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I’m often surprised how many software developers neglect to do any salary negotiations at all or make a single attempt at negotiating their salary and then give up and take whatever is offered. "Speak softly and carry a big stick"
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So did it work for you?
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Me? Oh, heck no. I have the negotiating skills of a stick of gum.
But I think I make enough, and I don't have to do full time nor sit in a cube, so I'm happy. (I just have to keep reminding myself of that)
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Speak softly and carry a big stick
Unless you are one of these old Texans that prefer firearms...
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The advice in the article is sound.
I was taught the exact same tactics at the beginning of my career by a recruiter.
One other piece of advice that I can offer, is when you start probing back trying to get them to name their number, you my ask "I assume you have a range that you have set for what you're willing to pay for this position?"
Like the author said, "Most likely they will say yes."
Then you ask what the range is...
Then you ask how well they believe you are suited for the position. When they say you seem like a very good fit, that gives you the leverage to ask for the top of their range.
I can't reiterate enough how well this works, "I will consider any reasonable offer" and "compensation is so much more than the salary, let me hear more about the job, benefits, perks..."
Good luck in your negotiations!
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Paul M Watt wrote: Good luck in your negotiations! There's only a negotiation if there's leverage.
Don't attempt to negotiate without it.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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"Why yes, I have locked you out of your email system..."
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"Before we negotiate we need to establish a common base - shall we use Hexadecimal as is customary in the IT industry?"
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Microsoft’s Windows Store is a mess. It’s full of apps that exist only to scam people and take their money. Why doesn’t Microsoft care that their flagship app store is such a cesspool? "The Windows Phone Store features more than 300,000 apps and games. Hundreds more are added every day."
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I have to agree, things like "G0ogle Chrome" on Windows Phone, which has bug all to do with Google.
I didn't download it to see what it actually did, for some reason.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Magical, waterproof, NSA-proof handset. No chamfered edges, though. "What is this I don't even"
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It might not be the end of the world, but the design of systemd and the attitudes of its developers have been counterproductive. A single process to start other processes? What a crazy idea.
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'One process to rule them all and in the darkness bind them...'
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Who'd'a'thunk it? Gee, linux having problems? Sounds like Windows. ROTFLMAO!
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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For all the talk by its CEO about a new and different Microsoft, the company's revenue and profit engines remain untouched, with money-making software groups tied to hardware-intensive divisions that increasingly drag down the firm's overall margin. "And the world looks just the same, and history ain't changed"
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Bing Developer Assistant for Visual Studio combines the functionality of two popular Visual Studio extensions into one: Sample Browser and Bing Code Search. This updated feature enables developers to find and reuse millions of code snippets and code sample projects from within the Visual Studio IDE. For all your 'Need codes plz' moments
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Today's Azure service outages/problems comes just a few days after a major worldwide outage for Microsoft's Visual Studio Online service.
The hits just keep on coming for Microsoft's cloud.
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Programmer Guido van Rossum, author of the Python programming language, published a proposal on the Python mailing list suggesting that Python should learn from languages such as Haskell and the experimental mypy Python variant’s syntax for function annotations.
Type annotations in Python? Oh my[py.]
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I can only hope that this marks the beginning of the end of duck-type languages, which, after working with Ruby, should be called "duct-tape" languages, a la McGyver.
Marc
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Hey, that's insulting to duct tape. Duct tape is outta this world: Duct Tape[^]
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Microsoft has announced an end-of-life schedule for .NET 4.0 thru 4.5.1. After January 12 of 2016, all technical support, including security and non-security updates, will be discontinued.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
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This is not good work by Microsoft. What about the old systems? Like Windows XP and the users that don't want to support .NET 4.5?
What about the developers who develop the applications for the old framework. This is not fair by Microsoft.
Favourite line: Throw me to them wolves and close the gate up. I am afraid of what will happen to them wolves - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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Considering that Microsoft doesn't support XP anymore, I don't think they really care about the users.
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Considering how sad XP really was near the end and how long it took them to replace it adequately, one could make the argument that Microsoft has not really cared about its customers for quite a few years.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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