ObjectiveSub

It's so strange seeing these numbers and thinking "Really, I thought we got paid more?" It's making me think that perhaps I'm in a bubble. Everyone I know around me (friends, coworkers, etc.) makes at least 200k combined income, with the average being in the high 200s. This is at FANG, mind you. Are the salaries outside of FANG really that much lower? Even in LA/SF? Can anyone comment on that?

You immediately lost any credibility when you complained that the 2.4 GHz processor is the "same" as the one back in 2010. Clock rate has nothing to do with performance these days. Skylake is 25-35% faster across the board (and multiples faster for number crunching) than whatever Nehalem or Core2 was in the Macbooks in 2010.

This is the most self congratulatory self-justification I've ever heard. Really? Lazy man's track?

I'm sorry but if you're GIVING away your life for a company that you don't hold SIGNIFICANT stake in for a regular salary (even at 200k/yr) then you're the chump. Guess what, your time isn't endless. Your 20s-30s (hell, even 40s) will pass away. All you've done is provide free labor so some executive can cash in on his/her 7+ figure income.

This is not even considering the romantic and naive assumption that working 12-hour days will give you success. Or that "stress and success" are in any way correlated. Oh well. This is how tech companies lure naive people into such hours.

This is speaking from someone that's had 9-6 with lunch "lazy man's" jobs that paid 200+k/yr.

Meh, that group of developers didn't really die out. People tend to forget that there's tons of people still worrying about performance.

I personally do computer graphics in video games. We still worry about every byte, cycle, cache miss, and instruction that we write. We still spend days trying to eek out another 100 microseconds from that tricky piece of code.

Not every software developer is a web/business developer. Hacker News tends to forget that.

"Also be aware that this page is large and is meant to provide a lot of important information. It is not for the tl;dr; (too long, didn't read) set of people with minimal attention span. It contains lots of that scary thing called "text" and "information". It is assumed that you can make use of the education you have been provided with that allows you to read and comprehend what has been written."

I rolled my eyes at that one. This is an example of the pretentiousness and snark directed at users that people complain about in open-source projects; especially Linux-related ones.

On a similar note: I recently watched the movie "Act of Valor". I had no idea it was one big propaganda piece before I got in. As soon as the movie started I thought "Yep, here we go. 110 minutes of pure army PR".

What I thought was more interesting were the comments on the reviews on Rotten Tomatoes. You can check them out for yourself here: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/act_of_valor/ It is a shit movie; no doubt about it. What I find interesting are the comments on the reviews that the critics gave.

Critics of course correctly pointed out how this movie is basically an advertisement paid for by the Navy. However, any critic that dared to give a bad review or even mention the word "propaganda" was attacked by countless posters that were shouting how he is a "damned liberal" and how the soldiers "die for [him] everyday to protect [his] freedom".

I do not understand the glorification of soldiers and I probably never will. War is a horrible, horrible thing. Soldiers are professional killers. As Voltaire said: "All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets"

There is no glory or honor in war (more specifically the current situation in Afghanistan/Iraq). The soldier sure as hell did not die for you. He most likely died protecting his comrades that he has been living with for the last 4 years. The soldier probably doesn't even give a shit about you. The Army is not defending America's "way of life". Terrorists do not hate you because of your "freedoms". As a Canadian, I really don't understand why my opinion is so frowned upon in the US.

I am interested to know your opinion on why these studies proliferate. Can you please explain why?

I don't think it really matters. It may be that PHP developers that swear a lot don't use Github, or that Ruby developers that don't swear use Bitbucket, etc..

I realize this post is a little tongue-in-cheek, however, you cannot use it to draw any meaningful statistical conclusions. This data makes no sense until you factor in the relative popularity of these languages on Github. We don't know if PHP has little swearing because if it is a great language, or if PHP is rare on Github. Similarly, the reason Javascript and Ruby score so highly is most probably due to the fact that they are extremely popular languages on Github.