[vivaan]

apparently you aren't the first one to wonder that [1]. It is Rachel Kroll, an engineer at fb [2]. Good point about the summary.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13401293 [2] https://www.facebook.com/wogrammer/posts/1748187012080407:0

[mcbain]

Recently left FB, in fact.

Which is important context for many of her posts in the last month or so.

[Rainymood]

So basically she's using HN audience as a marketing blog and people are eating it up?

[spydum]

Marketing? What pray tell is she selling?

If this had been some post about lessons learned about a the latest whizbang JS framework people wouldn't have had a second thought.

I've read plenty of her posts and have sympathized, as being a long time sysadmin and learning the exact same lessons. She indeed does have a story telling skill which is sorely needed: ops people tend to suck at effectively sharing knowledge - she's doing valuable work here.

I don't understand why there is criticism?

[mrmanner]

> I don't understand why there is criticism?

If I were to be cynical, I'd say it's because a woman writing on information technology. Or because someone is writing about information technology without it being strict and to the point and boring to everyone that doesn't have a geeky interest in that specific piece of technology. But most likely the former.