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by bradlys 1625 days ago
The entitlement here is huge. Jesus Christ.

Bro - I’ve made a 7 figure TC, delivered 8+ value, and I still don’t think LC is worth a damn. It has little to no impact on day to day.

But - ok - you know - think that algorithms in software are literally the end all be all. You have some arbitrary standard where I need to remember how to implement fusion trees on the fly. It’s utterly ridiculous.

99%+ of software eng (even the super duper highly paid shit - remember I’m the dude who was making more than a million/yr) is boring ass pipes and glue. You don’t need advanced DS&A. In fact - if I saw some of the shit that I know gets advanced runtimes and gets some good performance metrics - I’d probably rip that shit out because it’s not maintainable by enough people and performance doesn’t fucking matter 99% of the time. Sure - that 1% is interesting but it’s like once a year you go, “huh, might need to crack out the ol’ stopwatch!”

Gatekeeping like a motherfucker. Holy shit.