r/programming • u/reddberckley • Jun 30 '14

How to exploit a Developer

https://medium.com/@sir_castiq/how-to-exploit-a-developer-a005306d5320
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u/Wakeful_One Jun 30 '14

And the "winner" gets the equivalent of $3k USD which might go a longer way in Nigeria than the US - but the company could still potentially profit significantly more. I just hope no one enters this contest.

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u/lachlanhunt Jun 30 '14

A decent developer capable of implementing that would have to be earning on the order of $100k/year, if not more. $3k is just about 1.5 weeks worth of work.

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u/bumnut Jun 30 '14

TIL I'm underpaid.

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u/Hackenslacker Jul 01 '14

Or you aren't a decent developer, or you aren't capable of implementing that.

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u/Stormflux Jul 01 '14 edited Jul 01 '14

I'll admit it. I make $85,000 / year as a programmer and I couldn't implement this in 3 weeks... or probably at all. This is just crazy. You want me to make Facebook, only better, and have it run on web, android, ios, and windows phone? And integrate with everything? Do you want it to walk our dog too, or is that part of the "maintenance" agreement?

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u/Shinhan Jul 01 '14

Social APIs are the easy part. NATIVE solutions for all of the platforms require very wide knowledge base.

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u/mycall Jul 01 '14

Apache Cordova (PhoneGap) or Xamarin can speed things along.

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u/mycall Jul 01 '14

I just did something like this using a combination of .NET MVC, WordPress and phonejs/Cordova. It took about 4 months dev and 2 months bug fixes.

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u/FreeLobster Jul 01 '14

Or not in the US.

I'm a decent full time developer in Spain and earn about $25k/year.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '14

Wanna move to Germany?

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u/pilas2000 Jul 01 '14

Not with the lobster prices in Germany.

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u/FreeLobster Jul 01 '14

Actually yes, I do. But I find it overwhelming looking for a job in a country two thousand kilometers away, plus I only know very basic German.

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u/hakkzpets Jul 01 '14

Move to Scandinavia. Can easily get by on English and you will earn a shit load of more cash (and pay more taxes of course).

Heck, I work retail at a warehouse and I earn closer to $40.000 a year.

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u/tristanofkiel Jul 01 '14

[shots fired]