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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, 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

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

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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).

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-...

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.

It's We Really Don't Know How To Compute! by Gerald Jay Sussman

Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3163473

Direct download link for slides: https://github.com/strangeloop/2011-slides/raw/master/Sussma...

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3tVctB_VSU

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