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Building Software at Google Scale Tech Talk
Google TechTalks · 1 HN recommenders · 1 recommendation months
Recommended by 1 Hacker News commenters across 1 months (2013–2014).
SignalTube analysis
Among 86 other talk videos tagged Testing, debugging & developer tools, the mean is 4.2 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 1 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 1 distinct month; the peer average is 4.2 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
33% of its 3 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2013–2014; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 70 minutes 2 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2012-03-30.
- Channel / speaker
- Google TechTalks
- Verified runtime
- 1h 10m 2s
- YouTube upload date
- 2012-03-30
- Hacker News mention years
- 2013–2014
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other talk videos in Testing, debugging & developer tools. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Building Software at Google Scale Tech TalkCurrent video | 1 | 1 | 33% | — | 1h 10m 2s | 2012-03-30 |
| RailsConf 2014 - All the Little Things by Sandi Metztalk · Confreaks | 15 | 15 | 75% | No recorded overlap | 38m 47s | 2014-05-21 |
| "Testing Distributed Systems w/ Deterministic Simulation" by Will Wilsontalk · Strange Loop Conference | 12 | 11 | 60% | No recorded overlap | 40m 20s | 2014-09-20 |
| Bret Victor - Inventing on Principletalk · Rui Oliveira | 12 | 11 | 60% | No recorded overlap | 54m 20s | 2012-02-22 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Programmers’ Build Errors: A Case Study at Google [pdf]”. Its short rationale: High-fidelity description of Google's build system.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “The Woman at the Heart of Everything Google Builds”. Its short rationale: Overview of Google's build systems.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Behind enemy lines: 3 months as an iOS developer at Google”. Its short rationale: Google talk on internal workflows and processes.