I suppose I came off as snarky with my comment but I still don't think this was HM worthy. My reason for disliking it was because it simply showed a bunch of examples of obscure flaws in languages that aren't really useful. There wasn't enough substance to it. It was just "look at the weird result you get when you write code in a way that you never would in the real world. Wat?". Meme pics are funny. Meme pics and a good talk are funny. This was meme pics and a really useless, trying too hard talk. I've seen presentations that offer up a lot of value in terms of stuff you can actually use and topics that are really relevant. This was just language quirks and nothing more. No talk about why these quirks exist, uses for them, how they could affect you without knowing, none of that. It was just bad humor and no substance. I'm not against humor showing up on HN from time to time but this was more like something that belongs on Reddit or even any random forum. Oh, and the title too bothered me. It was kind of immature.
And for the record, I'm 25 so either I'm really mature or I have no sense of humor. The jury is out. I'm definitely still not hacker though as I watched it again and still barely chuckled.
Eh, I'm sure my original comment was somewhat snarky, too. I simply cannot shake the feeling that you were downvoted because there's a large number of people who find the meme overuse outright hilarious (I don't; if I want memes, I'll visit Imgur's gallery--they can be funny, but I found their use in the video, well, useless). It's a shame, too, because I felt that there was a fairly strong sentiment in agreement with you (including myself, so I'll admit bias).
Regardless of what others might feel, you're absolutely right. The title had about as much redeeming value as the video. :)
I'll join you in the non-hacker, no-humor camp. This is particularly true since my inner grammar Nazi finds the abuse of "what" to be abhorrent...
And for the record, I'm 25 so either I'm really mature or I have no sense of humor. The jury is out. I'm definitely still not hacker though as I watched it again and still barely chuckled.