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Reason no. 42614 not to live in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Don't live in Houston because hurricanes and flooding.

Don't live in New York or Chicago because cold.

Don't live in Seattle because rain.

Don't live in Taipei because earthquakes and a bunch of cruise missiles pointed at it.

Don't live in Seoul because artillery and a dictator across the street.

Don't live in Miami because hurricanes.

Don't live in Madison, WI because tornadoes.

Don't live in Hill Country because ambulance will take 20 minutes to get to you when you step on a rusty barn nail.

Cold and rain seem like they don’t belong on that list unless you’re homeless.

There is a reason I moved from cold and rain to an earthquake risk city.

Some people will take death over ever having to shovel again.

>Don't live in Hill Country because ambulance will take 20 minutes to get to you when you step on a rusty barn nail.

is that bad? it's not like you're going to die from tetanus in 20min.

ok fine, heart attack

SFFD has a 6 minute response rate within San Francisco.

That is why a huge number of people in Hill Country have helicopter insurance. It they have a medical emergency a helicopter will land on their hill and fly them to a medical center.

Seattle has an equivalent risk of earthquakes due to the Cascadia fault

42615, you might end up working with Salesforce.

I'm chiming in late in the game here, but what's wrong with Salesforce? (Only reason I ask is because of the piece that I just saw on 60 minutes Sunday night, so your comment piqued my interest)

It's slow AF.

Basically ever database SaaS tool is slow AF. They don't tell you that during the sales cycle though

AF?

as fuck

Development in a web browser. Everything is paginated. A bastardiation of Java and SQL - without joins as the language it uses. An over complicated data model (for the business I had to integrate it with at least. Some things could only be done via SOAP.

I had to integrate our existing Django based system with Salesforce. What I expected to take a few days took a few months. Similar syncing of data between another Django based system did take a couple of days.

I can't go on, it brings back too many bad memories. If you have ever enjoyed development you will hate Salesforce. It feels like the tech equivalent of digging holes and filling them back in again.

Maybe so, but please don't post unsubstantive comments here.

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