4 ms·
This smells of a marketing article shoved to the homepage. I'm not a fan of the trend I'm seeing of articles with little technical merit suddenly making it on t
by inglor 6y ago
This smells of a marketing article shoved to the homepage. I'm not a fan of the trend I'm seeing of articles with little technical merit suddenly making it on the homepage next to legitimate technology pieces.
I'm not sure what HN can do about it and maybe I'm just cynical and people genuinely think this PR piece has good technical value and "How do you test a soda machine?" is a good QA question.
- lefstathiou 6y agoSo what is?
- tdsamardzhiev 6y agoHe's right though, not even Paul Graham's blog gets 25 HN posts in 3 months.
- metrokoi 6y agoTheoretically a marketing article can contain valuable information and good insights, but I've personally never come across one. It's always surface-level discussion and the bare minimum to get web traffic.
- dvt 6y agoAgreed, flagging. Luckily, these kinds of pieces only survive the front page for a few minutes.
- ThrowawayR2 6y agoI kind of agree that this is indirectly a marketing article but the "test an X" question is actually commonly used in software QA interviews, though usually for non-technical testers or new graduates. It's the equivalent of "how does an HTTP request work?" for dev interviews.
- dang 6y agoShoved? I didn't see evidence of vote manipulation on this post. Content marketing is sort of orthogonal to whether an article is interesting or not. If it's interesting, it doesn't matter much if the intention was to advertise. See https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=by%3Adang%20%22content%20marketing%22&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... for past explanations on this. Technical merit is only one way to be interesting, so that's also a bit of a non-issue. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html