Google Tech Talks
23/Apr 2008
I think I’ve already posted links to some videos from Google Tech Talks, but I’ve been catching up recently and found some other interesting movies. They all have a nice, distinct geek spirit… Where else can you find 50 minute presentation about the beauty of quicksort implemention?
Three Beautiful Quicksorts (Jon Bentley) - who said sorting is boring?
How To Design A Good API And Why It Matters (Joshua Blooch),
A Lock-Free Hash Table (Cliff Click) - while I am not brave enough for lockless hash tables (priorite queue was stressing enough), this presentation gave me some ideas for RDESTL. I already uploaded “second” version of hash_map (hash_map2), will write a short note about details soon.
Advanced Python or Understanding Python (Thomas Wouters) - just watch it if you use Python from time to time and have to skim docs to recall the details (like me).
Debugging Backwards in Time (Bill Lewis) - one word - giev (for MSVC, obviously).
…plus something from the other side of barricade - Simon Peyton-Jones (Microsoft) - A Taste of Haskell (part I, part II).
PS. Go ManU!
Old comments
SirMike 2008-04-26 18:37:10
Oh, poor ManU ;)
ed 2008-04-24 17:37:52
Functional programming looks like an excellent choice for game logic. Although I still don’t like languages like Haskell with so extensive use of ASCII chars :) I still prefer MSVisual over MSPaint.