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The fact that they are using rails demonstrates more newbie-style cluelessness, to me. Not even remotely a good choice. But, the sort of things 4 guys fresh out of college with no …

To the average person who hasn't encountered this word much, it is reminiscent of 'spores' and 'diarrhea'. Clearly, not the best branding.

I think anyone might find it confusing when they search for something specific and their words are automatically changed - except for spelling fixes.

It has a lot to do with Reddit in that Reddit was available, better, and already fairly well known. It's not like the article could possibly go "How Digg's Whatever Benefited Mixx.…

Oh no, you mean they have to go to Starbucks or something?

I, too was annoyed when Google changed to automatically 'fixing' your terms a few years back. Sometimes it's useful, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes they TELL you at the top, sometim…

I have seen a blank page on Google, too within the past couple of days. Never saw anything of the sort before. It was when I clicked to try a search on News, and I couldn't get tha…

I'm sure they do that on a bit by bit basis, when they're isolating one transaction at a time, but are you sure that when they 'freeze' an entire account, they reverse all of the t…

I totally agree. But still, these people are serious in a way. It's generally the hobby or very-very entry level range. The thing is, they'll spend plenty of money on supplies and …

Ha, that's funny. I work with web advertising for micro businesses and some people just will NOT pay even $10-20 for a web ad to be designed.

It's not 'virtual' money. We're not talking tokens here, this is actual money.

Directing to the original source is more authoritative and informative.

Their site really is slow as can be. I dread not being able to dig something up in my email, that means I have to go use Paypal's search - each page can seriously take 10-15 second…

Look how they recently froze $10m that was donated to Burning Man. Seriously, how does they review process work, exactly? They could try Googling the customer and find out it's an …

Sure, rebooting is often the most straightforward way to fix runtime issues because it resets everything. In this case, sounds like resetting the clock would have been just as effe…

If the US, EU, and Japan are doomed, who isn't? I don't think the answer is China and India. China's plan seems to be to lurch full steam ahead (no pun intended) into our style of …

I think you're seeing a knee-jerk reaction to what is seen as a knee-jerk reaction to Microsoft. The truth is, MS clearly sucks beyond any hope. People are sick of hearing it, thou…

Are there attractive, single members of the opposite sex involved with this? If so, just let me know which colleges I should apply to.

NO, I did the opposite. I had a successful, promising career dong something totally unrelated, and decided I'd had enough and it was time to do something new. Now I'm a software de…

I think that's reading a lot into this paraphrasing.

Why say 'better'? That's a value judgement. Better informed and more logical is good enough for me, and somewhat hard to dispute.

The less compilation, the better.

Oops, RMS probably would have punched me for that. Okay, look into 'free software' and the phenomenon known as 'GNU'.

I wonder if that has changed recently? I recall hearing about this issue in the past in regards to Office and Wine.

You might want to look into the concept 'open source' and study the phenomenon known as 'linux'. It sounds as if you've never heard of either one.