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I was going to be mean, but the numbers actually work. If we take the medium salary for Software Dev in Denver at $149,000[1] (I know, I know some are paid vas
by moritonal 4y ago
I was going to be mean, but the numbers actually work.
If we take the medium salary for Software Dev in Denver at $149,000[1] (I know, I know some are paid vastly more), which is $105,077 after tax, and divide that by work-hours in a year, 1,768. Then we see they're paid about $60 an hour. So $500 means about 8 hours work. A day to play around with some project and add something is kinda do-able, especially if the dev throws some extra hours in because they're having fun.
I would absolutely say however that their advised projects are toned down slightly.
1. https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/Greater-Denver-And-Boulder-Area/ https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/Greater-De...
- quickthrower2 4y agoIf someone is paying $149k/y to work on ones own passion projects for free and keep the IP rights, let me know where to apply.
- ModernMech 4y agoI dunno, if your goal is to change computing as we know it, what is a middling dev in Denver going to do about it in 8 hours? Not to say anything about devs in Denver, but it’s more the problem is so large that I can’t see what $500 could do. It would probably be a better use of money just randomly handing it out to middle school science students to see what they can do. Get them on a trajectory to change the world rather than soliciting any concrete ideas; no one with an actual idea to make computers better is going to even blink for $500.