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GYfon Do Good Kindergarten Teachers Really Raise their Pupils’ Wages?

Ok, I typed the wrong word! Thanks for the edit.

GYfon Hey Google: Please Don't Create Another Facebook

Even Google's CEO agrees: in Wall Stree Journal article, Schmidt says, "the world doesn't need a copy of the same thing."

http://online.wsj.com/article/NA_WSJ_PUB:SB10001424052748703...

GYfon Do Good Kindergarten Teachers Really Raise their Pupils’ Wages?

The last line of the article says it all. How far will you go, just so your kids (20 years from now) can make an extra 20 bucks an hour?

Granted, I'm sure I'll want the best for my kids too, when I become a parent someday.

GYfon Zuckerberg's Rent-A-Coder profile from 2002

That makes sense to me.

GYfon Zuckerberg's Rent-A-Coder profile from 2002

How do you mean, HeyLaughingBoy? Employers send you private bid requests for technical writing? I think that only happens if you put it in your resume or if you did a technical writing job for someone. I like that they have more than a programming category -- for one thing, makes it easy to hire out the tech writing parts.

GYfon Zuckerberg's Rent-A-Coder profile from 2002

Really, tbgvi? I like it. The control panel is easier to use in the site redesign that came with rebranding. Pay by the hour is new for them, but I don't see them as being more like the competition.

And I figure the re-branding makes sense for them. Everyone here is a coder, but vWorker has lots of users, with those projects for SEO and logos and transcriptions. Changing from "coder" to "worker" probably helps the designers and writers, now that vWorker is marketing to their buyers as well.

GYfon Zuckerberg's Rent-A-Coder profile from 2002

[quote]Wow, I was a top coder on RAC around the same time :) Good times![/quote]

zaidf, you miss the days when you would code for free?

vWorker has like 300k workers now. I wonder if it's easier or harder to be a top coder now, compared to then. The #2 and #3 Top Coders right now are from the U.S.