talk · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
Functional Composition - Chris Ford
ClojureTV · 6 HN recommenders · 6 recommendation months
Recommended by 6 Hacker News commenters across 6 months (2013–2023).
SignalTube analysis
Among 175 other talk videos tagged Functional programming, the mean is 3.7 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 6 distinct HN recommenders, about 1.6× that mean. Recommendations span 6 distinct months, longer than the peer average of 3.8 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
100% of its 6 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2013–2023; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 39 minutes 21 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2013-01-08.
- Channel / speaker
- ClojureTV
- Verified runtime
- 39m 21s
- YouTube upload date
- 2013-01-08
- Hacker News mention years
- 2013–2023
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other talk videos in Functional programming. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Functional Composition - Chris FordCurrent video | 6 | 6 | 100% | — | 39m 21s | 2013-01-08 |
| Ruby Conf 12 - Y Not- Adventures in Functional Programming by Jim Weirichtalk · Confreaks | 17 | 18 | 90% | No recorded overlap | 53m 22s | 2012-11-11 |
| The Soul of Erlang and Elixir • Sasa Juric • GOTO 2019talk · GOTO Conferences | 16 | 14 | 80% | No recorded overlap | 42m 3s | 2019-05-22 |
| "Simple Made Easy" - Rich Hickey (2011)talk · Strange Loop Conference | 14 | 14 | 70% | No recorded overlap | 61m 39s | 2021-09-02 |
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 strong recommendation in “Overtone – programmable, live music in Clojure”. Its short rationale: Overtone presentation engaging even to a non-programmer with music background.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “The sound of Erlang: How to use Erlang as an instrument”. Its short rationale: Builds a Bach canon from pure sine waves with functional composition.
The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “Live Coding in Sporth: A Stack-Based Language for Audio Synthesis [pdf]”. Its short rationale: Made music theory click via functional composition.