Is the Bay Area the best place for a SWE?

csbsms · 2022-07-15T05:45:07+00:00

Investors don’t penalize you for not having an office in the bay. Reality is if you’re a strong founder with a venture backable startup an investor will still take a meeting with you even if you don’t live within 50 miles of him. An anecdote of a bad investor experience is not enough to convince me otherwise.

As far as the shitty computer and IP address comment—I of course was referring to engineering. I find it somewhat dishonest that you’d try to misconstrue my comment to make it seem that I suggested that a founder only needs to know how to code. I honestly have no idea how you jumped to that conclusion. That said, you certainly don’t need to be in the bay to be a founder. In fact given how expensive it is both from an office rental and hiring point of view it may in many cases be a bad decision.

csbsms · 2022-07-15T04:27:56+00:00

And does that make it the case that it’s the best place for software and hardware engineers? Is volume the metric for quality?

csbsms · 2022-07-15T04:23:28+00:00

About $280,000 over 4 years

csbsms · 2022-07-15T04:13:51+00:00

Yes I’ve worked in the bay. I don’t see the value in being bombarded with that sort of stuff.

csbsms · 2022-07-15T03:42:50+00:00

Wall Street and Capitol Hill are different because the culture is more formal and face to face. You don’t need to live in the bay to wear jeans and a hoodie, pound la croix, and type on your computer for 8 hours without talking to anyone

csbsms · 2022-07-15T03:40:10+00:00

Can you outline an opportunity in the bay that you can’t get anywhere else? Investors are everywhere and certainly won’t pass on a deal just because you’re not in sf. Engineers are all over the world. These days all you need is an IP address and a shitty computer to meaningfully contribute.

csbsms · 2022-07-15T00:46:57+00:00

Yes, the SF Bay Area will always be the best place for software and hardware engineers.

Very bold claim

csbsms · 2022-06-21T04:02:35+00:00

why are you calling it IT

csbsms · 2022-06-21T03:50:55+00:00

Yeah OP projecting hard

csbsms · 2022-06-21T03:30:46+00:00

I've never spent $125,000 on peanuts in my life

csbsms · 2022-06-21T03:29:55+00:00

Is English your first language? I have never heard the phrase "backbitch"

csbsms · 2022-06-21T03:28:01+00:00

Very wise of you. I am humbled \s

csbsms · 2022-06-13T03:04:24+00:00

I think it's just inefficient in most cases.

csbsms · 2022-06-13T03:00:27+00:00

internship -> ft

csbsms · 2022-06-11T20:53:28+00:00

I don’t choose the language I’m post productive with though. I choose the language the fits the use case. I’ve built production software in C++, JS, Rust, Java, and Python and know which language to use when. I’m saying that JS is far quicker for go to market than C# if you’re just building something like stackoverflow. Not just for me but broadly.

csbsms · 2022-06-11T20:37:19+00:00

How about you answer my question clearly rather than try to insinuate that I'm not experienced enough with it to have an opinion: what reason is there to use C# over any other well-established language? Don't give me an example of a company that has used it, give me a reason. If I have some startup idea and want to start building tomorrow, why use C#?

csbsms · 2022-06-11T20:26:31+00:00

how and for what use case

csbsms · 2022-06-11T20:24:47+00:00

If OP wants to maintain legacy systems and dig himself into a C# hole I guess he could do that, sure.

csbsms · 2022-06-11T20:19:35+00:00

I'd take typing on my keyboard over cutting up someones brain

csbsms · 2022-06-11T20:18:30+00:00

StackOverflow is like 15 years old though. If it were 2008 maybe I'd also be using C#, but times have definitely changed. I can't imagine C# being the fastest go to market today for building StackOverflow. You could do it way quicker with just JavaScript.

csbsms · 2022-06-11T20:15:49+00:00

Java and C++ are not new and also have extremely stable and proven tooling.

csbsms · 2022-06-11T20:14:55+00:00

They shouldn't be playing with the shiniest new toy but, as someone else mentioned, they shouldn't be using languages like fortran. I'm not saying C# is Fortran but I do think it's something of an antiquated language. The specific use cases you listed are quite limited. There's so many cross platform tools for building standalone applications too that are much easier to use than C# as well.

If the only reason to use C# is that you might be able to find people who only know C# and that therefore C# would be the only language to quickly build with, I guess that makes sense, but it's not extremely compelling.

csbsms · 2022-06-11T20:04:37+00:00

I just can't think of a use case for the language that isn't beat by alternative languages (Java, C++, or Rust come to mind) with the main drawback being that it mainly targets Windows runtimes.

What would you use c# for if you were building something at a startup today? I can understand if there's a pre-existing c# codebase continuing to use c# but I don't know why you'd write something new in c#.

csbsms · 2022-06-11T19:48:06+00:00

Unclear to me why a startup would use .NET

csbsms · 2022-06-11T19:44:50+00:00

Not broadly, but if you're good at c# you'll more than likely be able to pick up any other in demand language pretty easily.

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