skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This is the problem -- who determines how much these things are worth? And if you risk other people pricing you out of property you currently hold a lease for (especially because they think the value is going up because of your investments in it) I can't imagine that would encourage any development at all.

This concern is usually addressed by ditching the distorting effects of the periodic auction and of the incentive to try to "steal" capital improvements by abandoning the auction framework and just assessing a yearly property tax proportional to the value of the underlying land were it unimproved. Since ownership and sale of land would still exist in this system, the value of the land for assessing land value tax can be determined by the market value of the land.
Not universally, no. For instance, C programmers are harder to find than Python coders, and the farther back you go the harder it is to find good people (COBOL, Fortran). The newer the tech, the more people there are riding in on the hype train to choose from.
I don't have much to say except Zuhayeer your site's numbers are dead on from what I can tell of both my and my spouse's employers. Glassdoor et al. tend to low-ball by quite a bit, possibly due to stale information.

Keep up the good work!
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Not blackmail in the sense of "give us money". Think more "do us a favor".
Some people live where the lawn will take over given half a chance. Not everyone lives in Phoenix or whatever. Nor is pesticide use required to have a lawn.
Safari uses a custom implementation because its tabs predate AppKit's, but I'd like to think that the AppKit one is heavily inspired by Safari's. By the way, Sublime Text supports these (though it's a bit strange how they've implemented it).
They claim they check the offer letters. Numbers look decently accurate from a few people I know. Remember this is total compensation, not just cash.
Because language choice is more than just about whether it's the fastest for your specific concern at the moment; it may be slow or non-ideal in other situations. C++ in general is pretty fast. I may be biased since I used to write C/C++ optimizations for a living.

I can't speak for other languages; languages with JIT optimizations could in theory be faster than fully optimized C++ code, since it could take advantage of run-time information, such as hot paths and hot fields.

If you care about the fastest performance possible, you're asking the wrong question. I'd benchmark different languages for the specific code I want.
Thanks for the reply, I thought the red hat certs would be comparable to the Cisco for resume purposes.
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> deal with someone like you in my team

Well - how are you measuring your team members' success? If they are successful, (and this is ignoring the domain they're working on), does it matter what their motivations are?

I wouldn't think you'd "deal" with them any differently, as long as they're hitting targets.
Have they considered names like Low speed, Full speed, High speed, and Super speed? They are already familiar to consumers who will understand them as well for wifi as they do for USB.
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It's really a spectacular outlier how well-optimized PHP is contrasted to how poorly designed the actual language is.
> Who determines what land is worth?

You can use an auction.

Eg you can auction the land off to the highest bidder for a few years at a time.
Hahahaha. There's absolutely nothing in the OPs post that suggests they would be a good CTO or dev lead. That's exactly the counter to the question made by OP.
You might want to look at

Is dev compensation bimodal?

https://danluu.com/bimodal-compensation/

i.e. can you draw a line between devs who get paid a lot and those who don't?

I wish there was a date on this article (and all blogs) but it looks like it's from 2015.

The conclusion isn't crisp, but to me it's plausible that the trends have continued since 2015, e.g. maybe it's more bimodal 5 years later (though I haven't really been paying attention). I would be interested in a followup.
Yeah I've been anywhere from like 0.5x to 10x in my career. Guess what changed? Sure wasn't my IQ or work ethic.

Generally, the "10x devs" are the ones who got to do the initial greenfield work. They are the ones who understand the system, including all the undocumented domain knowledge that has been embedded into it over the years.

Ironically this actually rewards incompetence at times. If you do that greenfield work, and make a perfect system that is easy to comprehend and maintain, you will not have an advantage and will not be a "10x" engineer. You have to make the system work, and make the bosses happy long enough to earn their trust... but don't make it too easy for anybody else to come onto your team and be productive.

Of course, this incompetence is also created by management sometimes. Let's say you are a very competent dev who has the desire and talent to make a nice greenfield system that is easy to scale and maintain. Well, management will surely make sure this does not happen 90% of the time because of changing requirements and unrealistic deadlines.
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OpenJDK predates this lawsuit. OpenJDK was first released May 8 2007, this lawsuit was filed August 13 2010, Google first released the alledgedly infringing API on November 5 2007. All dates from wikipedia, articles containing them linked below.

It doesn't matter though, Google didn't comply with OpenJDK's GPL license (since they, like everyone in the software and legal world, did not think APIs were copyrightable). They are not even bothering to argue that they had a license.

Incidentally this is similar to how Oracle did not comply with that SDKs Apache 2 license... oddly they are trying to argue that they had a license despite that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenJDK (OpenJDK release date)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_v._Oracle_America (The two other dates)
Well, you say you're skeptical of taking advice from a domain expert, but then you list a lot of, apparently, domain experts you want to hear from.

I agree with the latter sentence - I want to hear from a lot of people with narrow expertise and different perspectives on anything important, but I probably don't care what a generalist thinks, because why should they be better at synthesizing the experts than me?
Copyright is not like trademark. Amazon can choose to enforce it selectively, and it should not influence any specific case.
I don’t think closed-source tools are ever going to be a major part of my development workflow in the future.

Every part of my toolchain needs to be subject to my own itch-scratching, as well as the ability to patch out the telemetry/spyware that everyone seems to want to put in their apps these days.
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You doing ok glangdale?
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Even if liquid, these salaries probably reflect people vesting stock from years ago - and the high end would include people vesting stock offered at a much lower valuation. In this kind of ranking there’d be a bias towards companies with rapidly growing share prices ... and remember that last performance is no indicator of future returns.
Are these numbers just salary or total compensation?
There are very few APIs that cannot be used from Swift. I can't even think of any off the top of my head.
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But mac os versions all have numbers that go along with them in addition to the name. It's the same system used by the Linux Kernel (i.e. 5.2 / Bobtail Squid), Ubuntu (18.04 / Bionic Beaver), and many other pieces of software. Most of the time the numbers are more useful, but there are occasions where having a non-numeric designation is helpful.

Apple's real naming sin is that they don't enumerate all of their hardware as they do with the iPhone.

But as long as we are talking about silly naming, this is always my favorite criticism: http://www.secretgeek.net/ex_ms
USB has to keep inventing new, slightly more impressive words for "fast".
There’s 1 PM for every 20+ engineers, so it’s harder to gather a representative sample.
> but what is the value of the land if it's not the improvements upon the land?

Location.

A free and un-used plot in SF is worth a lot.
Yes, I definitely agree there are other reasons to discount the new tech (maintainability, maturity, risk, etc.).
Can you name the company? These numbers are in line with what I've seen from peers for new offers.
> Your 20s are the time to learn, push yourself and discover who you are.

I agree with this, but it's not going to happen with any job. You'll never discover yourself sitting in an office. If you look at jobs as a means to an end to let you live you're real life I think your better off.

At this point in my life, an "exciting" software job is for suckers
how do you know that they're being downvoted? I see this comment all the time on HN, but there is no visible karma on comments, and only a flag option, no downvotes?
The last thing the world needs is another proprietary, payware IDE (that most likely involves all sorts of phone-home telemetry to benefit them and not you).
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It comes up quite often ;)
To be fair, the IEEE standards are very easy to order, the letters sort the same way excel columns do: a-z, followed by aa-az, then ba-bz, etc. Sure, they skip most of the letters and I'm not sure if the ordering is entirely intentional, but so far it works.
Totally agree. Being interesting as a human and working on yourself is so much better than trying to get credit for being "respectful". That's like saying: "look I shower every day!"

Be interesting.
Funny coincidence! Literally just made my own write up about Monte Carlo methods! https://www.towardssoftware.com/blog

It’s not as long and detailed, but it’s still very interesting to see how you can derive pi with random data!
If I burn a plant that contains 10 kg of carbon and then grow a plant that contains 10 kg of carbon then in terms of carbon in the atmosphere it should be a net zero effect. Plants take carbon out of the atmosphere to grow after all.
The last time Ling was mentioned on HN she accused HN of DDOSing her site.
For better or worse, UX is as much about curating a company “image” as it is about creating user-friendly interfaces. When users see that your website looks like Apple’s, they immediately think, “Wow, this company is the real deal.” This part of the user’s experience is, unfortunately, the focus of many marketing/design teams.
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Rebates for primary homes are especially annoying, because they get the government into the business of deciding what your primary home is.
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400k- taxes = 270k for joined filing

Monthly expenses = 3k mortgage+ 500 property taxes + 2k daycare for one child(or 529) + 1.5k for food and other = 84k

Without compounding interest you need 10 years to get 2m, and these salaries are for 5+ or more years of experience. (And you need down payment, etc.).

Living in those areas is expensive.

If you are making 500k, that's a different story :-)
There is absolutely no way IC2 makes $175k at Oracle. LOL. I doubt you can even find an IC2, period. They hire everyone in at IC3 and above, and everyones paid like shit.

The only exception I can think of was the people brought in to work on the 'next gen' cloud stuff who were poached from Amazon. They were all 'senior' and 'principal' engineers though.
Sat down, took a deep breath, sigh, wrote some rant, deleted that and rethinking now, it is actually pretty good marketing.

All Date are products ( expected ) on the market,

WiFI 6. - 2019
WiFi 6E - 2021
WiFi 7 - 2023

Basically every two year you have a new marketing name to sell. Which is a lot easier for consumers and sales people. Since you need to go through FCC certification for using the new spectrum I assume the likelihood of having your existing WiFi 6 client and router upgradeable to be extremely unlikely.

Then there is 802.11ax / WiFi6 Wave 2, which is similar to 802.11ac / WiFi 5 Wave 2 if anyone remember, with additional features that was originally missing from the wave 1. On top of my head they were mainly features related to UL MU-MIMO. I assume those might come with WiFi 6E too.

And none of the current WiFi 6 on Smartphone supports 160Mhz Channels, so WiFi 6E is another possible candidate to include that on a Smartphone. Another selling point to push for upgrade. ( I am not saying consumer will upgrade because of that, but at least there is one more point to think about what they have now is old, and requires upgrade. It is important to note consumer here implies normal people who are not tech-savvy )

My beloved NetBSD running WiFi 5 / 802.11ac AirPort Extreme came out nearly 7 years ago and it is still working near to perfection. Had always been planning to upgrade it once a WiFi 6 version comes, but unfortunately Apple discontinued it. But the stubborn Apple changed their mind on Keyboard, may be they will do that too for Airport.
The only thing it could possibly be relevant for is if Google tried to argue that they accidentally copied the sequence structure and organization of the API. No one is arguing that. Of course that was intentional.

It definitely isn't relevant to the rest of this discussion... you're comparing the attitude of the producer of the allegedly copyrighted material in one case to the attitude of the infringer of the allegedly existing copyright in another.
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It makes me feel bad how many people see these figures and immediately start trying to find ways to rationalize why they must be overstated. Aside from some of these companies not being public (so those RSUs are not very liquid) or backloading vesting, they’re pretty accurate IME.

The main thing I would point out is that the years of experience guideline is a bit optimistic. Many engineers get downleveled moving into top paying companies (so someone with 9 years of experience might be level 2) and usually either level 2 or level 3 is a terminal level, meaning it’s both ok to stay at that level for a long time and that promotions get harder.

Also, while these figures don’t (or shouldn’t) include signing bonus/relo, nor health insurance, free food, and other benefits, it should be noted that most of these are in the Bay Area or similarly expensive areas. So a lot of your money goes to housing (with housing close to work large enough for a family being super expensive), and state taxes are a bit steep.
Every drought-tolerant landscape I’ve seen looks passable for about two months and becomes an overgrown mess after that. I know we need to change, but if we can’t come up with a yard people will maintain, lawns and giant driveways with a soul patch will keep winning.
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This is total comp outside pension/benefits. So solely salary + bonus + RSU. Only income earned directly not benefits.
Companies push the envelope via their product they are selling or marketing. If they are not selling consulting services then, in a vacuum, using e.g. nodejs instead of Java is not pushing the envelope in any meaningful way. If using nodejs actually lets you push the envelope in your actual product then yeah that's good.

But in my experience companies are full of people thinking there are lots of silver bullets out there. The silver bullet is the new way to do it. The wrong way is the old way to do it.

Related, lots of people jump straight from being 100% naive about performance and architecture to thinking FAANG is the only way to go. They don't stop to think that there are a multitude of midpoints between those two options.

If your business model is to be Facebook or bust it might make sense. But I see a lot of pretty boring and simple businesses resorting to really over-architected solutions. Because the developers are so inexperienced that they think you need eventually consistent distributed microservice soup to serve 10,000 requests per hour.
That works for the version but tells you very little about what frequencies are supported. And it's the complication of frequencies that's hard here, not figuring out that wifi 6 comes between 5 and 7.
Levels.fyi seems to be pretty accurate in my experience, though there may be selection bias as there are more offers at the top of band than bottom submitted.
> I dont think this can be sustainable - because without clear, exclusive ownership that lasts indefinitely, why would anyone value the land at all?

For the same reason that people already rent property they don't own. There are all sorts of value-generating activities that require exclusive right to some land.
Maybe you’re thinking of salary and not TC, or that was a few years ago
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the 1% only earns 20% of the US taxable income yearly? I didn’t know that.

When you say consumption tax, do you mean a VAT? What else? What percentage VAT do you see working in America? 10%? 15%?

Somebody making $200k/yr pays ~$41k/yr in federal income taxes. To be more in line with European rates, how much more should they pay? Another $20k/yr? Double?
Argentina is not a third world country.
> many (most) companies are grossly underpaying their engineers.

No, that's simply unfair to the companies who don't have billions of dollars in free cash flow or effectively infinite amounts of VC money.

The top firms have gotten themselves into an insane bidding war which has a side effect of creating an oligopoly on talent, as it's simply unrealistic to impossible for many firms to compete. Not to mention they apparently pay many people these sort of salaries to do basically nothing [1]: they've decided it's better to simply retain talent than risk them going to a competitor, regardless if they provide any value or not.

That all said, as an employee in whole debacle, you should simply focus your interviews on firms willing to pay these levels and maximize your income while you can.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21961560
The visa situation is just terrible, I knew so many smart coworkers who were afraid to move because of H1B uncertainties. Ultimately this hurts everyone in the industry because labor markets require a liquidity to function properly.
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He can also use C#/.net under Windows. As far as learning curves go it's pretty big bang for the buck. Because the tools basically just work.
No, these are roughly inline with new hire offers
I'm curious: you've chosen to tie this pretty closely to your real world identity. Aren't you concerned at all that a company that you're beholden to and is willing to underpay you will just let you go if they find this?
Apple runs special servers for iCloud inside of China so that the CCP can monitor all traffic and more effectively disappear people who transmit information that they don’t like.
Yeah good point! we’ve actually been thinking about how to support it - potentially collect the number of shares / RSUs so that offers can be more dynamic
The post you originally replied to listed specific technologies that purely add complexity when introduced to a project. Hadoop isn't replacing something equally complex, it's simply adding complexity. Now if you simply can't do with anything else, and you're at the point of rolling your own distributed filesystem and job scheduler and zookeeper and all the rest of it, then sure, try Hadoop, but that's not what we're talking about. Note that I can pick on Hadoop because the hype cycle has peaked there, but this applies to plenty of newer techs where it hasn't.

You literally can get more of all the good things in my list by removing unnecessary complexity from a project. And yes, there really are some technologies that, most of the time you see it being used, the entire project would literally be better off with literally nothing in place of it. And yes, people still prefer to use the trendy thing.
The idea behind the NFL game example was to highlight the distinction between the notion of completeness with that of consistency. The connection (or lack thereof) between Libertarianism and the NFL game, or with enfranchisement, is a matter of logic, not some distance metric based on whether it's in the realm of politics.
Total comp including RSUs? Seems unlikely.
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Total comp ofc. These would be crazy salary numbers (although for Netflix, I believe it might actually be all salary).