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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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").
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).
> 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.