How to price a programmer is a legitimate subject of discussion on a website where a large portion of the audience derives their bread-and-butter from being exactly that, programmers.<p>What &#x27;hacker news&#x27; is or is not supposed to be upvoting is only fragmentary up to you, the value of your <i>one</i> vote which you may withhold as you please.<p>There isn&#x27;t a day that goes by without some relative newcomer here saying with great authority what HN should or should not be. Hint: HN existed <i>long</i> before you arrived and the charter is broad enough that it is probably not possible for any single individual to pontificate on what HN should or should not be without considerable care about representing viewpoints different than their own. Your comment fails that particular test.<p>HN is made up from individuals from all walks of life, and some of us are currently in the job cycle where an article that gives information on how to improve their lives is important enough to share with others.<p>Making billions, Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook have nothing to do with the subject at hand, and if you recognize that the battlefield is the marketplace then maybe you can also recognize that programmers are active on that marketplace and that tools to help determine their value are in fact useful and worthy of discussion.