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0 pointsmerlincorey4y ago0 comments

You must have missed the recent news about Simon Peyton Jones leaving Microsoft for Epic Games[0], then.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29131996

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Staff moves at that level are a lot different than your average joe, huge paychecks involved and lots of insulation from the product org

merlincoreyOP4y ago

Are you suggesting the primary reason SPJ moved to Epic Games is because they offered him more money than Microsoft?

Reading the message from SPJ[0] seems to indicate he is excited for the people and projects he will be working on as well as being given the freedom to continue working on education, functional programming research, and continuing to work in the Haskell ecosystem.

Of course large amounts of money are involved for an engineer of SPJ's renown and experience - that requirement exists for any company that want's SPJ's time.

[0] https://discourse.haskell.org/t/an-epic-future-for-spj/3573

efficax4y ago

That's what I mean by insulation. Bagging a "famous" engineer is a political and PR move and they get a lot of freedom to define the role, something that most of us can't do

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efficax4y ago

Staff moves at that level are a lot different than your average joe, huge paychecks involved and lots of insulation from the product org

merlincoreyOP4y ago

Are you suggesting the primary reason SPJ moved to Epic Games is because they offered him more money than Microsoft?

Of course large amounts of money are involved for an engineer of SPJ's renown and experience - that requirement exists for any company that want's SPJ's time.

[0] https://discourse.haskell.org/t/an-epic-future-for-spj/3573

efficax4y ago

That's what I mean by insulation. Bagging a "famous" engineer is a political and PR move and they get a lot of freedom to define the role, something that most of us can't do

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