Well good for you that your SPAs work every time, and you never broke production with kubernetes. Here's a cookie.
Now for the rest of us who work with engineers across all skill ranges and experience levels, we actually do need to care about such factors.
The question is -- you hire a guy off craigslist to run your site, and every minute of downtime costs $1,000. Are you going to want him to use Kubernetes or a braindead simple hosted solution?
I kind of suspect you may be the one lacking experience.
I've worked at at least 8 different tech companies, mostly startups in SF or NY. The vast majority used overcomplicated technologies that didn't fit the needs of project (most frequently microservices and no-sql).
Off the top of my head I can't think of a single time such mistakes got corrected. More often than not things would continue to be even more poorly designed with the addition of new unnecessary technology.
In short -- I'm annoyed about this stuff because I've seen it first hand and had to struggle with it for numerous years.
Your weird theory that people are inventing hypothetical situations to be angry about... well I think you're the one inventing hypotheticals here...
> Articles like this one, and even more comments on HN and similar sites, generally suffer from a perspective bias, with people overestimating the frequency of their own particular circumstances and declaring something outside of their needs as "niche" and generally misguided and "overhyped".
It's my experience the opposite is true. The blindness is people overestimating their needs (or resume-padding) and using specialized, overcomplicated tools meant for traffic in the billions (e.g. cassandra, kafka, mapreduce) for 20-person startups that haven't hit rapid growth (most of which never do).
Well I don't think the argument is that you need academic justification before implementing something in your own life. Obviously not the case.
But at the same time, for people like myself, who are surrounded by people offering millions of self-reported miracle-cures, I have to ignore the vast majority of self-reported and look to systematic study as a way to find reliable patterns when decided what to try with my limited time.
Likeliest scenario people say a bunch of vague phrases like "communication skill" and "culture fit" and "diligence" at each other, forget they had this conversation, and thread continues to happen every 2 weeks for the next 10 years (I guarantee this conversation has happened no less than 100 times here already).
Hypothetically not-meaningless form of collaboration that would never happen on HN -- people form a google doc and come up with concrete questions that they upvote/downvote to come up with a great engineering interview, and each new discussion adds to the list.
At this point it seems like a tired HN discussion.
1. Everybody agrees interviews and tests have some signal, some noise.
2. Some interviews are systematically biased toward skills that aren't a good sample of what work is. But people just want to whine about it rather than propose a better solution.
3. Nobody can agree on what the important skills are for engineering anyways. Which is natural, since it varies situationally.
4. I don't actively javascript anymore (for the reasons listed above), but isn't there still a bunch of variation within that (e.g. something called "Vue" and something called "redux")? Does google use this "react" ?
In most traditional languages if you learn a framework you'll get a decade of use out if it. ROR was the first hacker community to really screw this up.
I used to consider this type of sarcastic response counterproductive, but based on my research the facts are pretty disconcerting.
- There are over 1,200 active chemically distinct pesticide active-ingredients
- For every pesticide registered for use there are at least as many that have been pulled from use ("deregistered"). There is no official record for which of these 1000+ chemicals have been deregistered for health reasons.
How is it tricky? If a company wants to defend itself, it shouldn't do so via paid individuals masquerading as private parties ("Let Nothing Go"), the only purpose of that is to misrepresent public opinion and appeal to bandwagon bias.
On a different note I recommend you also google "Let Nothing Go." [Monsanto is being accused in court of hiring 3rd parties to shill public forums including facebook, and it's alleged the internal name of that program is "Let Nothing Go"]
Now for the rest of us who work with engineers across all skill ranges and experience levels, we actually do need to care about such factors.
The question is -- you hire a guy off craigslist to run your site, and every minute of downtime costs $1,000. Are you going to want him to use Kubernetes or a braindead simple hosted solution?