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Re:Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months? by pc86 on Friday June 05, 2020 @10:27AM (#23428940)
The problem is that people are conflating "one guy got lucky and got a $500k remote job" with "here is a repeatable process to generate a full-time income by working on open source on spec." Even getting a $50k remote job is not a guarantee, and telling people to work for free on open source is the Hacker News equivalent of telling a designer that you'll pay them if you like the logo they make you. Only this is much more insidious because you're telling them to work full-time, for free, for "3 or 4 months."

We complain about job interviews taking an entire day yet have no problem telling this person to dump 750 hours into something with the hope of "getting noticed."

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Re:Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months? by dpweb on Friday June 05, 2020 @10:58AM (#23429297)
People attend college and spend enormous money & time with no guarantees. The unpaid time spent is not throwaway.

If I was 19 today - and wanted to code for the most $$$ possible. I wouldn't be in college. I'd be building up skills + know people. Know people even tougher I'd argue for technical people who are often introverts.

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Re:Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months? by wongarsu on Friday June 05, 2020 @11:36AM (#23429742)
And being a reliable open-source contributor on projects people use can open doors that college could never open. From personal experience Open Source is also a great way to get to know people, especially if the project has an active IRC or Slack.
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Re:Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months? by maps7 on Sunday June 07, 2020 @04:59AM (#23445888)
I would love to contribute to open source but in 10+ years I've never found a project. Is there a good website that matches developers to projects?
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Re:Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months? by pc86 on Sunday June 07, 2020 @12:01PM (#23448278)
What projects have you used over the last 10 years?
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Re:Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months? by maps7 on Monday June 08, 2020 @02:28PM (#23459265)
Probably a lot of utility ones but none that made me jump into the code
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Re:Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months? by dennis_jeeves on Friday June 05, 2020 @05:40PM (#23434337)
>People attend college and spend enormous money & time with no guarantees. The unpaid time spent is not throwaway.

It is throwaway for most people. 'Most' being >75%. Just my guesstimate.

Well there is another way to look at it if you wish, if you want to bolster your self-esteem and confidence by having a college/university degree, then do it. My observation is that most people who do not have a degree suffer a life long I-do-not-have-a-degree self esteem syndrome, despite being just as capable as everyone else.

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Re:Ask HN: How do I reach making $1-1.5k/mo in 13 months? by jodrellblank on Friday June 05, 2020 @04:05PM (#23433301)
> Only this is much more insidious because you're telling them to work full-time, for free, for "3 or 4 months."

Specifically, donating that time to a project which a company uses to make money.

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