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Re:Ask HN: San Fran "Competitive Salary" for Devs by grandalf on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @11:08PM (#2610485)
I don't think experience matters that much. If you're awesome, you should be paid $100K or more. If you're awesome, btw, I'd like to make you such a job offer.
Re:Ask HN: San Fran "Competitive Salary" for Devs by throwaway09810 on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @11:16PM (#2610510)
Awesome at what? Solving problems? Check. Dedicating myself to things? Check. Working hard to get things done properly and quickly? Check. Having fun doing these things? Double check.

I'm not the best programmer in the world (jr level I'd say), but I sure as hell love what I do and I'm improving every day.

Currently my biggest tools are Ruby, Rails, Javascript (jQuery mostly), and HTML/CSS. Half front-end/half back-end dev in my day job.

email me: [email protected] if you're interested in talking.

note: obviously throwaway accounts

Re:Ask HN: San Fran "Competitive Salary" for Devs by rick888 on Wednesday June 01, 2011 @11:50PM (#2610591)
are you being serious? How can you be awesome without experience? Otherwise, why not hire a janitor and pay him 100K as a developer (he's awesome!)
Re:Ask HN: San Fran "Competitive Salary" for Devs by neworbit on Thursday June 02, 2011 @04:10AM (#2611143)
I'm pretty sure he means "can make great things happen" trumps "7 years Java experience on the resume"
Re:Ask HN: San Fran "Competitive Salary" for Devs by latch on Thursday June 02, 2011 @06:14AM (#2611345)
30 years experience doesn't mean much if it's the same year thirty times.
Re:Ask HN: San Fran "Competitive Salary" for Devs by brudgers on Friday June 03, 2011 @11:10AM (#2616626)
It's a good idea in general for small values of x:

  x years experience doesn't mean much if it's the same year x times
Probably true for x < 3 and often true for x < 7.

On the other hand, a person still using the same coding skills they had in 1981 probably writes damn tight efficient code...or is a God of COBOL .

Re:Ask HN: San Fran "Competitive Salary" for Devs by bherms on Thursday June 02, 2011 @11:34AM (#2612400)
I'm going to use this quote in the future because it's so true.

Hope you don't mind the attribution "a wise man once said [...]"

Re:Ask HN: San Fran "Competitive Salary" for Devs by latch on Thursday June 02, 2011 @08:00PM (#2614566)
I stole it from someone else.

maybe "a stupid thief once said [...]"