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Hammock Driven Development - Rich Hickey

Rich Hickey's philosophical talk from the first Clojure Conj in 2010. He argues that good design comes from deliberate, away-from-keyboard thinking, and describes how to feed the background mind so it solves problems.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN returns to it constantly as permission and method for thinking deeply before coding, and as an antidote to always-working anxiety.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
ClojureTV
Topic
problem solving and design thinking
Format
talk
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
12
HN mentions in dataset
20
Recommendation years in dataset
2014–2024

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From the original HN conversations

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  • That and Hammock Driven Development: [VIDEO] Both of these talks are in my top 5. Edit (okay, here are the other 3): * All the Little Things by Sandi Metz [LINK] * Programming is terrible—Lessons learned from a life wasted. [LINK] * Some talk I …

    hire_charts on Hacker News · 2016-02
    In Rich Hickey Fanclub

  • This is a classic and hilarious series of posts on the foolhardiness of the TDD approach to software design: [LINK] Personally I prefer Rich Hickey's "Hammock Driven Development": [VIDEO]

    cageface on Hacker News · 2014-09
    In The End of Agile: Death by Over-Simplification

  • "don't get stuck" reminds me of the feynman method of problem solving: 1. Write down the problem. 2. Think very hard. 3. Write down the answer. Rich Hickey's Hammock Driven Development, [VIDEO] , is IMO very good for actually not getting stuck in a bad …

    bjwbell on Hacker News · 2015-03
    In Stanford study shows success of different programming styles in CS class

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