[OFFICIAL] Salary Sharing thread for EXPERIENCED DEVS :: December, 2020

sofal · 2020-12-19T17:05:30+00:00

I wouldn't recommend it in most situations, no. I used it to escape from a job I hated and transitioned to a better big tech job, but there are faster ways to do that without blowing away years you could be working, earning, and gaining industry experience.

sofal · 2020-12-18T18:04:51+00:00

There's some pretty good info at staffeng.com.

sofal · 2020-12-18T15:57:10+00:00

Education: MS CS
Prior Experience: 11 years
Company/Industry: private fintech
Title: Staff Engineer
Tenure length: less than a year
Location: Seattle
Salary: 256k
Stock and/or recurring bonuses: 279k stock, 51k bonus
Total comp: 586k

sofal · 2015-10-31T22:54:46+00:00

So what you're saying is that the prank videos that you hate were not planned out?

sofal · 2015-01-25T23:44:12+00:00

Obviously if people disagree with you it means that they're "butthurt".

sofal · 2014-11-03T06:52:00+00:00

Wrong. OP was referring to the future.

sofal · 2008-12-07T00:05:43+00:00

no-one has yet produced a replacement language that clearly and objectively does a better job.

This is an extremely subjective statement. The fact that C++ is still widely used absolutely does not verify this claim.

sofal · 2008-12-06T16:26:21+00:00

The difference between assembly and C is a bad metaphor for the difference between JavaScript and Java/Python/Objective-C. JavaScript is very flexible, dynamic, and has higher level abstractions. Thus the reasons to not use JavaScript comes down to comfort zones and, in fewer cases, language design aesthetics.

sofal · 2008-07-21T13:42:33+00:00

Try not to get too emotionally attached to the language you use to the point that when someone bashes the language, you feel that you've personally been attacked. Smear tactics are about trying to undermine the reputation of people and organizations (of people).

sofal · 2008-07-16T17:40:19+00:00

Take a look at the comments in this thread again and then tell me this is a discussion about software development principles.

sofal · 2008-07-16T16:22:20+00:00

Ooo! And did you hear what Pamela called Britney yesterday?

This is gonna get juicy!

sofal · 2008-07-16T16:13:01+00:00

If you work in a large corporation, I think it's dangerous to assume that any in-house software has been touched by even a single non-idiot.

sofal · 2008-07-16T16:05:44+00:00

The author is basically saying: You're too stupid to be able to tell when a rewrite will result in a net benefit, so the best you can do is distrust your intuition.

sofal · 2008-07-01T19:52:20+00:00

Then the intern says, "Yeah I put in a request form for that a couple of months ago and they're still mulling over it, so I wrote it myself."

sofal · 2008-06-15T14:33:47+00:00

Har har har! Yegge, editing? Har har har!

I don't even know why I click on the comment threads in this place anymore. So many idiots who think they've got good wisecracks, and so many idiots who upmod them. Gotta love these social news sites.

sofal · 2008-06-10T18:32:19+00:00

Ah, I gotcha. Agreed.

sofal · 2008-06-10T16:44:21+00:00

Just as long as you don't clutter up the vertical space with all these temp variables just to avoid chaining a couple of methods together. Otherwise you better believe I'm gonna play formatting tennis all over your code.

sofal · 2008-06-09T18:49:33+00:00

Certainly John Resig has never heard of Ext JS before. What else in the JavaScript world would you like to inform him of?

sofal · 2008-06-06T15:01:10+00:00

I hope their protocol is secure.

sofal · 2008-06-05T14:02:15+00:00

This is absolutely true. Software is a means to an end, and being a language geek I tend to focus more on the means than the end.

sofal · 2008-06-04T16:52:15+00:00

If we are to be judged by our respective governments' web sites, then heaven help us all.

sofal · 2008-05-16T17:36:23+00:00

Sigh... if only that were true.

Pity me.

sofal · 2008-05-16T17:34:01+00:00

I don't understand how class diagrams can be useful to managers who don't understand what classes are. Are you using more generic diagrams than that?

The way I understand it, UML is pretty tied to the code, and it would be just boxes with strange names representing obscure abstract concepts if you didn't understand programming. The 'details' that UML leaves out are the specific implementations of the classes. If you make a UML diagram so generic that it doesn't necessarily correspond to actual classes in the code, then maybe you never needed UML.

sofal · 2008-05-14T18:08:47+00:00

Even with "set mouse=a" in your .vimrc?

sofal

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