Hacker News: Charuru

New comment by Charuru in "This is what it's like for an innocent man to spend thirty years in jail"

Charuru — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:47:58 +0000

But that's sort of how most things work though. The positive, good outcomes are sort of incidental (though hopefully intentional) side effects of a complex system of incentives that are usually not perfectly aligned.

ie, why does Exxon Mobil drill oil? Because they sincerely truly love that black stuff? No because they want to make money.

The system could probably be improved with good economic analysis, but just because the incentives are misaligned does not mean they're broken.

New comment by Charuru in "Burning Chrome"

Charuru — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:40:44 +0000

I agree with most of the article. Android and Chrome OS are great products, I just don't see how Google is going to make money from them.

Not sure about Chrome, but I feel like Android is a defensive measure against a possible monopoly. If one company controlled mobile then Google might be locked out of whatever greater potential mobile could reach. So Android doesn't necessarily have to be financially awesome to be strategically successful.

New comment by Charuru in "Designers, how do we get you guys to contribute to open source projects?"

Charuru — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 15:19:10 +0000

If you're talking about os products that are supported by a company, there are a great deal of paid designers, eg mozilla, webkit, android, etc.

Just in this context of getting people to 'contribute', we're explicitly referring to projects where the developers do not get paid.

New comment by Charuru in "Designers, how do we get you guys to contribute to open source projects?"

Charuru — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:54:03 +0000

Sounds unfair, developers don't get paid, why do designers do.

New comment by Charuru in "The Myth of Japan's 'Lost Decades'"

Charuru — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 12:43:48 +0000

Assuming this article is correct, I don't understand why any political leader would not 'fix' the growth calculations to be rosier. Surely there are great political incentives to do so, the Japanese parliament has really unpopular leaders basically all the time. Do the bureaucrats really have THIS much power that PMs are basically forced to sacrifice themselves for trade policy?

New comment by Charuru in "Asynchronous Iteration Patterns (in Node.js)"

Charuru — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 20:21:36 +0000

Abstractions are absolutely necessary imo. Code like that is too long to be easily maintainable.

http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/browse_thread/thread/c...

Also, that guy is responsible for nodetuts, which I'm very thankful for!

http://nodetuts.com/index.html

New comment by Charuru in "I built a 'Crush Notifier' 3 years ago. No one cared."

Charuru — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 16:25:39 +0000

I still don't care.

New comment by Charuru in "Why didn't the Romans have hot air balloons?"

Charuru — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 12:21:55 +0000

No... just no. :S

If you want to debate, please sign up for http://arguex.com/ I'm not going to do it here.

New comment by Charuru in "Crush Notifier backlash: if Dan Lowenherz is a crook so is your favorite company"

Charuru — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:44:57 +0000

No ill will vs Dan, but this is not like Steve Jobs taking an academic project from Xerox and integrating it into his system. This is like Steve Jobs joining Xerox and presenting the same system to the Xerox manager under a different title.

There's nothing different btwn this and Zynga's cloneVille tactics which all other game companies universally hate.

New comment by Charuru in "Why didn't the Romans have hot air balloons?"

Charuru — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:06:09 +0000

Are you saying that war increases technological growth? That's crappy pop-history that's largely been discredited. Competition invites advancement, blowing up your competitors does nothing.

New comment by Charuru in "OnLive willl give you a free console if you buy a game"

Charuru — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 09:08:09 +0000

What they really need is some sort of Flash plugin version. I have a CR-48 that would be perfect for this.

New comment by Charuru in "OnLive willl give you a free console if you buy a game"

Charuru — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 08:22:47 +0000

AFAIcantell they only do PC games (or ports), so they don't have that problem. They probably won't deal in specialty hardware, that would be a nightmare. Just standard, out of the box hardware that can contribute to their overall processing power even 5-10 years later.

New comment by Charuru in "OnLive willl give you a free console if you buy a game"

Charuru — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 05:44:51 +0000

It's virtualized, and considering not everyone plays games at the same time, you would prob get a lot more than 4 players per "pc"

New comment by Charuru in "Is the omission of Chrome from the suggested list of browsers deliberate?"

Charuru — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:28:43 +0000

That's because that's the page you're directed to when they detect an incompatible browser. This page is probably static.

New comment by Charuru in "Google Forecloses on Content Farms with "Farmer" Algorithm Update"

Charuru — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 05:02:09 +0000

I didn't say that it was based off of the spam tool. But going on Google clearly had targets. It's not like they couldn't figure out what farmers were without the tool.

New comment by Charuru in "Google Forecloses on Content Farms with "Farmer" Algorithm Update"

Charuru — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 04:42:04 +0000

I'm vaguely disturbed by all the talk about "sites people want to see fall". That sounds like almost manual bias against certain sites to me. Didn't hear anything about language analysis and figuring out what is high quality vs low quality content.

New comment by Charuru in "Reminder to HN: Think "how will this software get my users laid?""

Charuru — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 04:26:24 +0000

I guess I'm in trouble. My software does the opposite of helping people get laid. It's related to anime.

New comment by Charuru in "Show HN: I'll help you name your next startup/product for $50"

Charuru — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:09:26 +0000

You have two vowels next to each other. Not good

New comment by Charuru in "Rate my startup - Slowcop - measure your website's speed"

Charuru — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:18:54 +0000

actually you can cache it. Or at least I think so...

New comment by Charuru in "Spreedly Core - API powered payments w/o burden of PCI compliance"

Charuru — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 05:17:27 +0000

I want this so much.

That sounds amazing if true, however the design is not trust inspiring.