Drunk Post: Things I've Learned as a Sr Engineer

Post by giantg2 » Sun, May 30, 2021, 9:55 PM UTC

gabereiser wrote: post #282

giantg2 wrote: post #264

"Sure, $120k + bennies + pension sound great, but you'll be selling your soul to work on esoteric proprietary technology." It sounds great because it is great. I don't make that much and I work on boring systems. I guess those numbers also explain why the author can recommend maxing out the 401k. People supporting a family on less than $100k don't have $19.5k per year to put into it.

This rings home for me as well. I remember my (now ex) wife saying she was going to quit working and be a stay at home mom the day I hit $100k salary. Effectively cutting it in half economically. I feel like folks who say these kind of recommendations also need to preface the fact that not everyone can afford to. I couldn’t afford to put anything in a 401k for years.

Post by yakshaving_jgt » Sun, May 30, 2021, 9:58 PM UTC

realusername wrote: post #232

ggregoire wrote: post #179

> The older I get, the more I appreciate dynamic languages. Exactly the opposite for me. I just can't stand hovering a variable or a parameter and not getting its exact type, or typing "." after a variable and not having my editor gives me all the available methods on that variable, or running my code just to discover that it instantly crashes because I made a typo or forgot an argument or passed the wrong argument o…

The ideal for me would be some strong static typing mode for the main code providing all the guarantees you want and some dynamic typing mode for the tests which lets you test everything well. The main downside for me of the static typing is that it's close to impossible to provide a good testing experience, DSLs, mocks and spy objects kind of require some form of dynamic typing to be usable.

Post by hutzlibu » Sun, May 30, 2021, 10:03 PM UTC

edoceo wrote: post #257

gautamnarula wrote: post #254

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reminds me of Hemingway's "Write drunk, edit sober."

Not for code tho. I've never seen booze help make good code

Post by BigJono » Sun, May 30, 2021, 10:04 PM UTC

louwrentius wrote: post #155

> Hacker news and /r/programming is only good to get general ideas and keep up-to-date. The comments are almost worthless. Maybe he is on to something.

Post by TameAntelope » Sun, May 30, 2021, 10:07 PM UTC

joncp wrote: post #94

the_arun wrote: post #8

Probably people are honest when they are drunk. There is nothing to argue with any of those comments. But this one stood out for me! > Titles mostly don't matter. Principal Distinguished Staff Lead Engineer from Whatever Company, whatever. What did you do and what did you accomplish. That's all people care about.

That's true unless you get acquired. At that point, your title is what your new overlords will use to determine your role, salary, and even whether to lay you off.