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A lot of engineers[1] spent a lot of time successfully fixing Y2K bugs. Because nothing well known blew up, many people wrongly assumed that Y2K was never a re
by pud 14y ago
A lot of engineers[1] spent a lot of time successfully fixing Y2K bugs.
Because nothing well known blew up, many people wrongly assumed that Y2K was never a real problem to begin with.
[1] I moved a Fortune 100 manufacturing company's database off an ancient mainframe that would've been disastrous come Y2K. It went smoothly and was thus a thankless job. They paid well though (mid six figures - those were the days).
- infinite8s 14y agoWhen people say mid-six figures, do they mean 500k? Or 150k?
- reitzensteinm 14y agoI'd usually say just Google it, but coincidentally enough one of the front page results is someone asking the same question on this very site: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2261637 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2261637 It means 500k, or there abouts; 400-600k would probably qualify, with anything higher or lower being mid to high or low to mid six figures, respectively.
- joelhooks 14y ago$100/h approaches $200k, and consultants can definitely make $250/h+.
- infinite8s 14y agoYeah, but that rate usually assumes they aren't billing 40hr/weeks for 50 weeks a year.
- joelhooks 14y agoDoes it? I've had 50 week years as a consultant where it was 40-60hrs a week. Rough years. Profitable though. What would be nice is 25wks at the higher rates.
- ScottBurson 14y agoI think it means 300k -- 3 being a one-digit approximation to sqrt(10). I.e. the geometric mean of 100k and 1M.
- etrain 14y agoNot sure if snark, or if really thst financially sophisticated...