Are We There Yet - Rich Hickey 

I’ve learned so much about programming just listening to Hickey talk.

I don't care what year it's from.. A Rich Hickey talk never dissapoints! I don't even program in Clojure, I just love his ideas and his ability to express them brilliantly.

Lion, Lion, Lion, Lion, i better go.

Great lecture!

Thanks!

Thank you!

YASSSSSS

Not only is it not the same river. It's not the same you.

so when I'm sleeping, it that GC..?

This kind of thinking takes an extreme open-mindedness about the nature of the universe. We have to let go of notions of identity/self and treat the whole universe as "connected"/"one", which is especially hard with the Western/individualist ideas many of us are ingrained with. And then...start coding....haha. VSauce also has some great philosophical youtube videos that play with these ideas of "objects", compound objects, and so on...Check out his "Are chairs real" for an example

For Closure lack of mandatory types (AKA dynamic typing) is a big source of incidental complexity

I suspect 1 in 50 devs agree even remotely with these ideas. We are fucked.