I work in San Diego. I work for SPAWAR on missile defense technology for the navy, a massive presence in San Diego along with the marines. Uncle Sam has a pretty big budget for defense and lot of cool technology to play with. I get to work on things from device drivers to websites the whole gambit. Silicon Valley ain't the only place to learn, that's kinda the whole point of this whole internet thing.

You come off as really full of yourself for a guy who sounds like he does little more than write CRUD apps with the FotM web stack.

I'm not a web programmer at all, not sure why I come off that way. Also, since we're on HN, I assume most readers are familiar with PG's term 'Blub programmer', which more ore less means 'java' these days. shrug