from Hacker News

Earlier this year someone asked me on Quora:

"What tech talks should every software engineer watch?"

So I thought I would share a list of talks that I've enjoyed watching on the way on HN as well:

"Kevin Slavin shows how modern algorithms determine stock prices, espionage tactics, even the movies you watch."

http://www.ted.com/talks/kevin_slavin_how_algorithms_shape_our_world?language=en#

Dynamic Languages Wizards Series - Panel on Language Design (2001)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agw-wlHGi0E

Writing Software by David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LfmrkyP81M

Jim Weirich: Adventures in Functional Programming

https://vimeo.com/45140590

Lessons of Scale at Facebook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCHiNEw73AU

How We've Scaled Dropbox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE4gwstWhmc

Facebook and memcached

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH7wkvcf0ys

The Myth of the Genius Programmer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SARbwvhupQ

Challenges Chances In Polyglot Programming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUr_JTNKAFo&feature=youtu.be

How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAb7hSCtvGw

Jeremy Edberg - Scalable Cloud Architectures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCAO9moDucI

An overview of HTTP/2 with Daniel Sommermann

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yxQIRl6Qic

The list I have is pretty long, but these talks have great insights on the topics related to talk in practice or let's say real world implementations.