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For those of you that are seasoned, whether you're deeply-familiar with C or not, I'd recommend Antirez's walk-throughs of Redis.

Episode 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBrnmciV9fM

Watching highly-effective programmers navigate, explain, and modify code can be a career-changing experience.

If you're not working in a place where these kinds of programmers accrue, you might never get the experience. Thank goodness for youtube and screen-recorders!

If you're reading this, antirez: thank you for making these, they're really special!

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I also recommend "Hacking with Andrew and Brad: tip.golang.org" [1]. They are part of the Go team. It's just something to watch the pros doing live coding. By the way, what's with antirez's colorscheme? I wonder if he really uses that blue background or is it just for the video.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rZ-JorHJEY

> By the way, what's with antirez's colorscheme? I wonder if he really uses that blue background or is it just for the video.

I don't know what you were expecting but those all look like colors from the original DOS and Windows color schemes. It's probably just a guy using colors he grew up with.

I wasn't expecting anything. It's just unusual. Anyway, seems he's just experimenting with colors. There's another video with a yellow background in his YT channel and all the latest ones have dark color schemes.

This is great! Can we replace the original article with this, it's much higher quality than most of the ones listed and fills a gap in Youtube content I'd never been able to find (though I haven't tried recently) - that is: legitimately intermediate/advanced content.

I submitted it [1], if you'd like to discuss it there :)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=24590896

The intention was to promote the blog, replacing it with a link to youtube will void the original intention.

Can you recommend any other people who are very well highly-effective programmers who are having their channels/sharing their experience?

I remember seeing some videos of notch (creator of Minecraft) working on Minecraft.

Watching that video I was impressed how much "courage" he had to try weird ideas immediately, see what happens, and not be afraid to mess up progress he has made, etc.

Of course, notch, like antirez, are gifted, way above average, people. So we have to keep that in mind.

> gifted, way above average, people.

And it could be that that courage is one of the things that enable them to become above average.

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