tomcorrigan

It may suit your political narrative to claim that junk white bread costs over $4 a loaf but the facts are markedly different. http://www.news.com.au/business/first-it-was-milk-now-grocer...

Please don't shoot from the hip when you are so ill informed.

You mean PAYG withholding not FBT. But you are certainly correct that an ABN is not necessary to charge for something

Not! Fucking! Always!

We most certainly do have yearly property taxes in Australia. Your principal place of residence is exempt. Your holiday house, or your office building is not.

That is why residential property is almost entirely freehold not leasehold.

Doubtful. Land taxes are extremely common in Australia. All land is taxable, however exemptions exist for your own principle place of residence (ie home). If you own a holiday house or investment property then your are liable for land tax. That is the reason houses are primarily sold freehold as opposed to leasehold.

I read that little anecdote completely differently. It came across to me not as a story about suppressing hobbies/interests but rather being willing to extend your boundaries/experience new things or live with a bit of chaos in your life. Something that his friend with the perfectly arranged Star Trek VHS collection might not have done. (I know I'm generalising massively here but whenever an anecdote is reduced to a sentence or two it typically relies on stereotypes and generalisations to paint a fuller picture)

Judging by a lot of replies in this thread I think the below statement might be well on the money:

> it seems like some people are grasping for reasons to dislike this guy

It depends where you look for the common meaning. To native English speakers in the UK, Australia, New Zealand (ie outside North America, coincidentally including the country where the English language developed) specious has one very clear meaning

I would also direct you to the usage examples in your link. All of which use specious in a context that implies deception of outright falsity. I have never ever seen specious used synonymously with obsolescence.

But Drupal is using symfony2 components, so it doesn't make sense either way.

From the linked article:

> While dwellings are vacant for a number of reasons they are primarily associated with holiday areas

> laws that state any home improvement must bring the entire house up to current building codes

This is patently false

> this leads to urban decay and property abandonment on a massive scale

Australia does not have property abandonment nor urban decay on a massive scale. Go to Detroit to witness such things.

This is the thing that is holding me back from embracing dropbox with open arms. I of course have separate accounts for work (2 jobs, 2 accounts) and a third private account. I don't mix the data on the for the reasons that the top poster listed. If there was a convenient way to sync all three through the desktop client I would be overjoyed in much the same way I was when gmail/google apps allowed multiple sign ins.

Easily, the annotation parser ignores all comments that it doesn't recognise.

    /**
     * @var integer $id
     *
     * @ORM\Column(name="id", type="integer")
     * @ORM\Id
     * @ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")
     * some comment that the doctrine parser will ignore completely
     */
    private $id;

Please provide an example of such a tool for PHP. Also provide a working example of PHP code where removing all annotations causes working code to fail silently. In my experience with using annotations in PHP if the annotations are missing/invalid the compiling code throws very descriptive error messages.

Your good, valid, technical reasons are anything but.

Apparently the reason the tunnels were closed was that Transurban could not operate the emergency sprinkler system and smoke extraction fans. Surely it would have been cheaper for Transurban to pay a few MFB fire trucks to be stationed outside the tunnels and close a lane to guarantee them access in case of an emergency. That way traffic could flow, tolls could be charged, and nobody would be as upset. I am sure Transurban make more than the fire brigade would charge them per hour.

Yeah, it's an Australian $2 coin in one of the photos. I'm quite surprised that being ~16 hours ahead of the competition is worth an airfare to Australia but impressed nonetheless.

How is this at all relevant to the linked article?

I too am most excited about the symfony2 support. Especially with regards to type hinting from the dependency injection container.

I'm just going to quote the HN guideline back to you. > please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait.

Meh. This has already been posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4320429

Also, kindly avoid the linkbait title, dropbox did not get hacked, some of its users' account credentials were compromised on other sites.

The old one did too

You have missed the point. Your girlfriend did not need to learn to program in order to discover what can be achieved with a basic program.

For the common woman or man the revelation of computing comes from seeing what can be achieved, not how it is achieved.

No. Everybody should learn about computers, how to turn them on, how to browse the internet, etc. Not knowing the fundamentals of programming does not prevent a person from achieving any of the above.

In a word: Yes. Of course, depending on your app YMMV!