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Stanford Pulls Bid for New York Tech Campus

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Re: Stanford Pulls Bid for New York Tech Campus

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Post by kingkawn »

rayiner wrote: post #15
simonsarris wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I ask sincerely, what is west-coast culture? (I have lived in New Hampshire all my life.)

The stereotypical San Franciscan gets up at 7am, wears business-casual to work, and his or her hobbies include biking and wine/food. The stereotypical New Yorker gets up at 9am, wears a suit to work, and his or her hobbies include alcoholism and chain smoking. I'm joking, but only kind of. I spent this summer working in both NYC and the Bay area and it was like a night and day difference. NYC is so much more hierarch…

Hmm, the only people I know who wear suits are corporate lawyers and wall st folks. everyone else is probably more dressed up than san francisco, but that's because there's fashion industry presence in the city more than the requirements of their respective jobs. San Francisco is a beautiful small town.

Re: Stanford Pulls Bid for New York Tech Campus

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Post by dman »

pantaloons wrote: post #7
untog wrote: post #2

Surprising, given the amount of time it's taken to get to this point. As a New Yorker myself, I'm not sure what I should think of it. Someone is going to make a campus, be it Cornell or NYU.

Surprising indeed. It seems strange that they would take the proposal this far before withdrawing for financial reasons, or fear of losing. Surely there is a more interesting bone of contention here that didn't become evident until late in the process.

Maybe the data from the online courses came in during the meantime and Stanford realised that they could grow the university exponentially without opening new campuses?

Re: Stanford Pulls Bid for New York Tech Campus

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Post by pork »

kingkawn wrote: post #21
rayiner wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The stereotypical San Franciscan gets up at 7am, wears business-casual to work, and his or her hobbies include biking and wine/food. The stereotypical New Yorker gets up at 9am, wears a suit to work, and his or her hobbies include alcoholism and chain smoking. I'm joking, but only kind of. I spent this summer working in both NYC and the Bay area and it was like a night and day difference. NYC is so much more hierarch…

Hmm, the only people I know who wear suits are corporate lawyers and wall st folks. everyone else is probably more dressed up than san francisco, but that's because there's fashion industry presence in the city more than the requirements of their respective jobs. San Francisco is a beautiful small town.

A fairly large department here at Google in MV has "business Fridays", where people dress up in suits for a laugh.

Re: Stanford Pulls Bid for New York Tech Campus

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Post by ArbitraryLimits »

simonsarris wrote: post #11
rayiner wrote: post #6

Sad. It would be refreshing to get some west-coast culture to NYC.

I ask sincerely, what is west-coast culture? (I have lived in New Hampshire all my life.)

Here's my favorite example of how it's not really so different, at least among status-conscious people:

I live in California and work with someone who recently moved here from Baltimore. He's kind of an older gen-X guy, and he likes to go to thrift stores, buy old suits for Every few months, a manager will pull him aside and say in a trying-to-be-friendly way, "You know, you really don't have to wear a suit around here." To which he'll respond, "Yeah, I know, it's just my thing, man." And then there manager will stare at him a little harder and say something along the lines of, "No, I mean you really don't have to wear a suit around here." Eventually the manager gives up and writes him off as an incorrigible free spirit.

TL;DR The West Coast is a place where you can wear whatever you want to work, as long as it's a Hawaiian shirt.

Re: Stanford Pulls Bid for New York Tech Campus

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Post by geebee »

ArbitraryLimits wrote: post #24
simonsarris wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I ask sincerely, what is west-coast culture? (I have lived in New Hampshire all my life.)

Here's my favorite example of how it's not really so different, at least among status-conscious people: I live in California and work with someone who recently moved here from Baltimore. He's kind of an older gen-X guy, and he likes to go to thrift stores, buy old suits for Every few months, a manager will pull him aside and say in a trying-to-be-friendly way, "You know, you really don't have to wear a suit around he…

Huh. I thought the counter culture of suits was well understood. Though honestly, why would a suit have to be worn ironically in the first place? I love how suits look. Was I the only guy who watched Gattaca and found myself wishing that it were more socially acceptable to wear a suit to my job? ;) I wouldn't want to emulate much about that world, but man did they look good in their suits.

Anyway, I agree with you that the tech industry, especially in the west, rigorously enforces the presence of the absence of a dress code. Even PG said "Nerds don't just happen to dress informally. They do it too consistently. Consciously or not, they dress informally as a prophylactic measure against stupidity."

Bummer, cause I actually kind of like it when people dress with some style.

Re: Stanford Pulls Bid for New York Tech Campus

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Post by sbisker »

leot wrote: post #17
droithomme wrote: post #13

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Oops, thanks, sorry about attributing to the wrong story, I must have just fluidly slipped into that other one.

It wasn't said by a VC booster though. It was said by one of betabeat's writers.

I suspect the insinuation was that said betabeat writer is a New York based VC booster. From his own bio:

Brooklyn born and bred. My writing on technology has appeared in the NY Times, Slate, Atlantic and Fast Company. Currently editor of this here BetaBeat.

Re: Stanford Pulls Bid for New York Tech Campus

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Post by spodek »

simonsarris wrote: post #11
rayiner wrote: post #6

Sad. It would be refreshing to get some west-coast culture to NYC.

I ask sincerely, what is west-coast culture? (I have lived in New Hampshire all my life.)

In my recent two-day visit to California from New York City I drove more than in the previous ten years, cumulatively.

Re: Stanford Pulls Bid for New York Tech Campus

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Post by dev_jim »

rayiner wrote: post #15
simonsarris wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I ask sincerely, what is west-coast culture? (I have lived in New Hampshire all my life.)

The stereotypical San Franciscan gets up at 7am, wears business-casual to work, and his or her hobbies include biking and wine/food. The stereotypical New Yorker gets up at 9am, wears a suit to work, and his or her hobbies include alcoholism and chain smoking. I'm joking, but only kind of. I spent this summer working in both NYC and the Bay area and it was like a night and day difference. NYC is so much more hierarch…

I do enjoy generalizations.

Wall Street check. Biking check. Wine/Food check. 9AM wrong, but 8:30 is close enough. Suit wrong. Alcoholism wrong. Chain smoking dead wrong.

Re: Stanford Pulls Bid for New York Tech Campus

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Post by zasz »

ArbitraryLimits wrote: post #24
simonsarris wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I ask sincerely, what is west-coast culture? (I have lived in New Hampshire all my life.)

Here's my favorite example of how it's not really so different, at least among status-conscious people: I live in California and work with someone who recently moved here from Baltimore. He's kind of an older gen-X guy, and he likes to go to thrift stores, buy old suits for Every few months, a manager will pull him aside and say in a trying-to-be-friendly way, "You know, you really don't have to wear a suit around he…

Yeah, but he ended up being able to wear a suit anyway, right? Do you think the equivalent scenario of a guy wearing a Hawaiian shirt at a traditional law firm in DC would've worked out? Correct me if I'm mistaken, but I suspect our free spirited DC lawyer would have been forced into a suit at the end.
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