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by danssig 16y ago
>A developers rate factors in a number of things, including cost of living. When deciding what your price floor is, yes cost of living figures in. But what development is worth is its market price (perceived value). It doesn't depend
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by danssig 16y ago
>The hypothesis that "all smart Indian programmers are in the US" is, well, somewhat naive. It sure is, which is why no one is saying that. I said the west (that's not just the US, you know?). >you are competing with programmers
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by danssig 16y ago
>I _know_ I can get staff in India or China much cheaper than here No you can't. If you could more companies would be doing it. You get what you pay for. When you get cheap outsourced labor in India you're getting people with no expe
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by danssig 16y ago
>Oh wait, there's some super-keen, super bright chap in India who'll do your work for a tenth of the price? Except he wont. If he's as good as you are his telecommuting rates will be close to what yours are. Think about it.
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by danssig 16y ago
This is a good argument to bring up but I think it will have the opposite effect. Right now if you look at e.g. India, there are lots of outsourcing companies but workers don't stay long at these places. They get in, get experience and the
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by danssig 16y ago
Or lack thereof.
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by danssig 16y ago
That's rather silly and outdated snipe. Have you used the new magic pad? I'd rather have that than anything else.
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by danssig 16y ago
>Right - so that's definitely not a long-term business model for sustaining higher prices. Ah, I apparently missed the part where this was suggested as a long term thing. In that case, you're right. This isn't a method for long term p
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by danssig 16y ago
The blog has a comments section, why do we need to see every single report here? Are Android developers who make money really rare or something?
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by danssig 16y ago
>Our fictional speculator either accepts delivery of the thing, in which case they have to warehouse it and take the stuff away from market. Or, they form a new contract and sell in order to get it off their books. Sure, but when they b
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by danssig 16y ago
>That's why you run a network of high frequency services (every 10 minutes or better). You turn up at a stop and wait on average 5 minutes Except that isn't realistic for everywhere. Even in a pretty densely populated country there wil
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by danssig 16y ago
>For whatever reason, Americans are locked in to thinking that cities should be designed for cars I think it's the abundance of ground. The last time I was in the states I realized that the entire shopping street in my city could fit i
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by danssig 16y ago
>I will say in no uncertain terms: some of the people posting on HN are exhibiting an entitlement mentality. Reading all of the posts reveals this fact. So again, you're judging some of the people on HN in a very harsh manner based on
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by danssig 16y ago
>In order for a speculator to lift the price and sustain it, they'd need to actually take delivery of oil and remove it from the system. No, when they buy a commodity on futures they own that product. It is out of the market at that
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by danssig 16y ago
>One, neither of us said that every HN poster is an example of entitlement, but you are claiming that we said that. Excerpt from the original post: "Reading all the replies on HN reminds me why companies like to outsource. Americans are
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by danssig 16y ago
>For example, if I ran an airliner maybe I'd seek to lock in fuel prices via forward trades. I was under the impression that airlines are already always buying fuel via futures regardless for planning purposes.
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by danssig 16y ago
>You have to store it Store what? Commodities are typically traded in futures.
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by danssig 16y ago
It wont because I believe both of those are rented from Switzerland. I know border patrol is for certain.
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by danssig 16y ago
>please avoid any sentence of the form "So what you're saying is...." No, the point of that statement was to break down what you were saying for you because you might not have been aware (and still aren't apparently). The OP was saying
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by danssig 16y ago
You can affect it, but that's not what the bonus system is about. It it were you would "deserve" a bonus for simply not destroying the place, since this is the only thing really somewhat under your control. Everyone, down to the cleaning s
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by danssig 16y ago
So you, like the OP, are assuming everyone posting in this thread about getting more money are petty losers who just go "waaaah! He get's $500 more a year than I do! THAT'S NOT FAIR!". Does that sound reasonable to you? Does it sound fa
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by danssig 16y ago
1. Move 2. Go contracting If no one would put up with these low wages they would be forced upward.
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by danssig 16y ago
My tax guy always tells me: the US hates employees. There are more loopholes if you contract or (even better) have your own business (which could be a contracting business). Plus you don't get taxed at source so you can take that extra 30%
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by danssig 16y ago
That's a bad strategy. If you're going to move away from family and friends to the dead middle part of the US where you'll have less opportunity, less useful connections, etc., then the salary you get is going to have to be much higher to
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by danssig 16y ago
Personally I think the cost of living stuff is largely a red herring. First of all, it's normally not even. Maybe rent is cheaper but food is higher, or certain necessary services are more expensive. Second of all; an iPhone costs the sa
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by danssig 16y ago
Your health care is a lot cheaper. You have to consider these kinds of issues. The market rates must be as they are for a reason.
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by danssig 16y ago
Would you say that the private sector is free of labor exploitation, though?
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by danssig 16y ago
DHH, Linus and Damien all got publicity from what they created. In marketing terminology, they did a "loss leader" and it worked. Jobs' salary is $1 a year but that's not what his stock options are. How do you think the man got to be w
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by danssig 16y ago
I'm sorry but this is an utterly ridiculous, borderline offensive comment. Companies want to outsource because they want to keep more money themselves. Executive salaries have risen practically exponentially. Why is it that only the work
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by danssig 16y ago
Wrong. Irrational: "I'm working in a free market world but I should just take what ever the company offers me and be happy" Rational: "I'm working in a free market, selling my time so my time is also subject to market rates. I just found o

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