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Re:Photographs Taken of San Francisco Before It Became the C... by 1_2__3 on Monday January 30, 2017 @12:58PM (#13523434)
Long-term companies in the south bay that have no (or virtually no) SF tech presence. Just off the top of my head: Google/Alphabet, Facebook, Oracle, Texas Instruments, National Semiconductor, Intel, AMD, Applied Materials, Apple, Yahoo, Tesla, Palantir, and so on and so on.

Yes there are lots of kids in SF trying to get their website turned into the next unicorn. That does not make SF the "center of the tech world", it makes it the "center of the SF tech startup world".

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Re:Photographs Taken of San Francisco Before It Became the C... by azinman2 on Monday January 30, 2017 @01:28PM (#13523714)
I don't know about the rest, but google has a large office in SF and many, many people wanting positions in it (even if just a few days a week).
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Re:Photographs Taken of San Francisco Before It Became the C... by ng12 on Monday January 30, 2017 @01:45PM (#13523869)
Most people who "work" in the SF office commute to MTV 3x/week. It's more of a coworking space than an office.
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Re:Photographs Taken of San Francisco Before It Became the C... by azinman2 on Monday January 30, 2017 @03:32PM (#13524730)
There are dedicated teams that are only there, and/or parts of teams that are full time only there. I was on one, for example, and knew of others.
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Re:Photographs Taken of San Francisco Before It Became the C... by bluejekyll on Monday January 30, 2017 @01:28PM (#13523716)
Google has a large office space just down the street here in SF. Yahoo has/had a huge office in SF. Then on top of that, there are ton of buses going from SF down the peninsula, which recognizes that choice of many to live in SF.
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Re:Photographs Taken of San Francisco Before It Became the C... by blueski on Monday January 30, 2017 @02:32PM (#13524250)
Unless you count the hundreds of engineers and multiple offices Google has in SF.
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Re:Photographs Taken of San Francisco Before It Became the C... by explainthisth on Monday January 30, 2017 @01:00PM (#13523452)
I know people at the first two companies who work in SF. Not sure about the rest of the list.
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