I grew up in San Diego, have been working on tech in SF for almost a decade, and love the idea of moving back.
The quality of life in (western) San Diego is so hard to beat. A couple dozen (or hundred) of us moving back with some meaningful experience and success could go a long way towards making San Diego a viable place to more easily build and sustain real companies.
Have you been back recently? I visited SD last month after being gone for 4 years... It was not the same to me. Very dry and dirty. Maybe living in Colorado has made me spoiled but it just seems different.
This. I'm from Montana, and while I love the weather here in SD, the glamour has worn off. The cost of living is astronomical, pay insufficient to compensate, and there are surprisingly few opportunities for what I do (Data Science). Oh, and while I love the beach (toxic water and all), I think a lot of SD is just... UGLY. Brown, dirty, desert. Of course part of this is all the hard scaping taking place. Everyone ripping up green and replacing with rocks and dirt isn't going to help things look pretty.
All in all, my wife and I are looking for an exit. Unless I can start making six figures in the next six months I don't think we'll make it another year here. We've felt squeezed since we arrived and it's not getting any better.
Yeah I was there last month, and had fresh sashimi and fish tacos sitting on the the deck at Point Loma Seafoods, where it was still 70 degrees and glorious at 6pm. And then I flew home to a cold, gray SF ;)
fwiw — and I say this as a cofounder in probably the least successful YC batch of all time — the stuff coming out of the program these these is years ahead of what it was then.
It sounds like you're suggesting that his father deserved to be fired for attempting to support unionization. You can advocate for whatever you like, but understand that this position is in opposition to generations of workers-rights efforts.
This isn't a "concept," either. It's happening — first art goes up 7/7.
It's funded so far by tech and ex-tech people. Hopefully it's a helpful contribution to the growing bridge between the tech and arts communities in San Francisco.
Octane is the continuation of V8 benchmark (and contains all of the V8 benchmark tests) — V8 (the JS engine) was specifically designed to provide good performance on those tests (this is why V8 had a generational GC from launch, for example; though somewhat amusing last I checked Carakan (Opera/Presto's last JS engine) was quickest at splay, primarily a GC benchmark, despite having a very naïve GC!). The tests new in Octane don't display such a clear disparity, as V8 wasn't designed for them.
hint: Splay is a benchmark that penalizes generational GCs. If you have a fast mark-sweep GC with an aggressive growth policy you are going to totally rock it.
I may slightly be showing how long it's been since I looked at Splay. :)
My memory was that originally V8 was out-performing everyone else primarily because the initial allocation (into the nursery) was way quicker than anyone else did. Or maybe it was freeing the nodes that die young?
Certainly I remember both SpiderMonkey and Carakan spending huge amounts of time on GC on Splay, and Carakan's massive speed-up came when the object representation was changed (GC actually asymptotically regressed as a result, but in almost every practical case cache-locality (and reduction of memory accesses) outweighed it).
This place is amazing -- great product, awesome team, really cool engineering + challenges (mobile, fraud/analytics, box office (hardware!), et al) and we all have a ton of fun. In Soma right by CalTrain w/ all the perks: 6 meals a week + endless snacks, gym + transportation reimbursement, great insurance, you'll still have a life, etc.
We'll sell $200M+ in tickets this year and we just raised another $20M in funding. This is a great time to jump on board.
The quality of life in (western) San Diego is so hard to beat. A couple dozen (or hundred) of us moving back with some meaningful experience and success could go a long way towards making San Diego a viable place to more easily build and sustain real companies.