Design and C++": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX0ItVEVjHc
They're mostly about C++ and cache aware/data oriented programming.
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#8"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 was willing to learn but the smartest of the texts in the field left me feeling stupid. Can somebody else chip in on this argument?
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#9Probably one of the best introduction/starter to network programming with Golang. I love this talk. The speaker doesn't just throw a bunch of terms and theory at you, or slides, he just gets into the code and solves the problems as they arise. Pretty good talk even if you are not interested in the network programming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afSiVelXDTQ&t=1208s
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#10Jake Archibald talking about the javascript event loop and actually making it both entertaining and easily grokable! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCOL7MC4Pl0