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Rails Conf 2012 Keynote: Simplicity Matters by Rich Hickey

Rich Hickey's keynote at RailsConf 2012, a close sibling of his 'Simple Made Easy' talk. He distinguishes simple (not intertwined) from easy (familiar), and argues that software complexity comes from complecting things, with Rails-specific examples including large gem collections.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as an alternative or companion to 'Simple Made Easy', and quotes its ideas about simplicity, complexity and 'hairballs' in discussions of frameworks, JSON and data design.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Confreaks
Topic
software simplicity
Format
talk
Level
intermediate
HN recommenders in dataset
8
HN mentions in dataset
20
Recommendation years in dataset
2015–2024

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From the original HN conversations

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  • Related: the great and timeless talk called "Simplicity Matters" by Rich Hickey - [VIDEO] (By the way, any talk by Rich Hickey is worth watching)

    stcg on Hacker News · 2023-04
    In The Egison Programming Language

  • Very interesting related talk about complecting things - "Simple Made Easy" - by Rich Hickey, inventor of Clojure: [LINK] If you're a Ruby person, maybe watch this version instead, since it's almost the same talk but for a Rails Conference, with a few references: [VIDEO]

    sivers on Hacker News · 2015-01
    In Is it really 'Complex'? Or did we just make it 'Complicated'? [video]

  • Prodcedural code can also be well compartmentalized and tested. I was also until recently quite convinced OOP was the only way to go, but I'm seeing signs everywhere that a lot of the design-problems I've met over the past few years are at least magnified …

    NegatioN on Hacker News · 2017-03
    In How we secretly introduced Haskell and got away with it

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