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Using Emacs - 1 - setting up the package manager
Mike Zamansky · 2 HN recommenders · 2 recommendation months
Recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 months (2020–2022).
SignalTube analysis
Among 12 other tutorial videos tagged Testing, debugging & developer tools, the mean is 3.8 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 2 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 2 distinct months; the peer average is 3.8 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
67% of its 3 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2020–2022; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 11 minutes 41 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2016-05-23.
- Channel / speaker
- Mike Zamansky
- Verified runtime
- 11m 41s
- YouTube upload date
- 2016-05-23
- Hacker News mention years
- 2020–2022
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other tutorial 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Using Emacs - 1 - setting up the package managerCurrent video | 2 | 2 | 67% | — | 11m 41s | 2016-05-23 |
| A Tour of the Acme Editortutorial · Russ Cox | 11 | 10 | 55% | No recorded overlap | 23m 16s | 2012-09-17 |
| Emacs Rocks! Episode 14: Paredittutorial · emacsrocks | 8 | 7 | 89% | No recorded overlap | 3m 25s | 2013-03-21 |
| i3wm: Jump Start (1/3)tutorial · Alex Booker | 4 | 4 | 100% | No recorded overlap | 16m 42s | 2015-11-01 |
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 recommendation in “What’s new in Emacs 28.1?”. Its short rationale: Video tutorials for starting out with Emacs.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Ask HN: I'm an incoming freshman to college for a CS major, what should I know?”. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Ask HN: Resources to grok Emacs and use it well?”. Its short rationale: Practical step-by-step Emacs learning path.