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You should probably get more sleep.


This seems like literally the stupidest thing they could prioritize.


The new multi-process architecture is fundamentally incompatible with many of their old extension APIs. The new multi-process architecture is one of their priorities (they're the last popular browser to get a multi-process architecture -- even IE has had this forever -- and it will solve many of their performance issues), and so another priority is implementing new APIs for extensions to use.


So what?


A captivating tale of the birth and death of the best blog post ever.


I have been thinking about where to go to lunch.


Oh, sorry, I was trying to bake a pie.


> People in our industry are already making far above the median

Well, half of them are.


The median income in the US (in 2014) was $29k. The median salary for a software engineer is supposedly $95k. That's more than triple the overall median.

Sources: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/cola/central.html https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/software-engineer-salary-...


That's the average salary for a software engineer, not the median. Also, the SSA site uses "net compensation" for their numbers, which they define as "compensation (wages, tips, and the like) subject to Federal income taxes, as reported by employers on Form W-2" and "includes contributions to deferred compensation plans, but excludes certain distributions from plans where the distributions are included in the reported compensation subject to income taxes". It is not clear to me how that maps to salaries reported on Glassdoor.


I could have sworn that page said median, not average. Thanks for the correction.


That median salary includes fast food workers and other low/non skilled positions. Comparing our profession against that is dishonest.


You completely lost me. We weren't discussing the median skilled wage, we were discussing the median wage. The median wage is the median of all wages.

Trying to redefine words in the middle of an argument strikes me as dishonest.


I didn't redefine anything. I pointed out that the "median wage of all wages" does not add anything in the discussion when we're talking about skilled labor. Trying to compare skilled labor wages to all labor wages of course is going to make it seem like the skilled labor is getting paid too much. That's what's dishonest.


He means the median income for the US. An easy, easy majority of developers and sysadmins are making more than the US median income.


No.


That's why I only eat blue whale meat.


Some of the most idiotic reasoning I've read in a long time.


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