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eevilspock: Actually, most people in Seattle are recent arrivals, irrespective of national origin.

"Of the people living Seattle itself, only 37% were born in WA, 44% another state, and 19% another country according to the 2006 census." http://www.city-data.com/forum/seattle-area/281766-transplan...

http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/NPTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=1...

taopaoon Leaving Google

Bellevue: "more than 40 percent of its population a minority race or ethnicity in 2010." (https://www.bellevuewa.gov/demographics.htm)

Redmond: 20% nonwhite (http://redmond.areaconnect.com/statistics.htm)

Blacks are certainly underrepresented, I'll give you that, but everybody's talking as if African Americans are the only minority that counts... because it is a convenient strawman for propping up their arguments about the "whiteness", I suppose.

taopaoon Leaving Google

"the perfect place for people who enjoy a small social circle"

I think this is absolutely spot on. I'm pretty surprised about this line criticism from this forum. Nerds (or "hackers" in this case) are a generally introverted crowd, no?

It's not a good city if you're a brogrammer who wants to party like a rock star every night. That's totally fine by me. :)

taopaoon Steve Jobs threatened Palm’s CEO, court documents reveal

In the same way that spatial manipulation of an object from the boundaries defined by its legal owner is considered theft.

taopaoon Steve Jobs threatened Palm’s CEO, court documents reveal

What a dick.

taopaoon Flappy Bird Typing Tutor

Huh? Typing tutors should encourage speed, not rhythm. I should be rewarded for speed and accuracy.

taopaoon Google shows support for LGBT Olympians

Yes, for every single argument there are two equally valid sides.

Right.

Give me a goddamned break.

taopaoon Google shows support for LGBT Olympians

It's more than just the games. The laws are effectively sanctioning violence against gays.

http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/02/03/russia-sochi-games-highli...

taopaoon Chromebox, now for simpler and better meetings

The BT phone bridges that sales and marketing seem to enjoy so much (whyyyyy) are a recurring cost that dwarfs this outlay.

taopaoon Chromebox, now for simpler and better meetings

Like accepting a shared password?

taopaoon Our Love Affair With the Tablet Is Over

Sitting upright at a desk with a reasonably sized monitor placed at arm's length is much more ergonomic than curling over a tiny glossy screen.

taopaoon Our Love Affair With the Tablet Is Over

Why do things have to be boiled down into winner-take-all narratives? I feel that the public has no capacity for nuance anymore.

Look, the tablet has its place - usually situations that don't require high-bandwidth HIDs such as keyboards. The computer user of the future will have many devices spanning many different form factors. It's OK.

taopaoon Satya Nadella – Microsoft's CEO

That's a lot of invective, and a lot of falsehoods.

taopaoon Yahoo, Yahoo Mail, And Flickr Hit With Temporary Service Interruption

It makes me feel uneasy how reliant on Yahoo I have become and basically everyone else I know.

taopaoon Lenovo to buy Google's Motorola handset division

No, first party service support is better of course, but there are quite a few third party services that are cast-friendly.

taopaoon Issue 62938 – Barometer driver hangs and kills accelerometer on its way

Please, won't anybody think of the science?!

taopaoon Google’s Reliability Team Sat Down for an AMA Right Before Gmail Exploded

Good luck in your holy grail quest for that 100.000%.

taopaoon IBM's Watson For Business: The $1 Billion Siri Slayer

Most of Siri's Watson-style smarts are just Wolfram Alpha queries, no?

taopaoon You can spend $9,599 on a Mac Pro, but should you?

How much would that case be worth to you?

taopaoon New Mac Pro Available for Online Orders

Ten thousand fuckin' bucks.

They'll sell dozens!

taopaoon Does Bedtime Honey Improve Sleep? Reasons to Think So

I'll use this excuse when I gorge on halva just before going to bed.

taopaoon India REcriminalizes homosexuality

Are you kidding? India and technology are highly related.

I know I won't be travelling to India on business anymore because of this. I don't want to be arrested.

taopaoon Google employee shouts down protesters as they block private Google shuttle

That is Max Bell Alper of Occupy SF.

taopaoon Google employee shouts down protesters as they block private Google shuttle

This is a fiction that was staged by the union organizers.

https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/41014399019373363...

taopaoon Download a copy of your Gmail and Google Calendar data

You must be smoking something that is making you way too paranoid.

taopaoon I've Been Using Evernote All Wrong. Here's Why It's Actually Amazing

It's Gawker's eHow, basically. http://lifehacker.com/wear-your-bathrobe-all-morning-long-to...

taopaoon Neuroon: Sleep mask for polyphasic sleep

I guess you could say that those entrepeneurs' sleep patterns have been...

(straps on a big ugly Neuroon ski-mask thing)

_disrupted._

YEAHHH!

taopaoon HTML5 game written in 0 lines of JS

If I was a mod, I would relabel these submissions to "extend your e-penis in 0 lines of JS."

taopaoon Microsoft In Talks To Buy Shoutcast And Winamp From AOL

not time 4 profred, in internets FIRST post winner!

taopaoon Mozilla’s reliance on Google is increasing: 90% of 2012 revenue

I would like to think they'd annihilate each other like antimatter and antimatter. Microsoft tried to smother OSS on many occasions, both directly, through FUD, and by proxy (SCO). Embrace extend extinguish. Steamrolling Windows-only solutions over standards. They just killed patent reform efforts.

It just seems like they embody the opposite of Mozilla organization's ideals.