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Wikipedia says the programmer was offered $200K + a Hawaiian vacation. It doesn't say what he actually negotiated or received.


Just for scale: $200k 1982-dollars is $491k in 2016-dollars.

So he was probably quite motivated to get it done.


Someone could offer me $200k in today's dollars for a five week project and I would gladly take it.


Someone could offer me a vacation in Hawaii for five week project and I would gladly take it


Someone could offer me an unpaid summer internship and I'd probably take it.


I know it's a joke, but don't take unpaid internships - you're devaluing your own (and everyone else's) job.




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