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Re:The anonymous Silicon Valley satire that has stumped tech... by DanielBMarkham on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @12:19PM (#10664262)
You realize you are posting this using about 99% tech developed in the valley, right?

I like the idea. Not sure if it will fly or not -- after all, once you've read one nerd-takes-the-world story, you've read them all. But we could do with a new genre.

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Re:The anonymous Silicon Valley satire that has stumped tech... by vkou on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @12:26PM (#10664317)
I didn't realize Bell Labs (Unix), Microsoft (Widndows), CERN (HTTP), and DARPA (TCP/IP) were based out of Silicon Valley.
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Re:The anonymous Silicon Valley satire that has stumped tech... by GalacticDomin8r on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @12:59PM (#10664589)
He meant the really important ones like twitter and facebook and the other oft over-praised SV "tech".
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Re:The anonymous Silicon Valley satire that has stumped tech... by CPLX on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @01:55PM (#10664971)
Don't forget Flooz
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Re:The anonymous Silicon Valley satire that has stumped tech... by ethanbond on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @01:14PM (#10664687)
What... Chrome and a Macbook?

Yeah, that's certainly 99% of the tech necessary for me to be posting this.

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Re:The anonymous Silicon Valley satire that has stumped tech... by DanielBMarkham on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @01:41PM (#10664880)
As the norm, my comments were read too literally. The topic for this thread was the future of fiction, not the exact location where most technology was developed. "SV" in this case is just a plug-in. If it makes you feel any better, substitute Austin, or Redmond, or whatnot. The exact location is not important.

"Westerns" aren't all about things that happen in the western U.S. Star Trek was a western.

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Re:The anonymous Silicon Valley satire that has stumped tech... by vkou on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @01:59PM (#10665006)
That's a fair clarification - although I think there's a world of cultural difference between what people would describe as "SV" and "Non-SV" tech (By the latter, I don't mean running a TwitterForCats startup out of, say, Ohio.)
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Re:The anonymous Silicon Valley satire that has stumped tech... by peterwwillis on Wednesday December 02, 2015 @12:29PM (#10664359)
Like my Nokia phone running Windows using the World Wide Web over 802.11 to an Alcatel DSL modem connecting to a Motorola DSLAM? - damnit, vkou beat me to the punch
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