I think you're thinking of "Cryptonomicon" instead of "The Diamond Age." Cryptonomicon takes place almost entirely in the Bay Area, IIRC.

It has been a while since I read it, but I recall Cryptonomicon taking place mostly in south-east Asia. Are you thinking of Snow Crash? It's set on the west coast of the US (if I remember correctly). Both books are great.

This Is Spinal Tap.

Once you’ve spent some time in sales, you realize that sales is a TON of work.

Oh I'm sure it is, but surely a well-engineered product is easier to sell than a badly-engineered one?

Campbell, CA - Full-time, permanent DB/Back-End Developer - Oscaro Products Inc.

Like cars? Mobile devices? Startups?

We are looking for a Database/Back-End Engineer to build our cloud-based database infrastructure.

http://www.ziprecruiter.com/job/Database-Developer/af829b4e/

We'd love to talk.

Job link updated to make job description non-lame:

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/jobs/38420/build-our-cloud-...

- Mark

Thank you - I will do that!