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I never thought I'd see the day when someone recommends performance enhancing drugs to stay competitive as a software developer.
by secondcoming 4y ago
I never thought I'd see the day when someone recommends performance enhancing drugs to stay competitive as a software developer.
- Aromasin 4y agoUnless you're being sarcastic, we must work in very different places. I can't tell you how many times I've had discussions with colleagues at different roles about our Nootropics stack.
- oblio 4y agoI guess the world is a big place.
- inglor_cz 4y agoTBH I wasn't interested in them for my development skills. I was more interested in general effects of NAD+ precursor supplementation. I sometimes hang out with the longevity crowd and try out methods that do not sound too dangerous (intermittent fasting etc.)
- devnulll 4y agoThe software engineering jobs you get in your 40s and 50s pay more than most NBA of NFL players will every make.
- saganus 4y agoHow so? By "most players" you mean excluding the very top, right?
- spaetzleesser 4y agoAnd the bottom too.
- UncleOxidant 4y agoNot everywhere.
- chrismcb 4y agoMedian salary of nfl player is about 850k. Minimum salary of a rookie is 435k. NBA median is 3.8 million. Minimum is 925k Please tell me where I can make this type of money as a software engineer.
- Redoubts 4y agoFinance in NYC
- Root_Denied 4y agoI'm guessing they meant lifetime earnings. There's a limited number of years you can play competitively in the NFL/NBA, and not all of them successfully transition to the sports desk or small business owner.
- UncleOxidant 4y agoNot really drugs. Supplements that the nootropics community are pushing. They might work and they might not - there's not a lot of double-blind studies on these things yet. The ones that have been done show mixed results.