What are the most interesting programming-related Google Tech Talks?
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If you can only see one, it ought to be Linus Torvalds talking about Git.
duffymo
2009-05-28 22:25:53
It's enjoyable, but not necessarily helpful in understanding anything about git.
guns
2009-05-28 22:29:06
Linus makes that clear - it's not a tutorial.
duffymo
2009-05-29 00:46:56
Linus is good and all, but he just spends 50 minutes complaining. Not really helpful for me.
jskulski
2009-05-29 01:18:50
True - he's pretty harsh on Subversion. But he does make clear his motivations and how Git is different from the SCM systems we're all used to.
duffymo
2009-05-29 01:30:53
After seeing the other topics, I don't think I'm correct anymore. I think I'd rather see some of the others, especially the ones cited by Rene. 8)
duffymo
2009-05-29 01:31:53
I'm a Linux user but I don't like Linus Torvalds
victor hugo
2009-06-01 18:25:39
there are much better talks, imho
elmarco
2009-10-14 23:04:12
I tried watching it, but couldn't complete because of the arrogance shown by the speaker.
Deepak Singh Rawat
2010-01-06 20:14:51
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Ken Schwaber is always interesting and his presentation of Scrum is great for Scrum newbies
Klas Mellbourn
2009-05-28 22:29:46
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I have found some quite interesting ones on Artifical Intelligence (something most of us aren't dealing with every day):
Polyworld: Using Evolution to Design Artificial Intelligence - truly remarkable.
The Next Generation of Neural Networks - when you look at the screenshots, this talk looks boring as hell, while actually it's quite the opposite.
Or if you're into JavaScript, then:
Best Practices in Javascript Library Design by John Resig is - dare I say - mandatory.
And for the latest news: Upcoming Changes to the JavaScript Language.
Or if you're into usability, then:
The Science and Art of User Experience at Google - gives some great background to the UI of Google.
Dasher: information-efficient text entry - presents an interesting new way for entering text to computer without keyboard.
But of course, because we're at StackOverflow, the ultimately correct answer is:
Rene Saarsoo
2009-05-28 22:41:49
If you feel so, then you are free to do it, I'm neither pro nor against it :) But it's a community wiki...
Rene Saarsoo
2009-06-03 02:27:46
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According to Youtube:
According to me:
"How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters" by Joshua Bloch.
[EDIT] "The Clean Code Talks -- Unit Testing" by Misko Hevery - this talk was too good to leave out...
cwash
2009-05-28 23:14:40
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Interesting one:
For Python developers:
- General: Advanced Python or Understanding Python
- WSGI, Paste & Pylons: ReUsable Web Components with Python and Future Python Web Development
lispmachine
2009-05-28 23:20:31
Randall Munroe's talk really is quite entertaining, even if you're not a hardcore fan of the comic. And thanks for pointing out the Josh Bloch talk!
Jonik
2009-06-28 20:15:44
OMG, I wouldn't ever think such tech talk existed!! Thanks for the XKCD I'm going to see it right now
OscarRyz
2009-10-12 16:31:53
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Not really technical, but very inspiring:
It's midnight. I've been working sixteen hours a day, seven days a week. I'm not being paid. In fact, my project was canceled six months ago, so I'm evading security, sneaking into Apple Computer's main offices in the heart of Silicon Valley, doing clandestine volunteer work for an eight-billion-dollar corporation. For more info visit: http://www.pacifict.com/Story
seb
2009-05-28 23:43:38
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Some of my favorites:
Aspect Oriented Programming Languages
EDIT: Not a Google talk, but I just saw the following and it was amazing:
Nathaniel Flath
2009-05-29 00:42:41
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Dtrace. Great speaker, really interesting software product.
Adam Rosenfield
2009-05-29 19:05:04
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Linus's talk about Git is good for learning what Git isn't but this talk by Randal Schwartz is much more useful for learning what Git is....
Here are some others I liked:
- Deconstructing The Xbox Security System
- The Xbox 360 Security System and its Weaknesses
- Winning The DARPA Grand Challenge
- Working in space
- An introduction to Sqlite
- Inside VMware Fusion
- LLVM 2.0
- Advanced Topics in Programming Languages: The Java Memory Model (this one's really about concurrency, and it's very interesting).
- Scrum Et Al.
Mike Akers
2009-05-29 19:26:08
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I've recently enjoyed James Bach's Google lecture on Becoming a Software Testing Expert
Mat Nadrofsky
2009-05-29 19:33:08
After few slidefulls of formulas I didn't understand a thing any more.
Rene Saarsoo
2009-05-30 14:31:01
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Definitely "Winning the DARPA Grand Challenge"
...a reminder of how cool Computer Science can be.
pufferfish
2009-07-22 08:45:51
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Yukihiro Matsumoto talking about Ruby 1.9
That is so cool, considering Google uses Python. At the end of the talk Guido also had a discussion with Matz about programming language design.
jpartogi
2009-07-31 03:53:46
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Douglas Crockford presents JavaScript: The Good Parts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQVTIJBZook
I learned a lot from this tech talk.
Gary Willoughby
2009-08-01 01:43:43
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Not a technical one, but Why More is Less by Barry Schwartz is one of my true favourites. Useful for anyone - including programmers.
stiank81
2009-08-11 20:02:22
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DjangoCon 2008 KeyNote by CalHenderson. It really good and hilarious. Cal brought the presentation really well.
jpartogi
2009-08-22 09:50:04
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Competing On The Basis Of Speed by Mary Poppendieck. Great talk.
Pascal Thivent
2009-09-25 23:03:44
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The role of leadership in software development by Mary Poppendieck.
Pascal Thivent
2009-09-25 23:05:42
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Signals, Truth, & Design by Judith Donath. 55 min 55 secs.
It is related to:
Designing user interfaces, especially on the web.
Hyping new programming languages and other technologies.
Explaining some behaviors in the workplace.
Peter Mortensen
2009-09-25 23:06:13
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Winning the DARPA challenge - designing an autonomous car to drive across the desert. Interesting technical content and a very good speaker.
Plus it's interesting whatever language you use.
Martin Beckett
2009-09-26 00:12:30
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I find Merlin Mann's Inbox Zero great.
http://inboxzero.com/video/
It's about not going insane with e-mail overload.
Michał Pękała
2010-05-04 11:12:09