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Because four times now you've said "I know more than you" and have provided nothing of substance to back your claims. I know this is HN and "what you say" means more than "what you do", but hipster bravado will only get you so far.

And you're clearly the arbiter that gets to tell people what they do and don't know. I guess pretending to be competent online helps you, in some way.

"The site went down, but it's not my fault. Even though I'm the guy coding it". ok, 10x.

"Weak programming"?

No, I hadn't read the article. The site was down...

[citation needed]

It's really nice how we once again depend on "I think some guys do it like this" for performance. What happened to standards?

What's next? SEO for code?

Well... what did they expect? Seriously! There is no shortage of experimental evidence of what happens when a bot is trained by "the Internet".

Case in point: the left-pad package has quadratic complexity.

Wut... Because the iPhone 5S had great design?

Contrary to the popular meme, not all people buy Apple because they're shallow appearance-obsessed hipsters.

The OP's point is that "This only works if you pay the appropriate amount". If you go with that process, but discard the "money" variable, you'll only interview the people who got rejected from every one of the well-paying companies.

Hell, at this point I'd be happy with "command-line python". I've seen a few-too-many "Rails, but only in RubyMine" devs.

Guy, you're wrong. You can keep arguing, but that won't change reality.

The only way for them to get developers on their platform is to wait for the next generation of developers. Literally nobody will base anything on their stuff now, and this has been the case for a good few years.