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Shock me with up to 20 percent over what you believe i expect to pay. Not any more. therefore if you're an engineer and the typical job is 100 thousand, ask me for 120 if you want …

If the product was the ad space, Google would be out of business. The product is the personal data Google packages up and sells to advertisers.

People tend to forget we are Google's product. Not their customers. Advertisers are their customers. Plenty of tech companies don't sell souls for a living, therefore by working th…

Yes, you are SO enlightened. Gosh I hate when this happens. An American goes overseas, and suddenly thinks they've discovered nirvana and that everyone back home is now inferior. T…

Problem is the overtime and pensions. Salary is in the ballpark.

Yes absolutely. I don't think these salaries are completely over the top (though a little high for a first job). The problem I have is with the retirement/pensions. I'm happy to pu…

Wasn't intended as venomous, just maybe a little bit of a reality check. And offering an opinion (with real examples) to counter your opinion isn't trollism. Plus your comment neve…

This is true. There's a perception that 20/30-somethings are the hot thing in tech because they're building the kind of consumer apps that techCrunch likes to cover. But there are …

These stories are starting to wear thin. The people in SF/SV building apps are mostly in their 20s-30s. The people building cool technology are mostly in their 40s-50s.

You're speaking of SOMA like you're familiar with the restaurants here. I'm guessing you're not. Perhaps you live here but are too busy coding to make it past the Creamery? At the …

I absolutely think a fire theory would be valid, after all the plane was carrying a large load of lithium batteries. However, that's precisely the factor that calls Goodfellow's fi…

No. There are plenty of services where your pw is encrypted locally, so your service provider CAN'T access your account to fix something without your password. Many of the cloud st…