talk · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
Hey Underscore, You're Doing It Wrong!
InfoQ · 9 HN recommenders · 7 recommendation months
Recommended by 9 Hacker News commenters across 7 months (2014–2022).
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 7 distinct months, longer than the peer average of 3.8 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
75% of its 12 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2014–2022; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 36 minutes 31 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2013-05-21.
- Channel / speaker
- InfoQ
- Verified runtime
- 36m 31s
- YouTube upload date
- 2013-05-21
- Hacker News mention years
- 2014–2022
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hey Underscore, You're Doing It Wrong!Current video | 9 | 7 | 75% | — | 36m 31s | 2013-05-21 |
| 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 “Ask HN: Learning Functional Programming in 2022?”. Its short rationale: Inspiring talk on where Underscore.js went wrong for FP.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Currying vs. Partial Application (2015)”. Its short rationale: Explains proper uses of currying very well.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Just: A library of dependency-free JS utilities that do just do one thing”. Its short rationale: Good ~30 minute explanation of why data comes last.