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The Valley Is Fucked

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Re: The Valley Is Fucked

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Post by smonff »

Morgawr wrote: post #7
rfnslyr wrote: post #5

To other HNers. I'm looking to move to a different country for good. I'm thinking Germany. It's beautiful. Music, art, amazing women, startups, history, Europe. Where should I go? I have all the money in the world and I'm looking to settle elsewhere besides North America. Suggestions? OP: I like the way you rant.

As an European I can't say how well it compares to the US but The Netherlands (Amsterdam in particular) are an amazing place to move to. I've left Italy a few months ago and moved to Amsterdam (studying and working), it's an amazing place, a massive change of settings for me. There are lots of startups, companies and opportunities for tech-minded people. Obviously, I repeat, my comparison is with Italy which, to be h…

+1 for Amsterdam. Ask for the Crux.

Re: The Valley Is Fucked

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Post by 21echoes »

> Communist Coffee Shop

So you lived with shitty roommates...

> If you don't know Git, you don't know shit

...you're applying to places that value a Linked-In-style "skills list" over talent...

> If you have a Tumblr site you haven't updated in six months and you call yourself a programmer, you're an embarrassment to the language you claim to know.

...you think programmers actually use/pay attention to Tumblr...

and your telling us that the Valley is fucked? The Valley is indeed pretty fucked, but for precisely zero of these reasons. The only actual problem you named was the extreme income inequality and lack of affordable housing in SF, but you didn't really go into any depth at all about it. These are your own personal problems that you're trying to abstract onto the Valley as a whole. Not all of us have shit roommates. Not all of us try to work at places that seriously ask us questions about our git aptitude before they hire us. Not all of us blog. And by "not all", I really mean "very few".

Oh, and to go a little ad hominem/"constructive criticism" here, if you're really trying to make it as a writer... you need a lot more practice. I'm kinda gathering that this wasn't a polished piece, but... seriously. It just jumps back and forth between a number of completely separate topics with no connection, no narrative arc, and no concrete thesis. It's barely even readable in some places ("Tech Skills Still Pay the Bills" and "The Few and the Proud", especially).

Re: The Valley Is Fucked

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Post by vertr07 »

gwenbell wrote: post #38

Hi. I'm Gwen Bell. I stand behind everything I wrote in this piece, but I chose not to publish it because it was pretty harsh. The person who submitted this is not me, but I guess they found the commit. Must have been digging. If you have any questions, feel free to reach me at gwen@gwenbell.com.

Too bad you got your usernames mixed up and defended yourself with the wrong one...

Re: The Valley Is Fucked

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Post by smonff »

rfnslyr wrote: post #5

To other HNers. I'm looking to move to a different country for good. I'm thinking Germany. It's beautiful. Music, art, amazing women, startups, history, Europe. Where should I go? I have all the money in the world and I'm looking to settle elsewhere besides North America. Suggestions? OP: I like the way you rant.

First, go to hell for your comment about amazing women. It is nonsense.

Then, I advice you to not go to Paris. I've just left it for south east Asia (Laos) and it's amazing. However I hadn't meet any tech community yet.

Problem with Europe is that things are not that well there. Don't go to France. Germany and Netherland seems good for the next years but who knows how things can change. China and Russia are also interesting choices.

Re: The Valley Is Fucked

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Post by smonff »

Morgawr wrote: post #7
rfnslyr wrote: post #5

To other HNers. I'm looking to move to a different country for good. I'm thinking Germany. It's beautiful. Music, art, amazing women, startups, history, Europe. Where should I go? I have all the money in the world and I'm looking to settle elsewhere besides North America. Suggestions? OP: I like the way you rant.

As an European I can't say how well it compares to the US but The Netherlands (Amsterdam in particular) are an amazing place to move to. I've left Italy a few months ago and moved to Amsterdam (studying and working), it's an amazing place, a massive change of settings for me. There are lots of startups, companies and opportunities for tech-minded people. Obviously, I repeat, my comparison is with Italy which, to be h…

France is not that good too

Re: The Valley Is Fucked

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Post by Gwen_Bell »

vertr07 wrote: post #46
Gwen_Bell wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If I'm just a "hacker wannabe" then how did I write my own complete blogging system from scratch: http://bitters.gwenbell.com/ Keep hating, you wear your jealousy on your sleeve...

Says the person who wrote a hateful takedown of the valley, the homeless, and 'white guys.' Also, it appears you followed a simple node tutorial and you are calling it a "platform." I'm not sure jealousy is the correct word here. If writing blog posts and following tutorials is your idea of being a developer, I'm not surprised you had a hard time in the Bay Area. Put in the coding time, stop overselling yourself, and…

Wow, you really are obsessed with me son. I know, it's not every day you meet a female with the tech skills to get Arch Linux to take on a Macbook Air. It bricked my Macbook Pro (poor thing went to the highest bidder on Ebay). Anyways, try to control yourself, you're borderline stalker at this point!

Re: The Valley Is Fucked

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Post by vertr07 »

Gwen_Bell wrote: post #58
vertr07 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Says the person who wrote a hateful takedown of the valley, the homeless, and 'white guys.' Also, it appears you followed a simple node tutorial and you are calling it a "platform." I'm not sure jealousy is the correct word here. If writing blog posts and following tutorials is your idea of being a developer, I'm not surprised you had a hard time in the Bay Area. Put in the coding time, stop overselling yourself, and…

Wow, you really are obsessed with me son. I know, it's not every day you meet a female with the tech skills to get Arch Linux to take on a Macbook Air. It bricked my Macbook Pro (poor thing went to the highest bidder on Ebay). Anyways, try to control yourself, you're borderline stalker at this point!

I just enjoy a good shit show. Amusing that you would call me "son" and then accuse me of being sexist though. But I thought this was the imposter ms. Bell? Oh well.
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