Enough

Post by knewter » Tue, Jul 04, 2017, 2:15 PM UTC

tawayyy wrote: post #2

I believe that this also applies, to a very long extend, to open source projects. Both the ones having companies with financial interests and even the ones without such a direct profitability interest. So, once a given OSS starts to be popular, suddenly, all the use cases must be covered, despite the fact that there are, often, obvious design tensions. What happens is: complexity, lack of focus, and ultimately even t…

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jul 04, 2017, 2:50 PM UTC

tawayyy wrote: post #2

I believe that this also applies, to a very long extend, to open source projects. Both the ones having companies with financial interests and even the ones without such a direct profitability interest. So, once a given OSS starts to be popular, suddenly, all the use cases must be covered, despite the fact that there are, often, obvious design tensions. What happens is: complexity, lack of focus, and ultimately even t…

Post by nightski » Tue, Jul 04, 2017, 2:52 PM UTC

droopyEyelids wrote: post #27

sotojuan wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is what I feel when I see people complain that developer salaries have an upper limit in the mid 100s. I mean, I kinda get it, but honestly $100k is more than enough for me, let alone $150k.

100k is enough to live on, but when you get more than that you start to see the potential of civic engagement, of funding causes you believe in. And if your work contributes millions of dollars to the company's bottom line, what justice is there in the company giving 99.9% of the surplus of the surplus you generate to upper management's bonus, or the fund that gets inside info on your next quarterly report? There are…

Post by jnwatson » Tue, Jul 04, 2017, 2:57 PM UTC

austenallred wrote: post #33

Am I the only person sick of DHH and the 37 Signals people writing the same article 800 times? We get it. You don't have to raise VC or grow exponentially to have a great company. They have seriously written the same thing hundreds of times in hundreds of different ways, and it's barely even a contrarian view anymore. I hear as many people saying, "I wish more people would talk about how you don't have to raise VC" a…

Post by throwaway1572 » Tue, Jul 04, 2017, 3:09 PM UTC

sotojuan wrote: post #15

fredley wrote: post #6

This mindset applies to many things besides growth. For example, how much money (as an annual income) is enough for you? Have you ever sat down and reasoned it out? I see many people stuck chasing larger and larger payouts, to the extent it makes them unhappy or even unwell, who never stopped to consider how much money was enough.

This is what I feel when I see people complain that developer salaries have an upper limit in the mid 100s. I mean, I kinda get it, but honestly $100k is more than enough for me, let alone $150k.