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It's a good argument to cut top marginal tax rate so that he has an incentive to take more work than he's willing to at $500/hr after taxes (assuming he's in the US).
You can write to my former coworkers in Apple’s
Developer Technical Support, and they will point you
toward a solution within three days. Or you can just
call me and have it ready to resubmit by morning.
Is there a scenario where I'm dinged for $24k in a day while he's mainlining coffee & trying to debug my app?
The "motherfucker" page doesn't load, maybe I can help him with some web development at only $1,000/hr
Still takes forever to load, but you can speed up the process using Readability.
The Dunning–Kruger effect at work.
I'd be curious if he actually can charge $1,000/hr for iPhone development. It sounds like it's deliberately less than his time-filling rate: he doesn't get fully booked weeks at that rate. In fact he seems to imply that his schedule is so empty that he's likely to be free on any given day to start working on a new project immediately. That's certainly a reasonable strategy, since sometimes the money-maximizing rate i…
Working 10 hrs a week at 1k/hr would be awesome. Saving time is better than maximizing money.
Wow, he might be good at programming, but from his writing, he sure seems like a jerk (Zed Shaw's long lost twin?). I've known many professionals who, being very good at what they do, charge both less and more than $1k/hour, but none of them would ever mention their rate in public, much less feel the need to explain why they deserve it. On the other hand, this is great PR for software engineers: a couple more posts l…
The "motherfucker" page doesn't load, maybe I can help him with some web development at only $1,000/hr
The "motherfucker" page doesn't load, maybe I can help him with some web development at only $1,000/hr
But maybe his pricing is predicated on the desire to not work 40 hour weeks?