ilovecheese

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by ilovecheese 17y ago
I said people who are middle aged and not paid what they are worth are pathetic. So what you're saying is that you work for less than you are worth. Can I ask you why you feel the desire to go work at a job where you are paid LESS than you
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by ilovecheese 17y ago
Help yourself out. If you were paid what you're really worth, you wouldn't have any desire to say that. I'm sure there are programmers out there reading HN who make over 200 grand (or are wealthy from other means) who are not trying to sa
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by ilovecheese 17y ago
> Too lazy to subscribe If you don't have an account to read the NY Times I don't know whether I should laugh at you or pity you. Maybe both.
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by ilovecheese 17y ago
I'm pretty sure that was deliberate on the part of the author. Sometimes they need a foil - makes for a more compelling story.
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by ilovecheese 17y ago
No, but just remember - when you're working for people younger than you, it's probably time to become an entrepreneur or director. Very rarely does "programming" offer a salary commensurate with the level of seniority older people actually
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by ilovecheese 17y ago
It's entirely feasible that it didn't go above 70 in SF for a year. SF is not LA. The historical data presented in the graph shows more variance.
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by ilovecheese 17y ago
I feel sorry for anyone in this industry who looks toward people like Joel Spolsky for guidance.
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by ilovecheese 17y ago
... and how many hoops do you have to jump through before you find out how much the job actually pays?
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by ilovecheese 17y ago
> She just needs a dead simple CRUD app, like rails on top of a simple sqlite scehma No she doesn't. She needs Access because her needs are exactly what it's designed for.
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by ilovecheese 17y ago
Plenty of tenured professors and very well-paid research associates create these sorts of things... UC, MIT, Bell Labs, Google, Microsoft, Sun, ... the list goes on and on.
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by ilovecheese 17y ago
> In Sweden... New York has old, old, old, old infrastructure. It might surprise you to know that they still dump their trash onto the streets, where it rots in the summer heat and mixes with AC condensation that drips down (because th