talk · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
Solving Problems the Clojure Way - Rafal Dittwald
Clojure/north · 10 HN recommenders · 11 recommendation months
Recommended by 10 Hacker News commenters across 11 months (2019–2025).
SignalTube analysis
Among 175 other talk videos tagged Functional programming, the mean is 3.7 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 10 distinct HN recommenders, about 2.7× that mean. Recommendations span 11 distinct months, longer than the peer average of 3.8 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
80% of its 15 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2019–2025; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 62 minutes 26 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2019-05-24.
- Channel / speaker
- Clojure/north
- Verified runtime
- 1h 2m 26s
- YouTube upload date
- 2019-05-24
- Hacker News mention years
- 2019–2025
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Solving Problems the Clojure Way - Rafal DittwaldCurrent video | 10 | 11 | 80% | — | 1h 2m 26s | 2019-05-24 |
| 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 “I made a multiplayer shooter game in Lisp, here is my journey”. Its short rationale: Shows pure functions between mutations in practice.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “Premature Abstraction”. Its short rationale: Explains finding domain operations and entities to guide abstraction.
The archive classifies this as a strong recommendation in “Functional Core, Imperative Shell (2012)”. Its short rationale: Demonstrates imperative-to-functional refactor in JavaScript with a meaningful toy example.