talk · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
ClojureScript for Skeptics - Derek Slager
ClojureTV · 4 HN recommenders · 3 recommendation months
Recommended by 4 Hacker News commenters across 3 months (2015–2017).
SignalTube analysis
Among 175 other talk videos tagged Functional programming, the mean is 3.7 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 4 distinct HN recommenders, close to that mean. Recommendations span 3 distinct months; the peer average is 3.9 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
67% of its 6 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2015–2017; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 41 minutes 9 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2015-11-16.
- Channel / speaker
- ClojureTV
- Verified runtime
- 41m 9s
- YouTube upload date
- 2015-11-16
- Hacker News mention years
- 2015–2017
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ClojureScript for Skeptics - Derek SlagerCurrent video | 4 | 3 | 67% | — | 41m 9s | 2015-11-16 |
| 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 “React and Redux are a joke right?”. Its short rationale: Supports claim that ClojureScript code size is competitive for complex apps.
The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “Is Clojure dying, and what has Ruby got to do with it?”. Its short rationale: Lays out ClojureScript pros: standard library, immutability, Closure Compiler optimizations, code-splitting.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “The Next Five Years of ClojureScript”. Its short rationale: Offers the talk as a pointer alongside a remark that ClojureScript is hard to learn.