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Comment by franze | Hacker News Reader

please see the HN guidelines http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

  Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using 
  uppercase or exclamation points, or adding a parenthetical 
  remark saying how great an article is. It's implicit in 
  submitting something that you think it's important.

plus i have a very strong distain about anyone or anything (i.e. headlines) which tell me what i MUST do / know / think... - also the article above is about a very basic language feature of JS that hopefully anyone who has every touched JS already knows about.

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Amusingly, the original title has a spelling mistake: "Javascript: Function Inovcation Patterns."

But enough burying the lede. The issue I have with this title is simple: It's not clear WHY I must know these patterns: The focus of the post is not why I must know them, but rather This post explains the four patterns, how to use them and what to watch out for. Had the post kicked off by explaining that not knowing one or more of these patterns could lead to disaster, I'd be onside with the submission title rewrite (sans emphasis).

It still does: the language is "JavaScript", not "Javascript".

While we are at nitpicking: I think this is really about ECMAScript.

> the article above is about a very basic language feature of JS that hopefully anyone who has every touched JS already knows about.

Hopefully, yes, but I think reality is much more depressing than that. Unfortunately, the JavaScript programmers that don't know probably don't read Hacker News either.

Actually, I only have a vague understanding of this and I'm probably what you would call an expert. I have used many of these features in JS, but like the author says it's unintuitive and "wrong" the way javascript does it. Basically OOP is a horrible hack in JS, and this is a very good article explaining various gotchas that I wasn't aware of.

How about instead of hijacking the thread to bitch about guidelines 1% of the HN population knows about you let the down arrow do your talking?

Because it helps educate the 99% who might otherwise think this is an acceptable title format.

I agree this article is kind of javascript 101. And it doesnt do a great job explaining exactly why things are the way they are in javascript. And these are not patterns , since they are built in the language. It would be like saying using the world class in java is using a pattern... I dont see the point featuring it on HN...

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