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Photos of Silicon Valley
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- toomuchtodo 3y agoRelated: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39204278 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39204278 (u/marcuskaz is the creator)
- jrmg 3y agoThe whole Ask HN post that’s in response to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39203916 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39203916
- I_am_tiberius 3y agoThe Oracle building looks like a database icon.
- oh_sigh 3y agoActually, it is database icons that look like the Oracle building.
- thefourthchime 3y agoI love these photos. While they seem like casual pics, the composition is carefully considered, the person here knew what they were doing.
- DoneWithAllThat 3y agoReally nice. One I wish was in there was the Control Data building on Moffet Park Drive. Became Radius building when CD left, then a few other tenants before being torn down and replaced with the MPD Google campus.
- zurfer 3y agoIs the Salesforce tower not considered to be a part of Silicon Valley?
- travoc 3y agoOn the Silicon Valley page, the author claims "San Francisco is often considered part of Silicon Valley, but geographically it is not; but also historically it played only a negligible role in the development of Silicon Valley."
- TMWNN 3y agoTo expand on travoc's answer, historically San Francisco was banking and finance, Silicon Valley was tech (mostly hardware), and in between was San Mateo County (mostly biotech). While San Francisco did see some web-related startups in the dotcom bubble (mostly around South Park), Salesforce/LinkedIn/Twitter/etc. being headquartered in San Francisco itself is purely a phenomenon of the post-dotcom bust tech boom.
- seltzered_ 3y ago2016. Most photos appear to be from around September- October 2016.
- BashiBazouk 3y agoThe explanation of the IBM Great Oaks is questionable. Most called that campus the Cottle road site. I would not be surprised if the assembly/electronics of the hard drive went to Mexico/China but the sputtering of the disks themselves was San Jose, Germany, Ireland and Singapore. I was doing sputtering for a few years out of college. We ran the last batch of the 14" disks. This was the time that the little 2 1/2" glass disks for laptops were becoming hot. The old Ulvac was being decommissioned and they did a final run of the disks as the only use at the time was for Navy submarines. After the final run, they made a plaque for head engineer for that disk program by putting a really thick layer of carbon so the disk was a beautiful dark purple. The production leads were PISSED. It took a full day to clean out the Ulvac of all the extra carbon before it could run production again. When they finally took the Ulvac out, they had stacks and stacks of the 14" disks out in the parking lot. I took a few home and gave one to a friend who added to his drum kit for a different sounding symbol. The Ulvac was cool. It had big roughing pumps to get most the air out, then turbo pumps to get down to an almost pure vacuum then finally the cryopumps to do the rest. They were basically a large chamber with a sponge like material at the bottom that was cooled to 20 kelvin. The remaining gas molecules would eventually bounce in to the cryopumps and be less trapped but slowed down by the cold sponge... When I was there building 50 was a ghost town. I would walk through during lunch and only occasionally would you see a room lit up and drives being assembled.
- fewald_net 3y agoI love the photos. I think they capture those places pretty well.
- CMYKninja 3y agoI don’t know if I’ve changed or the valley has changed but I look at all these places I’ve been over the years and I think it just doesn’t seem that way anymore. Makes me very nostalgic for a valley that seems to have died away and grown into something that I despise sadly. Mostly maybe because of Deer Creek.