elite1percenter

Honestly I think you should keep the new brand/name. It's memorable and elicits a laugh, even if unfortunate. That's a bigger marketing win than you think

Apparently not just FireHydrant either. Someone posted on YC about 8 months ago Chris Evans from Incident.io calling them out for copying their Slack and Changelog formats literally word for word.

https://twitter.com/evnsio/status/1442908782405701634

Standing on the shoulders of giants huh

> Top students convincing everyone else to stop trying. Or, great engineers convincing the rest to stop trying.

This happens in a more literal sense as well. Since we compare ourselves to each other, it makes sense that more experienced engineers love feeling like they're ahead and beyond newer engineers, and it bleeds into behavior.

For example, engineers love asking candidates obscure questions in interviews - as if not knowing a specific JVM perk makes the candidate less of an engineer.

Let's also not forget the severe elitist attitude some engineers have when interacting with others. It's almost like everyone else is trash. For all the work he's done, which I admire, Torvalds was seriously toxic to interact with.

It all ties back to us wanting to compare ourselves to each other.