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Family is east

The west coast sounds like a paradise for developers. Makes me wish I had moved...

Human life and children in particular are also much more valuable than data.

I work at Aberdeen, MD making 141k. I got an offer once for 155k from a nearby military base not long ago. I've seen houses nearby for 180k. Pretty easy to save here if you're ok w…

SharePoint. Mostly because we use it improperly (as a backend for web apps)

In my experience, the best ways to maximize your income as a software engineer are to job hop, study data structures/algorithms, and learn how to market yourself. Companies rarely …

My experience with bootcamp graduates has been that they struggle with any non rudimentary problems and lack knowledge of any of the fundamentals required to do non CRUD applicatio…

Not to mention the internet and gps, both which have roots in the DOD.

Perhaps I should have a talk with my lead and ask suggest he take a more authoritative approach?

Two months ago I joined a dev team at a large company as a senior software engineer on a web app. I joined a team where their last app that they worked on before I joined became ma…

Most startups can’t afford to train anyone.

The “talent shortage” is a myth.

Hard to believe it costs so much if they're getting that much free labor. I would think they'd at least break even.

What is your niche?

> - A lot of big companies have satellite offices around Austin, like Apple, Intel, IBM, etc. You aren't necessarily locked into working for an "Austin company", if you don't want …

I am a developer in the Washington DC metro considering moving to Austin because the DC metro area tech seems to be many years behind the other tech hubs. I was if people had insig…

Their attorneys probably cost at least 1000 an hour. Would be cheaper to release the data than to fight this.

What do you mean by the best town?

Has anyone left the DC metro to move to a tech hub? I just left my current job because I was told it was a java web dev position and it turned out to be a COLDFUSION development po…

Well, it you view this page's source. You'll see tags that haven't been used since the 90s like . Maybe the jobs are to maintain legacy systems and alot of engineers don't want to …

People like to knock on government funded research on security/defense here, but it is actually one of the reasons the US leads in tech. DARPA produced the arpanet, the predecessor…

Yeah that's a good idea. Treating it like a regular contract and expecting contract pay rates.

Does anyone consider contract-to-hire roles? Seems like only desperation would cause someone to accept this kind of offer. Have any of you done this before? Did the job work out?

I thought they were supposed to pay fairly well.

I agree with the not having it be the first step.