RailsConf 2015 - Nothing is Something

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as a funny, smart and well-constructed talk on abstraction, duplication and object-oriented design.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Confreaks

Topic

object-oriented design

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2016–2024

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From the original HN conversations

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• Couldn't agree more. Sandi Metz has an excellent talk touching on this topic. Developers exaggerated willingness to keep things DRY and elaborates a bit on why: it's one of the easiest things for a not-so-experienced developer to identify and one of the easiest things to …

• I'd like to mention that despite OOP being in the title, I thought this book had a lot to teach that isn't specific to OOP architecture or OOP languages. Really, I think the star of the show is TDD and refactoring. For a short intro …

• The premise is the introduction is wrong. "so before we have written a single program in our language, before we know whether shared behaviour will be important in the applications that will be written in it" read the POODR book, or watch this [VIDEO] it …