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…
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…
> 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.
I'm pretty sure that was deliberate on the part of the author. Sometimes they need a foil - makes for a more compelling story.
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…
Wait, so he cashed in a house, a bunch of cars, and kept his girlfriend showered in gifts? Sounds to me like he came out ahead. Now he's got the financial security to try whatever the hell he wants for the rest of his…
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.
I feel sorry for anyone in this industry who looks toward people like Joel Spolsky for guidance.
... and how many hoops do you have to jump through before you find out how much the job actually pays?
> 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.
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.
> 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…
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…
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…
> 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.
I'm pretty sure that was deliberate on the part of the author. Sometimes they need a foil - makes for a more compelling story.
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…
Wait, so he cashed in a house, a bunch of cars, and kept his girlfriend showered in gifts? Sounds to me like he came out ahead. Now he's got the financial security to try whatever the hell he wants for the rest of his…
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.
I feel sorry for anyone in this industry who looks toward people like Joel Spolsky for guidance.
... and how many hoops do you have to jump through before you find out how much the job actually pays?
> 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.
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.
> 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…