O'Reilly — Best Videos According to Hacker News

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Velocity NY 2013: Richard Cook, "Resilience In Complex Adaptive Systems"

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“One of the most important talks I've ever seen is Richard Cook's”

4 HN recommenders · 2017–2021

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I don't like notebooks.- Joel Grus (Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence)

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“The parent article links this great talk that goes into more detail than the parent post and is much easier to understand”

6 HN recommenders · 2018–2025

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RailsConf 09: Robert Martin, "What Killed Smalltalk Could K

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“I find this talk [0] very informative and useful while interacting with other languages and communities.”

5 HN recommenders · 2012–2026

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Velocity 2012: Richard Cook, "How Complex Systems Fail"

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“I would watch this talk every couple of months to remind myself of the principles.”

3 HN recommenders · 2013–2021

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John Rauser keynote: "Statistics Without the Agonizing Pain" -- Strata + Hadoop 2014

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“This is an excellent talk I attended a while ago that explains it very well from a programmer's perspective”

3 HN recommenders · 2015–2025

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Andrew Sorensen Keynote: "The Concert Programmer" - OSCON 2014

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“This video of one of his presentations on Impromptu is one of my all-time favorite programming talks”

3 HN recommenders · 2017–2024

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Gary Vaynerchuk Keynote at RailsConf 2010

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“Go watch Gary Vaynerchuk's talk at RailsConf 2010”

3 HN recommenders · 2010–2011

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OSCON 2010: Rob Pike, "Public Static Void"

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“gave this short speech at OSCON 2010 about what's wrong with programming languages, their thinking, and their recent direction”

3 HN recommenders · 2012–2023

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Making Badass Developers - Kathy Sierra (Serious Pony) keynote

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“Kathy Sierra gave an informative talk on the topic of learning at the 2015 O'Reilly Fluent conference.”

3 HN recommenders · 2017

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Mikey Dickerson Velocity NY 2014 Keynote: "One Year After healthcare.gov..."

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“I saw Mikey Dickerson give a great talk about his experience leading the completion of healthcare.gov”

1 HN recommenders · 2015–2020

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Gary Vaynerchuk: Building Personal Brand Within the Social Media Landscape - Web 2.0 Expo NY

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“One of the best inspirational videos that got me through that time”

2 HN recommenders · 2009–2016

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Glenn Vanderburg of LivingSocial on why software development is an engineering discipline

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“Required viewing”

2 HN recommenders · 2015–2018

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Web 2.0 Expo NY: Clay Shirky (shirky.com) It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure.

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“Ted has a knack for reframing things in ways that make the arbitrariness of certain historical decisions clear”

2 HN recommenders · 2010–2024

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Velocity 09: John Allspaw and Paul Hammond, "10+ Deploys Pe

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“It was really a pivotal talk in the early days of the DevOps movement”

2 HN recommenders · 2018–2023

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Velocity 2011: Artur Bergman, "Artur on SSD's"

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“take the words of the inimitable Mr. Bergman”

1 HN recommenders · 2011–2021

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Velocity 2011: Jon Jenkins, "Velocity Culture"

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“the mean time between deployments on an average weekday is 11.6 seconds.”

1 HN recommenders · 2012–2018

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Velocity 2010: James Hamilton, "Datacenter Infrastructure Innovation"

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“You should check out his Velocity talk for more (about 5 minutes in)”

1 HN recommenders · 2010–2023

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RailsConf 2011: Aaron Patterson, "Double Dream Hands: So Intense!"

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“The interesting stuff happens around the 20 min. mark.”

1 HN recommenders · 2011–2012

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Steve Yegge, "What Would You Do With Your Own Google?" - OSCON Data 2011

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“this is an excellent talk about preparing to solve hard problems in bio.”

1 HN recommenders · 2011–2016