<story><title>Iowa&apos;s handout to Apple illustrates the folly of corporate welfare deals</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-apple-iowa-welfare-20170829-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>farnsworth</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a programmer. Every time I go home to Iowa, people try to tell me that Iowa is now a booming tech hub, with Microsoft, Facebook and Apple &amp;quot;offices&amp;quot;, and that I should get a job there. I try to explain why I probably won&amp;#x27;t end up there, but the point is that they are extremely proud of all of these data centers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>posguy</author><text>Yeah, a datacenter hires a few Networking&amp;#x2F;Sysops people, but not so much programmers, as that is one of those things that isn&amp;#x27;t quite so location sensitive.</text></comment>
<story><title>Iowa&apos;s handout to Apple illustrates the folly of corporate welfare deals</title><url>http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-apple-iowa-welfare-20170829-story.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>farnsworth</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m a programmer. Every time I go home to Iowa, people try to tell me that Iowa is now a booming tech hub, with Microsoft, Facebook and Apple &amp;quot;offices&amp;quot;, and that I should get a job there. I try to explain why I probably won&amp;#x27;t end up there, but the point is that they are extremely proud of all of these data centers.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>davis</author><text>Yup. This is about half of the conversations I have with my family whenever I visit for the holidays.</text></comment>