I find white collars tighter than blue collars by a long shot. Probably also has something to do with the fact that dev tools can become obsolete pretty quickly.
Anyway $2k for an event? Give me a break On Friday, 23 October 2015, Stephen Price <step...@perthprojects.com> wrote: > Yeah, Developers (like many people) are tight arses / poor bastards. I > almost didn't go because of the ticket price, but got a Bizspark discount. > Microsoft need a freelancer/sole dev ticket price for the non corporate > people who are paying for it themselves. > > It also extends into tools. How many devs I've met who are too tight to > fork out a couple of hundred for their own Resharper license etc. It's the > tools of your trade for fucks sake! If you were a carpenter, you'd have > your own tools. People spend thousands on hardware and then go all tight > arsed on software and demand it to be Free (with a capital F)... /facepalm > > So you order yourself a new Surface? I'm hoping I get mine before I head > off to Ignite. Ordered Surface Book, best specs I could get. Shiny! > > On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 at 07:21 David Connors <da...@connors.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','da...@connors.com');>> wrote: > >> On Thu, 22 Oct 2015 at 16:10 Stephen Price <step...@perthprojects.com >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','step...@perthprojects.com');>> wrote: >> >>> Anyone on the list going to Ignite and want to do a drinks and/or Indian >>> meetup? >>> >> >> Looks like it is just you and me again for the umpteenth year. >> >> -- >> David Connors >> da...@connors.com | @davidconnors | LinkedIn | +61 417 189 363 >> >
