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Re: Will Bay Area pricing ever drop?

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From: John Higdon
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 00:00
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in article khVB4.3263$e5.65253@news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com, Kenneth Crudup
wrote:

> If you can figure out how to turn on a computer 2 times out of three, you
> can probably get no less than $90K, and it goes *up* from there. :-)

I didn't know it had to be two out of three. I thought you just had to get
it to light up within an hour.

> "Low six figures" is a *starting* point if you can do stuff like design
> hardware/software for stuff like embedded boxen and graphics apps (from
> what I've seen in a casual look at the paper). If you're a contractor,
> you can get three figures/hr if you know one end of a keyboard from another.

If you are a contractor who knows (I mean REALLY knows) how hardware works
and can write complete custom apps from scratch in a low-level language, the
sky is the limit.

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