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We were engaged in 2006 and I forwarded that article to my soon to be wife. Her answer was: I don't think this is funny. I ended up buying a 10k diamond ring. We're still happily married with 1 beautiful 8 y.o. daughter. Ask any married guy and they'll all say the same: pick your battles!


How bad do the fights have to be to make 10k not worth arguing over?


It sounds more that both of you are [insanely lucky to be / oblivious of being] well off rather than that you're gifted with exceptional knowledge about marriage.


Exactly. Who is one person to judge what someone else finds important or gets pleasure from even if invented by a marketing person? What is the value of a football or soccer game or a host of other things people spend money on. Ripoff is in the eyes of the beholder.


It doesn't cost 3 months salary and support death in Africa to watch a football or soccer game.


Although it does support permanent brain injury in football players.


Who said it was funny in the first place? The article touches some important, serious topics.


I think she's letting him pretend he was joking so as to avoid a fight...


That's my experience as well and creating+marketing a brand new product is a ton of work.


Hilarious and anecdotally true in my one experience.


Quite true for google. Less (but still kinda) for Facebook IME.


Yup, ran into most of these when I interviewed at many of the large tech companies...


Can you share the details of the site's tech stack?


Absolutely. It's run on the Magento OpenSource shopping cart, and it's a LAMP environment.


Question on EcomHub. Did you use them right from the begining?

Also how did you get the intial product data i.e pics etc?


Didn't use them right from the beginning, no. Have been using them to sync inventory for about 6 to 9 months now, and just recently started using them for order routing and sending out tracking numbers.

Original product data was gathered from the manufacturer, as well as independent research.


Wow, amazing


Seattle, WA (Belltown), Full Time, early stage startup

2 positions open:

- Web UI designer. Microsoft stack. Lean startup, Small team, you'll have immediate impact

- Systems engineer to install our server at clients sites and do general IT support for our office.

If interested, send your resume to vpayette@hotmail.com and I'll fill you in on the details.


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