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by dnsworks 17y ago
$240k in SF would mean : $20k/year in rent for a 1-bedroom apartment $19k/year in California state taxes $110k/year in Federal taxes --- $91k for hookers and blow $200k in Iraq would mean: - $53k/year in Federal taxes - $0/year in state ta
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by dnsworks 17y ago
That's quite an assumption. 1,000-1,200 billable hours per year tends to be more the norm.
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by dnsworks 17y ago
My country has been invaded by a self-righteoius army trying to "uplift" me. I call them Christians, and I consider them the real enemy in this country.
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by dnsworks 17y ago
Personally I think that the Chinese government is directly, or indirectly behind a number of large botnets. Rather than advertising any particular server to sent data to, why not just open itself up to being consume by the borg^h^h^h^h botn
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by dnsworks 17y ago
I can't help but wonder if this article kicked off a ddos from China. They've been pretty brutal about attacking anyone who questions or criticizes them for the past few years.
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by dnsworks 17y ago
I've never been called by a 3rd-party recruiter that I didn't hang up on. Often I mock them first. I even sent one company, emailpcs.com, an invoice for 10 hours of consulting at $150/hour because they were calling me up every day for a mon
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by dnsworks 17y ago
Most bartenders in San Francisco are below the national poverty rate. The best paid bartenders in this city make less than a first-year programmer.
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by dnsworks 17y ago
There are many ways they could be improving on Craigslist: - More keywords in the posting template - a semi usable search system (this alone outclasses craigslist by 10 years) - Less spam - An API for integrating with affinity sites - Bette
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by dnsworks 17y ago
I disagree. I was 22 when I quit my last job as a wage-slave, and that year I billed out 1100 hours at $125/hour. That might have been the best year of my life. A 6-figure salary for working essentially half-time.
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by dnsworks 17y ago
So you're not really personally attesting to it, but you're personally attesting to an anecdote about polyphasic sleeping?
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by dnsworks 17y ago
Polyamory is perfect. I have a girlfriend. My girlfriend has a girlfriend. When I want to work late (my office is at home), she goes over to hang out with her girlfriend. I win.
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by dnsworks 17y ago
#1 is a stretch. Bartenders make $50-$100/hour 2-3 nights per week, for 4-6 hours of their shifts. The best bartenders in SF are grossing $65k-$75k .. Not really the equivalent. They're still working poor by local standards.
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by dnsworks 17y ago
You got a contract, and a low-paying one at that. This was worth a blog posting? All of these "How I did so and so" blog postings explaining basic life operations are getting annoying. Look forward to my next blog posting "How I Bought Some
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by dnsworks 17y ago
yawn .. This is really one of the first things you'll learn in any sales training class that you take. Never respond with a price the first time you're asked, but instead explain your value proposition.
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by dnsworks 17y ago
No, because I've made that mistake before. I took a job at Napster in 2001 making $80k, turning down a less stressful company for $110k. The year I spent at Napster was the worst year of my life, but I believed in the company and thought it
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by dnsworks 17y ago
You also need to understand what these so-called "benefits" cost you. Sure to work at Google means I can take one of their shuttles, but it also means I would have to live a lifestyle I dread: being someone who lives in a great city and com
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by dnsworks 17y ago
Germany just seems bizarre. I've heard stories of forced union membership for high-level positions like engineers, low-level employees having voting rights on executives, exorbitantly lengthy vacations (with increased salary to make it easi
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by dnsworks 17y ago
Germany just seems bizarre. I've heard stories of forced union membership for high-level positions like engineers, low-level employees having voting rights on executives, exorbitantly lengthy vacations (with increased salary to make it easi
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by dnsworks 17y ago
Paul, I feel that you personally have a vested interest in convincing young engineers to take low salaries for "more enjoyable work". Why? It makes kids far more willing to lose 2-4 years salary at an under-funded startup and overwork thems
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by dnsworks 17y ago
A friend of mine just left Google to work for Goldman Sachs in New York (as an analyst). Google paid her $90k + stock options that brought her salary up to about $160k/year. Goldman Sachs is paying her $390k as an analyst (for her intimate
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by dnsworks 17y ago
The engineers I know who are making $200k+ are either working at Goldman Sachs (and only GS for some reason) in New York. The others have left engineering to become IP lawyers, or to become financial analysts and leverage their understandin
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by dnsworks 17y ago
Not all of us strive to be consumer whores. I personally have never set foot in a wal-mart or a target, and have not owned nor watched a television in over a decade, and hope to continue this trend in perpetuity.
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by dnsworks 17y ago
What's wrong with Stock Grants? Why not just go to Vegas then, the odds might be better. Stock options or grants are just another form of gambling. Stock options at a startup are a joke, and for the most part have been a worthless tool that
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by dnsworks 17y ago
What's wrong with Stock Grants? Why not just go to Vegas then, the odds might be better. Stock options or grants are just another form of gambling. Stock options at a startup are a joke, and for the most part have been a worthless tool that
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by dnsworks 17y ago
30/high school drop-out/systems administrator (with 18 years experience)
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by dnsworks 17y ago
I'm a capitalist. And apparently a bad one, since I choose engineering instead of finance. I'm also an experienced entrepreneur with an understanding of the value of my time and labors. Most startups today are selling advertising. No matter
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by dnsworks 17y ago
It's all relative. There is no money for the workers in the service industry because the competition for most roles is unlimited. The supply of technologists is far smaller, however. Every once and a while Google calls me up asking to inter
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by dnsworks 17y ago
Living in San Francisco, it's getting harder and harder to get excited about conferences. I find myself at 7-10 per year, and the infrastructure events blend in with each other, as do the startup events. Generally the same people saying the
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Ask HN: Propaganda for creative salary manipulation?
152 points by dnsworks 17y ago|144 comments
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by dnsworks 17y ago
Whenever I read articles like this, I wonder if there's some management conspiracy, especially amongst VC-backed firms, to keep tech salaries stagnant. A very successful conspiracy, seeing how programmers and systems administrators in San F

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