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| Rich Hickey: Simple Made Easy (infoq.com) | ||
| recommended by 2 users | 2012 | 176 points by kjbekkelund | software design | original thread | | ||
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| hartzell Mar 3, 2020 | on: Simple Systems Have Less Downtime | context |
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MaxBarraclough Jul 17, 2022 | on: Why concatenative programming matters (2012) | context
> it's exceedingly difficult to explain to a working programmer why "referential transparency" is gonna meaningfully improve their lives. I think the Simple Made Easy talk, by Rich Hickey (of Clojure fame) does a pretty good job on this front. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4 Discussed: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4173854 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23905051 Hickey did another similar talk called The Value of Values. |
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> [...] easy is confused with being simple [...]
The first half of Rich Hickey's "Simple Made Easy" presentation does a great job of defining easy/hard and simple/complex axes and distinguishing them.
video: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/
It has been discussed before on Hacker News:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4173854