[blueboo]

have a hard time believing that selling (tens of?) thousands of programming reference books brought in 10-20x salaries

or that entire teams would be following a pied piper leading to such a hellaciously complicated design, contrived to induce desperate reference buying??

It’s a funny thought but this is a fantasy

[rjh29]

Book part likely true. 6 month sabbatical and 10-20x salary probably not, or maybe just for like one lucky person.