We Really Don't Know How to Compute: Gerry Sussman - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3tVctB_VSU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3tVctB_VSU</a><p>Zebras All the Way Down: Bryan Cantrill - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE2KDzZaxvE" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE2KDzZaxvE</a><p>Jonathan Blow on Deep Work: Jonathan Blow - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ej_3NKA3pk" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ej_3NKA3pk</a><p>Simple Made Easy: Rich Hickey - <a href="https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy" rel="nofollow">https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy</a><p>Effective Programs - 10 Years of Clojure: Rich Hickey - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V1FtfBDsLU&t=845s" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V1FtfBDsLU&t=845s</a><p>The Last Thing D Needs: Scott Meyers - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAWA1DuvCnQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAWA1DuvCnQ</a>
Turning The Database Inside Out: Martin Kleppmann - <a href="https://www.confluent.io/blog/turning-the-database-inside-out-with-apache-samza/" rel="nofollow">https://www.confluent.io/blog/turning-the-database-inside-ou...</a> in both video and blog form. Describes how to think about any software stack as layers of derived caches on top of immutable event logs, effectively proposing a solution to the first of <a href="https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html" rel="nofollow">https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html</a> . It's certainly changed the way I approach software architecture.<p>Honorable mention: <a href="https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat" rel="nofollow">https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat</a>
The Birth & Death of JavaScript <a href="https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript" rel="nofollow">https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...</a><p>A talk from the 'future' about how everything became 'YavaScript'.
Prof. Harold Thrimbleby, “Designing IT to Make Healthcare Safer” (2014): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XJbwN6EZ4I" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XJbwN6EZ4I</a><p>It might not sound like much from the title, but it's really worth a watch. Thrimbleby talks about UX (captivatingly, even though I'm not usually particularly interested in it) and the many, many bad examples within healthcare tech that leads, directly, to people dying—such as his mother. He also has some really interesting points about tires at one point. I'm not sure if I'm selling it.<p>These two are also really good:
Steve Rambam, “You've Lost Privacy, Now They're Taking Anonymity” (2014): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNZrq2iK87k" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNZrq2iK87k</a>
Lepht Anonym, “Cybernetics for the Masses” (2010): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APOAmxFEMkQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APOAmxFEMkQ</a><p>And this one always makes me chuckle:
Bryan Lunduke, “Linux is Freaking Weird” (2016): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPbAXKMCDkY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPbAXKMCDkY</a>
<a href="http://worrydream.com/dbx/" rel="nofollow">http://worrydream.com/dbx/</a> (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4</a>)<p>Bret Victor - The Future of Programming (imagined from perspective of 1970's)
Growing a Language, by Guy Steele:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ahvzDzKdB0</a>
These three had a big impact on me:<p>Geoff Hinton, The Next Generation of Neural Networks (2007):
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyzOUbkUf3M" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyzOUbkUf3M</a><p>While the exact approach described there didn't end up being necessary (restricted Boltzmann machines), all the summaries of the competition results made me realize machine image and voice recognition was going to accelerate massively and rival humans in many areas in the very near term.<p>----<p>Cracking the neural code: Speaking the language of the brain with optics (2009): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SLdSbp6VjM" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SLdSbp6VjM</a><p>This one made me realize how gene manipulation would be a near term thing and how big of an impact it would have. They used mostly old techniques but all the in situ modifications of cells in mammals were something I hadn't been aware were possible to that degree. One of the guys from his lab, Feng Zhang, went on to be one of the major forces behind CRISPR.<p>----<p>Breakthrough in Nuclear Fusion? - Prof. Dennis Whyte (2016): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkpqA8yG9T4</a><p>New design for a tokamak fusion reactor, made much cheaper by new super conductors that use liquid nitrogen instead of helium/etc. and which have more structural strength by being bound into a metallic ribbon. This one made me really optimistic (it hasn't been borne out like the others yet, but they recently raised $50 million).
The Mother of All Demos, presented by Douglas Engelbart (1968)<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY</a>
The most inspiring talk a I have ever seen:<p>Clasp: Common Lisp using LLVM and C++ for Molecular Metaprogramming.<p>ABSTRACT<p>This talk describes our unique approach to constructing large, atomically precise molecules (called "Molecular Lego" or "spiroligomers") that could act as new therapeutics, new catalysts (molecules that make new chemical reactions happen faster) and ultimately to construct atomically precise molecular devices. Then I describe Clasp and CANDO, a new implementation of the powerful language Common Lisp. Clasp is a Common Lisp compiler that uses LLVM to generate fast machine code and it interoperates with C++. CANDO is a molecular design tool that uses Clasp as its programming language. Together I believe that these are the hardware (molecules) and the software (the CANDO/Clasp compiler) that will enable the development of sophisticated molecular nanotechnology.<p><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8X69_42Mj-g" rel="nofollow">https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8X69_42Mj-g</a>
Meta-comment regarding the videos posted on this thread:<p>It’s concerning to me that 90%+ of these videos are hosted by a single entity. The significance to me (and I assume many others here) is a cultural one. These videos relflect on our livelihoods and our day-to-day interests and pursuits.<p>My advice is to not get complacent about always having access to this content. Use youtube-dl and keep a local backup of what’s important to you.
A really fun and quick one is wat<p><a href="https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat" rel="nofollow">https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat</a>
"Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos" by Bryan Cantrill<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc</a><p>He starts with a nice history of SunOS and Solaris, goes into open source, then midway through (33:00) he goes into a brutally honest rant against Oracle. Even better is that Oracle was one of the sponsors of the conference.
I've made a playlist of all the youtube videos on this page.<p>Find it here:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSkXABXNKIo2eKpTsnWWjcfiDz9vA0RQa" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSkXABXNKIo2eKpTsnWWj...</a>
Stop writing classes is one of my favorites. Also many pycon talks are great, or any talks by Brandon Rhodes.<p><a href="https://youtu.be/o9pEzgHorH0" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/o9pEzgHorH0</a>
#Softwarish - I'm biased a bit more towards interface development:<p>greg wilson - What We Actually Know About Software Development, and Why We Believe It’s True - <a href="https://vimeo.com/9270320#t=3450s" rel="nofollow">https://vimeo.com/9270320#t=3450s</a><p>steve wittens - making webgl dance - the title is deceptive, it's in some ways a visual crash course in linear algebra - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNO_CYUjMK8&t=84s" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNO_CYUjMK8&t=84s</a><p>glenn vanderburg - software engineering doesn't work - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCns726nBhQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCns726nBhQ</a><p>chris granger - in search of tomorrow - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZQoAKJPbh8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZQoAKJPbh8</a><p>alan kay - tribute to ted nelson at intertwingled fest - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnrlSqtpOkw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnrlSqtpOkw</a><p>bret victor - this is already mentioned but if I had to pick one it'd be 'the humane representation of thought' - <a href="https://vimeo.com/115154289" rel="nofollow">https://vimeo.com/115154289</a><p>#Hardwarish:<p>saul griffith - soft, not solid: beyond traditional hardware engineering - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyMowPAJwqo" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyMowPAJwqo</a><p>deb chachra - Architectural Biology and Biological Architectures - <a href="https://vimeo.com/232544872" rel="nofollow">https://vimeo.com/232544872</a><p>#Getting more meta in technology and history:<p>James Burke - Connections
Richard Hamming, "You and Your Research" (June 6, 1995): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zDuOPkMSw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zDuOPkMSw</a>
Randy Pausch - The Last Lecture <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo</a><p>Not necessarily tech. More like great life advice.
I find Runar Bjarnason's talks to be interesting; one of my favourites is 'Constraints Liberate, Liberties Constrain':<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqmsQeSzMdw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqmsQeSzMdw</a><p>The essence of it is that constraints actually allow for easier composition and more modularity. It had a real impact on the way I think about the design of systems.
Philip Wadler's 'Propositions as Types': <a href="https://youtu.be/IOiZatlZtGU" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/IOiZatlZtGU</a><p>Bonus: that was the talk that introduced Lambdaman to the world.
"Making Impossible States Impossible" by Richard Feldman<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcgmSRJHu_8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcgmSRJHu_8</a>
Finally made an account to post in this thread.<p>I'm rather early in my career doing mostly Ruby, Python and JavaScript things. As you might expect, I consume mainly Ruby, Python and JavaScript related talks.<p>The first two talks that really blew my mind are:<p>- K Lars Lohn's PyCon Keynote from 2016: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSfe5M_zG2s" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSfe5M_zG2s</a><p>- Jim Weirich's (RIP) "Y Not" talk from RubyConf 2012: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FITJMJjASUs" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FITJMJjASUs</a><p>There are many other presenters who I have a good opinion of:<p>- Raymond Hettinger: his presentation/teaching style is something I'd like to model my own after, also he gave the first talk on writing proper threaded/concurrent python that I was able to understand and make use of.<p>- Brandon Rhoades: another speaker with a presentation style that I've found easy to follow, also he takes a little shot at the dd utility about 18 minutes into <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9Hmys8ojno" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9Hmys8ojno</a>)<p>- Sandi Metz: I started out in Python land and moved to Ruby land, where I was introduced to Sandi's talks. She doesn't talk about incredibly complex topics, but she's got insight into some really basic things that's helpful to new people who can't see the forest through the trees.<p>- Robert Martin: I gather that his OO principles are not universally revered, but I find his talks useful.<p>- Gary Bernhardt: his talks are interesting and entertaining in ways that most are not<p>The list goes on, but I can't think of them all right now.
Alan Kay - Is it really "Complex"? Or did we just make it "Complicated"? - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubaX1Smg6pY</a>
Bryan Cantrill's USENIX talk - Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc</a><p>He gives a history of SunOS, Solaris, and OpenSolaris up to the Oracle acquisition, and then onto post acquisition and the creation of illumos. It's a brilliant talk and a must-watch for any Unix enthusiast or historian. Bryan is an incredibly engaging speaker.
If you have an interest in the history of programming methodologies, this talk is fascinating:<p><i>Procedural programming: it's back? It never went away</i><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otAcmD6XEEE" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otAcmD6XEEE</a>
Boundaries is a really good one: <a href="https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries" rel="nofollow">https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries</a>
Van Jacobson, "A New Way to look at Networking" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z685OF-PS8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z685OF-PS8</a>
This is an excellent series of short videos on the physics behind quantum computers. It begins with the molecular structure of carbon materials and gradually works its way up to quantum computers: <a href="https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/caging-schrodingers-cat-quantum-nanotechnology" rel="nofollow">https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/caging-schrodingers-cat-qua...</a>
Talk on innovating in your field by Rodney Mullens: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GVO-MfIl1Q" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GVO-MfIl1Q</a><p>Grew up playing Tony Hawk. His talk really inspired me follow my creativity.
The Mess We're In - Joe Armstrong: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4</a>
You Suck at Excel with Joel Spolsky - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nbkaYsR94c</a>
CSS Grid Changes Everything - <a href="https://youtu.be/7kVeCqQCxlk" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/7kVeCqQCxlk</a><p>The speaker is good but I think I like it just because it fixes the relationship between HTML and CSS.
Alex Evan's talk on developing the renderer for Dreams:<p>He's given several versions of this talk (including the Advancements in Real-time Rendering course at Siggraph), but here's one available online:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9KNtnCZDMI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9KNtnCZDMI</a>
My favourite talk group is the Chaos Computer Club Conferences, about security, privacy, and more.<p><a href="https://m.youtube.com/user/mediacccde" rel="nofollow">https://m.youtube.com/user/mediacccde</a>
One of my favourites I watched recently was Dan Abramov introducing React hot loading, Redux and Redux Dev Tools in the same 30 minute talk: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsSnOQynTHs" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsSnOQynTHs</a>
Still my favorite:
"Wat
A lightning talk by Gary Bernhardt from CodeMash 2012"<p><a href="https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat" rel="nofollow">https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat</a><p>This is a humorous talk about javascript
Silver bullet: Hadi Hariri (2015) - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wyd6J3yjcs" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wyd6J3yjcs</a><p>Every time people think a technology will solve all their problems (remember guys from NOSQL back in the days?), they need to see this talk. The speaker also did this talk as a keynote a couple of times during other conferences.
Same question from October 2016:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12637239" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12637239</a><p>Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?<p>848 points by mngutterman on Oct 4, 2016 | hide | past | web | un-favorite | 255 comments<p>Simply put, what are your favorite talks or trainings? It could by a one-off lecture about a specific concept or a series of talks about a languag
On the lighter side, "wat" is really fun: <a href="https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat" rel="nofollow">https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat</a>
Anything by Bryan Cantrill, David Beazley or Joe Armstrong<p>Bryan Cantrill - Leadership Without Management: Scaling Organizations by Scaling Engineers ((but really about Larry Ellison being a lawnmower...) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGkVM1B5NuI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGkVM1B5NuI</a><p>David Beazley - Discovering Python (Dave is locked in a bunker for months with 1TB+ source code related to a patent law suit) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ4Sn-Y7AP8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ4Sn-Y7AP8</a><p>Joe Armstrong - React 2014 : Joe Armstrong - K things I know about building Resilient Reactive Systems ("What is on the wire?" Talks about protocols and other interesting things) <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQIE22e0cW8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQIE22e0cW8</a>
"Bufferbloat from the plumber's point of view." I haven't found a better explanation of the problem. Because of the way it is explained, the idea to solve it becomes obvious.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5KPryOHwk8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5KPryOHwk8</a>
This talk was an interesting thought experiment by PhK of FreeBSD on how if he were tasked by some agency to sabotage open source projects and standards how he would go about doing it <a href="https://youtu.be/fwcl17Q0bpk" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/fwcl17Q0bpk</a><p>A talk by Robert Harper at OPLSS in 2017 is really good as well, covering the basics of programming language background <a href="https://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/summerschool/summer17/topics.php" rel="nofollow">https://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/summerschool/summer17/to...</a> "concrete syntax is where computer science meets psychology.... at the moment it's all a matter of opinion"
Jayson E. Street: Steal Everything, Kill Everyone, Cause Total Financial Ruin! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsVtHqICeKE" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsVtHqICeKE</a><p>Van Albert and Banks: Looping Surveillance Cameras through Live Editing <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoOqznZUClI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoOqznZUClI</a><p>Ken Thompson: Reflections on Trusting Trust <a href="https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thompson.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/712.fall02/papers/p761-thomp...</a><p>And of course, Simple Made Easy, Wat, etc.
Understanding parser combinators: a deep dive - Scott Wlaschin
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDalzi7mhdY&t=1021s" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDalzi7mhdY&t=1021s</a>
Neil Harbison: Life in the age of new body parts and extra senses: <a href="https://livestream.com/accounts/6779986/events/2928486/videos/51486919" rel="nofollow">https://livestream.com/accounts/6779986/events/2928486/video...</a><p>Neil is completely colour blind; he sees no colour at all. So he implanted an antenna on his skull that detects the information he choses (like colour) and converts it to vibrations on his skull. So not only can he now perceive colour, he can even perceive more colours than regular humans, since the antenna can be augmented.
Really excited to go through all the other talks listed here I'm not familiar with!<p>Three talks that I tend to reference a lot and have had a huge impact on the way I think about software:<p>The Soul of Software: Avdi Grimm - <a href="https://youtu.be/IgbHzFb1hGw" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/IgbHzFb1hGw</a><p>The Humane Representation of Thought: Bret Victor - <a href="https://youtu.be/agOdP2Bmieg" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/agOdP2Bmieg</a><p>How to Program Independent Games: Jonathan Blow - <a href="https://youtu.be/JjDsP5n2kSM" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/JjDsP5n2kSM</a>
Has been a long time since I watched either of these<p>Rusty Russell - Advanced C Coding For Fun! - A series of crazy tricks that is quite enlightening.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEQ3sRakIs0" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEQ3sRakIs0</a><p>Tridge - Linux powered coffee roaster. Tridge (of Samba and rsync fame) walks through the process he used to reverse engineer a USB thermometer live during the talk.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LQr4At5Z5Q" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LQr4At5Z5Q</a>
"Console hacking 2010"[0][1] - The story and history of the different hacks and security bypasses around the Sony PlayStation 3 gaming console. Absolutely brilliant.<p>[0] <a href="https://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/4087.en.html" rel="nofollow">https://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/4087.en....</a>
[1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KNZsNTPlec" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KNZsNTPlec</a>
Indistinguishable from Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips<p><a href="https://youtu.be/NGFhc8R_uO4" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/NGFhc8R_uO4</a>
Anything by Doug Hofstadter<p>* Analogies are the core of thinking <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vORB92BU7zk" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vORB92BU7zk</a><p>* Analogy as the Core of Cognition <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8m7lFQ3njk" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8m7lFQ3njk</a><p>If you haven't read Godel, Escher & Bach, go read it now. Will change your thinking.
Worse is better!! — <a href="https://youtu.be/X45YY97FmL4" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/X45YY97FmL4</a><p>Genius.com CEO gives talk about how the worst possible thing you can think of, is in fact the best thing.<p>I like this video because I tend to get stuck in my own head, or get carried away on useless features/ideas that don't really contribute to the overall progress of the product.
John Carmack is an absolutely brilliant speaker. Conversational, captivating and effortlessly natural. I could listen to him talk all day about the most arcane bits of graphics development which i'll never understand but am fascinated by regardless.<p>His QuakeCon talks are particularly good.<p>QuakeCon 2011 - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zgYG-_ha28" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zgYG-_ha28</a><p>QuakeCon 2012 - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt-iVFxgFWk" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt-iVFxgFWk</a><p>I like his talks because he's always interested by what he's doing and it tends to make me interested again in code.<p>Linus Torvalds is another surprisingly good speaker. His talk on git - one of the dryest possible topics - was very interesting. There's not many other people I'd sit and listen to talk about SCM.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8</a>
I didn't watch the whole serie yet, but the first two are pretty solid and still fun. The first part doest not cover JS at all, but is rather a brief history of computing.<p>Crockford on JavaScript - Volume 1: The Early Years
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxAXlJEmNMg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxAXlJEmNMg</a>
The White Hat’s Dilemma, by Alex Stamos: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEeHTQHTSgE" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEeHTQHTSgE</a><p>Stamos has been in the news recently for quitting as CSO at Facebook. Before that he quit as CSO at Yahoo after the government scanning scandal (<a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-nsa-exclusive/exclusive-yahoo-secretly-scanned-customer-emails-for-u-s-intelligence-sources-idUSKCN1241YT" rel="nofollow">https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yahoo-nsa-exclusive/exclu...</a>).<p>This talk took place before he started at Yahoo. In the latter half he goes over a number of potential moral quandaries and how ethically to respond to them. One matches the later Yahoo incident almost exactly.<p>The overall point is that it’s important to consider these scenarios beforehand, because it’s easier to do the wrong thing if you have to make decisions on the fly.
115 batshit stupid things you can put on the internet in as fast as I can go (Dan Tentler) - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMtu7vV_HmY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMtu7vV_HmY</a>
DEF CON 22 - Gene Bransfield - Weaponizing Your Pets: The War Kitteh and the Denial of Service Dog<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMNSvHswljM" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMNSvHswljM</a>
Philip Roberts: What the heck is the event loop anyway? | JSConf EU 2014 - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aGhZQkoFbQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aGhZQkoFbQ</a>
A lot of great talks already mentioned. Thought I'd add a gem from Mike Acton: Data-Oriented Design and C++<p><a href="https://youtu.be/rX0ItVEVjHc" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/rX0ItVEVjHc</a>
How to make Package Managers cry by Kenneth Hoste. <a href="https://youtu.be/NSemlYagjIU" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/NSemlYagjIU</a><p>It's funny, but still useful.
PDC 1996 Keynote with Douglas Adams
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UNG3cQoOEc" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UNG3cQoOEc</a>
Public Static Void, Rob Pike: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kj5ApnhPAE" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kj5ApnhPAE</a>
How my bot net purchased millions in cars and defeated Russian hackers.<p><a href="https://youtu.be/sgz5dutPF8M" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/sgz5dutPF8M</a>
Not a proper tech talk, but hearing Ben Chestnut talk about the early days and growth of MailChimp stuck with me.<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/34081566" rel="nofollow">https://vimeo.com/34081566</a><p>Bootstrapped to over half a billion dollars in revenue. Worth many multiples of that. Built it Atlanta, not a startup city. B2B, but with a more creative ethos than most VC-backed startups in SF. Just an extraordinary story, well worth the hour it takes to watch.
Cliff Click’s “A Lock-Free Hash Table”, now over ten years old!<p><a href="https://youtu.be/HJ-719EGIts" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/HJ-719EGIts</a>
Also:<p>I see what you mean:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Aa4PivG0g" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Aa4PivG0g</a><p>and<p>Applying Failure Testing Research @Netflix:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3mHQCkr-4I" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3mHQCkr-4I</a><p>both by Peter Alvaro (second also includes Kolton Andrus) are thought-provoking looks at failure modeling in distributed systems.
Past and future of hardware and architecture - David Patterson
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9KRq2Ns0ZE" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9KRq2Ns0ZE</a><p>Programing Should Be More Than Coding - Leslie Lamport
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QsTfL-uXd8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QsTfL-uXd8</a>
Uniting Church and State: OO and FP Together by Noel Welsh<p>If you are interested in functional programing this little gem has some great insights into how to translate between data and behavior correctly. Not quite the level of Rich Hickey or Philip Wadler, but very good.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO5MD62dQbI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO5MD62dQbI</a>
It may not be so "wow" now, but at the time it happened the Photosynth TED talk with Notre Dame blew my mind and has stuck with me <a href="https://youtu.be/M-8k8GEGZPM" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/M-8k8GEGZPM</a><p>Remember at the time of this talk things like Google Maps were still very new, and nowhere near this level of performance.
Bret Victor - Inventing on principle<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/36579366" rel="nofollow">https://vimeo.com/36579366</a><p>Alan Kay - Power of Simplicity<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdSD07U5uBs" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdSD07U5uBs</a><p>Steve Jobs - Marketing (unveiling Think Different)<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HsGAc0_Y5c" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HsGAc0_Y5c</a><p>Robert Cialdini - On Influence<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC6ItuT1Eso" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC6ItuT1Eso</a><p>Peter Thiel - On Zero to One (Notes on Starts Ups or How to Build the Future)<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZQnKtjM1TA" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZQnKtjM1TA</a><p>Naval Ravikant on Reading, Happiness, Systems for Decision Making, Habits, Honesty and More (Farnam Street podcast)<p><a href="https://www.fs.blog/2017/02/naval-ravikant-reading-decision-making/" rel="nofollow">https://www.fs.blog/2017/02/naval-ravikant-reading-decision-...</a><p>Josh Wolfe - On "This is who you are up against" podcast<p><a href="http://investorfieldguide.com/wolfe/" rel="nofollow">http://investorfieldguide.com/wolfe/</a><p>Richard Feynman - Fun to Imagine<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zZbX_9ru9U" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zZbX_9ru9U</a><p>Paul Graham - Startup school (2008)<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7K0vRUKXKc" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7K0vRUKXKc</a><p>James Burke - Connections (BBC documentary)<p><No link><p>Jim Al-Khalili tells the story of the Atom (BBC)<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm3p_3Vgejk" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm3p_3Vgejk</a><p>Elon Musk's 2003 Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afZTrfvB2AQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afZTrfvB2AQ</a><p>Ken Robinson - Do schools kill creativity?<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY</a><p>Paul Stamets on mycology, bioremediation and fungi- Joe Rogan Experience<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPqWstVnRjQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPqWstVnRjQ</a>
David Beazley: Discovering Python - PyCon 2014
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ4Sn-Y7AP8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZ4Sn-Y7AP8</a><p>This talk is both inspiring and funny, I got introduced to David Beazley by this talk and although every time I listen to him my barin melts, I enjoy his talks the most.
"Eschew the Extraneous Else" (2 minutes)[0]<p>One of my favorite talks. Very quick, very to the point. I'm not saying I agree with this in 100% of cases, but in many cases I think it's the right call<p>[0]: <a href="https://youtu.be/JVVMMULwR4s?t=289" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/JVVMMULwR4s?t=289</a>
The spectrum of abstraction: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVVNJKv9esE" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVVNJKv9esE</a><p>This is an high level talk. it guides on how to choose between competing solutions to a problem when the commonly accepted answer is "it depends"
I was going to mention Growing a Language, but since it's already been posted, here is Alan Kay's "Doing with Images Makes Symbols": <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2LZLYcu_JY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2LZLYcu_JY</a>.
Worst programming language ever:
<a href="https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/6088-the-worst-programming-language-ever" rel="nofollow">https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/6088-the-worst-programm...</a>
Hell of a fun, and still little bit of an education ;)
Anything from Armin Ronacher (the_mitsuhiko) or Raymond Hettinger, but I especially like "Thinking outside the box" [0] because it was such an eye-opener.<p>[0]: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pZVqBFtuLk" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pZVqBFtuLk</a>
Lending Privilege: Anjuan Simmons
<a href="http://anjuansimmons.com/talks/lending-privilege/" rel="nofollow">http://anjuansimmons.com/talks/lending-privilege/</a><p>Not strictly about tech itself, but it was one of my favorites talks at CodeConf a few years back.
Linus Torvalds
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TED2016
The mind behind Linux. <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/linus_torvalds_the_mind_behind_linux" rel="nofollow">https://www.ted.com/talks/linus_torvalds_the_mind_behind_lin...</a><p>I loved it when says 'i am not a people person'
Stephen Wolfram computing a theory of everything - <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_wolfram_computing_a_theory_of_everything" rel="nofollow">https://www.ted.com/talks/stephen_wolfram_computing_a_theory...</a>
Jaron Lanier, How we need to remake the internet: <a href="https://www.ted.com/talks/jaron_lanier_how_we_need_to_remake_the_internet" rel="nofollow">https://www.ted.com/talks/jaron_lanier_how_we_need_to_remake...</a>
"Are We There Yet" - Rich Hickey (<a href="https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hickey#" rel="nofollow">https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Are-We-There-Yet-Rich-Hi...</a>)
Python dictionaries: A Confluence of Great Ideas (also known as Modern Dictionaries) by Raymond Hettinger<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p33CVV29OG8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p33CVV29OG8</a>
If you like Wat, you should like this talk by James Mickens on computer security: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF24WHumvIc" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF24WHumvIc</a>
Peter Sewell: Why are computers so @#!*, and what can we do about it? - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBIHPLFmcgA" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBIHPLFmcgA</a>
Anything by Rich Hickey, especially "The Value of Values" <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6BsiVyC1kM" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6BsiVyC1kM</a> .
Indistinguishable From Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4</a>
Why Vertical Farming Won't Save the World: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISAKc9gpGjw" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISAKc9gpGjw</a>
David Crane - The Internal Magic of the 2600: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr-t9plOkHY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr-t9plOkHY</a>
ng-wat:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_Wp-2XA9ZU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_Wp-2XA9ZU</a><p>We need more stand up comedians as presenters
The art of destroying software: Greg Young - <a href="https://vimeo.com/108441214" rel="nofollow">https://vimeo.com/108441214</a>
beside the nostaligia alan kay talks about sketchpad, sutherland and all that;<p>one of my top talks is dan friedman + will byrd doing evalo in minikanren.<p>similarly there's an old talk by sean parent about reversible computing while he was at Adobe R&D (kinda like relational programming of friedman and byrd, except, in cpp)<p>I also greatly enjoy anything chuck moore on forth / ga144<p>And recently the talk about the values of APL<p>Oh and Gary Bernhardt. Wat and the unix chainsaw. beautiful.
not necessarily favourite, but very entertaining<p>Programming is terrible—Lessons learned from a life wasted. EMF2012 (by Thomas Figg)<p><a href="https://hooktube.com/watch?v=csyL9EC0S0c" rel="nofollow">https://hooktube.com/watch?v=csyL9EC0S0c</a>
Ted Nelson's Computers for Cynics probably doesn't contain technical information that's new to any of you, but Ted has a knack for reframing things in ways that make the arbitrariness of certain historical decisions clear: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdnGPQaICjk" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdnGPQaICjk</a><p>On the subject of hypertext, The Web That Wasn't gives a nice history of the idea (for anybody who thinks it starts with TBL -- surprisingly many people!): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72nfrhXroo8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72nfrhXroo8</a><p>Another reframing-oriented talk is Clay Shirky's "It's not information overload, it's filter failure", which ultimately leads to Shirky suggesting the kinds of user-oriented filtering features that Mastodon has implemented: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabqeJEOQyI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabqeJEOQyI</a><p>At the intersection of neurology and information science, Peter Watts always has something interesting to say, and as a former marine biologist focusing on the nervous system of starfish, this is absolutely in his wheelhouse: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GAicTW7MGo" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GAicTW7MGo</a><p>This one ("moving away from defensive programming") justified strong typing in a pretty clear way: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csj3lzsr0_I" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csj3lzsr0_I</a><p>Dan Dennett is just as relevant as Doug Hofstadter when it comes to metacognition: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJsD-3jtXz0" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJsD-3jtXz0</a><p>Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science starts slow, but if you don't have much of a historical background (like, if you're only vaguely aware of what happened in CS in the 70s), it's a laundry list of things you should look up and be aware of before you start your next project: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I_jE0l7sYQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I_jE0l7sYQ</a><p>Everybody should understand procedural generation: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WumyfLEa6bU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WumyfLEa6bU</a><p>Likewise, since AI is hyped up right now, we should all remind ourselves that IA is a thing too: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=narjui3em1k" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=narjui3em1k</a><p>More hypertext history: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i67rQdHuO-8" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i67rQdHuO-8</a><p>Even more hypertext / UX stuff: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDrHkNgGQDs" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDrHkNgGQDs</a><p>A great explanation of Fourier transforms: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUNpyF58BY" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spUNpyF58BY</a><p>Allison Parrish does mindblowing things with corpus statistics by treating term vector spaces as generalizations of 2d image formats: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3D0JEA1Jdc" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3D0JEA1Jdc</a><p>Finally, these aren't tech talks but instead UI demo reels. If you have any interest in UI or UX, you should watch them. They are wonderfully cheesy, mostly doable, and despite being more than 20 years old, nobody has bothered actually implementing the useful features shown: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKJNxgZyVo0" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKJNxgZyVo0</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb4AzF6wEoc" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb4AzF6wEoc</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iAJPoc23-M" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iAJPoc23-M</a>
Functional Core, Imperative Shell by Gary Bernhardt.<p><a href="https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/functional-core-imperative-shell" rel="nofollow">https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/funct...</a><p>I saw it at my first job out of uni and it was so simple that it changed the way I wrote code at the time.
Most recently I really liked "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Dynamic Typing for Practical Programs": <a href="https://vimeo.com/74354480" rel="nofollow">https://vimeo.com/74354480</a><p>The ones that had the most profound effect for me would be Linus's talk about git and Carsten Dominik on org-mode.<p>Also, Richard Feynman explaining how computers work: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWGGDXe5MA" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKWGGDXe5MA</a> This actually changed the way I think about it after years of programming.