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If that's the best technical talk you've ever seen, I have to feel sorry for you. Cantrill may rant all he wants about Oracle but he's not exactly doing better,

If that's the best technical talk you've ever seen, I have to feel sorry for you. Cantrill may rant all he wants about Oracle but he's not exactly doing better, with all the peddling of node.js to the masses. It is rare for me to see someone come up with so much bullshit in one talk: https://vimeo.com/230142234 https://vimeo.com/230142234 Since I don't want to end with a negative note, here is a personal favorite as far as best technical talks go: https://tinyurl.com/hzpccxj https://tinyurl.com/hzpccxj

cipherzero 8y ago
Could you maybe add a comment about what your favorite tech talk is? Right now I’m staring at a tiny url hoping I’m not going to be rick rolled.
- cataflam 8y ago
  It's We Really Don't Know How To Compute! by Gerald Jay Sussman
  - toomuchtodo 8y ago
    Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3163473 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3163473 Direct download link for slides: https://github.com/strangeloop/2011-slides/raw/master/Sussman-WeDontKnowHowToCompute.pdf https://github.com/strangeloop/2011-slides/raw/master/Sussma... Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3tVctB_VSU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3tVctB_VSU
jolmg 8y ago
Here is the expanded URL of the tinyurl link to halve the changes of getting a 404 or similar in the far future, and maybe allow finding the content via the Wayback Machine in case infoq also disappears. https://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-To-Compute https://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-...
bcantrill 8y ago
Would you mind be slightly more specific about the "bullshit" in the talk you linked to? In particular, that talk is emphatically not "peddling node.js to the masses", but rather explaining why we are moving away from node.js (and attempting to do so in a way that is thoughtful and reflective rather than reactionary and dismissive).

cipherzero 8y ago

Could you maybe add a comment about what your favorite tech talk is? Right now I’m staring at a tiny url hoping I’m not going to be rick rolled.

cataflam 8y ago
It's We Really Don't Know How To Compute! by Gerald Jay Sussman
- toomuchtodo 8y ago
  Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3163473 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3163473 Direct download link for slides: https://github.com/strangeloop/2011-slides/raw/master/Sussman-WeDontKnowHowToCompute.pdf https://github.com/strangeloop/2011-slides/raw/master/Sussma... Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3tVctB_VSU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3tVctB_VSU

jolmg 8y ago

Here is the expanded URL of the tinyurl link to halve the changes of getting a 404 or similar in the far future, and maybe allow finding the content via the Wayback Machine in case infoq also disappears. https://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-To-Compute https://www.infoq.com/presentations/We-Really-Dont-Know-How-...

bcantrill 8y ago

Would you mind be slightly more specific about the "bullshit" in the talk you linked to? In particular, that talk is emphatically not "peddling node.js to the masses", but rather explaining why we are moving away from node.js (and attempting to do so in a way that is thoughtful and reflective rather than reactionary and dismissive).