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> I am appalled by the lack of respect Andrew Mason gets on Hacker News

It's almost like you haven't been paying attention to a single thing about Groupon for the last couple of years.

You could start here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupon#Reception) but somehow I think that wouldn't matter to you.

Please stay far away from the startup scene. You're toxic.

Edit: since the downvotes from assumed sycophants are pouring in, I'm not afraid to defend my position: the story of the Groupon pump and dump is well-known here and criticism has always been widely upvoted. But once the man is right here in our midsts you retreat. This is essentially the same behavior we see over and over of society promoting the psychopath. Others might have short memories but I don't.

clobberon LulzSec hackers jailed

> As far as I can tell, all major hacks by lulzsec predate the conversion of Sabu

According to wiki, "He later turned informant for the FBI, working with the agency for over ten months to aid them in identifying other hackers from Lulzsec and related groups"

The CIA's website went down June 15th, 2011 (towards the end of the LulzSec campaign) - definitely while Sabu was working for the FBI.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hector_Xavier_Monsegur

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2659326

clobberon LulzSec hackers jailed

Yes, because domestic spying agencies (or their controlling entities) couldn't possibly have anything to gain by increased control over the web- let's say through legislation, followed by the outcome of events like LulzSec.

Edit: link to old discussion here since this his hard for some people to grasp and make the connections: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2659326

clobberon LulzSec hackers jailed

Not sure where you're going with this. Care to explain?

clobberon LulzSec hackers jailed

Yeah, it's interesting that this whole LulzSec thing turned out to be a "false flag psyop" by the FBI. This would mean that while "Sabu" was an informant, many of the hacks performed were sanctioned by the FBI.

clobberon Why I'm Furious with Silicon Valley (2011)

I agree he seems to be completely proving the parent poster's point along with the one from michaelochurch (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5678332).

clobberon Exodus - A cycle-accurate Mega Drive/Genesis Emulator

> but i haven't come across any emulator that has a debugger

Mednafen, Stella, FCEUX just to name a few

clobberon Why Twitch Needs A Competitor

Putting aside the fact that articles on Business Insider are extremely sensationalized, what about Youtube or Ustream? It really wouldn't take much for Youtube to implement the rest of the features Twitch has.

clobberon Leaked Pitch Deck Reveals How Foursquare Plans To Make Money

> only bringing in $2M a year

Surprise, surprise. Startup burning through venture capital while actual 'revenue' is smoke and mirrors. We've seen this movie before.

clobberon Illinois moves to legalise employer access to workers' social media accounts

What's your point here?

It still legalizes asking for accounts and there's still room for misinterpretation.

clobberon Illinois moves to legalise employer access to workers' social media accounts

Strongly disagree.

ANY type of legalized access to employee social media accounts is bad. Period.

Yet this is what we get when we freely throw any of our personal information online.

clobberon Fix random few-second freezes in Mountain Lion

I've tried this and so far, so good!

I'm rather annoyed as it seems like a simple "housekeeping" task that OS X should have already handled. When upgrading the OS, Apple always re-hides my user Library folder and wipes out my TRIM support kext for my "3rd party" SSD, but they cannot perform clean up like this? Very disappointing.

clobberon Google Fiber announced for Provo, Utah

That's cute. Quite the shadow of the doubt you have.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_co...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_electronic_surveillance_pro...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trailblazer_Project

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

But move along, nothing to see here!

clobberon Google Fiber announced for Provo, Utah

Oh yes, precisely my point rolls eyes. Since you seem to be aware of the NSA's intentions, aside from your sarcasm, perhaps you could explain the purpose of this data center: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/

Just because you're not paying attention doesn't mean shady things aren't happening.

clobberon Why Entrepreneurs Hate Working at Big Companies

The word "entrepreneur" is getting used as a blanket term way too much to the point that anyone with an idea, CRUD app or working at a startup is an "entrepreneur."

clobberon Google Fiber announced for Provo, Utah

I was more trashing the NSA's record because they ARE doing sinister shit.

We just don't know 100% if Google is being forced to play along. I'd say it's really naive to think there would be public 'evidence' in the first place. You say it's unfair but I say it's critical thinking. Given the circumstance and the history, I'd say it's completely fair.

Either way it's terrifying, wouldn't you agree?

clobberon Samsung admits to posting fake user reviews on the web

> Many people have this attitude, yes. That doesn't make it universally true or even close

History shows humans will do anything to better their odds and leverage their success.

> And while it definitely happens and is widespread > citing exactly one example and suggesting it shows a trend or proves a point.

Guess you kinda just did the same thing? Just because I'm citing one example doesn't make it any less true and it seems we have two examples now: Samsung and Yelp.

Sorry, but this is rampant in e-commerce.

clobberon Samsung admits to posting fake user reviews on the web

Absolutely commonplace. Anything is 'fair' in business and nothing is off the table when it comes to money.

Even the small/local businesses do this. Just check Yelp reviews. Hell, Yelp used to allow businesses to move their best reviews to the top if they paid them enough.

1) http://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/yelp-and-the-business-...

2) http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/the-yelp-mafia/3116

3) http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/02/yelp-facing-class...

There was so much fallout from this back in 2009/2010 that Yelp had to turn the tables and pretend to play nice guy finally by outing businesses that buy positive reviews (starting last October).

clobberon Google Fiber announced for Provo, Utah

It seems fact at this point :(

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/google-nsa-secrecy-...

clobberon Google Fiber announced for Provo, Utah

This is an important point that will be ignored. But who cares since we can to sign into our facebooks with fiber internet, right?

clobberon All American Airlines Flights Grounded, Experiencing Nationwide Computer Outage

Right, because principals related to OOP would clearly be useful to COBOL running legacy systems and remembering marketing acronyms are indicative of how much a programmer is going to waste time.

clobberon What happens when you give 4chan images of the Boston Marathon?

And thanks to NDAA he can be detained indefinitely for that very reason! These are scary times.

clobberon All American Airlines Flights Grounded, Experiencing Nationwide Computer Outage

> Only one of them knew what any of the SOLID principles were as I named them off.

Here's to hoping I don't ever end up where you are. Let's just let programmers do programming instead of brushing up on their MBA/"Six Sigma" style time wasting.

clobberon You know, Google, the web already had this feature

http://www.opensource.apple.com/

Crazy, huh?

clobberon Diamonds Are Bullshit

> Writing off people who want or provide a diamond ring as mentally ill (as many people in this thread seem to be doing) is silly

No, wasting money on a valueless shiny rock is silly. But let's just keep advocating people 'keep up the tradition' instead.

clobberon Diamonds Are Bullshit

Just those pawn shops that will give you 10% of what your shiny rock is 'worth'

clobberon Diamonds Are Bullshit

> It is the mark of a sensible man that he cares what other people think about him

This is a really disgusting line of thinking

clobberon Startups Anonymous

Are there any sites around now like a modern fuckedcompany? The current startup world is definitely missing one of those. I guess we can look forward to that new HBO comedy, Silicon Valley from Mike Judge.

clobberon Best Buy ends work-from-home program

I really hope so because often times the new simply model themselves after the old - then nothing changes.