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A little off topic here, but I have never understood the appeal of silicon valley in terms of a work location. I mean, I'd much rather work downtown in a major urban centre than in a vast industrial wasteland with no people, no food, no energy.

How about everyone else? I find I feed off of the energy of an urban core (in my case, Vancouver BC) when I work. When I worked in a business park I felt lonely and isolated. Does anyone else notice this?

Totally agree, business parks are horrible. Any suburban nightmare that requires a car to get around deeply irritates me.

For a robotics lab it makes sense however. You're going to want space and easy access for deliveries.

Silicon Valley gets rave reviews because it's less boring than all the other office parks. It does have good food, and a lot of interesting people, and techie events, etc. But if you're looking for nightlife and actual local culture (in the non-tech sense), don't move to silicon valley. The impression I get is that Silicon Valley is a great place to live if you're a geek who is married and has kids.

Cool. Anyone find FogCreek in NYC? Or Google's Googleplex?

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=google&sll=37.403165,-122.049179&sspn=0.095728,0.160675&ie=UTF8&ll=37.422483,-122.08481&spn=0.005981,0.010042&t=h&z=17&om=0&layer=c&cbll=37.420929,-122.084763&cbp=1,301.225264080084,0.6104232618933,2

When you move a little further down the road, you find this:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=google&sll=37.403165,-122.049179&sspn=0....

It looks like a bunch of googlers, waving to the camera is it passes by the googleplex :)

Anybody else find other startup-related easter eggs? What about Apple's first garage or the Stanford dorm room that Sergey Brin & Larry Page worked out of?

They're all wearing some scary matching tshirts..

Sweet! Let's just hope that the next time they capture the photos Paul Graham's having breakfast outside! :P

Wow that's cool. Looks like tlb designed the sign :-)

Lame, lame, lame. All I see is 'get the latest Flash player'. It's not the idea, the information compilation or the base google maps technology. It's the idea to use flash. Flash works on all systems right? Wrong. It won't work on 64 bit systems like my Ubuntu or other 64 bit sytems ( try http://www.google.com/search?q=flash+64+bit+systems ... not without hacking your system & certainly not by default installation) Why? Adobe has not bothered to compile a version for 64 bit systems. It's not open source (Unless you count GNU Gnash. And of course I have to compile, test & install it. Not my first choice) so I can't compile & install myself. So the execution to me, using my system, is just plain lame.

Come on. You use a system (ubuntu linux) that represents a minimal market share and is made for people who like to compile, test, and install their own software.

I use linux at work, but when sites don't work (but they work for 99% of the rest of the world), I don't really complain. It's annoying, but it's my choices that make it inoperable.

I use ubuntu linux and it works perfectly.

'... What about 64bit? There is no Windows 64bit or OS X 64bit version either right now. As I said before it is not a question of 'recompiling' the source code, there is lots of generic non platform specific work which needs to be finished first. We will ship a 64bit version for Windows, OS X Leopard and GNU/Linux. It will happen. When? ...' ~ http://www.kaourantin.net/2006/10/flash-player-9-for-linux-beta-1.html

32 or 64?

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