Comment by nbaksalyar
19 days ago
> only to have it completely obsoleted a few years later
Not really. There aren’t as many fundamentally new ideas in modern tech as it may seem.
Web servers have existed for more than 30 years and haven’t changed that much since then. Or e.g., React + Redux is pretty much the same thing as WinProc from WinAPI - invented some time in ~1990. Before Docker, there were Solaris Zones and FreeBSD jails. TCP/IP is 50 years old. And many, many other things we perceive as new.
Moreover, I think it’s worth looking back and learning some of the “old tech” for inspiration; there’s a wealth of deep and prescient ideas there. We still don’t have a full modern equivalent of Macromedia Flash, for example.
I agree with you, but it's very hard to argue the same in an interview, even with other engineers (that's if you get the interview).
There are companies that are willing to consider general aptitude and transferable skills when hiring, but a vast majority compares candidates using checklists of technologies
Yep; nothing genuinely new since Xerox Alto in 73. Mouse, GUI, TCP/IP, Smalltalk 72.
> React + Redux is pretty much the same thing as WinProc from WinAPI
I can't tell if this is sincere or parody, it is so insufferably wrong. Good troll. I almost bit.
Why is it wrong? Please elaborate. For more substance, here’s a discussion from 2015:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10381015