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Comment by ripper1138 | Hacker News Reader

Totally. "10% of my life" sounds a lot more significant than "3.5 years"

"Well three and a half years is a long time in my life, it's longer than I spent getting my bachelors, or the two masters degrees I did at the same time. It's the longest I've worked at any job, and longer than most relationships I've been in."

Dickens himself couldn't do a better character introduction than these two sentences.

"I was nearby when cool things happened, hire me now, need to pay Cupertino mortgage rate."

I'm not sure anyone under the age of 70 has a Cupertino mortgage.

Maybe not on a $3 million 5-bedroom mansion in the hills, but with $500,000 1 and 2-bedroom condos, 20% down payment is $100,000 k, which is affordable by a high level engineer or product designer making $500,000/yr, especially if it's a power DINK couple making close to $1mm/yr. Whether they want to invest in housing there is another story, but let's not pretend the upper class is priced out of Cupertino.

Eg https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/20488-Stevens-Creek-Blvd-... recently sold.

There are not many of those. (Not many condos in the US in general for that matter, since they're pretty discouraged by housing laws.) Wonder how many 10s-100s of bids there were for it.

Anyway, I'm not accusing Cupertino residents of being upper class, I'm accusing them of being old.

"Some of them are old" is a different statement than "None of them are young", but I see your point. It's true to the point that the local elementary school was or is closing down due to lack of enrollment.

And he starts by saying he has worked on VR for 10 years, so the title immediately stops making sense until you get to the very end :D

When someone starts a sentence like this, I think its fair to assume that they are bragging about other things as well.

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