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Hammock Driven Development - Rich Hickey

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Functional programmingSoftware architecture & designProductivity & self-improvement

What it is

Rich Hickey's philosophical talk from the first Clojure Conj in 2010. He argues that good design comes from deliberate, away-from-keyboard thinking, and describes how to feed the background mind so it solves problems.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN returns to it constantly as permission and method for thinking deeply before coding, and as an antidote to always-working anxiety.

  • 12 people recommended it
  • 11 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2014, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “Both of these talks are in my top 5.”

    In the commenter's top five talks.

    hire_charts, 2016-02 · Strong recommendation · in “Rich Hickey Fanclub”

  2. “Personally I prefer Rich Hickey's "Hammock Driven Development”

    Rich Hickey on thinking before coding.

    cageface, 2014-09 · Recommendation · in “The End of Agile: Death by Over-Simplification”

  3. “is IMO very good for actually not getting stuck in a bad place problem solving”

    Helps avoid getting stuck on problems.

    bjwbell, 2015-03 · Recommendation · in “Stanford study shows success of different programming styles in CS class”

  4. “I recommend watching him talking about it here”

    Rich Hickey on thinking time away from keyboard.

    dyadic, 2016-02 · Recommendation · in “Building a Startup in 45 Minutes per Day While Deployed in Iraq”

  5. “I am ever more convinced of using one because of Rich hickey's talk”

    Convinced the commenter to use notebooks.

    abc_lisper, 2016-06 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: How many programmers out there keep a paper notebook for their projects?”

  6. “I found a lot of parallels with this "Hammock Driven Development" talk by Rich Hickey”

    Work hard, then take a break to find solutions.

    udfalkso, 2017-01 · Recommendation · in “Lecture on Creativity (1991)”

  7. “A good talk about It, from the creator of clojure”

    Good talk on thinking long about problems.

    digaozao, 2017-10 · Recommendation · in “Streams: a new general purpose data structure in Redis”

  8. “Stay away from the computer" - Start by asking: "what is the problem?”

    Stay away from the computer; ask what the problem is.

    valw, 2018-06 · Recommendation · in “Readme-Driven Development (2010)”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: rich hickey, clojure, design, deep thinking, software craftsmanship, productivity

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