My laptop is the IT standard bastardized version of XP so I can run outlook. Though perhaps it'd be easier to crack it open, up the RAM, and run ubuntu in a VM on it..
Holy crap, you need to get out more if you think that the Bay area is somehow magical because you can have a variety of foods, work with smart people and take day trips to fun place.
I live and work here and frankly its no better or worse than many other places I've lived or worked.
We're running C# code, and increasingly some F#, but not at all interested in taking desktop or web applications from Windows and dropping them onto Macs or Linux.
We're historically a microsoft shop but recently (in the last 18 months or so) have started running linux backend servers for many of our services running on EC2. If I wanted to be buzzword compliant I'm sure I could come up with some string of cloud nonsense to describe it.
We have something that looks kinda like Hadoop crossed with an app server that we can deploy components in.
I'd be happier with a solid final version of Mono.Simd rather than slavishly filling in any missing parts of older .net.
I lead a dev team in the real world, using mono for all our work, and I don't need them to do any such thing. Your definition of the "ONLY" goal for them is utter claptrap and certainly not a definition of what the "real world needs".
Stop confusing your desires ("Simply make my C# code work there, and I'll be happy") with the only sane direction for them to go.
I certainly wouldn't thank them for slavishly copying .net 1.1 or any such thing. If you want that so badly, feel free to submit patches, I'm sure they'll gladly accept.
I have plenty of interactions with some of the best in my field; I work as an engineer with some guys who have done groundbreaking work. However, I have personal reasons why I wish to complete my education with a doctorate. Advancement at work is definitely not one of them as I'm doing quite fine without.
Since I'm doing the work myself in the evenings, it would be nice to get some paperwork along the way.
As a first approximation, that's a good metric :-) And yes, it does make the valley an epic fail in general. You can caltrain/vta both ways to a certain extent. Or else its cabs. But really, there's not a decent downtown all the way from morgan hill until you hit san francisco.
I find San Jose downtown to just be a bit depressing.
Marriage isn't an option really as I'm already married. Even as a thought experiment, it'd mean my family having to leave the country while I remarry and so forth.
If it comes to that I'd prefer to just leave with them and start elsewhere (english speaking and decent weather).
As you say though, the system really is unfriendly to immigrants. Even those with a US graduate education and cash to demonstrate they would not be a drain. And don't even get me started on the taxes I've paid.
My laptop is the IT standard bastardized version of XP so I can run outlook. Though perhaps it'd be easier to crack it open, up the RAM, and run ubuntu in a VM on it..