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As a programmer, which videos, podcasts, presentatations do you think are a must watch? I was watching Doug Crockford's lectures on Javascript and wanted to know what else have I missed!!!

List out only the very best that you remember (Don't mention incidents, like launch of Windows or Macs just because they're videos. I'm looking for content from which I can learn).

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Advanced Python or Understanding Python

On Google Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7760178035196894549

The MYYN
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RailsCasts are a quite awesome series of learning Ruby on Rails: http://railscasts.com/

halfdan
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I liked The Mighty Dictionary (#55) presentation from PyCon 2010 because it has a lot of details about what's going on under the hood along with some examples.

Cristian Ciupitu
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Linus Torvalds on git (at Google): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8

The MYYN
It's actually good, eventhough he spends most of the talk bashing every other VCS he can think of. :)
Martin
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Zed Shaw on ACLs.

The MYYN
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Binky on pointers:

Pointer fun with Binky

0xA3
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Sketchpad

The Mother of all Demos

Roman A. Taycher