That's a ridiculous statement. "I'm sorry" is not an indication of negativity. Nor is it indicative of my posting history. Apparently criticism is simply not allowed. Sorry to poke the fluff that is somehow being perceived as value.
You most definitely can judge someone's technical prowess as well based on their decisions. I am not sure how you're going to grey-wash this into some kind of innocent mistake. The decision that was made reeks of novice motivations and perspectives.
I asked a very blatant question, if one is going to go off of titles, how does a CTO and lead engineer (or anyone leading any kind of project) make such a novice mistake, together nonetheless. My apologies for not echoing commendations.
> Apparently criticism is simply not allowed. Sorry to poke the fluff that is somehow being perceived as value.
Your original comment suggested this person mis-understood a foundational principle of software development. I, and I suppose many others, have been reading Hacker news since before we were senior engineers. So its not being "perceived" as having value; by your own admission, it is full of value (for a large portion of hacker news). While criticism is indeed tolerated, it must provide some value to the discussion. your original comment effectively read: "You are so incompetent, how did you ever get hired". That is not conducive to discussion; hence the down votes.
I like how a very forthright question has been met with utterly ridiculous characterizations of what was stated. I didn't say "how did you ever get hired." I specifically mentioned the lead/CTO aspect. It's a crudely constructed sentence that should result in a struggle to interpret any other way.
My comment then was meet with trivialities, outlandish statements, and generally nitpicking of tiny parts of my posts. And it appears that because they simply took a position seemingly contradictory (in the lightest sense of the word) to mine, they have been spared any amount of criticism despite significantly diminishing any hope of constructive conversation. Quite honestly, if I had simply ignored these responses there'd be far less noise and general non-sense. My question was not a top level post, it was specific to what was stated and based on one other comment the OP made in the same thread. It's not complicated to respond to nor to understand the motivations of.
Based on his comments, both the lead of the project and the CTO chose an entire stack for their product after seemingly one hackathon, maybe even hosted by Meteor itself.
I am sure the industry doesn't need to have a conversation about how huge amounts of capital are being used at various companies, with people who lack the experience (or sometimes, and not necessarily in this case, intelligence) to make such decisions, all while giving marching orders to who knows how many engineers under them. And again, this type of problem and others like it are something that the industry as a whole has plenty of talent do deal with and appropriately handle. So, how did this non-sense of picking this shiny new toy come about? How did he become lead? Which is why my question was asked. This isn't some isolated incident. I see it far too often, especially professionally.
Oh and let's not forget this is all on a post about the schism between development motivations in the Meteor community.
Calling me a troll for not using an endearing tone and having a question that is part of a larger conversation on the state of the tech industry is maddening. That being said, this is clearly not the right audience, especially using the responses as benchmark, so I'm dropping it and sticking with "just ignore everyone but OP" after this.
The same place you saw the negativity, which is why you prefaced the sentence with "I'm sorry."
One should not assume someone's technical prowess based on one poor decision (a decision they've recognized as suboptimal). Also, they still shipped.