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Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams (2007) [video]

submitted by brudge+(OP) on 2020-11-02 19:52:09 | 297 points 38 comments
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1. acqq+gt5[view] [source] 2020-11-04 21:52:51
>>brudge+(OP)
Previously commented here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12421073

3. jct3u+Wu5[view] [source] 2020-11-04 22:04:27
>>brudge+(OP)
I had the chance to work with Randy during his time at UVA. It set me on a path that led me to the career I've had in HCI and UX over the last few decades. Watching this talk still brings tears to my eyes. This site at CMU has a lot of interview footage with Randy accessible via natural language search. It does a good job (I feel) of capturing what it was like to talk to and work with him: http://randy.etc.cmu.edu/
5. cure+Uv5[view] [source] 2020-11-04 22:12:43
>>brudge+(OP)
He also wrote a book titled 'The Last Lecture', cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Lecture

Highly recommended.

6. azhenl+Yv5[view] [source] 2020-11-04 22:13:01
>>brudge+(OP)
Another fantastic talk of his is about time management: https://youtu.be/oTugjssqOT0
21. jasonh+zN5[view] [source] 2020-11-05 00:55:02
>>brudge+(OP)
My current office at CMU is actually Randy's last office before he passed away. He was really fun in faculty meetings, everything you see in the video was exactly what he was like in real life.

When I was in grad school, I heard from some of his students how, every so often, he would get the itch to do some programming (I think this would have been Alice, their 3D virtual world). The students asked him to mark where he started and where he ended in the source code, so they could go fix things afterward, all in good humor.

Randy also claimed to be the person who started the trend in SIGGRAPH papers of including a giant splash image at the top of the first page, as part of his Aladdin paper. Here's a copy of the paper. http://ivizlab.sfu.ca/arya/Papers/ACM/SIGGRAPH-96/Storytelli...

He was also notorious for how he started the first day of class of Programming User Interfaces (a class for non-programmers about prototyping user interfaces). He would bring in a VCR and a sledgehammer. He would talk about how bad user interfaces would make people so angry, they would want to smash things. He would then proceed to smash the VCR into bits. I heard that some students would come to the first day just to see him do this. (I took over that course several years ago, and no, I definitely don't do that!)

Randy was a really great person, I still miss him.

22. msarno+eO5[view] [source] 2020-11-05 01:03:06
>>brudge+(OP)
Randy made a surprise appearance at my commencement (CMU School of Computer Science, May 2008) just weeks before he passed away. [1] He concluded his speech with the piece of advice that has probably had the greatest impact on my career and my life:

"Please, don't think of yourself as a computer scientist who happens to be a human being. Think of yourself as a human being who happens to have the tremendous, precious, rare skills of a computer scientist--with which you can help all the other human beings."

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20160304152555/https://www.cs.cm...

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26. yesena+hT5[view] [source] [discussion] 2020-11-05 02:03:56
>>shoreo+UH5
Download in multiple formats here https://craphound.com/down/download/
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33. ignora+5a6[view] [source] [discussion] 2020-11-05 06:19:50
>>cojo+aC5
pioneer.app's Daniel Gross' How to Win is a good complement to this lecture: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/LH1bewTg-P4
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