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901.
by danssig 16y ago
If you have no other options then that decreases your market value. The good news is: you now know of the problem and you know what is standing in the way of fixing it. I've always heard that a degree is worth 5 years experience.
902.
by danssig 16y ago
>Companies that do this deserve no loyalty. No company deserves "loyalty". You need to get that dinosaur of a concept out of your thought process. We're free market entities now. We act completely within our own interest and the "inv
903.
by danssig 16y ago
This is a strange question. Of course most any company hopes you won't negotiate. What they expect is that you'll value yourself more than their initial offer and will negotiate. I'm sorry, but I don't believe you about Detroit. I beli
904.
by danssig 16y ago
>Comparing incomes and constantly thinking about what you _could_ be making just leads up to never being satisfied with any kind of salary in the long run. I couldn't disagree more. The first career company I worked for, I got transfer
905.
by danssig 16y ago
Then they should get unhappy, they should test the market and they should find out that they're wrong. Who knows, maybe they'll realize they need to step up their game. I really hate this "just keep 'em dumb and happy" nonsense. We'
906.
by danssig 16y ago
The parent said "if you're having problems filling the position". If you're having problems filling the position because other companies are paying more that's going to come out sooner or later.
907.
by danssig 16y ago
Calling that pay rate $175K/yr is beyond conservative. Maybe if he's taking off 2 months a year for vacation (another benefit of contracting!).
908.
by danssig 16y ago
Avoid bonus systems. Bonus systems do not work out well for non-executives. Look at the story again: the kid made out better than anyone because his $175/hr is his for as many hours as he works no matter how the company performs that year
909.
by danssig 16y ago
>but in practice verbosity and readability are not it's biggest issues. Right. It's biggest issue is inconsistency. Int or int? Equals or ==? Why can class String overload the + operator but I can't? On and on. But Java is very
910.
by danssig 16y ago
>because they wanted to keep the language clean and simple If this is the goal, I'm afraid they went of course before getting out of the bay. Clean and simple is how I would describe Smalltalk, not Java. And Smalltalk a lot more conci
911.
by danssig 16y ago
I'm afraid <> is too ingrained at this point to turn around, but seriously; is it such a problem? In C# a template can show up in a class like: public class Foo<T> { ... a method like: public void EatAFoo<T>(... and
912.
by danssig 16y ago
And now you've just provided another snarky, content-free comment that consists of nothing but an attack. Further, it's longer (and therefor more intrusive) than the comment it addresses. Can we please stop this silly fained-hypocrisy trea
913.
by danssig 16y ago
>To become good at golf does not mean that you can sit on the driving range and hit golf balls every day until your hands bleed. I disagree with this part. Fighters learn to fight by sparring with each other in very controlled settings
914.
by danssig 16y ago
>If someone's going to turn down a great job over a couple of grand that means he's insanely greedy. False symmetry. For a company, an extra 5k per year shouldn't even make a blip on the radar. If it does then I would have to questi
915.
by danssig 16y ago
I always refuse to answer about previous salary. As I've said in other places in this thread, previous salary is irrelevant. They have the right to ask and I have the right to refuse to answer. It's part of the negotiation. If me not te
916.
by danssig 16y ago
I disagree. If I decide to engage in some pass-time and it doesn't work, I'll spend time troubleshooting it even if I don't engage in that pass-time all the time. If I don't fix it now, I'll have to fix it next time, or else give it up fo
917.
by danssig 16y ago
>This also happens on Windows No it does not and this drives me crazy on windows.
918.
by danssig 16y ago
Well the part about X is getting more than me is important from a value estimation point of view. He thought he was getting close to market rate until he saw what other people were making. The proper response would have been to start lo
919.
by danssig 16y ago
I agree with not getting caught in a lie. Personally I don't like the lie approach, even if I can't be caught because it forces me to remember two sides: the truth and what I've told people. I think the take away here is that you shouldn't
920.
by danssig 16y ago
Due to the way the legal system in the US works, there is a lot of posturing. Plenty of the forms you sign are not enforceable at all and only there to make people ignorant of the relevant laws afraid to exercise rights they actually have.
921.
by danssig 16y ago
I wouldn't call a situation where said developer discovering one small piece of information changes from him being a happy, productive member into a disgruntled employee a "win win". It could easily lead to a situation where much more valu
922.
by danssig 16y ago
The best way to find out is to polish up your resume and actually see . We only know the value of things when people are buying them. Your time is a free market asset and there is only one way to know the actual value of it. And you don'
923.
by danssig 16y ago
>Money has marginal utility for me. After a certain amount I do not care. And this is exactly why I go for the absolute maximum I can: I care about my own projects more than I could ever care for any company or their projects. The more
924.
by danssig 16y ago
One of many reasons to never work in a backwards "At-will" state.
925.
by danssig 16y ago
Well, the issue is that the company in an At-will state will never give any official reason for a termination. They will resist even giving a reason as long as they can and if forced there will always be something they can use.
926.
by danssig 16y ago
Then you shouldn't feel bad. She was leaving money on the table that she needed. Your conversation led her to make necessary changes. If you had kept quiet she might still be struggling.
927.
by danssig 16y ago
But also keep in mind that this has some big caveats: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2437005
928.
by danssig 16y ago
Exactly. We're trading our time for money so the more we make, the less of our time we need to sell (if we're responsible financial planners anyway). EDIT: Ambiguous wording
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by danssig 16y ago
Depends on the company. A lot of companies will have must-get-CEO-involved-for-exceptions style caps on raises under any situation, so moving to a different part of the company still puts you with a max possible raise. The new team will a
930.
by danssig 16y ago
If you look around you might find you can have all that plus more money. You only live one time, I wouldn't sell myself short if I were you.

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