Not really. Was in my early 20s around then, but didn't live anywhere around there. My experience with programming/IT work at that time, was that it was very much a "normal" job. It was a good, solid white collar job, paid decently well, but nothing you'd get really rich doing. That didn't change for me until the late 1990s when I got a dot-com gig for a couple of years (of course we remember how that ended up).
Were the MS people buying ships full of Porches with equity earnings or salary?
> they don't care if they paid more than the average Texan pays, because at the end of the day they're still paying less than half what they were paying in CA
I don't understand not caring about 6 figures of money. Is that really the outlook of the average California tech worker?
Yeah I would expect that Microsoft in the late 1980s was paying much more modest salaries for software developers. That job didn't really start paying crazy salaries until the VC money arrived with the Dot-Com wave.
You're looking at it from the wrong side. Developer supply for SV companies just expanded to include potentially everyone who for various reasons did not want to or was unable to relocate to SV. Tech salaries will fall for SV companies, though it might initially be a bump up from what those non-local developers could get in their local areas.
Well I like my Bose headphones, which use a single AAA battery but they are corded. Wireless anything is a hard no for me due to poor experience with it. I know a lot of people disagree.
The electoral college moderates the effect. The big states still dominate. Just not as completely. The small states have their voice instead of being completely irrelevant. It's not that they "win" or even have an equal say.
He's nearly 78 now. He'd be 81 next time around, and his campaign this election cycle could hardly be called vigorous. The electorate will be younger also. I don't think there will be much appeal even as an incumbent unless his accomplishments in office are remarkable.
Because the constitution says the states elect the president. That's how it works. In modern times this means the people of each state decide, by popular vote, how their state votes.
I don't disagree but I also think that the best way to expose a lie is to push it into the full light of the sun, not try to stuff it into the basement. If someone is going to make a fool of himself, let him.
Maybe they should. Something needs to restore faith in the process. If we lose that, we lose everything. And a not-small minority believe that the election was fradulent. There's always a fringe that feels that way, but it seems to be growing.
Were the MS people buying ships full of Porches with equity earnings or salary?