Videos to Watch

Tech Talks to Watch

• How algorithms shape our world by Kevin Slavin
  (Some ,(most), software engineers forget how important Algorithms are) .
• Simplicity Ain't Easy - by Stuart Halloway
• The Myth of the Genius Programmer by Brian Fitzpatrick, Ben Collins-Sussman
• Keynote: Writing Software by David Heinemeier Hansson
• The Essence of C++ by the one and only Bjarne Stroustrup
• Apple, Apache, Google, Oracle and the Future of Java by James Gosling
• Facebook and memcached - Tech Talk by Mark Zuckerberg
• How We've Scaled Dropbox by Kevin Modzelewski
• Twitter: Scaling Beyond 100 Million Users by John Adams
• Lessons of Scale at Facebook
• Dynamic Languages Wizards Series  (Freaking AWESOME panel: Paul Graham, John Maeda, Jonathan Rees, Guy Steele)
• NYC Tech Talk Series: How Google Backs Up the Internet . (meh)

Longer version of these 2 talks. Found most of the parts of these two:

• Bjarne Stroustrup: Why I Created C++
• Bjarne Stroustrup: Why the Programming Language C Is Obsolete
• Bjarne Stroustrup: A Unified Programming Language?
• Bjarne Stroustrup: How C++ Combats Global Warming
• Bjarne Stroustrup: The 5 Programming Languages You Need to Know
• Bjarne Stroustrup: Advice for C++ Developers
• Bjarne Stroustrup: How to Code Like Bjarne Stroustrup
• Larry Wall: How to Code Like Larry Wall
• Larry Wall: Computer Programming in 5 Minutes
• Larry Wall: 5 Programming Languages Everyone Should Know
• Larry Wall: Why Perl Is Like a Human Language
• Hobbits Would Make Great Programmers
• Apple Tries to Be the Arbiter of Good Taste

 This is interesting as well, Kartik Ayyar's answer nails it:

• An overview of HTTP/2 by Daniel Sommermann (Author of Proxygen)
• Awsome talks form the Wiz => Jeremy Edberg  about:
  Scalable Cloud Architectures
• Videos :: The 99 Percent
• Challenges Chances In Polyglot Programming  by Stefan Tilkov
• Adventures in Functional Programming by Jim Weirich
• How To Design A Good API and Why it Matters
• Cowboy Meets Ninja