Move to Chattanooga, Hack & Get Paid
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Move to Chattanooga, Hack & Get Paid
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Re: Move to Chattanooga, Hack & Get Paid
#2Nice effort, I guess? But really this is just seems like a bad gimmick to me. As someone who lives nearby, Eastern TN as a whole strikes me as a horrible place for hackers or startups. The majority of local talent seems generally disinterested in moving to any languages or tools beyond those of the average enterprise (java, .net), or anything built/polished in the last 5 years. Generally your choices are making a decent salary working in healthcare with .NET/Java, or making I don't think I need to add a disclaimer that this is non-objective and entirely related to my personal experiences in Chattanooga. It's bad enough that after job hunting in the area, I decided to go entirely freelance. And even there, I won't even talk to local companies. I've already wasted enough time hunting local clients only to realize nary a one of them expects to pay > $20/hr.
"moving to where you can get faster Internet service"... "GigCity"...
This is clearly bait. Pretending this gigabit internet service is available or practical for a startup, much less personal use, is either dishonest or ignorant of the actual situation in Chattanooga.
Re: Move to Chattanooga, Hack & Get Paid
#3The last 2 sound good.
Re: Move to Chattanooga, Hack & Get Paid
#4My coworker from Chattanooga assures me that nobody would want to live in those neighborhoods, and that he is sending the list to friends and family to laugh about.
Re: Move to Chattanooga, Hack & Get Paid
#5This is worse than the Austin group that thought they could hire SF devs with taco parties.
Re: Move to Chattanooga, Hack & Get Paid
#6Nice effort, I guess? But really this is just seems like a bad gimmick to me. As someone who lives nearby, Eastern TN as a whole strikes me as a horrible place for hackers or startups. The majority of local talent seems generally disinterested in moving to any languages or tools beyond those of the average enterprise (java, .net), or anything built/polished in the last 5 years. Generally your choices are making a dec…
"This is clearly bait. Pretending this gigabit internet service is available or practical for a startup, much less personal use, is either dishonest or ignorant of the actual situation in Chattanooga."
What are you talking about? I do believe you are the one ignorant of the actual situation in Chattanooga. Gigabit internet service IS available to startups. Hell, its available to residential customers.
https://epbfi.com/enroll/packages/#/fi-speed-internet-1000
I've got the 30Mbps package at home, and it is a true 30meg up and down. They laid fiber all over the city, and it is 100x better than any other internet services I've ever had(I don't think my internet has been down one time since I moved to Chattanooga).
"Generally your choices are making a decent salary working in healthcare with .NET/Java, or making I'm making ~50k working for a startup, using ruby, nodejs, mongo, redis...all kinds of open source. And we're hiring.
"And even there, I won't even talk to local companies. I've already wasted enough time hunting local clients only to realize nary a one of them expects to pay > $20/hr."
Not gonna argue with this one :)
I think you are a bit behind the times as to whats going on in Chattanooga.
Re: Move to Chattanooga, Hack & Get Paid
#7My coworker from Chattanooga assures me that nobody would want to live in those neighborhoods, and that he is sending the list to friends and family to laugh about.
I got curious and looked at a Google Map of the place. It seemed that the neighborhoods mentioned covered a majority of the older urban neighborhoods close to downtown.
Perhaps they are indeed all hellholes. If so, I'm very glad I don't live anywhere in Chattanooga. I have never been there, and perhaps it would be idiotic for anyone to take them up on their offer.
But I admire them for trying. I'd like to see more American cities succeed in reviving their urban cores. In so many places in America you have to be a half-hour commute from downtown to live in a safe neighborhood with good schools... and that's just sad.
Re: Move to Chattanooga, Hack & Get Paid
#8Nice effort, I guess? But really this is just seems like a bad gimmick to me. As someone who lives nearby, Eastern TN as a whole strikes me as a horrible place for hackers or startups. The majority of local talent seems generally disinterested in moving to any languages or tools beyond those of the average enterprise (java, .net), or anything built/polished in the last 5 years. Generally your choices are making a dec…
> As someone who lives nearby, Eastern TN as a whole strikes me as a horrible place for hackers or startups. The majority of local talent seems generally disinterested in moving to any languages or tools beyond those of the average enterprise (java, .net), or anything built/polished in the last 5 years.
Presumably these people are trying to change that. If Eastern TN sucks for hackers, and I have no reason to doubt you -- then it seems gratitude is called for rather than derision.
Re: Move to Chattanooga, Hack & Get Paid
#9Nice effort, I guess? But really this is just seems like a bad gimmick to me. As someone who lives nearby, Eastern TN as a whole strikes me as a horrible place for hackers or startups. The majority of local talent seems generally disinterested in moving to any languages or tools beyond those of the average enterprise (java, .net), or anything built/polished in the last 5 years. Generally your choices are making a dec…
"This is clearly bait. Pretending this gigabit internet service is available or practical for a startup, much less personal use, is either dishonest or ignorant of the actual situation in Chattanooga." What are you talking about? I do believe you are the one ignorant of the actual situation in Chattanooga. Gigabit internet service IS available to startups. Hell, its available to residential customers. https://epbfi.c…
349.99/mo for residential gigabit service.
As for businesses, I couldn't get listings for that, but per my original information, that is also cost prohibitive.
Their "30" plan (I'm guessing that means 30mbps) is just as expensive as my much faster cable offerings from comcast.
I stand by my original statement.
I won't argue with you that your salary in any way disputes the average open source salaries in that area and their general absurdity.
Re: Move to Chattanooga, Hack & Get Paid
#10Nice effort, I guess? But really this is just seems like a bad gimmick to me. As someone who lives nearby, Eastern TN as a whole strikes me as a horrible place for hackers or startups. The majority of local talent seems generally disinterested in moving to any languages or tools beyond those of the average enterprise (java, .net), or anything built/polished in the last 5 years. Generally your choices are making a dec…
> As someone who lives nearby, Eastern TN as a whole strikes me as a horrible place for hackers or startups. The majority of local talent seems generally disinterested in moving to any languages or tools beyond those of the average enterprise (java, .net), or anything built/polished in the last 5 years. Presumably these people are trying to change that. If Eastern TN sucks for hackers, and I have no reason to doubt y…
I think my comment in it's full form addresses the veiled absurdity of their approach, so I'm not sure what your point is.