Thanks for the data! That's my recollection from when I lived in Berkeley and SF, too. I wonder about the Bay Area and Santa Cruz as opposed to, say, Los Angeles....
I think cycling and rock climbing are the shared hobbies of a lot of coders, including people who enjoy the exercise-y dimensions and -- especially for cycling -- the tinkering dimension. (There's that bit in the Jargon File mentioning the preponderance of hiking boots, quoting some other writer joking that hackers wear them "in case a mountain should suddenly spring up in the machine room.")
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Date: 2019-02-23 12:04 pm (UTC)I think cycling and rock climbing are the shared hobbies of a lot of coders, including people who enjoy the exercise-y dimensions and -- especially for cycling -- the tinkering dimension. (There's that bit in the Jargon File mentioning the preponderance of hiking boots, quoting some other writer joking that hackers wear them "in case a mountain should suddenly spring up in the machine room.")