Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk?

Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk? by madmax108 on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @02:35PM (#12638033)

I see a couple of Bret Victor videos here, but the one I loved the most was "The Future of Programming": https://vimeo.com/71278954

Really set me on a path of re-examining older ideas (and research papers), for applications that are much more contemporary. Absolute stunner of a talk (and the whole 70's gag was really great).

"What would be really sad is if in 40 years we were still writing code in procedures in text files" :(

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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk? by CarlsJrMints on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @06:36PM (#12640170)

I really liked the message of each generation of programming considers the next "not real programming". It makes me reconsider the pushback against node-esque micro-packages: http://www.haneycodes.net/npm-left-pad-have-we-forgotten-how.... Maybe this is just the next logical evolution of programming.

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Re:Ask HN: What's your favorite tech talk? by AKrumbach on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @02:16PM (#12646335)

Came here to give the same answer. Between "Future of Programming" and the Mother of All Demos (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY) I find it mindbogglingly depressing that it feels so much like the entire programming field has stagnated for the last 40+ years, re-implementing the same [flawed? limiting? incorrect?] ideas over and over.

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