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I lived in Portland before coming down to startup-land, and yeah - Portland has a huge number of underemployed, talented programmers. They're a little more risk
by jes5199 14y ago
I lived in Portland before coming down to startup-land, and yeah - Portland has a huge number of underemployed, talented programmers. They're a little more risk-averse than their San Francisco counterparts, but they've got stronger social fabric - so if you manage to convince one that you've got a good thing going, you can pull in ten or fifteen of their friends without much trouble.
- michaelochurch 14y agoNot that this refutes any of what you're saying, all of which I believe, but... aren't all talented programmers a bit underemployed? I don't think anyone in the mainstream has figured out how to unlock even 10% of the value that a talented programmer can bring to the table. Perhaps I am jaded, but I look at what most people do at their day jobs and it makes me sick to see trillions of dollars of unrealized economic value being spilled on the floor because the wrong people are calling the shots.
- jes5199 14y agoSure, but there's a difference between the Bay Area underutilized programmer making 100k+ and jumping from job to job, and the underemployed Portland programmer who's out of work half the time and the other half takes jobs that pay 40k out of desperation.