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Rich Hickey Fanclub

85 points by dudul 11y ago

xutopia 11y ago
My favorite talk of his is Simple Made Easy: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy-QCon-London-2012 http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy-QCon-Lon...
- elmarks 11y ago
  Ditto. Great talk.
- hire_charts 11y ago
  That and Hammock Driven Development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc Both of these talks are in my top 5. Edit (okay, here are the other 3): * All the Little Things by Sandi Metz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bZh5LMaSmE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bZh5LMaSmE * Programming is terrible—Lessons learned from a life wasted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csyL9EC0S0c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csyL9EC0S0c * Some talk I saw by Dan McKinley on making Data-Driven decisions. I can't find the original video, but here's a really similar one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZOeV-S-2co https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZOeV-S-2co
  - solipsism 11y ago
    Give us the rest, please!
    - hire_charts 11y ago
      Okay! (see above)
  - josteink 11y ago
    Completely unrelated: Alan Kay - the power of simplicity https://youtu.be/NdSD07U5uBs https://youtu.be/NdSD07U5uBs Easily over of the most thought provoking presentations I have seen recently.
atemerev 11y ago
This is why I am highly suspicious of Clojure and its fans. This is a little too much. Is there a Martin Odersky fanclub? Or Brendan Eich? Or Rob Pike? (OK, Rob Pike is actually close to having one). But this looks cult-ish to me.
- rpdillon 11y ago
  I read through the repo and it's basically a page about his work. There's very little there that isn't totally objective. Cults tend to go on and on about things that either don't exist or are being attributed great powers that are, at best, not objectively verifiable, or at worst, are objective refutable. This seems to have neither.
  - atemerev 11y ago
    All right, maybe cult is too strong a word. What I meant is "obsession". I have my share of friends who often start their posts with "oh, look, Rich just _nailed_ it this time!". They watch all his videos etc. (I don't like video talks at all. Reading is so much faster.)
    - coldtea 11y ago
      >I have my share of friends who often start their posts with "oh, look, Rich just _nailed_ it this time!" They watch all his videos etc. And that's a cult? Wait till you discover PG fans... (Or Agile evangelists for that matter)
      - atemerev 11y ago
        Is agile still a thing? I thought that it became just The Way To Code In Big Enterprise, as it happens to all of it.
        coldtea 11y ago
        Now it's Scrum and co, but, yeah, same shit.
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85 points by dudul 11y ago

My favorite talk of his is Simple Made Easy: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy-QCon-London-2012 http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy-QCon-Lon...

elmarks 11y ago
Ditto. Great talk.
hire_charts 11y ago
That and Hammock Driven Development: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc Both of these talks are in my top 5. Edit (okay, here are the other 3): * All the Little Things by Sandi Metz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bZh5LMaSmE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bZh5LMaSmE * Programming is terrible—Lessons learned from a life wasted. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csyL9EC0S0c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csyL9EC0S0c * Some talk I saw by Dan McKinley on making Data-Driven decisions. I can't find the original video, but here's a really similar one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZOeV-S-2co https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZOeV-S-2co
- solipsism 11y ago
  Give us the rest, please!
  - hire_charts 11y ago
    Okay! (see above)
- josteink 11y ago
  Completely unrelated: Alan Kay - the power of simplicity https://youtu.be/NdSD07U5uBs https://youtu.be/NdSD07U5uBs Easily over of the most thought provoking presentations I have seen recently.

atemerev 11y ago

This is why I am highly suspicious of Clojure and its fans. This is a little too much. Is there a Martin Odersky fanclub? Or Brendan Eich? Or Rob Pike? (OK, Rob Pike is actually close to having one). But this looks cult-ish to me.

rpdillon 11y ago
I read through the repo and it's basically a page about his work. There's very little there that isn't totally objective. Cults tend to go on and on about things that either don't exist or are being attributed great powers that are, at best, not objectively verifiable, or at worst, are objective refutable. This seems to have neither.
- atemerev 11y ago
  All right, maybe cult is too strong a word. What I meant is "obsession". I have my share of friends who often start their posts with "oh, look, Rich just _nailed_ it this time!". They watch all his videos etc. (I don't like video talks at all. Reading is so much faster.)
  - coldtea 11y ago
    >I have my share of friends who often start their posts with "oh, look, Rich just _nailed_ it this time!" They watch all his videos etc. And that's a cult? Wait till you discover PG fans... (Or Agile evangelists for that matter)
    - atemerev 11y ago
      Is agile still a thing? I thought that it became just The Way To Code In Big Enterprise, as it happens to all of it.
      - coldtea 11y ago
        Now it's Scrum and co, but, yeah, same shit.

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