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Not if you live in the bay area
by personjerry 9y ago
Not if you live in the bay area
- EGreg 9y agoWhy not? Can you elaborate
- personjerry 9y agoIn the Bay area everyone is assumed to be in tech unless otherwise noted, so this sort of uninformed response to "I'm a computer guy" is generally not seen
- EGreg 9y agoI am in SF right now for a couple days and the vast majority of people I run across are NOT in tech. Where are the tech people? Where can I run into potential investors in SF? When people say Bay Area I think they really mean Palo Alto!
- personjerry 9y agoInteresting. In my experience, at any given function, at bars, in parks, or anywhere really in the bay area, talking to anyone has around 50% chance to be someone working at some sort of tech company. Not necessarily an engineer, but certainly close enough to probably know computers to a reasonable level.
- thomk 9y agoYou're right. I would like to amend my comment to exclude the .004% of the Earths surface that is the Bay Area.
- personjerry 9y agoNot sure if you're making a jab at the fact that the Bay Area is relatively small compared to most of the world, but I thought it was a relevant comment because HN is disproportionately located in Bay Area.
- Kostic 9y agoIs it really? Do we have data for geographic distribution of HN users?
- davidbanham 9y agoA little old, but this is the best I could find. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3298905 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3298905 That poll indicates that the significant majority of HN readers reside outside the Bay Area of San Francisco in the US.
- personjerry 9y agoYes, but that's definitely disproportional to the % of population of the Bay Area relative to the world