Simplicity Matters
Rich Hickey, the author of Clojure and designer of Datomic, is a software developer with over 20 years of experience in various domains. Rich has worked on scheduling systems, broadcast automation, audio analysis and fingerprinting, database design, yield management, exit poll systems, and machine listening, in a variety of languages.
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The Value of Values
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Hartmut Kaisers Keynote from Meeting C++ 2014
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Aaron Swartz keynote - "How we stopped SOPA" at F2C:Freedom to Connect 2012, Washington DC on May 21 2012.
http://freedom-to-connect.net/ ...One Hacker Way
This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2015
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More info and slides on the website: http://www.erlang-factory.com/conference/SFBay2013/talks
We all know that Erlang is great for building complicated distributed systems, but did you know that building a website in Erlang is as easy as using Ruby on Rails? In this talk I'll introduce you to Chicago ...