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How does your salary compare with this survey ?
2015 Salaries: Staff and Entry-level Positions: http://www.computerworld.com/salarysurvey/breakdown/2015/joblevel/3
2015 Salaries: Middle IT Management: http://www.computerworld.com/salarysurvey/breakdown/2015/joblevel/4
2015 Salaries: Senior IT Management: http://www.computerworld.com/salarysurvey/breakdown/2015/joblevel/5
http://www.computerworld.com/category/salarysurvey2015
Also, here is a Dice 2015 salary survey also showing nice upward trends for the tech field.
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 27 2015, @07:58PM
I like it here more. The readership is more technical in nature than at slashdot. There seems to be too many marketers, angry old guys, and people outside of the technology field bickering.
As a result I get to have decent discussions here. ACs are more respected too. I looked at slashdot since about a year after its inception. For a long time it was considered wise amongst technologists to be anonymous as much as possible. I don't know when or how that changed, but now it is a badge of dishonor over there.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday April 27 2015, @09:30PM
I don't know when or how that changed, but now it is a badge of dishonor over there.
Could it be the quality level of the resident trolls?
Our trolls are mostly not anon and are creative and funny. The worst we have is the obamacare-tank-dude (come on obamacare-tank-dude, reply to this with your ascii art tank for old times sake)
Back on /. its a little worse, years to decades of GNAA level of troll. Boring.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 28 2015, @05:17AM
And later, MyCleanPC, Gamemaker, and curse stories involving butts.
(Score: 2) by boristhespider on Monday April 27 2015, @09:45PM
It's also ridiculous given that usernames are themselves anonymous unless you somehow provide identification. About the only thing that posting non-anonymously really does is provide a means for people to read your previous posts and gain an impression of your views on one or more subjects. That's not a bad thing at all (and it also helps posts be more visible once you've established some reputation for being at least not off-topic), but at the same time I've posted anonymously both here and on /. on the assumption that anonymous posts shouldn't be automatically ignored. On the whole, that's easier here than on /., though I'd not be foolish enough to say that the community here is perfect - merely that its faults I think are a mixture of its more limited size and its tendency to always hold itself in comparison with /....
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Tuesday April 28 2015, @03:36AM
I don't know, pseudonymity seems to have a couple things to offer over anonymity. Personally I think it makes the place more personable, letting me recognize when I'm reading something from someone who tends to have interesting perspectives to offer, or decide up front if I'm in the mood to engage with a regular sparring partner. It also shows a (slightly) greater commitment to the community, though without /.'s anonymous troll issues that's less significant. Perhaps the biggest difference is that it seems that anonymous postings don't trigger reply alerts even if you are actually logged in. At least on /., perhaps it's different here, can't say for sure that I've posted AC here before.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 28 2015, @07:02AM
Reputation is part of the problem. If you prejudge based on who is saying something, you are no longer looking at the ideas but how much you like the person saying them.
It happens here on soylent just as much as elsewhere. Some people, regardless of current quality, will be modded up or down based on past behavior. We are not in middleschool. Discussions should not be popularity contests.
(Score: 2) by Common Joe on Tuesday April 28 2015, @11:22AM
I disagree. My time is limited so sometimes I prefer to read just the higher scoring comments or of those people I know. Seeing the names can help direct away too. I have a couple of friends on here that I'll occasionally avoid if I'm not in the mood to read their kind of comments. They can be a little trollish at times with certain topics, but I like them anyway as they usually (but not always) have something interesting to say. Other times when I have more time to kill, I'll head in for the anonymous coward comments and see what they are saying and try to add a few points here and there as appropriate so others doing the same thing as me have an opportunity to see the interesting AC comments.
At least, that's how I play the game. I suspect many others do that too.
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Thursday April 30 2015, @05:37AM
And? If this were an erudite platform frequented by people sharing deep and worthy thoughts I could see the problem. But it's an internet message board - the quality of comments (my own most definitely included) only rarely climbs to the level to be seen when any group of reasonably intelligent people gather for drunken carousing. We're here to share thoughts, play with ideas, and try to convince ourselves that it's not a pathetic third-rate alternative to actually having interesting conversations with real friends (and/or enemies) with whom we spend time on a regular basis. Recognition and "relationships" within the community help to soothe the social void that drove us here in the first place.
Granted, if you make more than passing use of the moderation system you're going to miss a lot of good stuff, but I suspect most people likely to leave a comment worth reading recognize that and browse at 0 or lower anyway, so it acts as sort of a self-selecting filter.
(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Tuesday April 28 2015, @11:18AM
The problem with anonymity is that all conversations become stateless. I don't like that. I prefer to get a feel for the different personalities. This helps a lot to avoid the guy with the most time at hands to gain the most influence; usually the really competent guys have other things to do than posting on $FORUM the whole day, so they'd only drop a few gems into the dung-heap, and pseudonyms help to find these gems faster.
The problem with pseudonymity is that it might be resolved to the actual person, e.g. by law-enforcement, site-administrators (depending on email-address) etc. A better system would be imho a system where anyone can post public keys with a nicknames to a common repository, sign his messages with his private-key locally, and use these nicks however he wants, without any email-registration etc. That way, not even the site-administrator could falsify messages.
Registered IRC nick on chat.soylentnews.org: qkontinuum