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Design, Composition and Performance
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Summary
Rich Hickey explores the nature of design and composition and how it impacts the software development practice and tools.
Bio
Rich Hickey, the author of Clojure and designer of Datomic, is a software developer with over 25 years of experience in various domains. Rich has worked on scheduling systems, broadcast automation, audio analysis and fingerprinting, database design, yield management, exit poll systems, and machine listening, in a variety of languages.
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Aug 27, 2013
Community comments
Nice
by Bruno Vernay,
Inspiration
by Jesse Miller,
Rich's personal philosophy and its influences exposed
by Matan Safriel,
Nice
by Bruno Vernay,
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Very good presentation.
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Inspiration
by Jesse Miller,
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Not only did Rich inspire me to think about design differently, he inspired me to create a playlist. Turns out it really works well for me when I'm doing all manner of software things.
Rich's personal philosophy and its influences exposed
by Matan Safriel,
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This talk exposes Rich's intellectual influences and the way they personally compose in his mind. It helps shed off the mystery of whether his software philosophy is superior: it is probably not, but rather a mesh of influences he has amalgamated in his mind in certain ways, that he now preaches to his typically intelligent folk. This talk will help you understand some of his other comments or things that people say on Clojure channels.
Some of his talking about the essence of design is still, universal, though. The overall metaphor he stretches over software building, can be useful to orient architects and teams, but only in those mild ways that set some aspects of an attitude.
These opinions are only my own.