Surprising and noteworthy are not the same thing, but pretending they are definitely lets you make your non-sequitur reply seem like it addresses mine... It's

Surprising and noteworthy are not the same thing, but pretending they are definitely lets you make your non-sequitur reply seem like it addresses mine... It's noteworthy when tech projects are successful and simple, because in the industry there is a widespread tendency to try and replicate what "the big guys" are doing, and often times what they're doing is extremely convoluted. In other words, it is significant when projects buck this trend, because it goes against the mistaken belief that the only way to be "web scale" to replicate some of the most complicated tech stacks out there, making it worth calling out. Significant being a synonym for noteworthy in case that needs to be clarified... HN being an example of this doesn't somehow make every other example not noteworthy either if that was what you tried to say? - This concept has come up so many times I am, again, surprised anyone who is in the same tech industry as me does not realize it's a thing: https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb?gi=9c2b0729a254 https://blog.bradfieldcs.com/you-are-not-google-84912cf44afb... https://programmerfriend.com/not-google/ https://programmerfriend.com/not-google/ https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-31646-4_13 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-31646-... Especially on Hacker News, a place where an immense amount of gnashing of teeth has happened over what the latest complicated tech stack that people convince themselves they need to make software that scales.