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It's great that people are cognizant of the value we _really_ provide to a company! We improve your product tremendously - we're not just code monkeys! Now that we're on the same page, can we also get a salary that is more in-line with the value we provide?

I've definitely noticed a dropoff in my interest in Show HN. I used to look forward to seeing Show HNs on the front page, and even posted one that was moderately successful, but now it seems like very few posts ever make it.

Meanwhile, going to Show HN directly feels very cumbersome to me. I can't explain it, maybe due to all the techy nomenclature mashed into one page, it's just very off-putting.

On the other hand, Ask HN has been my favorite source of HN content lately by far.

Companies also further constrain themselves by not allowing remote work.

To me, this is the best answer. I'll work for almost any company for a long, long time as long as they allow me to work remotely and always pay me competitively. The rest are just small, interchangeable details.

You've likely considered this, but for those in a similar position, why not freelance and just choose your months? You likely have many contacts in the field and I'm sure you do very good work. Work half the year and do whatever you want the other half, surely your hourly working half the year is enough to sustain you (since it would be $100/hr for anyone else working full-time)

That feels like an awfully strict definition of failure, especially since IF Dropbox and/or Square are acquired, it would be for well over 10-11 figures.

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Given its recency, is it safe to assume this works for Rails 4.2.0beta? I'm working on a new project for a client and was a little dismayed that both Rails Admin and ActiveAdmin currently have problems with 4.2.0.

Agreed 100% - I work in SF but I'm not a fan of the city. Even after considering the higher cost of living, I'm pretty sure I make substantially more here than I would in LA. I'd love to move back to Southern California, though.

It's not just salary, but the types of companies in SF/SV just seem a lot more compelling, and are more often than not founded by people who 'bleed' tech. This might be a gross assumption but my feeling after being involved in the OC startups scene and talking/interviewing with LA startups is that the companies there are started by business guys looking to strike it rich with marginal tech DNA.

Consider these points and try to figure out how to differentiate from the typical LA wannabe-entrepreneur. Work on compelling problems (e.g. Oculus Rift, in Irvine), or just have an established culture of putting the tech first and don't be stingy. Good luck!

Built and launched http://www.encorebeat.com in the past couple weeks. We found that finding new, good electronic dance music is very time-consuming/difficult, so we built a Product Hunt for EDM.

It got a great reception on PH itself!

This is great, installing now. I too use the cmd+shift+4 method but it's pretty unreliable.

Similarly, one thing I often find myself needing to do is find the hex or RGB value of an element of pixel on the fly. I know there are osx apps that do this but they're usually of the paid variety. Are there any good chrome extensions that can accomplish this?

Betterment and Bitcoin speculation for the most part. With the right knowledge, you can certainly outperform Betterment, but as a programmer I'm content just outsourcing that and saving that time for other things (like getting better at programming, for example, which implicitly earns me money as well).

a. It's hard to say because as I admitted in 1, it's hard to know what "Junior" qualifies for anymore, and I'm unsure of what your metric is for it. If you'd like, we can talk separately and I can try to give you an honest assessment (I conduct engineering interviews at a YC '12 company) of where you stand in relation to what I perceive to be other juniors (and bootcamp graduates).

b. Yeah - bootcamp grads are taught to go after these junior-facing roles (and even forego internships), so this is definitely the market you're competing with, assuming you're Junior as well. Once again, I can only really speak for SF and in web.

1. I don't think there is a universal standard for "junior level" anymore. If you have a year's worth of working with Rails across the stack in a production setting, you are more than capable of landing a decent job in SF (not Senior or Lead, of course)

2. I can't quantifiably say there's a shortage, but I'd have to guess the amount of decent "juniors" that code bootcamps are pumping out are hurting the market if you're a junior competing for the same jobs in web. The bootcamps are collectively graduating thousands of students per year in San Francisco alone. HN doesn't think favorably of this lot, but they are hard workers, have learned modern programming conventions and best practices, and are desperate for work.

Caveat to #2: You can differentiate from this group if you basically _aren't_ a Ruby/Rails or Javascript dev, since those are the primary languages taught.

Living in SF, I also feel like this issue pertains to the tech industry in general, for non-programming jobs. In my girlfriend's experience, tech startups are looking for people who have had tech experience prior, even in Sales, AM, Customer Support, and other more entry-level-leaning roles.

Same, pretty sure I've been shadow-banned by Lyft for the past year or two since it never shows any available cars in the middle of the day despite living in downtown SF (and plenty when my roommate opens the app next to me). I'm very cordial in any rideshare service I take, and have a very high Uber rating over hundreds of trips (though that large quantity is a direct result of not being able to use Lyft). I've always joked I was caught up in the counter-Uber net, because I see no other reason why I wouldn't be able to use the service.

Seems like the survey is closed.

Yep, I've spent a ton the past couple years as well, and it's by far the only tech company that I've spent more than a couple grand on. I'm not sure if OP used this but if anyone's curious to know how much they've spent/are spending on Uber rides, I wrote a small Chrome extension for that: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/uber-spender/kmjde...

You speak of these 'top pros' and their hand-reading abilities as if they're an enigma. Hand-reading is mostly a mathematical exercise. It's also infrequently about placing a person on a specific hand but rather a range of hands, with different weights assigned to different potential holdings based on sure, 'pattern matching', understanding player psychology, etc. But it still goes back to basic combinatorial math. Surely a computer can do this better than a human.

Source: Was a 'top pro' for many years online

They are. Overwhelmingly, in fact. You are almost certainly looking at a ridiculously small sample (probably just WSOP Main Events, of which the past several have had legitimately skilled winners).

This is largely incorrect. NLHE can be more about "bluffing" because there's greater variability between ones chance of winning a hand and the potential bet size. But it still comes down to a mathematical decision, just that it's more difficult to accurately calculate the best play given the wide range of variables: your opponent's likely holdings, the bet size, the pot size, your hand.

In Fixed Limit, the bet size and pot size are all controlled and can be pre-determined, leaving fewer permutations to solve. It's easy to calculate that if a bet is a constant, then you can profitably call with holdings from XY and "higher" in a given situation, but it obviously gets harder when the bet size can vary greatly.

To answer OP, Fixed Limit is considered solved (or close to it? Haven't been following the news on this) from a mathematical and game theory perspective, and so AIs have been built to play game theory optimally. NLHE is still far, far from being solved, but there are bots that have been created to churn out small, albeit automatic, wages short-stacking (to mitigate bet-size variability) smaller stakes games where its tendencies aren't as openly exploited.

Poker is very much a mathematical game. And physical tells, reaction-time tells online are pretty insignificant in the longrun.

I'm always curious how side-projects that are marketplaces initially got their supply. Seems like there's a good amount of RVs listed, did you have to do your own biz dev footwork in addition to building out the site?

Not currently, but that's coming shortly. The technology is still pretty new, but we're friends with AIMSuite (Intel) and have plans to use their solution in the future.

Thanks, if this analogy helps, we're trying to be like a Google AdSense in the real world using digital signage tech.

22,300 as an American 22 year-old. I write and read slightly moreso than most people too (though nothing too formal or high-academia).

I also thought I had an unfair advantage early on because I knew a lot of words from playing Blizzard games all my life. Sorely disappointed :(.