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Because not every developer makes a lot of money.
by yen223 12y ago
Because not every developer makes a lot of money.
- morgante 12y ago> Because not every developer makes a lot of money. The prototypical HNer is a good developer. Good developers make a lot of money unless they're making terrible work decisions.
- minikomi 12y agoLike living in Tokyo?
- yen223 12y agoLike not being born in a first-world country basically.
- morgante 12y agoI'm well aware that there is some diversity in this community—I was just referring to the prototypical HNer who's a SV programmer in their 20s.
- brightsize 12y agoI'm not sure how typical that is. It would be interesting to know the demographics of age, occupations, and locations of HNers. One of the reasons that I come here is that I can almost always count on reading posts from non-startup, non-computer-tech, smart and interesting people who have knowledge and viewpoints to share about a wide variety of topics. Just today there were posts to another thread by astronomers and physicists, possibly in their 20s but just as likely not, and unlikely (I would think) to be in SV. My impression is that there's not some diversity here, but a great deal of it, and it's not limited to tech people.
- brightsize 12y agoLike living far from a startup hub in a small city with not much of a tech economy? I think I've made an excellent work decision. It's extremely cheap to live here. I could easily survive on <$20K/yr, far less actually. You can have the high-expense/high-stress wage-slave life to get your $100K/yr. I'll pass.