Another app & site pricing resource also from a designer/developer-for-hire service is http://howmuchtomakeanapp.com/
Upon cursory use their estimates seem to be much higher than Gigster's, which could be a valuable thing to show potential clients come quoting time.
Five minutes later it's still retrieving my reading list (tried with and without AdBlock). I'm very happy using Nuzzel, which seem to do the exact same thing.
... Using wifi in airplane mode is a great way to save battery life or prevent calls while using wi-fi. I do this all the time.
You can try it yourself (just turn on airplane mode, then turn on wifi) or read more from Apple: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1355
Diversity isn't a zero sum game. STEM is one of the fastest growing professional fields, meaning more people--of any gender--will need to fill those jobs.
The goal is gender balance, there's no need to fear that a woman or a person of color accepting a newly created STEM job will somehow push a white man out of his existing position. Let's be realistic here.
Perhaps, but I could take these arguments more seriously if western countries weren't so excited about issuing more visas for tech workers. It's also possible that we have a tech bubble that people are wisely avoiding.
For that to make sense you'd really have to believe that the US will need fewer, not more, STEM jobs in the future. The vast majority of educated STEM workers and engineers are completely removed from venture-funded Silicon Valley startups and any potential 'tech bubble.'
No, and the answer why should be blindingly obvious to any intelligent person: computer engineering (as opposed to your chosen examples of truck driving childcare, and auto repair) is among the most well-paid, economically influential, and entrepreneurial profession today, and will become increasingly so in the future. Gender and race representation is simply of less concern for less aspirational, lower-paid professions that do not require extensive education or access to technical resources.
Perhaps you didn't read closely, but the fact that computer engineering is a well-paid profession is only a result of its demand, influence and importance to the future economy. Devoting equal time and resources encouraging people to abandon higher education in order to pursue unskilled labor may sound like "equality" to you, but hardly seems like a sound strategy for the economy or any industry.
This is exactly it. When people say shit like, "why aren't we encouraging women to become garbage collectors because that profession is entirely male dominated" they just demonstrate that they haven't thought about the issue thoroughly and they think gender balance is something to aspire towards just for its own sake.
edit: Thanks for the downvotes. I must have hit a sensitive spot.
> Gender and race representation is simply of less concern for less aspirational, lower-paid professions that do not require extensive education or access to technical resources.
This comes off as classist, to me. I have had the impression that promoting equality and diversity in certain professions is partly motivated by a want to make more people feel welcome in the profession. That is, for minorities and such that already work in the profession to have a good work environment.
This uphill battle is becoming easier and easier, as evidenced by how many men are coming forward here to share their experiences and support. If you feel chastised, it's likely because, in the face of an overwhelming amount of data and evidence, your statements read in the vein of incredulity and dismissiveness rather than 'concern' and 'understanding.'
Quora would have to be having an extremely difficult time hiring for it to be a recruiting move. A Venn diagram of engineers or designers for whom Quora is more interesting when affiliated with Y Combinator, whom Quora would also want to hire, but who could not already join most other Y Combinator startups does not overlap.
Toptal is moderating and deleting any comments that aren't in support of their twisted publicity stunt, but here's my open letter to their CEO.
Taso,
Your vociferous moral crusade against LinkedIn has highlighted a few equally disturbing issues with Toptal. Trusting everything you've written here, I'm hoping you can explain why Toptal operates antithetically to your claims of defending female engineers and "regular professional women."
First, your site raises question -- what women?
- Toptal's homepage features 10 images of its tech professionals. Not just engineers, but specific titles like Django Developer and Security Specialist.
0 are women.
- Toptal's team page features 9 employes and investors.
0 are women.
- Toptal's blog features photos of its 10 latest post authors.
0 are women.
- Toptal's 2-minute homepage video features "clients like Mark and developers like Andrew," and cartoons of characters dressed in everything from business to scuba suits. I counted over two dozen of them, but let's say 21.
0 are women.
Out of 50 -- FIFTY -- featured Toptal employees, investors, engineers, developers, specialists, clients, bloggers and candidates... 0 are women.
Professional women are just as offended when tech companies sex-up their images to promote their products as they are when their images are excluded all together. Between Toptal's ads and website, women are either 1). as attractive as professional models, or 2). don't exist at all.
Second, why should we believe you?
Searching toptal.com for any support for female technologists, or even a mention of women, woman, female, girl, diversity, etc. reveals 0 results prior to this post. In fact, Toptal's only discussion of women is in a blog post you wrote about how Toptal built "The Ultimate Remote Culture" by organizing a four week long company trip to Thailand. Not only are there no women, but you publicly label your employees' female partners "The Problems" and shamed one employee for returning to his family after two weeks away. I'll let your views speak for themselves below:
"The Problems
The second problem almost brought the trip to a halt. Actually, this particular problem can often bring the whole world to a halt. What could it be? Any guesses?
Girlfriends. Or wives, in some cases. That’s right. Most of the girlfriends (especially the Russian ones) were not okay with their significant other going away for more than two weeks, much less four. One of our engineers (whose name will go unspoken) was such a victim, and could only stay for the first half of the trip. Pretty much every single attendee asked if they could bring their girlfriend/wife for at least a week. But, alas, this was a company event, and the answer was no. Everyone acquiesced and, in the end, the biggest hurdle was surmounted." http://www.toptal.com/remote/the-ultimate-remote-culture
If this is how Toptal feels about women, it seems the only thing we need defense from, is you.
