Re:The Case for Working in Silicon Valley and Living in the ...
by king_magic on Thursday July 21, 2016 @11:28AM
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> If someone wants to be a serious software engineer they are going to have to commit to living in SF, DC, Boston, Austin, or Portland at some point in the beginning.
Wow, what a shockingly inaccurate and unbelievably close-minded worldview. I got my start in a small city in Upstate NY, quite far from any major tech hubs, as a software engineer in the medical imaging world - happily spent several years there before I even considered moving to a larger city.
Guess I need to go back in time and tell my previous self that I wasn't a "serious software engineer", eh? Or is writing software that can potentially kill someone with radiation not serious enough for you?
Wow, what a shockingly inaccurate and unbelievably close-minded worldview. I got my start in a small city in Upstate NY, quite far from any major tech hubs, as a software engineer in the medical imaging world - happily spent several years there before I even considered moving to a larger city.
Guess I need to go back in time and tell my previous self that I wasn't a "serious software engineer", eh? Or is writing software that can potentially kill someone with radiation not serious enough for you?