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Where Does Bad Code Come From?
Molly Rocket · 1 HN recommenders · 1 recommendation months
Recommended by 1 Hacker News commenters across 1 months (2021–2023).
SignalTube analysis
Among 3 other lecture videos tagged Software performance & optimization, the mean is 6.0 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 1 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 1 distinct month; the peer average is 6.0 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
25% of its 4 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2021–2023; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 42 minutes 21 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2021-11-02.
- Channel / speaker
- Molly Rocket
- Verified runtime
- 42m 21s
- YouTube upload date
- 2021-11-02
- Hacker News mention years
- 2021–2023
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other lecture videos in Software performance & optimization. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Where Does Bad Code Come From?Current video | 1 | 1 | 25% | — | 42m 21s | 2021-11-02 |
| Refterm Lecture Part 1 - Philosophies of Optimizationlecture · Molly Rocket | 10 | 10 | 65% | No recorded overlap | 18m 41s | 2021-10-18 |
| Simple Code, High Performancelecture · Molly Rocket | 6 | 6 | 60% | No recorded overlap | 170m 14s | 2021-10-13 |
| Rust at speed — building a fast concurrent databaselecture · Jon Gjengset | 2 | 2 | 50% | No recorded overlap | 52m 54s | 2019-01-05 |
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 “Is Software Getting Worse?”. Its short rationale: Casey Muratori talk on why software is getting worse.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “DRY is an over-rated programming principle?”. Its short rationale: Source of the term non-pessimized.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “There’s No Such Thing as Clean Code”. Its short rationale: Good take that SOLID and Clean Code are just buzzwords.