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[WaltS]

"No college degree? No problem.

Become a web developer."

Ref: <http://preview.tinyurl.com/mteev7b>

Now where did I put those /HTML5 and CSS3 Visual Quickstart Guide/, and
/JavaScript A Beginner's Guide/ books.

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[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

WaltS wrote:

> "No college degree? No problem.
>
> Become a web developer."
>
> Ref: <http://preview.tinyurl.com/mteev7b>

"<person> dropped out of college and taught himself to code. He's now
pulling in more than six figures a year." Heh, that would be *seven*
figures, right? A million or more? $62,500 is not "more than six figures."
I figure <pun intended> that if the author doesn't know the difference,
the rest of the article is just as suspect.

> Now where did I put those /HTML5 and CSS3 Visual Quickstart Guide/, and
> /JavaScript A Beginner's Guide/ books.

Pah. When a book is published, it is already out of date. Use online
resources instead.

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[WaltS]

On 05/21/2013 12:23 PM, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
> WaltS wrote:
>
>> "No college degree? No problem.
>>
>> Become a web developer."
>>
>> Ref: <http://preview.tinyurl.com/mteev7b>
>
> "<person> dropped out of college and taught himself to code. He's now
> pulling in more than six figures a year." Heh, that would be *seven*
> figures, right? A million or more? $62,500 is not "more than six figures."
> I figure <pun intended> that if the author doesn't know the difference,
> the rest of the article is just as suspect.

Sorry, can't find that "He's now pulling in more than six figures a
year" quote.

I do see "The job is growing quickly, offers a median salary around $30
an hour, or $62,500 a year, and does not necessarily require a
bachelor's degree." and "At 18, he dropped out and turned to coding as a
full-time job. With little more than a high school diploma in hand, he
started making around $65,000 a year."

Article must have been updated?

>
>> Now where did I put those /HTML5 and CSS3 Visual Quickstart Guide/, and
>> /JavaScript A Beginner's Guide/ books.
>
> Pah. When a book is published, it is already out of date. Use online
> resources instead.
>

I guess I'll stop writing my Thunderbird 24.0 manual.

I use both. Have been since I got interested in 2001, shows you how much
progress I haven't made. LOL!

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

WaltS wrote:

> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>> WaltS wrote:
>>> Ref: <http://preview.tinyurl.com/mteev7b>
>>
>> "<person> dropped out of college and taught himself to code. He's now
>> pulling in more than six figures a year."
>

> Sorry, can't find that "He's now pulling in more than six figures a
> year" quote.

It is the caption under the lead photo. It does repeat the error later in
the content as well: "...and now, at age 25, he's earning more than six
figures."

[WaltS]

On 05/21/2013 01:44 PM, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
> WaltS wrote:
>
>> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>>> WaltS wrote:
>>>> Ref: <http://preview.tinyurl.com/mteev7b>
>>>
>>> "<person> dropped out of college and taught himself to code. He's now
>>> pulling in more than six figures a year."
>>
>> Sorry, can't find that "He's now pulling in more than six figures a
>> year" quote.
>
> It is the caption under the lead photo. It does repeat the error later in
> the content as well: "...and now, at age 25, he's earning more than six
> figures."
>

OK. Didn't read the caption, or the other. Which you seem to have taken
out of context, and rearranged to your liking. Not a Fox reporter are you?

So at 18 he started making around $65,000 a year.

Why can't he be making more than six figures seven years later?

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[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

WaltS wrote:

> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>> WaltS wrote:
>>> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>>>> WaltS wrote:
>>>>> Ref: <http://preview.tinyurl.com/mteev7b>
>>>>
>>>> "<person> dropped out of college and taught himself to code. He's now
>>>> pulling in more than six figures a year."
>>>
>>> Sorry, can't find that "He's now pulling in more than six figures a
>>> year" quote.
>>
>> It is the caption under the lead photo. It does repeat the error later
>> in the content as well: "...and now, at age 25, he's earning more than
>> six figures."
>
> OK. Didn't read the caption, or the other. Which you seem to have taken
> out of context, and rearranged to your liking. Not a Fox reporter are
> you?

You disagree with a little fun? Or pointing out the zillions of errors in
today's electronic news reporting? When was the last time you read a news
article that did not have at least some kind of error in it? Spelling,
grammatical, homophobes, missing words...

Since you didn't read the article at first, why were you questioning my
post?

> So at 18 he started making around $65,000 a year.
>
> Why can't he be making more than six figures seven years later?

Making a million dollars? Common sense, and a close familiarity with the
industry, in which I am involved.

[WaltS]

I read most of the article, didn't read the caption, or the sentence in
question.

I was really bad at arithmetic in school, but six figures would be
$100,000 to $999,999. Seven would be $1,000,000, unless you are counting
the dollar sign.

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

You are correct. (as was I)

"and now, at age 25, he's earning *more than six figures*." -- which would
be $1,000,000 or more. I think that is a dubious claim. It's most likely a
misunderstanding by the reporter. The person *might* be earning more than
$100,000, and if so the writer thinks more than that is "more than six
figures."

Modern reporters don't know how to write.

[WaltS]

I guess I don't know how to read.

I would interpret more than six figures to be $100,000 to $999,999. If
he reported he was making more than seven figures, then it would be over
$1,000,000. Write?

[Ron Hunter]

There seems to be a problem with journalists and use of math. Either
they don't think math is important in that career field, or they just
didn't take it in school.

[Ron Hunter]

Humm. Is 6 more than 6? What is more than 6? Seems to me that more
than 6 figures would be at least 7 figures. A 'six figure income' is
between 100,000 and 999,999.

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

No, I'm not saying that. :-) It's just a matter of interpretation.

> I would interpret more than six figures to be $100,000 to $999,999. If
> he reported he was making more than seven figures, then it would be over
> $1,000,000. Write?

As Ron says, I interpret 6 to be the same as 6, and 7 as "more than six."
If I was making $105,295, I would say I'm "making more than *5* figures."
Or more correctly, "making six figures."

I suppose we've beat this horse to death now though. ;-)

[Dave Warren]

In the last episode of <t_idnf2OW9Jl8gHM...@mozilla.org>,

$1,000.01 is the smaller number you can write with 6 non-zero
significant digits (yes, 0 can be significant -- However, you can
normally drop .00 when talking about dollars, so I'd argue that for them
to have significance, you need a non-.00 tail)

An easy $1,000.02 isn't anything to sneeze at, but in terms of an annual
salary, I wouldn't get too excited.

[Daniel]

No, Beau, I want to have my go!!!

%100,000 ..... six figures
$100,001 to $999,999 ..... more than six figures
$1,000,000 .... seven figures
$1,000,001 to $9,999,999 ... more than seven figures
Et c.!!

Now we're done!! ;-p

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[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Daniel wrote:

> Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
>> I suppose we've beat this horse to death now though. ;-)
>
> No, Beau, I want to have my go!!!
>
> %100,000 ..... six figures
> $100,001 to $999,999 ..... more than six figures
> $1,000,000 .... seven figures
> $1,000,001 to $9,999,999 ... more than seven figures
> Et c.!!

9 9 9, 9 9 9
1 2 3 4 5 6

1, 0 0 0, 0 0 1
1 2 3 4 5 6 7

> Now we're done!! ;-p

Okay! It's been fun.

[GerardJan]

I called the tax people in holland because i want the amount of my pension...
They said, you get a refund of 16,000 euros, because I worked so long free lance

sincerely,

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