It goes much deeper than that, Red Hat maintains or contributes regularly to a wide swath of the Linux ecosystem. They also have a policy of open sourcing acquisitions. If the deal goes through, it's a dark day for open source software.
Their location is brutal and basically transit-inaccessible. You'd have to pay me seven figures to live near Los Gatos or do the crazy commute from some place interesting.
You're ignoring the fact that most highly paid positions come with a lot of bullshit. Depending on the position and company, that could be overwork, ridiculous politics, or the inability for your work to have any impact. I still make good money by my standards, but it's $65k less than my highest pay (cash, not RSUs). No regrets. I find your advice that somebody not maximizing their earnings "seek a therapist" a bit tone-deaf.
I think you're onto something. Perhaps it's best to focus on the design of the design though. A further derivative of subjectivity ought to fit the bill! :)
We may have different experiences, but in a long career the worst I've seen are useless engineers. Are you seriously claiming that the population of engineers destroying multiples of their salary (sabotage/gross negligence) is comparable to the population who create multiples (and are exploited)? Silicon Valley lore is filled with stories of fortunes earned on the backs of engineers being paid market rates. You don't have to look hard to find them, start with Apple, or look at any modern "unicorn."
You're assuming parent wasn't going for the top comment. In addition to the open-ended hypothetical, popular tactics include prefacing with "This is an unpopular opinion" and "My theory is". Depending on the goal, they might be using their brain correctly. Stacking open-ended hypotheticals is a savvy move.
Teachers being criminally underpaid doesn't change the fact that most engineers are underpaid. A good engineer can generate multiples of their salary in revenue.
"FTP -> SSH -> proprietary console" does not look like evolution over a gradient of control to me. I don't understand why you're comparing FTP to SSH when SSH is lower level than FTP. FTP "throw it on the server and let mod_php deal with it" deployments were decidedly higher level than SSH-based ones. FTP deployments were often coupled with GUI-based steps, for instance database migrations run from Drupal web app.
Their goals were not to create the most academically sound type system. They were focused on engineering challenges. Read the comments here ti understand the authors' priorities and obstacles.
I'm not so sure, the NYC attacks didn't offer particular criminal opportunity. As for the photo, a mass stoicly crossing a bridge isn't the best supporting evidence. Cause trouble and a mob sets on you.
Brash on a personal blog is tricky. In this post's case, I'd worry that the blogger has a hard time separating technical deficiencies from professional incompetence. "Designed by amateurs" is an over-the-top and dubious claim.
Thanks for going into more detail, I'm interested that you got lower jitter. My experience with high performance JVM networking stacks is that they achieve incredible throughput but are quite hungry (with a hungry baseline too) and that 99P can be not so great due to GC. I'll have to give Netty another look. I'd be interested in the RSS of each process after warmup.
What does "won" mean here? Better throughput? Lower latency? Less variance in latency? Better efficiency? re: the last one, I'd be shocked if Netty could match Go stdlib http in memory usage even if you benchmarked higher throughput. I'd expect the Go server to have lower variance too due to its GC design.
Vagrants in the tenderloin aren't dying of starvation, thirst, or exposure. They could have Dreamforce on the street in the tenderloin every month and it would have no effect on the conditions there.
It's fashionable right now to like monoliths. It's "thought leaders" trying to one-up other "thought leaders," contradicting for sport. And who cares anyway? Software fashion is cargo cult nonsense pushed by people who probably struggle to ship anything that's robust or reusable. They're obsessed with keeping up with "thought leaders" on Twitter and Medium. They fly to speak at conferences and make a big name for themselves while the rest of us are busy grinding and limiting the damage they can do.