skerrit_bwoy

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by skerrit_bwoy 14y ago
lol "we don't have enough entreprenuers?" What does "enough" mean? Looks to me like we've got thousands of kids trying to make the FaceTube.ly+ 3.0, which is more than enough for me, personally. Meanwhile, cancer is uncured, the moon is l
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by skerrit_bwoy 14y ago
lol irrelevant
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by skerrit_bwoy 14y ago
lol when you get laid off at 50 and they continue to pull $200k we'll see who's got more stress
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by skerrit_bwoy 14y ago
I'll add that if you LOVE doing what you do for 40 years, straight through retirement, you are one odd duck indeed. The idea of "passion for work" is a power play to get folks to put in more for less. Don't get it twisted. Furthermore, wo
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by skerrit_bwoy 14y ago
Excellent points. Your typical doctor or lawyer is in a revenue generating function (doctors, in fact, are THE revenue generators of hospitals), and are therefore hired by other revenue generators and paid accordingly. But your typical pr
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by skerrit_bwoy 14y ago
What do you get paid? I'm curious about this "consulting money machine." Most contracts I see are $50-$75/hr with no bennies. Not exactly stacking mad chips.
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by skerrit_bwoy 14y ago
Most programmers are retarded about everything but programming. Everybody knows this, hence Big Bang Theory, nerd culture, etc. Acid test: how good are you at picking up chicks? That's a pretty good proxy measure of how good you'll be at
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by skerrit_bwoy 14y ago
You've got it exactly twisted about docs, read this for clarity: http://www.medscape.com/features/slideshow/compensation/2012... Choice quote: "As in Medscape's 2011 survey, the highest-earning physicians practice in the North Central reg
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by skerrit_bwoy 14y ago
Any of the medical careers, from nursing to MD to podiatrist to dentist. T14 law school and BIGLAW. MBB consulting drone and then BigCo Apparatchik. Buy-side finance, like equity research, portfolio manager, private equity, etc. Commissione
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by skerrit_bwoy 14y ago
Precisely. It's a business, treat it as such. If you want to focus on The Holy Craft Of Programming, get a PhD and good luck with the academic track. Otherwise, go into business as a businessman who happens to be an excellent programmer.
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by skerrit_bwoy 14y ago
WHY DO PROGRAMMERS THINK LIKE THIS? A radiologist makes $350k whether he's in Manhattan or Memphis. A hedge fund analyst makes comparable, whether he's in LA or Louisville. A BIGLAWyer makes comparable, whether he's in Chicago or Charlest
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by skerrit_bwoy 15y ago
It's just a question of degree. Is height solely determined by genetics? No - we know that nutrition plays a large part. But potential height is still dominated by genetics. It doesn't matter whether or not he eats his Wheaties, the a
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by skerrit_bwoy 15y ago
Most people on HN are 1-3 sigmas on the right side of the IQ bell curve. They have a hard time understanding what life is like on the other side (although rampant off-shoring and H1B wage gouging might, one day, engender some horizon broad