[LUAU] Top 10 Best / Worst Cities For Software Developer Pay

[Jim Thompson]

Well, if thats true, then I apologize.

On Mar 19, 2007, at 10:06 PM, Ronald L Fox wrote:

> Jim,
>
> I think that you misunderstood Stan's comment (and explanation).   
> The voice saying "If you don't like it, don't let the door hit your  
> butt..." is not Stan's advice to you but his description of the  
> basic attitude of potential employers in Hawaii.
>
> Email sure has a way of being taken the wrong way sometimes.
>
> Regards,
> Ron
>
> At 17:14 3/19/2007, Jim Thompson wrote:
>
>> On Mar 19, 2007, at 4:56 PM, Stan Baptista wrote:
>>
>>>> Yet Lingle is making noise about getting Hawaii competitive,
>>>
>>> Operative word: noise.
>>>
>>>> Basically, if you don't like it, don't let the door hit your butt
>>>> on your way to San Francisco (or, I guess, Houston;-)
>>>> <expletive> that noise.  I'm here and staying.  Who the >
>>>> <expletive>  are you to dismiss me?
>>>
>>> Calm down big boy.
>>
>> I'm not your "boy", and I don't like your dismissive attitude.
>>
>>> I'm explaining my take on the reason why wages are relatively low
>>> especially since COL is so high. The dismissive attitude would be
>>> on the part of those who pay the salaries that resulted in the poor
>>> showing on the survey. If they cared more about whether you stayed
>>> or went (as a person being paid for tech work), then the salaries
>>> would be higher.
>>
>> Ignoring my real issue, that Hawaii has no high-tech work-force, and
>> the combination of the death of the housing boom, coupled with any
>> decrease in military spending (say, when Inouye finally stops
>> running) is going to be tough for the state.
>>
>> Any downturn of the general economy is likely to impact Hawaii's
>> technology work-force, because *so much* of what they do here is
>> system administration or network administration and these will
>> contract along with the non-technical workforce.  Worthy work, to be
>> sure, but where are the developers?   Where are the "exports" for
>> Hawaii?
>
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