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Comment by yuvadam | Hacker News Reader

I thought I'd browse the source code and find a cool tool that does this using basic unix commands and syscalls. But then:

    #!/usr/bin/env node

facepalm. And since the code uses an etherpad dependency, it is completely trivial. How is this HN-worthy?

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How is this comment HN worthy? It brings no valuable knowledge to the discussion, and discourages the sharing of novel ideas. The code may be trivial, but the idea certainly is not.

How is this trivial? It's unique, I have never seen anything like it.

Also, why would he make it harder for himself than necessary? I'd like to see your shell/C++/asm implementation

Because it's an interesting idea. It doesn't have to have a hardcore implementation to be HN-worthy.

Honestly, I wasn't too worried about making something complex - I wanted to write something quickly that would work reliably.

Yes, it's trivial to write. But it fulfilled a need that we had, and getting something useful released rather than building something needlessly complex is, from what I understand, everything that HN is about.

Would not using node single-handedly make this HN-worthy? What if it were say, python?

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