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You came to the worst place. HN is like instagram but for tech people: here you won’t find pics of engineers having a nice coffee in Paris, enjoying a beer in a
by dakiol 2y ago
You came to the worst place. HN is like instagram but for tech people: here you won’t find pics of engineers having a nice coffee in Paris, enjoying a beer in a beach in Asia or people unpacking their latest gift.
But here you’ll find people telling how normal is to make over $250K/year, how incompetent are those who don’t release software properly (like those at CrowdStrike), and that doing a hundred leetcode problems is normal if you want to have a nice job (how you dare not to take job prep seriously!).
I’m trying to quit HN, but it’s hard. I don’t have instagram so I need to decompress somewhere.
To the original question: we all are mediocre.
- giantg2 2y agoYou can always just laugh in your head at those absurd people on here. Plenty of useful and interesting stuff on here.
- JSDevOps 2y agoReddit
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- al_borland 2y agoReddit is so much worse.
- muzani 2y agoMy favourite are the people who build raytracers as an alternative to Hello World.
- tra3 2y agoI tried that and failed. Like Homer said, “trying is the first step towards failure”.
- basementcat 2y agoTo be fair, a writing a ray tracer forces one to learn more about a language than just Hello, World!
- muzani 2y agoIt's completely fair but I can't build a ray tracer with languages I've used over 10 years.
- Doxin 2y agoIt's one of those things where if you've done it once you can repeat from memory for the most part. Personally I've never quite managed to get a ray tracer working properly. The math is too dense for me when bugs happen. I can fairly easily get a wireframe cube rendered and spinning though, took me months to figure out the first time but once you know the path it's easy enough.
- askafriend 2y agoIf you're legitimately a senior engineer in the United States with many years of relevant experience, $250k is the floor for what you should accept.
- altdataseller 2y agoExhibit number one :)
- dakiol 2y agoYou must understand that: - not all people here are from the US - not all people here specify that they are in the US when comment on their salary - not all people here knows most of the people here are from the US
- mooreds 2y agoI'm in the USA with many years of relevant software experience. What I'm not is a resident of the Bay Area, Seattle, or NYC. I know many senior engineer peers who earn nowhere near 250k. Not sure where your statement is coming from. Plus, senior is such a weird term. I actually wrote a blog post about the many dimensions of "senior" here: https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/2812 https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/2812
- the__alchemist 2y agoThis is a stunning endorsement of OP's point.
- NikkiA 2y agoYou forgot to mention the absurd '<fad diet X> is the solution to every medical issue everywhere' and strange anti-pharma conspiracy theories.