Zed Shaw on SF vs NYC • Hacker News Board

Re: Zed Shaw on SF vs NYC

#31

Post by rbanffy » Mon, Aug 17, 2009, 4:38 PM UTC

"People are flooding out of New York into San Francisco in droves, so trying to be superior with the slogan, “We are just as expensive!” is kind of dumb."

It's only dumb if you like NYC expats coming into SF in droves. Zed's reasoning starts with a questionable supposition.

Re: Zed Shaw on SF vs NYC

#32

Post by chasingsparks » Mon, Aug 17, 2009, 4:41 PM UTC

"More importantly, the general feel of the technology scene in SF has almost zero douchebag in it."

++0

Re: Zed Shaw on SF vs NYC

#33

Post by edw519 » Mon, Aug 17, 2009, 4:48 PM UTC

jcsalterego wrote: post #4

Why is this on HN's front page? :(

The only thing worse than crap on the front page is complaining about the crap on the front page.

Re: Zed Shaw on SF vs NYC

#34

Post by icey » Mon, Aug 17, 2009, 4:53 PM UTC

bcl wrote: post #6

Interesting to see a New Yorker's view of SF, but why do we care? Who is Zed Shaw and why is he important?

Mongrel, "Rails is a Ghetto", Lamson; in that order.

Re: Zed Shaw on SF vs NYC

#35

Post by DannoHung » Mon, Aug 17, 2009, 4:54 PM UTC

jcsalterego wrote: post #4

Why is this on HN's front page? :(

Because we can't downvote articles.

Re: Zed Shaw on SF vs NYC

#36

Post by ottbot » Mon, Aug 17, 2009, 4:59 PM UTC

Mexican food is only good in Texas, London is more expensive than NYC, and the SF weather is the nicest of all.

Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock.

Re: Zed Shaw on SF vs NYC

#37

Post by agotterer » Mon, Aug 17, 2009, 5:13 PM UTC

look_lookatme wrote: post #24

"I went down to the Mission to get some Mexican food, because there is absolutely no good Mexican food in New York. None." Wrong. Sunset Park in Brooklyn has excellent Mexican food. I say this as a person who recognizes the insane subjectivism of "good" Mexican food. Books could be written on how Americans judge US made Mexican food and I really do think there is no deterministic way to understand what goes into each…

El Rio Grande on 39th and 3rd. The best margaritas in the city! Two of those and you wont be able to tell if the food is good or not. Although the food is pretty tasty.

Re: Zed Shaw on SF vs NYC

#38

Post by lacker » Mon, Aug 17, 2009, 5:16 PM UTC

edw519 wrote: post #33

jcsalterego wrote: post #4

Why is this on HN's front page? :(

The only thing worse than crap on the front page is complaining about the crap on the front page.

No, even worse is the meta-complaining about other people complaining about complaints.

Re: Zed Shaw on SF vs NYC

#39

Post by agotterer » Mon, Aug 17, 2009, 5:16 PM UTC

siculars wrote: post #19

"NYC constantly stinks like dried vagina in the summer." i read zed for gems like that. hilarious. but, imho, nyc does have shortcomings when put up against sf, especially in the tech space. i live in manhattan now and although there are a handful of people/groups that do hackernews type stuff they are few and far between. mostly those that do play here are along the lines of the job zed made example of in his post.

Not sure who you have been meeting. But you should check out the hackers and founders meetup. There are of course a few financial people, but overall a great group of interesting like minded people. There are people in NYC doing interesting stuff, you just have to weed through a lot of crap to find them. But they do exist... If your interested in details for the meet up, shoot me an email.

Re: Zed Shaw on SF vs NYC

#40

Post by klocksib » Mon, Aug 17, 2009, 5:18 PM UTC

In further news, I plan on eating a sandwich for lunch.