Yeah he has, I'm surprised you know of him as I am pegging you at just entering grade school in the year he died.

Lol at "top programmers doing their own".You can be best programmer on world,or have a best idea on world,but it's still useless if you dont have sufficient sales skills which would go along with your technical skills.

Tons of idiots in here destroying a valid search for good people.

"If you have nothing good to say, don't say it at all." A lot of people on GFY should learn that simple saying...

im with OY, sad to see a business thread get derailed by argumentation.

where Justin is trying to hire someone to work, is an incredibly cheap place to live, safe and away from the big city, $100k goes a LONG ways. It is considered both one of the best places to retire in America and one of the best places to recreate. if you like the outdoors you would love it here. Yahoo, Bing, Blackrock, VMWare, Google, Microsoft, and a few others have data centers here also. Pay is not only related to skill but location, some would be willing to take a massive pay cut to get reliable work in a place like this, where $4k a month rent gets you the nicest house on the hill. $600k gets a 5br/4ba house on the river with a dock and a pool. no violent crime, nice weather, the largest ski resort in Washington is 15 minutes out of town, and very good health care, are nice to have as well.

as for the ongoing arguments... the best programmers i know are not very good at marketing themselves or their ideas. on the flip side they would not be here arguing... they would apply, wait to hear back and move on, or just simply move on if the offer didn't suit them. :2 cents:

Not necessary destroying,since they bumping thread and that increase chance to find a proper person.

GFY never ceases to amaze me.

A company is looking for a programmer and willing to put up the cash for it and all you guys can do is argue about if good programmers are looking for jobs on GFY.

Good luck in your search

You bring up good points, but it is in the middle of nowhere.

Pay seems decent for the area. But who wants to live there? I bet very few. Now if he said relocate to Miami Florida, I bet they'd have more interested people. But 100k might not be enough in Miami.

My girl is willing to relocate us, but $100k and moving expenses won't cut it.

She is more than qualified, and does check GFY for work from time to time.

So far, no one has been able to afford her. :winkwink:

If "top level" was removed from the initial title, would this whole argument have been avoided?

I'm not the programmer.
I can take one for his film
:thumbsup:thumbsup

nice money offered, but sorry I was planning to make a million in next 12-24 months :pimp

It depens on a case :) Never know when and where you can find the solution.

If only I was 23 again. This would have been a nice reason to relocate.

could you respond if candidate is not suitable?

Good luck with the search Justin. I will keep my ears open for you too.
Thanks for your loyal business.

May as well bump this, I'm excited to see how many other GFY programmers won't get out of bed for $300k/yr, because they're all busy starting their own successful businesses :1orglaugh

Just for the record,if immigration to usa would be easy and me being a top programmer i would be all over it :)

Find someone like this dude ;)

The guy worked it! I love this story

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/17/bu...urce-job-china

Programmers are programmers, they think they are Product Managers too often. Those are the ones you have to let go, now matter how good their kung fu is.

2x 50 filthy rich programmers!

Haha, exactly, right? :1orglaugh

I'm wondering if they're really that stupid, or just a board personality. I'm hoping it's the latter.

You can get 15-20 outsourced programmers for 100K!

Think of all the code they could write! WOOOOOHOOOOOOOO!!!!

I know one great but I would not let him go as I truly need him. Good programmer is worth gold or maybe even precious. Really, if you know what you want to achieve and you're good in plan making then good programmer can code it all and make dreams come true. I've been myself learning coding since a while (python, php, javascript) but I'm not that good yet, fortunately I know some affordable ones that help me out in my projects. Coding is really cool stuff.

What's that supposed to mean, bro?

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