Dan Luu

Most frustrating genre of comment is "You're lying about [trivially true positive thing]." If I wanted to lie, I'd make better stories.

"Consultants are routinely paid more than $200 per hour. $300k not an exceptional pay package. Some managers are not abusive." Boring! True!

I agree with the other two, but 300k is an exceptional pay package unless you're talking about VP level positions or very specific company

Jeff, you're not right. Tens of thousands of people at AppAmaGooBookSoft have this pay package. Most turn tickets into code as main job.

Are you including benefits and profit sharing and 401k and other in that 300k? I barely made half that in my entire career even at Stack.

For a field with an average salary of $95k, 300k *is* exceptional, the fact that higher salaries exist notwithstanding.

It is weird that @patio11 has a blind spot here

IMO the strange thing is that 300k for a programmer is less exceptional than 300k for a lawyer, but many programmers find 300k unbelievable