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This talk made a strong impression on me when I was figuring out how to write more beautiful, and more readable code.
I'm not a Closure coder but I loved this talk on how as your tooling becomes more complex and automated, you start to lose sight of simpler solutions to problems. It's all about woodworking! Tim Ewald - Clojure: Programming with Hand Tools https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShEez0JkOFw
Thank you for reminding me of this great talk.
A really in depth look into why functional languages stand out as a programming paradigm. The short of it being that they parallel perfectly (almost proof for proof!) with mathematical logic.
This talk is made better by the fact that it's rather brief (~20min).
I found it easy to follow and pretty entertaining.
This recent review "10 years of Clojure", encapsulates a lot of of the wisdom:
Rich Hickey has a lot of excellent stuff to say. Not only are his ideas philosophically sound, but also real, practical and ready to use in the form of Clojure. This recent review "10 years of Clojure", encapsulates a lot of of the wisdom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V1FtfBDsLU
This talk is less technical than his other videos, but really catches the spirit of discovery, failure and learning.
"I'd like to welcome you to this course on Computer Science. Actually that's a terrible way to start. Computer science is a terrible name for this business. First of all, it's not a science. It might be engineering or it might be art. We'll actually see that computer so-called science actually has a lot in common with magic. We will see that in this course. So it's not a science. It's also not really very much about computers. And it's not about computers in the same sense that physics is not really about particle accelerators. And biology is not really about microscopes and petri dishes. And it's not about computers in the same sense that geometry is not really about using a surveying instruments."