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Maybe it's just me, but the hubris in this comment seems a little excessive. They aforementioned SWEs make themselves multimillionaires /and/ have great jobs /
by inteleng 8y ago
Maybe it's just me, but the hubris in this comment seems a little excessive.
They aforementioned SWEs make themselves multimillionaires /and/ have great jobs /and/ get praised by their peers, yet now everyone else has to bow down to them... over claims they were great programmers in high school? Is an appeal to your own experience the best way to make yourself seem relevant here?
It's an incredible DB system, but it ain't the Second Coming. Calm down.
- djtriptych 8y agoDid you bow down at your laptop? Is it ok to admire great engineers on HN? Is this comment relevant to anything but your own inferiority complex? Can we get a decent definition of hubris in here?
- inteleng 8y agoI don't bow down to my laptop, but I respect what went into making it. It's great to admire excellent engineers; aspiring to be as skilled as someone at a task can be very motivating. Worshipping them is another thing. You're right about the inferiority complex - I know I'm a relatively bad SW engineer, but that's mostly related to how new it is to me. I expect and want to improve. Hubris is defined as excessive pride or self-confidence. I would say that bragging that you're "probably a 1% engineer," and that you've been hired by three of the largest SW companies out there qualifies as hubris. Maybe it's just me, but I don't think a 1% engineer would publicly boast about being one and then actually use the 'M$' in a non-farcical manner. Shitting on 99% of the SWE population to make yourself look good, then shitting on yourself to make another person look even better doesn't really work. There's a reason humanCmp() is a little more complex than strCmp(). BTW, being hired by a large company doesn't mean you're all that. Plenty of idiots get hired by Oracle.