[coldtea]

Well, if you never heard that term, and

1) you are a front-end JS developer, perhaps front-end JS development is not for you.

2) you aren't a front-end JS developer, then the post wasn't meant for you, so not much need to explain anything.

[elnate]

3) you were born knowing everything about your trade, so no point posting articles like these.

[coldtea]

I was answering to a parent who seems to have deleted his comment.

I'm not suggesting that everybody should know everything about their trade. Polyfill on the other hand is an extremely common thing in the trade. You'd expect a surgeon to know what a scalpel is.

Plus, he put it like: "I don't know what it is and I don't care". How about bothering to Google the names you don't know, instead of demanding everybody else to include introductory terminology lessons in their posts?

[BrandonM]

It's not very productive to talk down to people, even if it's satisfying to you. There's a better way: http://xkcd.com/1053/

[coldtea]

Talking down? I was replying to the parent's "I don't know what this is and I DON'T CARE" comment.

If you don't care, you can always not comment.

If you do care, Google is a keyboard shortcut away, and it's up to you to get informed, not to harass the post autors about not including a terminology section.

How about "I don't know what side-effects are and I don't care" posted for every Haskell post? Or "I don't know what functions are"? Where does this BS ends?

[BrandonM]

Sorry, I just recoil against phrases like "x is not for you."

You seem to view this individual commenter as a sea of uncaring people, but it's just one person. Change their mind, and their contribution to the "BS" does end.

Even if a response like yours seems deserved, it's not very productive. It certainly doesn't help someone to care more.