> It's great that it was "never complicated" for you. Please stop making it sound like the commenter was bragging. That's just having bad faith in HN users. T

> It's great that it was "never complicated" for you. Please stop making it sound like the commenter was bragging. That's just having bad faith in HN users. The comment was about how the context and prior understanding of the underlying topics is a necessary prerequisite for understanding complex topics built on those and how blog learning is a necessarily contrived method of teaching. It does not mean it won't work for some. If you happen to have the prior understanding of the prerequisites then it'd be a way to learn some additional insight, but you shouldn't assume the Venn diagram for that audience is much larger than a small % of the readers.