Ask HN: San Fran "Competitive Salary" for Devs

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!)

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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"

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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.

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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 .

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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 [...]"

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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 [...]"

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