talk · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
Tim Ewald - Clojure: Programming with Hand Tools
ClojureTV · 9 HN recommenders · 10 recommendation months
Recommended by 9 Hacker News commenters across 10 months (2014–2024).
SignalTube analysis
Among 175 other talk videos tagged Functional programming, the mean is 3.7 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 9 distinct HN recommenders, about 2.4× that mean. Recommendations span 10 distinct months, longer than the peer average of 3.8 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
73% of its 15 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2014–2024; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 58 minutes 39 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2014-01-08.
- Channel / speaker
- ClojureTV
- Verified runtime
- 58m 39s
- YouTube upload date
- 2014-01-08
- Hacker News mention years
- 2014–2024
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tim Ewald - Clojure: Programming with Hand ToolsCurrent video | 9 | 10 | 73% | — | 58m 39s | 2014-01-08 |
| 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 recommendation in “Why software engineers like woodworking (2021)”. Its short rationale: Effects of automation on work, via furniture making and Clojure.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Why software engineers like woodworking (2021)”. Its short rationale: Memorable Clojure/conj talk on programming with hand tools.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Why software engineers like woodworking”. Its short rationale: Classic talk on woodworking and software.