https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kevin_Mitnick&act...

Hope he is alive and well. May he rest in peace if not

Devastated to hear this. RIP Norm. I loved you.

> likes switching companies once every 12 to 18 months

This does kind of resonate with me. I'm kind of restless now having been working on the same project for a year.

I don't think the benefits adds up to a 40K difference a year. As I said, I get health insurace, but no 401k matching. If I got something like 10% 401k matching I'd get about $400 per pay period ($400 * 12 = 4800).

I'm worried that these salary guys are going to be in some wildly better position in 10+ year because they committed to a company. But I don't really see how they will be.

Thank you so much for the response.

I've been a contract web developer for a full year now after two years of salaried work.

I work in the Atlanta area, and am making $77/hr at a great company here. I always get 40 hours of work a week, so I should come out somewhere around $160k at the end of the year. This sort of money is unheard of here, the absolute best money I've seen for a full time developer role here is probably $120k.

It seems to me like I'm getting an extremely good deal, but I have a sinking feeling that I am missing something. Most guys my age are doing regular salary work for half the pay. I can't see what justification there is for doing this.

Am I missing something by not committing to a company? I don't think I necessarily have the interpersonal/ office politics skill to get into some executive role at this time, and I don't see why I can't do that down the road.

Can anyone here argue for a salaried job in my situation? I feel like I'm missing something.

Thanks for any feedback you can give me!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22213976

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We had a guest parking lot where your guests would simply park. No sort of registration, but if the car stayed for 3+ days without notifying management it would be booted.

Now if I want a guest to visit, they have to download an app and enter their credit card info and license plate number for the pleasure. Every time I have a guest over, instead of the normal pleasantries I have to warn them to register their car lest they be ticketed by the overly zealous parking enforcement officers. The process takes around 10 minutes for someone unfamiliar. It is absolutely infuriating, though I blame apartment management more than PayByPhone.

But there is a problem with free speech absolutist sites like 4chan and Gab in that they attract all of the bad actors that are banned from traditional media for their fringe beliefs.

I'm really interested in finding a solution to this. To make a free speech platform that attracts conventional users but allows for fringe discussion as well. The only thing I can really think of is for established platforms like youtube and twitter to do away with any rules limiting speech (with exceptions for material that is illegal). They already have a base of conventional users that wouldn't leave. I don't think this will happen though.

The rates are still decent, but I'm not working with enough of a financial buffer to compensate for the downtime I'm having. I'm brand new at this though and I expected this sort of difficulty curve to start out with.

On a side note, if you've got an Angular or react project you are working on in the Atlanta area or remote and need some help, reach out to me :)

All of my contact info is on my site elarbee.io

Really appreciate the feedback. I'll look into integrating this sort of thing into my future contracts.

I'm been searching online to see if the specific project I just left could be publicly connected to the company for which I worked, and I'm finding that all of my fellow contractors have listed the project on their linkedin. I think I'm going to take their queue and put it on my resume myself.

Just started out full time contract work this year with some great success. I've worked on some very well known web sites.

Is it ok for me to list these websites in my resume? Do you guys do this? Including these projects in my resume would make it much more impressive and would lend me a great amount of credibility to potential contracts that I'm looking for.

On the other hand I'm not sure if this would be a breach of an NDA agreement or not. And what if I haven't signed an NDA?

My rule of thumb has been to only talk about projects that I've worked on that could be deduced from publicly availible information, but I'm not sure even this is ok.

Thanks for any feedback you can give me!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18903814

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https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...

Social media to me is a site that is mostly not anonymous, and is connected to your real life identity where you are mostly sharing content about your personal life.

https://www.epsilontheory.com/too-clever-by-half/

The naive employee you mention who strives towards OKR completion wins the game, but loses the metagame of corporate ladder climbing.

Maybe we do, maybe we don't.

Personally, if someone with a large influence on my income says something I find offensive or outright idiotic, I disagree in a polite way that shows that I respect their opinion even if I don't. If I feel that it would really offend them I'm not above lying and pretending that I do.

Sometimes I feel morally conflicted about this, but it's kept me out of trouble.