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Penn Brumm said:
> I sympathize with Ruth Glasser's comments about hiring engineers and
> tech writers. Cliches such as the scarcity of teeth in a chicken
> come to mind. I'm told by reliable sources that, for experienced
> people, there are approximately 100,000 jobs going unfilled here in
> Silicon Valley.
I bet 99,000 of those are programming jobs. There aren't nearly that
many writing jobs advertised *anywhere* in the Bay Area, let along
just in Silicon Valley.
