gearoidoc

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by gearoidoc 11y ago
50-100% sounds high for stock and bonus when you're on 200k+ but my main point was these companies are the exception, not the rule.
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
Those companies are very much outliers. Does those 3 all have development operations in Seattle? Your figures don't seem to stack up RE Google: https://www.glassdoor.ca/Salary/Google-Seattle-Salaries-EI_I...
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
I'd love to live in your world! How much do you think senior engineers earn? Most people would do well to save 20% but even assuming people save 33% then you reckon senior engineers earn over 300k?
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
CAD 110k is definitely enough to get a decent place, live comfortably and save some money in Vancouver. But then again 'decent' and 'comfortably' are subjective.
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
I'd argue its impossible since $2350 is almost half your monthly salary before tax!
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
Agreed - the last job offer I got was for 95k CAD and they would not budge higher. Currently working remotely for about 115k CAD with a number of other perks. I moved from Dublin, Ireland to Vancouver. Dublin rents are very high - probably
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
Its to create an impression within India that the internet == Facebook.
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
Think he may have been referring to Andreessens back down.
39.
by gearoidoc 11y ago
So buy an adapter.
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
I understand both sides of the argument - it took me considerable time to wrap me head around IB and for the longest time I just assumed I simply wouldn't "get it". Interested to how you do versioning on UI with or without IB
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
Well it depends what you mean by custom. I create custom views all the time and its even better now we can render them 'live' in IB: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/recipes/xcode_help-I...
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
Interface Builder is superb once you get the hang of it.
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
"just because they were born" Thats an example of a successful pregnancy project.
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
Thats not what gyardley is saying though. He's talking about developers who refuse to estimate how long a chunk of work will take.
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
There's always a flip side! My current project has a DSL (not written by me) and it functions superbly. It does take about a full work day to wrap your head around though :)
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
"I mean, come on, in the grand scheme of things, developers are wizards who never have to be worried about 90% of the things other people in the world have to worry about." wat
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
I think its easy to judge if a software project was successful (eg. Did we launch? Did we deploy that feature?). The harder question I suppose is whether it was successful and we've got/maintained a quality codebase.
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
Some good points but the argument that software teams will be most performant as a result of autonomy really depends on the team in question. I worked on a small team with 2 other developers who were both pretty good devs technically. Howev
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
"exceptional quality code (albeit a bit on the spaghetti side)" is an oxymoron.
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
"Only" 90k.
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
There are plenty of large companies where you can go to your boss, express dissatisfaction with some aspect (tech used, projects youre involved with) and get an almost immediate turn around on. Conversely, there are startups (even ones just
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
I guess because it leads to "full" internet subscription which generates revenue (assumedly profits) for them.
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
2. I don't see what its performance on Medium has to do with it. My point is that it was a perfectly good article pulled from the front page. 3. There are plenty of rather large companies that don't get as much attention here as S
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
This shouldn't be downvoted. HN is far from a meritocracy. Gamey as f*ck.
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
I think you're off on 2 and 3 - although I only have anecdata to make me believe so. On point 2: I've often found posts which are gaining traction on the homepage which do not subscribe to the 'scale fast'-centric belief
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
Even if Hack Reactor is an exception to the rule paying 105k for someone with 3 months experience is genuine insanity. Looks as though they keep a pretty high bar for their students and that will lead to an overall more talented grad than y
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
Hahaha - average salary of 100k? Um, evidence please?
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
Well put. Would be interested to know your level of experience (it seems considerable).
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
I never said you mentioned anything along the lines of "humans as resources" - I meant that the A Player mentality lends to this. Apologies if it came across any different. My issue is that A/B/C boxing is almost binary
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by gearoidoc 11y ago
I don't think they were trying to paint you in any way. The whole "A player" thread of thought is quite common in tech - I think this is what he was getting after. I'd disagree his comment is unconstructive and argue tha

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