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Re:Activision-Blizzard layoffs after reporting record results by intended on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @08:15AM (#19152763)
As mentioned previously here on HN - the coder pool is binomially distributed. Theres the extremely high end coders who will get job offers falling out of the sky, and then there is everyone else. Further, this is only in America - in the EU and the rest of the world, coders don't get rock star salaries.

I'd say unions are definitely for everyone else - and especially for people in the Video Games industry.

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Re:Activision-Blizzard layoffs after reporting record results by adenadel on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @09:36AM (#19153361)
I know I'm being overly semantic, but what you've described is a Bernoulli distribution :)
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Re:Activision-Blizzard layoffs after reporting record results by intended on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @12:08PM (#19154570)
I got it wrong, and it’s not overly semantic - words have meanings, and even I felt something was weird once I hit submit.

As the other poster mentioned, it’s bi-modal.

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Re:Activision-Blizzard layoffs after reporting record results by singhrac on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @09:50AM (#19153475)
To nitpick some more, I think the parent comment meant a bimodal distribution :)
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Re:Activision-Blizzard layoffs after reporting record results by AlexTWithBeard on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @10:31AM (#19153780)
in the EU and the rest of the world, coders don't get rock star salaries.

Isn't it a part of the reason why Google (Amazon, Netflix, Apple) has emerged in the US and not in the rest of the world?

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Re:Activision-Blizzard layoffs after reporting record results by notSupplied on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @02:59PM (#19156359)
It seems likely that the dominance of American tech could be due to how they pay their engineers. It is not as clear that America dominates game development, nor that it is due to paying devs rockstar level compensation.
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Re:Activision-Blizzard layoffs after reporting record results by Yoric on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @04:46PM (#19157378)
Why would that be?

I personally suspect that it's more due to a larger/richer base of potential clients/consumers.

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