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Ugh, anyone know of something along the lines Apple-haters -mailing list or something? I need a place where I can be reasonably sure that people who I am talking with aren't macfags.


Btw, downvoting just reaffirms my judgement about your appletardness.


Actually it just confirms that people on HN don't want you spouting moronic shit, regardless of our feelings towards Apple (personally I hate their products, and I felt very good downvoting you twice).


Rational advice for splurging 500K to 1M+ on a "nice" home? Isn't that an oxymoron?


Rationality will prevail eventually: We'll get back to 3x annual income for the simple reason that the fake appreciation due to easy loans is history.

The thing I fear though is the in-between period. Many folks will hold on thinking that the downturn is "temporary", so prices will stay elevated for a few extra years. As a consequence, you'll see doubling-up and tripling-up in housing that normally would have held only one family.


How so? Houses, as a rule, are investments, and like any investments should be considered rationally.


He's saying that half a million is too much for a merely 'nice' home.

But this is just a linguistic conceit on the part of home buyers.

There are mansions (homes that you can't afford), nice homes (homes that you can afford, and are in good condition/areas), and there are slums (homes you can afford, and in bad conditions/areas).

No one wants to live in a slum. No one can afford a mansion. So a 'nice' home is the only realistic choice.


Isn't this the very kind of thinking - thinking that houses are investments and surely the prices will go up - that caused the housing bubble?


Looking at the real estate listings for my area, the most expensive home for sale is $1M; and it is a beautiful mansion. I couldn't imagine paying $1M for just a nice home.


Looking at my area, the cheapest house I'd actually consider buying in an area I'd actually want to live, is north of $600K. House prices having nothing to do with the building, and everything to do with the location. It's (relatively) easy to make an ugly house beautiful.


Don't imagine living in the Bay Area then. :)


It just means the dollars have depreciated substantially. Nothing to see.

Seriously, housing is one of the best inflation hedges.


This is exactly the same article that has already been written by every geek who blogs and has recently tried Linux. Nothing new or interesting. Flagged.


Not sure if serious or just mildly autistic...


What's the point of filtering out all non-five star reviews? I for one would be very interested in fake reviews by my competitors.


They mention negative deceptive review detection as further work.


As soon as people stop letting non-engineers get away with total, utter technical incompetence and stupidity.


Yeah, stupid, ignorant and dangerous ideas tend to freak people out...


That's a stupid question to ask. More appropriate would be: who on earth thinks that omitting semi-colons makes anything better?


Yukihiro Matsumoto and Guido van Rossum come to mind.


It's pretty obvious from the context that the OP was referring to omitting semicolons in Javascript, not in other languages.


Yes it is. My point is that when those guys created their respective languages, they omitted semicolons. One would surmise that they thought it made things better.


This discussion is explicitly about javascript. How javascript benefits from including or excluding semicolons.


Also apparently Brendan Eich, since he included the feature in the language, continues to speak of it without shame and has used it on his blog as an example of what he'd like to see code look like (with the comment that "JSLint can suck it").


I do. And it works both ways:

"That's a stupid question to ask. More appropriate would be: who on earth thinks that omitting semi-colons makes anything worse?"


I have habit to place something at the end of sentence _._ I learned that in school _._


A newline is a perfectly good terminator. It's plainly visible to humans and as for JS itself it conforms to the spec.


Working servers matter more, the page doesn't load for me.


When was the last time you tried KDE4? I found that it was very unstable and buggy when I first tried it when it came out. Nowadays it seems stable (haven't had it crash anymore), and much less buggy (ie. normal level of bugginess).


> When was the last time you tried KDE4?

About a month or so ago.

> I found that it was very unstable and buggy when I first tried it when it came out.

My problem with it isn't bugginess, it's that they'd removed the existing UI and replaced it with new stuff that worked differently. This means that I no longer know where to find stuff (e.g. for configuration).

Also some of the new interface I really don't like, e.g. they have replace the main menu with a scrolling menu that only shows a few options at a time, so I have to scroll up and down to see all the options. This "feature" on its own is one I dislike so much that I will not willingly use this interface.


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