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by starkfist 16y ago
A good programmer can get more than $85/hr. I know HTML/CSS people who charge $85/hr. He was suggesting $25/hr, which is what dog walkers charge. Beyond $85 you encounter people trying to haggle on price, unless you're doing something hairy
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by starkfist 16y ago
I didn't miss your point, I just didn't re-iterate it. I am in agreement with you, but I am pessimistic. I think we are in trouble. Regarding intellectuals at university, I also met a handful, and I bet the school I went to was much worse t
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by starkfist 16y ago
$85/hr minimum for contract work. $100K salary. NYC has more money than brains so don't sell yourself short.
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by starkfist 16y ago
except right below that in the definition: "The phrase "freedom from" can have as an object: fear, want, hunger, pain, disease, stress, depression, debt, poverty, necessity, violence, war, advertising, addiction, etc."
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by starkfist 16y ago
What is the simple and plain meaning of freedom?
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by starkfist 16y ago
Yes, that is what I'm suggesting.
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by starkfist 16y ago
I'm not sure how he was a savvy self marketeer when nobody knew where he lived or what he did for a living or even what his real name was.
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by starkfist 16y ago
No, you are really reaching. He replies to a lot of user email, seemingly at random. Years ago a friend of mine in a completely unrelated industry used to exchange email with him about odd things that happened in the Santa Cruz mountains.
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by starkfist 16y ago
You're lucky if you encountered many intellectuals as an undergrad. But actually I think you're right - skilled white collar jobs will die out before skilled or unskilled "blue collar" jobs do. People always will need a broken car fixed, or
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by starkfist 16y ago
You win.
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by starkfist 16y ago
Well, he's gone now. So you guys won.
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by starkfist 16y ago
See what I mean?
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by starkfist 16y ago
He was sort of like a contemporary one-man open source Beagle Bros. Unfortunately there is no place in current programming culture for people like this. Programming is not art. It is certainly not whimsical. It is fun, but only fun like pre
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by starkfist 16y ago
Most frameworks give inconsistent errors when they tip over under high load. Almost none have been designed with truly high traffic in mind.
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by starkfist 16y ago
I skateboard. The only reason I'm a computer programmer is because I got hurt really bad when I was 18 and had to find something else to do.
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by starkfist 16y ago
The star is now so dim people don't even know what WASP means anymore...
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by starkfist 16y ago
I don't think it's reasonable to expect much good taste from Pennsylvania.
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by starkfist 16y ago
In California, if your bank is also located in California, the state will just take the unpaid tax money out of your bank account.
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by starkfist 16y ago
I sort of agree with you but I walk to work at 5:30 in the morning. Nobody else is there. Also NYC has the opposite problem of most places in the USA. You're bombarded with so much "activity and life" that you tend to grab any amount of per
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by starkfist 16y ago
I built the same thing 8 years ago but it did the opposite of what patio is doing... it called/texted/emailed the dentist (or dentist's secretary) and told them to call their customer. As someone else mentioned, his monthly enterprise accou
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by starkfist 16y ago
Are there any women there? Silicon valley is for the celibate, and every snowboard town ive been to, he dudes all have to, uh, share. From its description boulder sounds like it should be the worst of all worlds if you're single. But maybe
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by starkfist 16y ago
They don't die, they become zombies. The last startup I left 3 years ago is going to limp along forever because the investors won't kill it. At this point I believe the entire corporate entity has been restructured so that none of the origi
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by starkfist 16y ago
There IS no substantial difference when you're sitting in jail.
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by starkfist 16y ago
Biking is good exercise but is quite efficient so you have to do a lot of it to get the same effect as running or even walking. For instance, it takes me about 1.5 hours to walk to work and I burn about 600 calories. The same distance on a
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by starkfist 16y ago
It's a decent paradigm for anything that has to do with signal processing. It mirrors almost exactly how you would do it in real life. I.e. connecting cables to boxes which do a filter or an amplifier or an oscillator or whatnot. The best e
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by starkfist 16y ago
Most startups are not successful. This way the executives the VCs installed when the company started to fail can walk away with something when they fold the company into another company in their portfolio and disguise it as an acquisition.
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by starkfist 16y ago
Who hires them and how do they find clients? (on their own or are they working for McKinsey or similar group?) And if you have details, how much can they charge? Edit: in my experience it is not very easy to get paid to just crunch numbers.
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by starkfist 16y ago
Programmers < 10 typically get between .25 and 1.5%, pre series A. It's best to look at this as a theoretical upper bound, not a likely outcome. Usually the investors, founders and board members fuck around with the corporate structure,
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by starkfist 16y ago
People have always been held in the city jail for not having ID when brown. Arizona has just decided to be up front about it.
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by starkfist 16y ago
Tall Poppy Syndrome is not a cultural oddity. It's prevalent (but named differently) in Japan, Scandinavian countries, UK, Ireland, Germany, Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands, economically depressed areas of the USA, most of the Midwest,

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