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Re:Ask HN: What do you regret you didn't know when programmi... by blackrock on Sunday January 26, 2020 @03:02PM (#22154364)
> I wish I knew mobile developers are some of the lowest paid developers other than game industry peons.

Everything is relative of course, but can you back up your claim with some numbers?

Where do you live? What salaries and compensation packages are you seeing?

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Re:Ask HN: What do you regret you didn't know when programmi... by rowathray on Sunday January 26, 2020 @04:28PM (#22154917)
https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/09/05/developer-salaries-in-...

Well, ok, I guess it's not that grim. Still, it's a pretty crappy job.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you regret you didn't know when programmi... by ta32627888 on Sunday January 26, 2020 @06:45PM (#22155706)
> The specific technologies that developers use also impact salary. This year, the technologies most associated with high salary include Go, Scala, Redis, and React.

Surprised me seeing Scala in there, thought it was basically dead now. My last experience with seeing it in a codebase and using (or trying to use) SBT, I was kind of hoping it was.

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Re:Ask HN: What do you regret you didn't know when programmi... by blackrock on Monday January 27, 2020 @02:38AM (#22157521)
If you had your choice, would you do something else? Like being in finance or becoming a dentist?
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