you have a very weird mix of arrogance and blinders going on here. looking back through the thread, your one consistent argument is people are being 'duped' thi

you have a very weird mix of arrogance and blinders going on here. looking back through the thread, your one consistent argument is people are being 'duped' thinking they'll be 'wizards' by all these earnest, helpful tutorials... and that vim is __not__ hard to learn. It's simply not the case. Maybe it was the case for you. Maybe you purchased a vim book and didn't become this mythical hacker wizard. maybe vim seems absurdly simple to you because you are a genius. I don't know! But I do know this - other people have different contexts, different knowledge, different experiences than you do. When you stomp around angrily and arrogantly denouncing a perfectly innocent thing like a vim tutorial, and show zero indication that you understand that other people find things valuable when you cannot see that value... it just makes you look like a fool. I'd put my money on the notion that very few, if any readers of HN are going to be impressed by your furious denouncement here - rather they are only going to see a weak fool shaking his tiny fists at a perceived slight for no special reason. Maybe they'll chuckle. Put me down for $20 on that action.