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I'm a programmer. Every time I go home to Iowa, people try to tell me that Iowa is now a booming tech hub, with Microsoft, Facebook and Apple "offices", and tha
by farnsworth 9y ago
I'm a programmer. Every time I go home to Iowa, people try to tell me that Iowa is now a booming tech hub, with Microsoft, Facebook and Apple "offices", and that I should get a job there. I try to explain why I probably won't end up there, but the point is that they are extremely proud of all of these data centers.
- davis 9y agoYup. This is about half of the conversations I have with my family whenever I visit for the holidays.
- nihonde 9y agoProbably the same conversations happening in “booming” industrial cities in China. Cheap land, low cost of living...eventually the race to zero gets you and the big players move on.
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- girzel 9y agoInteresting. I suppose we've learned from the past election that pride is pretty damn important. Still, I have to think that, in the long run, the "everyone in the family has steady good-paying jobs" type of pride will be more decisive than the "there's a huge fucking tech company in our state" type of pride.
- posguy 9y agoYeah, a datacenter hires a few Networking/Sysops people, but not so much programmers, as that is one of those things that isn't quite so location sensitive.
- AaronFriel 9y agoI can attest to this, I've had multiple family members ask me why I'm not applying to work for the three companies you listed in Des Moines.