The problem with patio11's blogs is that he seems to exist in a different world from most programmers, I feel.
> So $100 per hour, even though it is not a market rate for e.g. intermediate Ruby on Rails programmers
Uh, $100 an hour is $208,000 annually full-time. Unless Patrick is referring exclusively to the Bay Area upper crust, I don't know how he reaches the conclusion that $100 an hour is "not even market rate for intermediate programmers."
> So $100 per hour, even though it is not a market rate for e.g. intermediate Ruby on Rails programmers
Uh, $100 an hour is $208,000 annually full-time. Unless Patrick is referring exclusively to the Bay Area upper crust, I don't know how he reaches the conclusion that $100 an hour is "not even market rate for intermediate programmers."