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Absolutely no less than $1600/day. If you're doing reversing work or special-case driver stuff (can't speak to virtualization, but I'd assume similar), at least $2000/day. This sort of work is very niche, which means that if you're established, you can bill quite high up.


I'm pretty sure if you just ask anyone who has ever contributed a driver to the Linux kernel you can find someone who is willing to do "revesing work or special-case driver stuff" for WAY less than $2000/day.


The person who does driver reversing for less than $2k a day is egregiously shortchanging themselves.


Very possibly. And either they're going to take 10x the time (and cost you far more at the end of the day) or they're way underpricing themselves.


Thanks Daeken. Can I contact you in a couple of weeks about this for a brief talk? I saw that you are in hnofficehours.


Sure, any time!


wlsh, be sure to make it short. We now know what his rates look like... :)


hnofficehours?

(he enquires curiously)


http://hnofficehours.com/


Site down? I was curious about checking what it is


Hmm, indeed. I checked the site before I posted the link; it wasn’t responding then, but I figured it was temporary. A day later, still nada.


Was also curious. Found this: http://blog.bitemyapp.com/projects/

HNOfficeHours Designed to allow people to offer advice/expertise, or seek people offering advice for a given problem/specialty. Includes scheduling and search. Fun weekend hack from 2.5 years ago. Now deprecated in favor of better alternatives.


I too wish to learn more about this.




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