A NYT's article? So, the ramblings of a 20 year old that doesn't know shit, basically. I doubt he even knows how to pronounce "San Tomas Expressway" correctly.

It appears the writer or Slashdot editor has zero clue about what a "valley" is and fails to realize that Santa Cruz is a city located on the coast of California, on the other side of the Santa Cruz Mountains which separate it from the actual geographical valley referred to as Silicon Valley.

That clarified, 12 years ago I happened to look for affordable housing in the communities surrounding Santa Cruz (the city itself has been trashed by drug addicts and illegal aliens.) Pricing for a room in someone's home back in 2006 was $950 a month, apartment started at $1,250. I can't imagine it has gotten any better now.

Also, the reason that area is filled with single family homes is due to white flight as people escaped the valley to live in peace from the melting pot of Silicon Valley. NIMBY Democrats are strong in that area and will fight tooth and nail against apartments, especially low-income apartments, being built anywhere near them.

What I see in 90% of homes are families that have a laptop for the mother, tablets for the little kids and smartphones for teens. Dad tends to be in the "man cave" drinking, or uses a work provided laptop, typically both.

It has become extremely rare to see desktop PC's in a home unless the person telecommutes or operates a home business on the side. Gamer's are really the only group left that stick to PC's but there is a growing trend to go with gaming laptops since they are easier to take to a friend's house/dorm.

We see everyday how rumors cause Democrats to lose their collective shit and attack innocent people.

If a company gives an employee more than $500 ($600 for US?) in "gifts" in a year it has to be reported on taxes. A designated parking spot counts as a gift and the company would need to calculate the value of it. That's one of the reasons so many people get in tax trouble for things like free tickets to an event. It's also why employment anniversary gifts are typically cheap crap (although, I really do like the alarm clock I got for my 5 year reward, it's a Sony Dream Station.)

The only upside to working at IBM's old Cottle Road site (sold and demolished now, sadly) was the office buildings were 100% offices, zero cubicles. It wasn't very pleasant though, long white hallways with white ceilings, white floors, white doors, and black door frames. Also, the office I was in had a wall of windows... that faced an area between buildings filled with pipes, weeds, and cracked concrete with a view of... the other building. The lighting in the hallways was nothing but flourescent tubes, and the only decoration was an occasional poster of yacht races.

There's a woman going through a divorce in the cubicle next to me who spends the entire morning on the phone bitching with someone about her incompetent husband and lazy kids that won't lift a finger to help her at home. Within 30 minutes of arriving at work I have to throw on earbuds and start listening to music to drown her out.

I could turn off the lights during the day. I don't need to read anything that isn't on a computer monitor so there is zero reason to have the lights on. All they are doing is wasting electricity, generating electrical noise (flourescent light hum), and attracting insects indoors.

I've had a corner window office before, they are not all that great, especially if they are South or West facing. There is nothing you can do to escape the heat generated and the glare from sunlight is tiresome.

Just download the Youtube-dl utility, it downloads video & audio directly from Youtube, it even has a simple GUI. Works great on Playlists as well and has an automatic download resume. The occasional error crops up but a simple re-download solves that.

Yo Mama' so fat, they have to use the Large Hadron Collider to measure the mass of her atoms.

Summer weather causes ice to melt, and water to heat up, film at 11.

You don't need to worry about Russian's interfering with the mid-term elections, Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, and Instagram are all doing that domestically themselves by continuing to censor Republican candidates.

I've worked in HR before, when jobs were scarce it was more like 150-300 candidates per job. Not just direct applicants but recruiters and headhunters as well, faxing, mailing, and digitally submitting resumes. The culling process consisted of take the first 50 that arrived and toss out everything else. Of the first 50, glance over them to see if they had the educational requirement, once the first 10 had been found that met the requirement, toss the rest. Hand those 10 over to the HR rep. for review from which they would select 3-4 for an interview.