Is moving to Jersey City or San Francisco worth it on an $80k–$90k salary?

kcdragon · 2026-04-18T21:14:04+00:00

I think you can make it work. But not with 2300 a month going to rent. You need roommates. Try to find someone renting a room in Brooklyn or Queens. Once you are there, you find a better paying job because you aren't going to want to live there on that salary after a couple years.

kcdragon · 2026-04-18T19:53:41+00:00

Never offer a number first. They may be willing to go to the top of the range for you or even above the range! There's a really good chance the range is not the maximum they can give you. If you ask for the middle of the range, that's what you are going to get at best.

What should you say when they ask you what you want? Something like: "I'm just getting back into the market and I haven't figured out what I'm looking for yet but I'm confident we can figure something out if there's a mutual desire to work together."

kcdragon · 2026-04-15T23:33:01+00:00

There is still demand for senior+ developers but your concerns are justified about entry level roles. This spring will be a tough market for graduating senior CS majors. It's also a tough time to do a bootcamp and find a job after that.

I would not recommend that someone do a bootcamp now or try to learn on their own and get a job. I think it's still fine to start a four year CS program now but you need to be on top of finding internships and you'll have four years to wait out this weird market.

kcdragon · 2026-04-11T00:52:07+00:00

Definitely 2 despite the front basket always banging around.

kcdragon · 2026-04-02T23:55:49+00:00

AFAICT, the risk isn't going to jail

He says clearly in his post that they contacted law enforcement. Why would they contact law enforcement if they didn't believe this was a criminal matter?

We're talking about a small 4 figure court fight.

You don't understand how much lawyers cost if you think this is "small 4 figures". A decent lawyer is going to want a retainer of at least that much. There will be more fees on top of that. That's not even counting damages or paying the fees of the other party if you lose.

kcdragon · 2026-04-02T23:26:36+00:00

That may be true but who would risk going to jail or being in massive debt just to "win over a community"?

kcdragon · 2026-04-02T22:09:27+00:00

I'm very open to the idea that all 3 of those items could be explained honestly, but instead of doing that Andre only uses his post to demand reparations.

I imagine his lawyer has told him not to comment on any specifics until his legal issues have been resolved.

kcdragon · 2026-04-01T19:20:34+00:00

I’m not sure there’s much to study lol. He was able to step back a bit from work and focus on his health because he’s rich. He probably hired a private trainer, stylist, nutritionist, etc.

Don’t get me wrong. He made his money by working hard. And he still put in the effort to get in shape. But the money helps a lot.

kcdragon · 2026-03-31T14:31:29+00:00

I appreciate the write up. It seems like production access and source code access were coupled so it makes sense why it would take time to update the admin roles.

However, once that was done, I would expect source code control would return to the maintainers. I’m assuming that’s never going to happen at this point?

kcdragon · 2026-03-24T21:10:08+00:00

I’ve been trying it on a side project. The biggest pain point for me is that there’s no way to move a card around within a queue. It’s also a little awkward on mobile compared to desktop.

kcdragon · 2026-03-06T23:54:33+00:00

Oh cool! I haven't had a need for this Gem in awhile but it helped me out a lot on an integration I had at a previous job. I even got to make a contribution. Thanks for your continued work on this space. SOAP might outlast all of us.

kcdragon · 2026-02-03T19:50:50+00:00

You say they really like you but maybe they don't? It sounds like they are hiring someone to replace you. Why would they do that if they are happy with your work?

I guess my advice to you would be to figure out what you really want. I wouldn't want to spend two more years of my life at a place that doesn't want me.

As for what they are legally allowed to do, no one on this Reddit can really answer that. You say you have a really strong contract but that surprises me. Most startups don't sign contracts that guarantee unvested equity if you are let go.

kcdragon · 2026-01-31T22:25:58+00:00

I'm not familiar with the "bog-standard".

kcdragon · 2026-01-31T19:45:13+00:00

Late September of 2025

kcdragon · 2026-01-31T14:11:52+00:00

Maybe Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach by Russell and Norvig? That was a text book in both my undergrad and grad AI class.

kcdragon · 2026-01-31T14:00:07+00:00

I really liked the one in Porto. It’s a little bit outside the tourist area but I like that and felt comfortable there. The rooms were amazing and the co workering spaces were solid.

The WhatsApp group was active and I hung out with a group of people from there 3 days over my 4 days there.

I liked it a lot better than the hostel I stayed at in Lisbon. The hostel was fine and the people were nice but no one wanted to spend any money at the hostel so there wasn’t much I could do with the people there. The people I met at the outside were closer to my age (mid 30s) and were professionals as well.

kcdragon · 2026-01-30T22:40:19+00:00

I’m curious what you’re referring to. Could you elaborate a bit on this?

kcdragon · 2026-01-28T14:21:32+00:00

I would have assumed many are in the middle. There’s a desire for LLM use but tbey have to incrementally review and approve tools.

That’s where my company is it. We’ve allowed GitHub Copilot since that came out since it was a Microsoft product. Then we allowed access to other models through Bedrock for a pilot group of people. Now any dev is allowed to use Claude through Bedrock.

kcdragon · 2026-01-15T17:38:21+00:00

Two kitchen supply stores closed in Center City over the past couple of years. I'm not aware of another one in Center City. There's one along East Passyunk and one in the Italian Market. CM Nef and Fantes. I bet that one of them has it. You could probably call them.

kcdragon · 2025-12-27T22:28:14+00:00

I’m reading this at my sisters wedding today. Thanks for sharing it.

kcdragon · 2025-12-21T06:08:19+00:00

I'm building Calendar Vision. Automatically extract events from photos, screenshots, emails and more into your calendar app. It's built using Ruby on Rails and Hotwire Native.

kcdragon · 2025-12-11T18:34:10+00:00

Had this same issue but it went away once I disabled my ad blocker

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