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Tony Hoare works at Microsoft as a Principal Researcher, as well as having won over 5 million dollars just in awards. I'm quite sure he makes more than a Facebo
by Kranar 5y ago
Tony Hoare works at Microsoft as a Principal Researcher, as well as having won over 5 million dollars just in awards. I'm quite sure he makes more than a Facebook SWE.
Dijkstra won a similar amount of money in prizes and worked at UT Austin which according to their 1985 docket paid 110k a year ($287,418.96 adjusted for inflation) and also worked in private industry in a research role, so once again... likely made more than a FB SWE.
- game_the0ry 5y agoAlrigt, alright, I stand corrected. Here's your upvote.
- mhh__ 5y agoYou're still right overall though. Most programmers don't get to use the theory they (should still) know
- game_the0ry 5y agoPicking 2 famous computer scientists was not a good comparison on my part. I'll own that.