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by sherm8n 14y ago
It might not be the norm, but it's good to realize that it's absolutely achievable. Anything is possible if you really think you deserve it :) It's all about hacking the world.
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There's lots of anecdotal evidence here in this thread that developers can command a high salary. From the hiring side, of course I wouldn't want developers to know about this. If I've been given a certain hiring budget I have to convince d
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by sherm8n 14y ago
Wow, you are underpaid. Do you have a CS degree? The smartest graduating students are starting their careers off at 100K at least.
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It's not about cash, but you sure do make a lot of it. I don't think this is necessarily an outlier. It's just that other developers don't know it's possible. The problem with the US work culture vs somewhere like Europe is that talking abo
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by sherm8n 14y ago
From my experience hiring at large corporations, the degree you get is counted as "experience". So someone who completed a 2 year master's degree right after their bachelor's is considered to be equivalent to someone who has a few years of
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by sherm8n 14y ago
How did you make a big jump from 115K to 185K? congrats!
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You realize you have to pay for all that stuff as full time employee too right? Sure you might get free health insurance at a really good company. But most you have to pay a percentage of the premium. For freelancers, there are a lot of pri
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That's the whole point. Employers don't want you to know about the real numbers. They want to pay you as little as possible. Even your manager doesn't make that much money. So they don't want their direct reports to have a higher salary. If
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by sherm8n 14y ago
Is that decent living in South Africa though? The salaries referred to are in SF.
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Are you an underpaid developer?(blog.goodsense.io)
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by sherm8n 14y ago
You're not underpaid, but you could be making A LOT more money. A lot of the suggestions seem to be learning how to do backend development or other skills. You could become a badass full stack developer, hone your skills and then apply for
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by sherm8n 14y ago
Scoot & Doodle (SF/Remote) Raised $2.25M in funding and user engagement averages 30 minutes/session. Looking for Rails, iOS, NodeJS devs. Learn more - http://blog.goodsense.io/jobs-and-projects If you want to talk about other project
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SEEKING FREELANCER - SF/Remote Scoot & Doodle needs Rails, iOS, NodeJS devs. Raised $2.25M in funding. Learn more - http://blog.goodsense.io/jobs-and-projects If you want to talk about other projects contact me here - http://blog.goo
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The Spotlight Effect in Social Judgement(psych.cornell.edu)
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by sherm8n 14y ago
I hate to say it, but really good programmer doesn't make you a good business man. The best coders I know all have different results too.
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The problem with books and online exercises is that when you get stuck you want to give up. It's hard to motivate yourself to push through. Unless you have awesome friends who have the patience to help, who will be your mentor? The programs
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by sherm8n 14y ago
I have friends that have gone through some of the programs. Feel free to contact me if you want to get into the details - http://blog.goodsense.io/contact/
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When you first start you'll get compensated market rates for the value you provide. You're a junior programmer so the quality of code is lower and you will take more time to deliver. In the long run however, you won't be paid for the busine
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by sherm8n 14y ago
For making yourself more marketable are you talking in terms of getting a job as a developer? It may take up to a year of learning how to code before you can answer useless programming interview questions. If you start as a freelance develo
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by sherm8n 14y ago
It's only awful because I've been used to the way they've been doing compose for years. They only made very gradual changes so it didn't affect my flow too much. With the new interface, it makes me pause for a second when I want to get some
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Ask HN: How many non-technical people want to learn how to code?
5 points by sherm8n 14y ago|12 comments
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by sherm8n 14y ago
Can you get them to pay for your product now? Ask your customers to pre-pay right now for a few months of service (at a discounted rate). If you have even 20 customers willing to prepay $49 a month for 6 months of service you'd have $5,880
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The 4 elements of sales and how to master them(blog.goodsense.io)
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The First Ever Honest Cable Company Ad(mashable.com)
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by sherm8n 14y ago
Can you start off in a market that you are deeply familiar with? It takes way too damn long to break into a new market and understanding it to a point where you have an unfair advantage. At least if you start off with something you're alrea
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by sherm8n 14y ago
If you really want to apply without an idea just do it. No one is forcing you to fill out every single field of the application. Don't fall victim to being constrained by the limits of the system!
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I'm on my 3rd startup. The first 2 involved building product first and then finding users. This time around I started blogging and accidentally built up thousands of email subscribers. Validation happens so freaking fast over email. As long
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This really made me reflect on how careful logical deductions affected my life. Being careful and safe wasn't as rewarding as jumping into something and learning from it. I was inspired to write this post about my experience - https://news
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Talk about having an unfair advantage. Why wouldn't you make use of your best skill and continue to exploit it? That's why startup founders need to be experts in their domain. It takes too long for someone new in the space to gain a deep un
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Making guesses for your startup is better than careful logical deductions(blog.goodsense.io)
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