Man, leave it to HN to turn an article that has _nothing_ to do with a specific technology (notice how the app the author makes an example of isn't even a web app?) into an excuse to soapbox about modern web development.
It's not HN-specific thing. It's that in the new generation of developers, people sometimes miss that there are things that are not Web, and the Web is not be-all end-all of programming.
>Unfortunately your architecture limits us to JS style of development when failed request is ok, user will refresh the page.
On what planet is this "the JS style of development"? SPAs don't want to force the user to refresh the page for no good reason for the exact same reason that you don't want the user to close your app because their token has expired. The idea really isn't significantly different.
That they deployed a broken config file & forcefully stop-started nginx instead of reloading it (and bypassing nginx's built-in protection: it will test a config and refuse to load it if it's broken on reload. on restart it's stuck with whatever busted config you give it).
Absolutely. I also live in an Eastern European country with a large (and growing) IT outsourcing industry, and from my experience here, that statement couldn't be farther from the truth. These companies are some of the best employers in the country, with far above-average benefits, salaries and work conditions. Of course, some are worse than others, but that's true for any industry.
>> I was told "I seem to be senstive about being Indian" out of nowhere.
Jesus. It's amazing to think someone who's worked so long in the tech industry can think like this. If anything, we're the ones who should know best how little race means when you have the skills to get the job done.
True, and if this story is true, it also surprises me in a nasty way because
a) I am Indian, and until now had largely thought that we were largely a privileged class within tech, if not outside it -- and consequently weren't affected by race issues within it.
b) All of the articles about how oh-so-wonderfully Automattic does their remote work had always led me to believe they were a forward-thinking, "good" company. If they are bringing up race in an interview it completely destroys this perception.
I'm just happy I wasn't taking a sip of my coffee when I read that title. Is this what passes as tech journalism these days? Did they get Buzzfeed to give them pointers or something?
