Having followed Data-* from its beginning, it's now fascinating seeing how these threads play out. The troll-y takes from those who took one brief look at the front-page and felt compelled to tear it down in their own 'worthy, hot-take'.
Like T3, the critiques usually compare to JS stacks or how non-HTML it looks(!). It just doesn't make sense to them, so...
"I know what I must do, instead of looking into this more, make sure I have a fuller picture of this thing, HN NEEDS to know now".
You have every right, of course. But you undermine yourselves as soon as you post - you clearly have not taken any time to understand where it came from, why it is what it is. Your responses are not, say, genuine questions for clarification or helpful critiques. For the most part they are straight out judgements: 'This is just wrong'.
Of course in your minds the front-page MUST provide you all that in under 30secs, yes?
Like, the 'hidden', 'real cost' is ON ANOTHER PAGE?! - instead of reading the reasoning behind it and why YOU won't need it.
You don't need to immediately post here - you are not really looking for answers, are you? You could've just read the website and history of Data- for that?
To all the 'clarfiers' here like Delaney, Anders, nchmy, and others, thank you for the comments refuting most of this stuff, it must be tiring.
All the best,
An old, grumpy, ex-HyperCard 'programmer'.
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