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Congrats on presenting a diamond-alternative to her. The diamond trade is absolutely disgusting and unfortunately many people seem to equate "love" with a shiny rock. If it came down to it, I would have to reevaluate marrying someone that refused to believe otherwise.

Sounds like an answer from an affluent, white male college student to me!

Disagree. It's been one privacy blunder after the next- each further tarnishing the reputation of the company and service.

If you find oversharing, memes and cat pics valuable, then yes it's "valuable."

Yet you still plan on investing?

Why? Because one needs to be 18 to legally sign a contract.

If you had a credit card before 18, that means you were added on your parents account as an authorized user and you were piggybacking off of their credit history.

The greater problem here is that credit cards exist in the first place.

Yeah, Sony's requests were regarding the tools that, at the time, could make any PS3 crackable from official firmware.

A year later they have all those old PS3's off the shelves and none have firmware 3.55 or lower, so they appear to not care as much.

Why do people still think compete, quantcast, alexa, etc are accurate when they don't have tracking pixels installed on the sites they're showing traffic for?

Let's get one thing straight: these are not products, they're services. Nobody is producing anything here.

For small programs, something like CodeRunner is nice too: http://krillapps.com/coderunner/

For users of facebook, it's been one breach of trust after another.

Why You Should Never Say "UX" For User Experience

This is unfortunate but I'm reminded of this discussion from just over a week ago:

"Don't build your house on someone else's platform" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4093796

It's also worth checking out Chocolat: http://chocolatapp.com/

I think it's on par with Textmate and currently $34

Transmit doesn't seem that outstanding to me either.

I've also found that FTP clients on Mac are missing a nice feature found on many Windows clients: multi-part (accelerated) transfers.

Whenever I think about Facebook and the vast number of people using it, that quote is all I can remember.

Are people too dumb to care about their own privacy or do they just not care?

I wish that Safari on iPad had a plugin functionality for things like adblock and noscript. Sometimes web browsing can be excruciatingly slow from all the scripts and ads on websites.

Luckily there is an option to turn off JavaScript but there needs to be more control like whitelisting.

Agree with you on the results pages. I've found that Google's become much more cluttered since the "instant results" redesign and add in of the Google+ and preview buttons. I feel like the page even seems clunkier.

Regarding quality of results though, wasn't Google accusing Bing of directly copying search results somehow?

Since 2009, Microsoft has lost $5.5 billion on Bing and is losing $1 billion every quarter.

How is this even possible and how is buying Yahoo going to plug the holes? Bing search is horrible and their adcenter product is even worse.

This will be Lefkofsky and Mason's final cash out on the suckers that pick up GRPN tomorrow.

Glad he basically addressed the point I made here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3188980

Let's stick to this instead of all the hyping and hyperbole please.

Confused. Wasn't MG Siegler telling us how much this app would rock?

Seriously though, why hype something one has never used? Egg on his face.

So much for that spectacular business model that revolutionizes local business. The Groupon pump and dump will make a good chapter in a finance textbook someday.

You might agree with the Ars Technica review regarding the UI issues too http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.a...

I haven't upgraded from Snow Leopard based on what I've read and seen on the UI. I'd basically have to turn off most of the Lion "features" and then what would be the point of even upgrading?

Don't forget about this, which basically resets Lion to better defaults: https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx

Give this a read too: http://gizmodo.com/5417318/my-6247-royalty-statement-how-maj...

Yahoo Search has almost always been outsourced. Even in the early days their search index was run by a third party (OpenText, then AltaVista, then Inktomi, then Google, now Bing).

Whats Yahoo ever been about, though?

Even in the early days their search index was run by a third party (OpenText, then AltaVista, then Inktomi, then Google, now Bing) and most of their major properties like Yahoo Mail and Store were acquisitions like Four11 Rocketmail and Viaweb.

Just seems like Yahoo has been a long series of acquisitions.

I know where you're going with this and agree with what you're saying.

I'm just waiting for Google or Facebook employees to chime in on this discussion. They love to talk about the great things they're working on, such as building "better" advertising, but never talk about the content of these ads.

Having run targeted PPC campaigns on Facebook before, I can report back that the ROAS/ROI is typically not very good at all.

Groupon is exploiting small businesses. This has nothing to do with jealousy and has everything to do with what's right and what's wrong.

Doubleclick is their adserving platform. Thus, the engine behind Google's profits.

Ever heard of Performics, ConnectCommerce or DART?

Yeah, I suppose the end justifies the means, right?