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I wonder if you have ever been to the Bay Area. It sounds like your entire conception of it is from HBO's Silicon Valley. Most developers in the Bay Area are

I wonder if you have ever been to the Bay Area. It sounds like your entire conception of it is from HBO's Silicon Valley. Most developers in the Bay Area are working 9-10 hours per day, not 16. > Most of us Europeans strongly dislike touting. This is a Scandinavian trait, not universally European. It's not even universally Scandinavian. You're mad about something, but I can't figure it out. What is it?

pdimitar 10y ago
Me being mad -- that's partially true. Mostly I am just sick and tired of the fake positive SF press coverage. It's so forced you can just smell the dollars spent to write the article. Or the lack of any personal life of those who praise their employer and job. Apologies for the mistake -- I mean "Most of us Eastern Europeans strongly dislike touting", by the way. It's a fact that I have never been to the Sillicon Valley. And after all the forced press coverage I don't want to either. I realize this is a bias, but hey, if the Bay Area residents don't like it, you should do some policing of the press hype. About the statistic -- it's very likely we're both wrong. Let's not go there, none of us has solid data to support their claims. I am sharing intuitive impressions and I am not claiming them to be hard facts.
- linkregister 10y ago
  You're right, I don't have an industry-wide study of working hours, just going off of everyone I know who works in the Bay Area. The notion that I or anyone else in the Bay Area is responsible for policing the free press's reporting on SF/SV is absurd.
  - pdimitar 10y ago
    I hope it's clear that I don't mean that in the blunt literal sense. But IMO counter-articles on Medium with a much milder tone and stripped of screaming marketing hype would go a long way. Help spread the right message about the Bay Area.
cylinder 10y ago
I'm not parent poster but I do find Americans hype everything up, including their cities; probably that has a lot to do with all the media/tv/film here too, anyhow it does become annoying (and I'm American).

pdimitar 10y ago

Me being mad -- that's partially true. Mostly I am just sick and tired of the fake positive SF press coverage. It's so forced you can just smell the dollars spent to write the article. Or the lack of any personal life of those who praise their employer and job. Apologies for the mistake -- I mean "Most of us Eastern Europeans strongly dislike touting", by the way. It's a fact that I have never been to the Sillicon Valley. And after all the forced press coverage I don't want to either. I realize this is a bias, but hey, if the Bay Area residents don't like it, you should do some policing of the press hype. About the statistic -- it's very likely we're both wrong. Let's not go there, none of us has solid data to support their claims. I am sharing intuitive impressions and I am not claiming them to be hard facts.

linkregister 10y ago
You're right, I don't have an industry-wide study of working hours, just going off of everyone I know who works in the Bay Area. The notion that I or anyone else in the Bay Area is responsible for policing the free press's reporting on SF/SV is absurd.
- pdimitar 10y ago
  I hope it's clear that I don't mean that in the blunt literal sense. But IMO counter-articles on Medium with a much milder tone and stripped of screaming marketing hype would go a long way. Help spread the right message about the Bay Area.

cylinder 10y ago

I'm not parent poster but I do find Americans hype everything up, including their cities; probably that has a lot to do with all the media/tv/film here too, anyhow it does become annoying (and I'm American).