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Presumably they have jobs, that’s extra income.

by jiofih 5y ago

alpaca128 5y ago
The article literally mentions full time work in the first sentence, and multiple times later.
- genezeta 5y ago
  The one person who is full-time has a very different salary: > we settled on $11,000 per month as a baseline salary for working full-time on open source The people getting $2,000 per month are part-time: > a "part-time" rate: we could initially afford $2,000 USD per month. It is also explained that if possible, they would go full-time and the salary would then be raised to "the full-time rate". > Our hope was by announcing this plan and continuing our fundraising efforts, we would be able to increase the budget and raise them to the full-time rate.
  - roofwellhams 5y ago
    I think it's pretty good deal
  - toyg 5y ago
    There’s something to be said for those salaries being too “Valley”. $121k per year is a lot of money; you’d likely be able to find good JS developers in the UK for half that and in continental Europe for even less (in Eastern Europe you could probably get away with $30k…).
    - FiberBundle 5y ago
      $121k is not a lot of money for someone writing compilers. And I would seriously doubt that you could just take your average developer and expect them to be able to contribute to a project like Babel in an equally productive way.
      - true_religion 5y ago
        120k is a wildly high salary in Europe, and contrary to popular belief Europeans don’t just cut ties to their homeland and move to Silicon Valley just because the salary is higher. You can find a lot of compiler experts sitting safely in the UK or Italy or Russia.
    - bidirectional 5y ago
      The requirement for working on Babel is being a Javascript expert and compiler engineer, not a good JS developer. It's 85k GBP, that is very reasonable for those skills.
  - IshKebab 5y ago
    > $11,000 per month I think I know why they're running out of money! Seriously that's an amazing salary in 99% of the world for working on commercial software where you don't get to decide what to do, can't remote work, probably aren't working on your passion project, etc. etc.
    - jiofih 5y ago
      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27115721 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27115721
Cthulhu_ 5y ago
Facebook and Twitter are implementing features that warn you when you're about to share an article sight unseen. HN should do the same if you're about to comment without having skimmed the article.
- jiofih 5y ago
  What part did I miss? The two developers making $2k were part time, only one went full time, and current all of them work part time for $6k/month.

Presumably they have jobs, that’s extra income.

by jiofih 5y ago

Presumably they have jobs, that’s extra income.

alpaca128 5y ago

The article literally mentions full time work in the first sentence, and multiple times later.

genezeta 5y ago
The one person who is full-time has a very different salary: > we settled on $11,000 per month as a baseline salary for working full-time on open source The people getting $2,000 per month are part-time: > a "part-time" rate: we could initially afford $2,000 USD per month. It is also explained that if possible, they would go full-time and the salary would then be raised to "the full-time rate". > Our hope was by announcing this plan and continuing our fundraising efforts, we would be able to increase the budget and raise them to the full-time rate.
- roofwellhams 5y ago
  I think it's pretty good deal
- toyg 5y ago
  There’s something to be said for those salaries being too “Valley”. $121k per year is a lot of money; you’d likely be able to find good JS developers in the UK for half that and in continental Europe for even less (in Eastern Europe you could probably get away with $30k…).
  - FiberBundle 5y ago
    $121k is not a lot of money for someone writing compilers. And I would seriously doubt that you could just take your average developer and expect them to be able to contribute to a project like Babel in an equally productive way.
    - true_religion 5y ago
      120k is a wildly high salary in Europe, and contrary to popular belief Europeans don’t just cut ties to their homeland and move to Silicon Valley just because the salary is higher. You can find a lot of compiler experts sitting safely in the UK or Italy or Russia.
  - bidirectional 5y ago
    The requirement for working on Babel is being a Javascript expert and compiler engineer, not a good JS developer. It's 85k GBP, that is very reasonable for those skills.
- IshKebab 5y ago
  > $11,000 per month I think I know why they're running out of money! Seriously that's an amazing salary in 99% of the world for working on commercial software where you don't get to decide what to do, can't remote work, probably aren't working on your passion project, etc. etc.
  - jiofih 5y ago
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27115721 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27115721

Cthulhu_ 5y ago

Facebook and Twitter are implementing features that warn you when you're about to share an article sight unseen. HN should do the same if you're about to comment without having skimmed the article.

jiofih 5y ago
What part did I miss? The two developers making $2k were part time, only one went full time, and current all of them work part time for $6k/month.