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"Simple Made Easy" - Rich Hickey (2011)
ClojureTV · 9 recommenders · 8 months
Rich Hickey's Strange Loop 2011 keynote separates 'simple' (not intertwined) from 'easy' (familiar or near at hand) and argues that software complexity comes from complecting things. It offers a vocabulary for judging designs and abstractions.
Why Hacker News readers recommend it: It is one of HN's most frequently recommended programming talks, cited whenever people debate complexity, simplicity and abstraction, and valued well beyond Clojure.
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“I highly recommend Rich Hickey's "Simple Made Easy" talk as a way to think about software complexity.”
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