[gedrap]

Is it just me, or it sounds... cult-ish / overly dramatic?

>> it wasn’t obvious to me that Hacker News had any JavaScript at all.

I guess he never votes.

>> I thought it would be weird and complicated, but it turned out to be quite the opposite. You’ll have to watch the video to see what I mean.

Well, it sends a HTTP request and hides an element. How on earth can it be complicated? I mean, ok, you can use The Framework Of The Week to do that and just that. Not everything that is related to HN/YC is some magical rocket science.

[rohanprabhu]

Not just you. I don't see why this warrants a 12 minute video.

[st3v3ndungan]

I'll give you one reason. I've never done any front-end stuff before. But maybe a month ago, I got curious. Perhaps because I read HN everyday.

And if you try to immerse yourself in the front-end world, you get 'yeah, learn HTML/CSS/JS, BUT, also learn Angular, React, JQuery, et. al...' It's good to get a reminder that Javascript in and of itself is a capable language. I'm sure I'm not the only one in this camp.

Maybe it didn't need to be 12 minutes, and it was certainly more of an 'oh, interesting' than anything, but I'm glad I took the time to watch it.

[gordonzhu]

Thanks for the perspective.

This is why I encourage all developers to take some time to teach new people. The "everyone knows this obviously" attitude goes away very quickly if you start doing this.

The aim of the video was to make it accessible to just about everybody. So if you know this stuff you can watch the first minute and stop the video and get value out of it. On the other hand, if you're a beginner and you just did Codecademy, you can watch it through and follow it too.