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Re:How to get rich without being lucky (2019) by aj7 on Sunday May 23, 2021 @04:16AM (#27253262)
I had a friend who barely knew anything about software, but was fairly motivated. He was offered $40k in 1980. At the sane time, I was making $28k with a PhD in Physics working on lasers. We were young guys, it ruined our relationship.
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Re:How to get rich without being lucky (2019) by WalterBright on Sunday May 23, 2021 @02:59PM (#27257569)
I don't know what things are like at Microsoft today, but in the 90s they had not only developers with no degree, they even had dev leads with no degree.

Microsoft only cared about competence.

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