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The Problem with Time & Timezones - Computerphile
“a must watch for developers just starting out with Timezones”
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The Value of Values with Rich Hickey
“strongest programming speaker I've found to date.”
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Lecture 1A: Overview and Introduction to Lisp
“It changed my outook on programming by pi degrees”
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"Testing Distributed Systems w/ Deterministic Simulation" by Will Wilson
“Well worth a watch for anyone interested in distributed systems & reliability.”
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What the heck is the event loop anyway? | Philip Roberts | JSConf EU
“This one is my all time favorite”
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RailsConf 2014 - All the Little Things by Sandi Metz
“Worth watching in its entirety, but the quote is from ~13:59 in that video.”
1 HN recommender
Bret Victor The Future of Programming
“If you haven't yet seen this video, please do”
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How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters
“He digs much deeper, mostly at code level rather than JSON level but the same principles apply.”
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Rich Harris - Rethinking reactivity
“is an amazing talk which talks about how spreadsheets were the OG reactivity software. Highly recommended.”
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But what is a neural network? | Deep learning chapter 1
“an excellent introduction that made Andrej's videos understandable”
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8 Bit & '8 Bitish' Graphics-Outside the Box
“most excellent GDC presentation on the lost power of palettized textures”
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D/A and A/D | Digital Show and Tell (Monty Montgomery @ xiph.org)
“also made an amazing video response to the many responses he received to this article”
1 HN recommender
AT&T Archives: Similiarities of Wave Behavior (Bonus Edition)
“John Shive's Wave Machines is where every student should start”
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🚀 TDD, Where Did It All Go Wrong (Ian Cooper)
“This the best talk I've ever seen about testing (Ian Cooper)”
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Ruby Conf 12 - Y Not- Adventures in Functional Programming by Jim Weirich
“Reminds me a bit of the coolest talk I ever got to see in person”
1 HN recommender
Vectors | Chapter 1, Essence of linear algebra
“3Blue1Brown[1] has opened my eyes on the intuitive understanding of linear algebra”
1 HN recommender
Lexical Scanning in Go - Rob Pike
“I love everything about this talk.”
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8-bit computer update
“I think I learned more from Ben Eater’s “Building an 8-bit breadboard computer” series [0] than my intro to computer architecture course at university.”
1 HN recommender
"Making Impossible States Impossible" by Richard Feldman
“the talk is Elm lang focused, but the concepts still apply to other languages.”
1 HN recommender
The Soul of Erlang and Elixir • Sasa Juric • GOTO 2019
“Really one of the best presentations to show what you may get out of adopting Elixir.”
1 HN recommender
The Continuity of Splines
“these absolutely incredible videos from Freya Holmér”
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CppCon 2015: Andrei Alexandrescu “std::allocator...”
“It really opened my eyes to how one could very elegantly make a very complex and high-performance heap allocator”
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Indistinguishable From Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips
“If you haven't watched this video, I highly recommend it”
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1. Introduction to Human Behavioral Biology
“I also highly recommend Sapolsky's Human Behavior Biology course which he taught for Stanford but published on YouTube”
1 HN recommender
The Tragedy of systemd
“you should really watch this talk, particularly 12:45 through 16:20”
1 HN recommender
William Byrd on "The Most Beautiful Program Ever Written" [PWL NYC]
“I can't recommend the talk Dr Byrd did on this enough”
1 HN recommender
Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle
“an absolute must watch, if anyone hasn't yet”
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How Python was Shaped by leaky Internals, Armin Ronacher, Flask framework
“I thought this presentation by Armin Ronacher (the creator of Flask and Jinja) was very enlightening”
1 HN recommender
Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? – Richard Feldman
“This talk by Richard Feldman is an excellent discussion about why Functional Programming is not the norm”
1 HN recommender
"Performance Matters" by Emery Berger
“Emery Berger has an excelent talk on this [1]”
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But what is the Fourier Transform? A visual introduction.
“This video does a great job explaining what it is and how it works to the layman.”
1 HN recommender
"Simple Made Easy" - Rich Hickey (2011)
“You need to watch this”
1 HN recommender
How to Speak
“It's the best of its kind that I've seen.”
1 HN recommender
Solving Problems the Clojure Way - Rafal Dittwald
“there is a video which I really like that demonstrates this functional core/imperative shell approach”
1 HN recommender
The spelled-out intro to neural networks and backpropagation: building micrograd
“I highly recommend this youtube playlist from Andrej Karpathy”
1 HN recommender
Overwatch Gameplay Architecture and Netcode
“There's an awesome talk by someone in the overwatch team in youtube.”
1 HN recommender
A Better Default Colormap for Matplotlib | SciPy 2015 | Nathaniel Smith and Stéfan van der Walt
“I have to mention this fantastic presentation on colormaps”
1 HN recommender
Micro Men - 720p (2009)
“Micro Men really is a great docu-drama, it really feels like it captures the time very well.”
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Maybe Not - Rich Hickey
“My mind blown experience was listening to a Rich Hickey talk (maybe not [1]) that flipped upside down my accepted method of thinking about types”
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