St. Domingue (now Haiti) was France's wealthiest overseas possession in 1790. It was a human meat-grinder as slave life expectancy was low from being worked and whipped to death on the plantations.
The slaves rebelled, fought the French and won. But then France was her enemy and tried to extract any remaining wealth in Haiti as "repayment" for their lost plantations.
That set Haiti back really bad in development deficits that are still very present.
Some of this increase is attributable to lowering taxes brings more income out of the shadows and on to the tax return. If we lowered the marginal rate to 1% I think we’d see a lot more income appear on tax returns that is either unreported or creatively expenses at present tax rates.
the advance of minifies and transpilers and modules doesnt seem to increase page performance. one of the effect of it being so efficient to minify and transpile is that large imports and frameworks are easier to use, and that boosts the total JS lines of code, making the JS parsing take a long time, and the page performance get "janky"
One reason for them to scale to 10x F-Large on Heroku is that their app gets super-slammed (150x more than average traffic) around college application deadlines. So they can spend most their time on cheap Heroku and just temporarily scale to super expensive Heroku for a short time.
I second "raise your rates". I'm 90% sure you are significantly undercharging because
a) you live in NYC
b) you are getting work for SF companies, and one that's YC
c) you care a lot about a $8,000 debt.
Double your existing rate immediately and don't look back!
Did you just merge "Connect" and "Marketplaces" so that there is no "Marketplaces" anymore? I saw that stripe.com/marketplaces is a redirect to stripe.com/connect
In my context, Ruby in Nashville, full-stack has meant you can do front-end html/css/js, backend application code AND the hosting/deployment/linux systems administration stuff too.
I was just re-reading about the Drupal super-vulnerability of Oct 2014. This could be some of the fruit. That was an enormous vulnerability that might have compromised 100,000's if not millions of servers
Thought 1: I love hearing that good plumbers are getting paid well. There is such a need for reliable, professional just-solve-my-problem-with-service tradesmen in America. In a just economy, the makers and doers (like plumbers) are well paid and BS jobs (http://strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/) are hard to find.
Thought 2: You should start taking plumbing jobs, and after 6 months do a big writeup / post that tells the story ("How I raised my rates by leaving software development for plumbing"). I think a lot of people love to read about it. And possibly it could lead to more lucrative software work if that's what you are really looking for.
You can get the best of both by using a dynamic site CMS, and then hooking it up to Amazon Cloudfront to cache your html. The only challenge then is page cache expiration. You can set that by either using the http headers for Cache-Control or setting page rules in Cloudfront's admin.
Such a setup will scale like crazy and skip "compilation" steps
I'm a Ruby developer and interested in creating a business in this space.
Specifically a online-CMS that generates static html uploaded to a CDN. The target market is businesses who need to know their content is "uncrashable" and "infinitely scalable". The price point would be >$100/mo.
Get in touch with me if you are interested in that idea.