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Rich Hickey

7 appearances · 1 as guest · 10 topics

Influence Direction (across 7 analyzed appearances)

Avg Intensity

Minimal 17%

Avg Transparency

Transparent 96%

Top Technique

None

Technique Profile

Appeal To Authority 2x Confirmation Bias 2x Us Vs. Them 2x Direct Technical Recommendation 1x Empathy Elicitation 1x Expertise Signaling 1x Externalizing Blame 1x Hyperbolic Framing 1x Reframing 1x Selective History 1x Thematic Anchoring 1x Unstated Technical Bias 1x Direct-technical-appeal 1x Identity-alignment 1x Simplification 1x Technical-anxiety 1x Unquestioned-philosophical-premise 1x

Persuasion Dimensions

Story Shaping
19%
Implicit Claims
16%
Emotional Appeal
9%
Call to Action
6%
Engagement Mechanics
4%
Group Characterization
4%

Topics

clojure functional programming software architecture bug tracking build tools data serialization database architecture datomic dependency management developer experience

Narrative Themes

The video aims to persuade Clojure developers to prefer 'transduce' over 'reduce' by highlighting the technical inconsistencies of the latter's implementation.

One of the worst things Rich Hickey copied from Common Lisp to Clojure: non-Monoidal binary reduce

The video aims to educate software developers on the technical implementation and history of data readers and tag literals in the Clojure programming language.

The Data Reader's Guide to the Galaxy Steve Miner

The video aims to explain the technical design and adoption of 'tools.deps' to the Clojure developer community and encourage its use as a modern alternative to legacy build tools.

Composable Tools - Alex Miller

The content aims to humanize the Clojure programming language by framing it as a solution for experienced, perhaps cynical, developers seeking simplicity.

Clojure programmers: Cranky, tired, old? — Rich Hickey

The content aims to provide a technical definition of the 'datom' data structure to educate potential users of the Datomic database.

Datomic Cloud - Datoms

Appearances

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