Wow. Don't even need to though, the above response is unbelievable and cringeworthy as someone also in software engineering. Seems like a troll but it's all good and is par for the course on reddit.

and who says farther down in this thread that he doesn't even live in NYC anymore

If you can't tell clear satire apart form real technical advice then it seems like a waste of time to try to communicate with you.

Then again, if everything you read seems disagreeable to you, then you start to disagree with everything.