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Object-Oriented Programming is Garbage: 3800 SLOC example
Brian Will · 2 HN recommenders · 2 recommendation months
Recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 months (2016–2022).
SignalTube analysis
Among 6 other lecture videos tagged Software architecture & design, the mean is 6.0 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 2 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 2 distinct months; the peer average is 5.7 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
50% of its 4 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2016–2022; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 52 minutes 48 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2016-03-22.
- Channel / speaker
- Brian Will
- Verified runtime
- 52m 48s
- YouTube upload date
- 2016-03-22
- Hacker News mention years
- 2016–2022
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other lecture videos in Software architecture & design. “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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Object-Oriented Programming is Garbage: 3800 SLOC exampleCurrent video | 2 | 2 | 50% | — | 52m 48s | 2016-03-22 |
| The Only Unbreakable Lawlecture · Molly Rocket | 12 | 9 | 60% | No recorded overlap | 53m 25s | 2022-03-16 |
| Lecture 1A: Overview and Introduction to Lisplecture · MIT OpenCourseWare | 10 | 10 | 50% | No recorded overlap | 72m 56s | 2019-08-22 |
| Clean Code - Uncle Bob / Lesson 1lecture · UnityCoin | 6 | 7 | 100% | No recorded overlap | 108m 42s | 2019-08-09 |
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 “Goodbye, shitty Car extends Vehicle object-orientation tutorial (2011)”. Its short rationale: Rewrites a nontrivial OOP program procedurally, saving code and complexity.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “How to name things: the hardest problem in programming (2014)”. Its short rationale: Rewrites an OO program in procedural style, cutting function count.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “The Clean Architecture (2012)”. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.