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And to put the "working hours" thing in perspective, it is typical in cities like Shenzhen to work their programmers 10 hours a day, five and a half days a week. So what sounds like horrible from a Western perspective may not be "too horrible" in the local sense. Remember, all those workers volunteered to work there and they can leave as they want. Sure, it's unbearable for some white collared journalist from Shanghai, but what about someone otherwise would have to plant rice in the field under the sun, or go down a tunnel to mine coal?

The point is that just on salary, it's not bad at all, for where the factory is.

But they work a lot more hours.

Foxxcoon pays about 400 USD a month - http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/technology/foxconn-to-rais...

and if that's for 7 days a week 10 hours a day as the reporter said, that's 300 hours.. so 1.33 dollars per hour.

BTW, the typical salary range for a junior Ruby dev in a second or third tier city in China is about 800 - 1600 USD per month. Just to put things in perspectives

We do this type of online tutored program at http://www.railstutors.com. We focus on Ruby on Rails, with a less ambitious goal - instead of aiming to prepare you as a junior developer at twitter, we want to get you started, learned Rails and build your first app from ground up. We have a shorter duration of 4 weeks instead of 9.

There are a lot of challenges on how to teach effectively online, and we have certainly learned a ton over the past few months. We are graduating about 20~30 students now every month.

Can talk more if there is interest.

I have to give you my live secret key, which means you can basically do anything you want with it - charging people with my account, etc. How do you store that? How do you make sure it's not going to be breached?

Also, I suggest that you put up some copy to make people feel more comfortable. I run http://www.railstutors.com, and in our payment page, we get a lot of requests from people to see if they can pay with Paypal. We recently put up some copy to help people understand that we are safe, and it seems to help a bit.

Check out our copy on the right bottom. https://www.railstutors.com/courses/learn-ruby-on-rails-2012...

I am not sure to put yet another middleman between me and customer's credit cards.

Stripe's 'Capture the Flag' stuff kinda makes me feel they are serious about security. I am getting the same level of comfort with easybill.

thanks. good to know

Do you use CoffeeScript with Angular? I am curious if that combo works well.

Great guide.. Spine.js is definitely friendlier than backbone for Ruby devs

Great idea! can see how this can apply to many other fields than law.

How do you advertise to find clients?

The OP didn't say the Cheddar App justifies the rate. He/she just said he/she would rather use the (high) rate to weed out boring projects to focus on his/her own projects

And he/she doesn't have to justify that rate to everyone. If people hire him/her at that rate, it's justified.

a bit off topic.. but I found this he/she thing really annoying.

Also, would love to see some explanation of basic Haskell concepts

what language/framework is HN built on?

Typo on the front page:

We run our servers on Amazon Web Services and use their elastic load balancer (which is were we terminate SSL).

which is _why_ (?)

Brought up in China and having been in the US for the last 11 years, I find it very true how languages shape thoughts and behaviors. When I speak English a different set of thoughts would come to me than when I speak Chinese. In fact even when I think in different languages I tend to see things in different ways.