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John Carmack is an absolutely brilliant speaker. Conversational, captivating and effortlessly natural. I could listen to him talk all day about the most arcane
by hotwire 8y ago
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.
His QuakeCon talks are particularly good.
QuakeCon 2011 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zgYG-_ha28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zgYG-_ha28
QuakeCon 2012 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt-iVFxgFWk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt-iVFxgFWk
I like his talks because he's always interested by what he's doing and it tends to make me interested again in code.
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8