Google should hire people like this.
Wouldn't it be awesome if developer talent was judged on the impact of one's open source projects / contributions versus leetcode competency?
Yeah, I know - it'll never happen.
I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors
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Re: I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
$100k gives you a really nice lifestyle anywhere in Europe.
Except major cities like London, Paris, Dublin where it is somewhere around 'table stakes'.
$100K before taxes is decent salary in London. It's not a lot a lot but that's what a senior developer would make in most companies (excluding financial sector+ some extremely funded shops). Would you stop worrying about money? No,of course not.But you could afford to live in decent area,drive normal car,have some nice holidays in pretty places + put some aside for rainy day.Of course,this is London,so no matter what kind of money you make, there's always someone making x10 times that. But isn't that's the case anywhere?
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
> $100k is still not even close to how much you can make in SV as an engineer. $100k iS sTiLl NoT eVeN cLoSe To HoW mUcH yOu CaN mAkE iN sV aS aN eNgInEeR jokes aside, you can do even more money with less taxes in the united arab emirates. So, when are you moving?
these are such a bizarre responses. Did you read the following sentence you're quoting?
Your first sentence and its tone were unnecessary and pretty much rendered the rest of the comment pointless. Why even include the comparison?
Re: I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
You must be kidding. $100k a year is more than enough to not think about money (for one person) in all European cities, including London. Except if you suck at personal finance and spend all your money for unnecessary things.
If you have more than a single child of school age, £90k in London is not that much. Two kids at a private school in Northern England will run you £30k, I imagine in London it will be a tad more.
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#115Props. Well done. The thing that struck me most was the podcast appearance. I was distantly affiliated with the music industry at one point and I saw over and over the value of being in the right place at the right time. Great bands languish because they just weren't seen. I don't mean to diminish the work, either the technological or the effort of finding sponsors. I just want to caution about extrapolating success…
> Success is more random than we'd like to believe, and there is a risk when failure leads to victim blaming.
An excellent sentiment, if less common these days than it should be. Reminds me of a quotation from Chapter XXV[0] of Machiavelli's The Prince: "Nevertheless, not to extinguish our free will, I hold it to be true that Fortune is the arbiter of one-half of our actions, but that she still leaves us to direct the other half, or perhaps a little less."
[0]: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1232/1232-h/1232-h.htm#link2H...
Re: I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors
#116Props. Well done. The thing that struck me most was the podcast appearance. I was distantly affiliated with the music industry at one point and I saw over and over the value of being in the right place at the right time. Great bands languish because they just weren't seen. I don't mean to diminish the work, either the technological or the effort of finding sponsors. I just want to caution about extrapolating success…
Yeah; I have been trying to find ways to support my open source work and educational work over the past year, and I finally struck YouTube algorithm gold with a couple videos last month... but trying to replicate that success is hard.
Sometimes I can spend days or more polishing a blog post or video and making it really good—and it falls flat.
Other times I'll write up a post in an hour or so and it front pages on HN, gets traction on Reddit, etc.
It seems more random than anything, though the fact that I've put in lots of hours on other content means I'm not starting from zero here.
For GitHub sponsors, I didn't get any real traction until I explicitly started asking people to be a sponsor. I don't even have 'rewards' or anything... maybe that would help, maybe not. But it's still hard to get people to commit money to my cause, and I think the same skills are required for this that would be useful in nonprofits and charities soliciting donations.
Re: I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors
#117Props. Well done. The thing that struck me most was the podcast appearance. I was distantly affiliated with the music industry at one point and I saw over and over the value of being in the right place at the right time. Great bands languish because they just weren't seen. I don't mean to diminish the work, either the technological or the effort of finding sponsors. I just want to caution about extrapolating success…
While what you write is true, quite often lead engineers of big open source projects quit working on the project because they get frustrated of all the people demanding features from them.
As patreon got more successful over time and youtubers make part of their content payed, I would be surprised if many open source engineers without other revenue didn't adopt more of the sponsorware business model.
Re: I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
$100k gives you a really nice lifestyle anywhere in Europe.
Except major cities like London, Paris, Dublin where it is somewhere around 'table stakes'.
£80k income puts you in the top 2% of the UK. Something that 98% of people (lower in London but not vastly lower) manage without can hardly be called "table stakes".
Re: I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors
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Yes but the author is American So he'll always have to pay US taxes even if he moves out of the US.(I'm aware about tax treaties but in most cases they still have to pay the difference)
He can spend $300/month in many parts of Europe, get good healthcare. Even with paying some taxes to support the US billionaires, he'll live a very good life. In SV for that money he'd have to climb over zombies to go get the groceries
> Even with paying some taxes to support the US billionaires
Medicare and social security alone account for nearly half of the US fed govt spend.
Taxes do not support billionaires. The lack of them does.
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indeed.com puts the average software engineer with 10 years experience in silicon valley at $141k [0] I think you have a very skewed view of "easily" [0] https://www.indeed.com/career/software-engineer/salaries/Sil...
> indeed.com puts the average software engineer in silicon valley at $112k with a $5k bonus per year That figure or the number you edited it to at $141k, is on the low side. The median software developer in the US is at ~$110,000. The top 10% bracket starts at around $165,000. Emphasis that $110k figure is median, average is higher. The average software developer in SV with 10 years of experience is going to be a lot…
I haven't checked the data and I'm not sure why you're being downvoted since you don't seem to be breaking any of HN code of conduct.
That said, isn't median a better measure in this context, though? There can be a set of salaries that skews the average by a significant amounts, but most receive ~110k$