Having moved to Austin from NYC, I'm struggling to figure out exactly what part of NYC is a luxury. Even when I was there I did my best to either live in NJ, or some burb with train access. NYC has a lot of great food of all types and mass transit, but I'm not sure I'm missing any of the rest of it.

Austin isn't any better. Yes, google fiber, but we still don't know where it will be, and likely if you want to take advantage of cost of living you will LIVE in Round Rock, Cedar Park or Pflugerville and Google is not coming to those places. Much to my chagrin.

Seattle is pretty expensive, and while Portland is much cheaper, it is still more expensive than Austin. I would love to be in either of these places, the Austin heat is not for me, but I've never been able to get parity on CoL from job offers there and honestly that's all that matters to me right now.

Washington has no income tax, which like Texas is a big help, but you still can't beat Texas. Oregon has no sales tax, which is less valuable and likely offset by depending more heavily on income tax. I can see why these places may not have made the list.

However if you lose your job in Texas, you are basically shit out of luck. So it's NOT a great place to come to try out a start-up where cobra may not exist, and where the ACA is laughed at. It's only good for big, established companies.

The editorializing is kind of silly, that's what comments are for.

No mere employees can afford SXSW.

Unlike Fox news, most of this is actually true. Also, you must be new here, slashdot has been digging on MS since the day it was created. It's why many of us keep coming back.

If you're going to use MPI to make pie, you've got too many cooks in the kitchen.

That is not necessarily the case with regard to learning to code. In fact the post you are replying to is making the claim that it is definitely not the case.

Nonsense. Humans are also born with an innate ability to reason and problem solve. Any 2 year old knows that before she can put the cube in the shape sorter, she has to turn it first. By 5 years old children are expected to be able to create and follow complex tasks involving many steps.

That's exactly what computer programming is. It starts without any computer language, it starts with a flowchart. I cannot help but think this is actually a really useful thing for everyone to learn, given how many white collar jobs out there (that don't involve computer programming) involve implementing and modifying flowcharts.

But you can only get it from carrier pigeons.

It's just the bizarre world of numbers. Tablets are in theory cheap enough that every member of the family can have one, compared to one PC (which I can't believe anyone is seriously giving up). Then you have the work PC for every working adult in the family, which is not 1:1 for all teh world: lots of people don't use computers at work ever.

Better: what trend have they ever been ahead of?
- Computers? Nope.
- Phones? Nope.
- Tablets? Nope.
- Media convergence? Nope.
- Navigation? Nope.

Yet their revenue is insane. So it must be something other than timeliness.

The only auto maker you can fuck back.

Young college fresh-outs who are also making noise and want to be near bars and action. Then you get old, and noise makes your head hurt, and you realize your neighbors are huge dicks. Then you want to move to the 'burbs.

But even the suburbs are a compromise, the US is, comparatively, mostly empty space. Yet these companies all congregate in very small, very overpriced regions. There's plenty of cheap land almost anywhere else in the country, but they cluster up. I'd rather move somewhere that I can get a few acres and build my minimansion with big walls and, for the few hours a day I'm not at work, forget the rest of the world exists.

I got past my Apple hater issue because Apple turned itself around and started making a good product. It's not wart free, the app store is bullshit, their relationship with other evil corporations (AT&T to name one) makes me not trust them. But the product is very good.

At no point in the history of Microsoft has the quality of their product exceeded the horrifying things they CONTINUE to do. I cannot think of a single thing they make that I would buy because I actually want it, rather than because (for one reason or another) I have to have it.

Sounds like gambling to me.