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Simple Made Easy

Presented by Rich Hickey on Oct 20, 2011 Length 01:01:26     Download: MP3
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Architecture & Design
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Strange Loop 2011 ,
Methodologies ,
Strange Loop ,
Programming ,
Architecture ,
Conferences ,
Simplicity
 

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Summary
Rich Hickey emphasizes simplicity’s virtues over easiness’, showing that while many choose easiness they may end up with complexity, and the better way is to choose easiness along the simplicity path.

Bio
Rich Hickey, the author of Clojure, is an independent software designer, consultant and application architect with over 20 years of experience in all facets of software development. Rich has worked on scheduling systems, broadcast automation, audio analysis and fingerprinting, database design, yield management, exit poll systems, and machine listening.

About the conference
Strange Loop is a multi-disciplinary conference that aims to bring together the developers and thinkers building tomorrow's technology in fields such as emerging languages, alternative databases, concurrency, distributed systems, mobile development, and the web.

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Video release schedule by Alex Miller Posted
Download Slides by Amit Shah Posted
Re: Download Slides by mikhail franco Posted
Re: Download Slides by Alex Miller Posted
Re: Download Slides by Andrew Gwozdziewycz Posted
Re: Download Slides by Oli Fante Posted
Re: Download Slides by Amit Shah Posted
Re: Download Slides by Peter Damoc Posted
complects by Vic Ripa Posted
Simple version of "Word Origins" by manuel gonzalez Posted
Nice, funny but without examples - useless by Sławomir Sobótka Posted
Re: Nice, funny but without examples - useless by Rafal Babinicz Posted
Rich Hickey keynote at Clojure/West by Alex Miller Posted
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    Video release schedule

    by Alex Miller

    If you're interested in other upcoming videos from Strange Loop, the full release schedule is here. If you want to be notified for Strange Loop in the future, sign up for the mailing list.

    BTW, the category theory and monad references in the talk were in relation to Erik Meijer's talk earlier in the conference which unfortunately was not approved for release.

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    Download Slides

    by Amit Shah

    Where can I find a link to download the slides of this presentation?

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    Re: Download Slides

    by mikhail franco

    I guess they will be here on github when ready:

    github.com/strangeloop/2011-slides/blob/master/...

    Mik

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    Re: Download Slides

    by Alex Miller

    Rich asked for his slides not to be made available separately as he prefers them to be considered in the context of the talk.

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    Re: Download Slides

    by Oli Fante

    Mediafire to the rescue: www.mediafire.com/?ar3gv7ql7zcuqx3

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    complects

    by Vic Ripa

    There is an interesting overlap between the notion of "complect" as interleaving of concepts and the notion of entanglement in software, as discussed in an ongoing series on the "physics of software" by Carlo Pescio. Here are two relevant links:

    www.carlopescio.com/2010/11/notes-on-software-d...

    www.carlopescio.com/2011/01/notes-on-software-d...

    they can be easy followed even without reading the previous chapters :-)

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    Simple version of "Word Origins"

    by manuel gonzalez

    Etymology

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    Re: Download Slides

    by Amit Shah

    Mediafire to the rescue: www.mediafire.com/?ar3gv7ql7zcuqx3


    Thank you !

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    Re: Download Slides

    by Andrew Gwozdziewycz

    The slides are helpful for people who can't watch the video, say because they're using Gnash or something, and need to download the MP3 to follow along.

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    Nice, funny but without examples - useless

    by Sławomir Sobótka

    Comparing Easy and Simple in this form is brilliant. But in this form they are also just Your personal opinions. Projection of Your "inner mental model" of programming, modeling etc.
    What is missing, are facts. Maybe examples of non-trivial and non-hello-world problems and code/diagrams with some sort of measurement of complexity.
    Personal opinions can be considered but only in the context of some kind of psychological personality types that determines "feeling" of complexity.
    That could also help preaching Clojure:)

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    Re: Nice, funny but without examples - useless

    by Rafal Babinicz

    Sławek, you sound like you didn't USE any functional language at all? And you totally dismiss fact which says "Rich Hickey, the author of Clojure, [...] with over 20 years of experience"
    If you want more then his words, you can SIMPLY study some real word examples here: github.com/search?langOverride=&language=Cl... and watch maybe: blip.tv/clojure/clojure-for-java-programmers-1-....

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    Re: Download Slides

    by Peter Damoc

    a smaller and nicer version:

    www.mediafire.com/?anvd1bb5218ja2r

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    Rich Hickey keynote at Clojure/West

    by Alex Miller

    If you liked this talk, you might be interested in attending the new Clojure/West conference in San Jose, CA, March 16-17th. Rich Hickey will be doing a keynote at Clojure/West, along with Stuart Halloway, Bradford Cross, and Richard Gabriel.

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