dotconferences: the videos Hacker News recommends
Not the channel's most viewed videos: the ones HN commenters kept linking with real commentary. The top pick, "dotGo 2015 - Rob Pike - Simplicity is Complicated", hN returns to it to explain why Go deliberately resists syntactic sugar and new features.
- 7 HN recommenders 7 months 2016–2023talkHN returns to it to explain why Go deliberately resists syntactic sugar and new features.
- 3 HN recommenders 4 months 2020–2023talkRecommended as an approachable introduction to CRDTs and the local-first idea behind apps like Actual.
- 3 HN recommenders 2 months 2014–2015talkHN recommends it as an entertaining first-hand engineer account of what went wrong with healthcare.gov and how it was fixed, including that no one owned the whole site.
- 2 HN recommenders 2 months 2013–2016talkHN commenters cite it as a funny and candid first-hand account of the guilt and burnout of a prolific open source developer.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2015–2018talkMostly cited as a source for details of Cloudflare's architecture, such as LuaJIT-based request inspection and request volumes.
- 1 HN recommenders 1 months 2013–2024talkLinked as a funny tour of JavaScript gotchas, usually to show the language has oddities of its own.
Questions
Which dotconferences video does Hacker News recommend most?
dotGo 2015 - Rob Pike - Simplicity is Complicated: recommended in 7 different months by 7 HN users between 2016 and 2023.
Is this every dotconferences video?
No. Only videos that at least three different HN users linked, in at least three different months, with at least a sentence of their own commentary. That filter is what makes the list useful.
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