@goomblecel's comment on 'The absolute state of HN: ramblings of an insane person get 1689 upmarseys (typical frontpage post has 5-10x less)'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40986894

The post is full of gems, but this is probably the best part:

stable stable, which is consistently growing, consistently profitable, and paying employees $5k to $10k per day at current full comp market rates. These are largely flying under the news radar. These companies aren't Google or Apple, but rather some tractor company or heavy manufacturing company just churning out results for years without destabilizing the world. Stable stable companies do that thing where every quarter they "beat expectations" on their stock reports by a coincidental $0.01 just to prove they are always growing.

He seems to think that people working at manufacturing companies are making $10k per day.

BTW, this is what antirez wrote about the author 10 years ago:

One thing I did not liked was Matt Stancliff talk. He tried to uncover different problems in the Redis development process, and finally proposed the community to replace me as the project leader, with him. In my opinion what Matt actually managed to do was to cherry-pick from my IRC, Twitter and Github issues posts in a very unfair way, in order to provide a bad imagine of myself. I think this was a big mistake. Moreover he did the talk as the last talk, not providing a right to reply. Matt and I happen to be persons with very different visions in many ways, however Redis is a project I invested many years into, and I'm not going to change my vision, I'm actually afraid I merged some code under pressure that I now find non well written and designed.

:#marseyxd:

There might be some good points buried in this post, but all I get is bitterness without much self-reflection. They seem like they'd be difficult to work with and would blame you for it.

:#marseyhesright:

He's looked at levels.fyi.
He even links to it from his resume.
His problem is that he thinks L10 is the benchmark to compare against, when the vast, vast majority of engineers (including many with decades of experience) would never make it to L10.

Wow, indeed, in his resume under "Waiting for AI Apocalypse / Available for Employment", he links to levels.fyi page for L10 Google Engineer ($3M total comp).

I deserve a $3M salary and if I don't get, it means the whole industry is fricked :soycry:

The author's tone is condescending, angry and entitled. If everyday interactions with him followed the same tone, I would argue that he is the exact type of person behavioral interviews are meant to screen out (technically competent but a nightmare to work with).
If this guy has reasonable technical chops, he seems like someone who would be great to work with.
It's always, always good to have people in your group who are willing to call a steaming shitpile a steaming shitpile. It's also always good to have people in your group who can fairly rapidly turn a steaming shitpile into something that's fit for purpose and reasonably maintainable.

HNers are absolutely terrible at recognizing smart people. I think that's why they often heavily upmarsey beginner-level projects like "I made Redis in Python (meaning: I wrapped a dict with a simple API)" or "I made a desktop in HTML/JS"

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goomblecel dice/roll 4mo ago #6724175

This is the worst HN post I have seen, posted today.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41016441

It combines the r-sluration of not understanding the intricacies of problems with immigration, not understanding basic history, some commie bullshit, and not understanding why the US would never ever under any circumstances let up on a country that hosts Russian nuclear subs in 2024.

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hater they/them goomblecel 4mo ago #6724212

some commie bullshit

For a website sponsored by a venture capital fund, there are surprisingly many commies on HN. Whenever North Korea comes up, there are always people who unironically defend it.

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zip zap/zop hater 4mo ago #6724365

You think :marseyhyperthonk: codecels :marseywebshit: are even marginally self aware :marseyitneverbegan: about their mid 7 figgy wealth?

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Jabroni it/shit zip 4mo ago #6725508

No. My uncle, who at one point was chief of engineering for AI at a FANG company, once ranted about how we're "wealthy enough to make every human on earth live in comfort", but just don't have the political will and vision to achieve this utopia. He lives on the other side of the world, decided to visit on a whim, and flew business to come here the next day. Never spent a dime on charity, but he's probably going to buy his daughter a Tesla for her graduation.