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.
"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. :)
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.
"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...