i live a few blocks away from this area. if they close off downtown there will be more startups in houses nearby. this one, for example, occupied a house one block from me before it announced its existence and moved to SF http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/technology/want-to-buy-a-self-driving-c... On Wednesday, August 31, 2016, Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> wrote:
FYI --
[Micro-aggression warning: undecidability lurks below.]
Sheesh!
Talk about heavy handed; Palo Alto could simply have bounded time and/or space for its Turing Machines. But NOoooh! they've prohibited *stacks* (no CF), and probably even finite state machines.
I presume that this is another attack on encryption technology (it IS aimed at Palantir -- which occupies much of Palo Alto -- among other companies), but perhaps that is just paranoia.
I believe that the zoning ban also applies to macros -- code-producing code -- and compilers.
Perhaps it's time to resurrect Google's Ark -- Google's plan to station a floating high-tech development platform off-shore to get around H1B visa hiring restrictions.
http://www.siliconbeat.com/2016/08/31/no-coding-palo- alto-city-takes-silicon-valley-growth/
No coding in Palo Alto?
The birthplace of Hewlett Packard and Xerox Parc and founding place of Facebook is now considering whether to enforce a zoning regulation banning firms whose "primary business is research and development, including software coding," according to the New York Times.
Palo Alto Mayor Patrick Burt told the Times:
"Big tech companies are choking off the downtown. It’s not healthy."
"For many of the 66,000 residents of Palo Alto, all this coding and innovation may be a bit too much."
"But Palo Alto may not want the jobs either. Making coding off-limits in certain sections, however that is enforced, sends that message."
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/us/spotty-cell- reception-in-the-heart-of-silicon-valley.html
"the mayor [of Palo Alto] is looking to enforce, in some form, an all-but-forgotten zoning regulation that bans companies whose primary business is research and development, including software coding."
-- Thane Plambeck tplambeck@gmail.com http://counterwave.com/