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Re:Caltech's CS interview prep course by Kranar on Sunday February 27, 2022 @06:47PM (#30494139)
Tony Hoare works at Microsoft as a Principal Researcher, as well as having won over 5 million dollars just in awards. I'm quite sure he makes more than a Facebook SWE.

Dijkstra won a similar amount of money in prizes and worked at UT Austin which according to their 1985 docket paid 110k a year ($287,418.96 adjusted for inflation) and also worked in private industry in a research role, so once again... likely made more than a FB SWE.

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Re:Caltech's CS interview prep course by game_the0ry on Sunday February 27, 2022 @06:56PM (#30494225)
Alrigt, alright, I stand corrected. Here's your upvote.
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Re:Caltech's CS interview prep course by mhh__ on Sunday February 27, 2022 @07:03PM (#30494288)
You're still right overall though. Most programmers don't get to use the theory they (should still) know
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Re:Caltech's CS interview prep course by game_the0ry on Sunday February 27, 2022 @07:54PM (#30494744)
Picking 2 famous computer scientists was not a good comparison on my part. I'll own that.
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