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I think part of the reason so many of this type of article exist is because it seems the common expectation is that things should automatically make sense to us

I think part of the reason so many of this type of article exist is because it seems the common expectation is that things should automatically make sense to us on first glance. So many products and tools are this way. But they are that way by design. The builders / inventors of those things hide you from the reality behind the scenes. People seem to get openly frustrated if they can't learn overnight all there is to know about a discipline that has taken some people years and maybe even decades to master. We as a civilization haven't really had a need to reconcile this I think on the scale that we do today. Nothing was "out in the open" so much so as it is today. But now that I can see it somehow my expectation is that I should immediately understand it. As more and more information becomes available to the masses we all need to start recognizing that just because we can see it doesn't mean we should expect to be able to understand it. Real knowledge about how to solve complicated problems takes time and discipline to get to the place we want to be individually and collectively.

hootbootscoot 7y ago
... except that broken or ignored browser standards, and Javascript's lack of dealing with Timezone, for example, are not the result of complexity, per se, but of social inability: a committee or industrial consortium being unable to come to an agreement... kicking the can down the road in some cases, building-in complexity for ulterior motives in some cases by some parties, etc... the web is a mess on the front end for political, rather than computer science, reasons (say, you don't want to include the 2mb outdated moment.js? well, even though every browser included this code to fetch and update it's IANA timezone database in it's source, and has compiled against it, you can't access it via a public API from JS though LOL... you can figure out a way to run this code to get your data muahahahahahah.... https://www.iana.org/time-zones https://www.iana.org/time-zones)

hootbootscoot 7y ago

... except that broken or ignored browser standards, and Javascript's lack of dealing with Timezone, for example, are not the result of complexity, per se, but of social inability: a committee or industrial consortium being unable to come to an agreement... kicking the can down the road in some cases, building-in complexity for ulterior motives in some cases by some parties, etc... the web is a mess on the front end for political, rather than computer science, reasons (say, you don't want to include the 2mb outdated moment.js? well, even though every browser included this code to fetch and update it's IANA timezone database in it's source, and has compiled against it, you can't access it via a public API from JS though LOL... you can figure out a way to run this code to get your data muahahahahahah.... https://www.iana.org/time-zones https://www.iana.org/time-zones)