Ask HN: Best (Tech) talks from 2015

21 points·monkeyshelli··8 comments

What where the talks from last year "everyone" should watch and why?

I hadn't been particularly enthusiastic about Go but in the end Rob Pike won me over - "Simplicity is Complicated":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFejpH_tAHM

A powerful talk on Silicon Valley history by Kelsey Gilmore-Innis - "What Tech Workers Can Learn From Harry Bridges":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRjJ4_QBdeQ

As somebody who hasn't worked with react before I find this talk very interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsSnOQynTHs

He talks about improving the development workflow by hot reloading parts of the application during runtime. Slow workflows affect every developer and the idea from this talk can be used to build tools for other stacks or languages.

For those interested in The Angular ecosystem, check out the angular2-seed project.

It uses a hot loader that was written specifically for ng2.

If you're a Python programmer, Raymond Hettinger's "Beyond PEP 8" was pretty interesting:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-BqAjZb8M

This looks intereting, thanks :)

I'm not sure if I would define it as a "talk" (and the details are more meaningful if you know how to use Emacs), but Jay Dixit explains how he uses Emacs for writing instead of programming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtieBc3KptU

Hanson's Rewrite: http://businessofsoftware.org/2015/10/david-heinemeier-hanss...

As a rails dev this one is probably pretty standard but I appreciated DHH's ideas about being small and still able to take on the giants. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJVTM7mE1Cc

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