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Poll: Where do you live?

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Re: Poll: Where do you live?

#21
IMO, it's worth breaking CA up in the survey. At a minimum, Northern and Southern.

Califorina at times is like many states. Living in the Northeastern US, "California" is kind of like combining New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine into a single state.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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US: California

California doesn't have to be the center for tech anymore as the world has shifted to a distributed workforce. The US doesn't, for that matter, and you can tell it's happening due to all of the new international investments. Edit with some sources: https://news.crunchbase.com/news/europe-vc-funding-unicorns-... https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Market-Spotlight/Venture-c... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Bay Area is still by far the center of the tech world. Maybe in 10-20 years that will change if like you said people move out and the network effects vanish, but I don't see any signs of that happening. Unlike what you might read people say on Twitter, plenty of talent is still here, and there's a lot of people moving back after having left during COVID.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

#25
Pasting this in dev console will give you a quick and dirty rundown. It sorts locations by points.

    [...document.querySelectorAll('.fatitem table .athing')].map(el => [el.textContent.trim(), el.nextSibling.textContent.trim()]).sort(([,a], [,b]) => parseInt(b) - parseInt(a)).map(a => a.join(' - '))
As of this post, California is leading, followed by other places w/ large tech hubs (Germany, UK, Canada, NY, Washington)

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

#26
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

California doesn't have to be the center for tech anymore as the world has shifted to a distributed workforce. The US doesn't, for that matter, and you can tell it's happening due to all of the new international investments. Edit with some sources: https://news.crunchbase.com/news/europe-vc-funding-unicorns-... https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Market-Spotlight/Venture-c... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

I have heard the hypothesis that the main reason Silicon Valley was able to grow is because non compete clauses are invalid in California. So people can start a side business competing with their employer, and only risk being fired (as long as they dont steal IP) They could also freely hop from company to company without waiting in between.

Yes, it's argued here that this is how Silicon Valley won out over the Boston area (DEC, Pr1me, Wang, MIT, so many other great universities):

https://www.vox.com/new-money/2017/2/13/14580874/google-self...

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

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US: California

California doesn't have to be the center for tech anymore as the world has shifted to a distributed workforce. The US doesn't, for that matter, and you can tell it's happening due to all of the new international investments. Edit with some sources: https://news.crunchbase.com/news/europe-vc-funding-unicorns-... https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Market-Spotlight/Venture-c... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

As someone who lives in California (SF Bay Area), I'm excited about this. It's good that we distribute things a little more, not just in the USA but in the world. Some places will always favor (culturally speaking) the entrepreneur/tech startup more than others, but it's good for that to work its way out to others.

Re: Poll: Where do you live?

#30
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I hope there is someone who knows how to code in this community to parse the results and do a nice visualization. I have a cousin who knows about computers, if noone knows here how to do it, I can ask him to try. He always helps me with my printer.

Ask codegolf.stackexchange.com, there's probably a Mathematica one-liner to display a globe with colour-coded areas.
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