Hacker News: neuroelectronic

New comment by neuroelectronic in "Who Rules America: An Investment Manager's View on the Top 1%"

neuroelectronic — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 03:11:49 +0000

I think you're just confused.

New comment by neuroelectronic in "Who Rules America: An Investment Manager's View on the Top 1%"

neuroelectronic — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 03:11:31 +0000

He was calling out notable exceptions...

| but it's infrequent to meet one whose wealth wasn't acquired through direct or indirect participation in the financial and banking industries.

New comment by neuroelectronic in "Amazon App Store: Rotten To The Core"

neuroelectronic — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:49:25 +0000

I guess you're leaving the actual comparison as an exercise for the reader. IIRC, both involved people who had little business savvy and a missed opportunity presented as a regretful decision. no money is exchanged here however, and they never detail the cost occurred to them by the extra load.

New comment by neuroelectronic in "Amazon App Store: Rotten To The Core"

neuroelectronic — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:42:45 +0000

Yes, but they still pay you as if they charged full price. Sounds like a pretty good deal to me. The description thing is just odd though.

New comment by neuroelectronic in "Amazon App Store: Rotten To The Core"

neuroelectronic — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:37:35 +0000

I'm pretty sure this is dramatized to fish for more sales.

New comment by neuroelectronic in "Amazon App Store: Rotten To The Core"

neuroelectronic — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:34:32 +0000

He definitely is. The developers definitely should get paid 20% of their asking price for free downloads because some people think that's what happens. Amazon should definitely be responsible of their perception in the eyes of a few niave developers.

New comment by neuroelectronic in "Amazon App Store: Rotten To The Core"

neuroelectronic — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:31:45 +0000

Nobody would buy an app from a developer who did this.

New comment by neuroelectronic in "Amazon App Store: Rotten To The Core"

neuroelectronic — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:29:22 +0000

I don't know, but hear it is.

New comment by neuroelectronic in "Diablo 3 Real Money Auction House Details"

neuroelectronic — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:05:53 +0000

What a joke. No wonder this game is taking so long to release. Creating a global marketplace like this is a serious development effort. This isn't a game anymore.

New comment by neuroelectronic in "Learn Perl in about 2 hours 30 minutes"

neuroelectronic — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:57:32 +0000

obviously in such a small (in terms of computing in general) discipline, a general purpose language might not be the best. Now if you want to publish your results to AWS and a website and pull data from a website front-end, etc. You can probably do it quickest with ducttape.

New comment by neuroelectronic in "Fox challenges cord-cutters by sticking TV shows behind paywall"

neuroelectronic — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:30:04 +0000

Challenge accepted.

New comment by neuroelectronic in "Amazon removes link to Kindle store from iOS app"

neuroelectronic — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 18:08:01 +0000

Interesting approach, but the problem here is Apple doesn't sell books on iPhone (or rather 3rd parties do and they don't do a very good job of it). This is more like a retroactive, me-to I want that market move. The Kindle app product is far superior for reading as I understand. If you're going to release a platform, you shouldn't be doing this kind of stuff. It's a similar situation as net-neutrality.

New comment by neuroelectronic in "Amazon removes link to Kindle store from iOS app"

neuroelectronic — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:58:25 +0000

| If they have their own bookstore they're trying to run why should they enable a competitor's in their own home?

If Microsoft spent so much on R&D for Windows 95 and IE, why shouldn't they build it into the OS? Why shouldn't they lock down their APIs to make it difficult to make competing products inside their OS?

Really?

New comment by neuroelectronic in "Finally, USPS.com got nice look'n'feel"

neuroelectronic — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:53:44 +0000

Did they hire Apple for this?

New comment by neuroelectronic in "Aaronsw indicted for hacking MIT network to download millions of JSTOR docs"

neuroelectronic — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 21:19:57 +0000

Did he ever manage to republish the articles? Doesn't look like it.

New comment by neuroelectronic in "Apple deals massive patent blow to HTC, Android in serious trouble"

neuroelectronic — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 23:27:49 +0000

I also read the patents, and to me, it sounds like Apple has patented both the smart phone, and applications that use a network.

New comment by neuroelectronic in "Amazon announces unlimited MP3 storage with any Cloud Drive plan"

neuroelectronic — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 06:47:47 +0000

You can use the web player through safari.

New comment by neuroelectronic in "Why Only One in Four Teens is Employed"

neuroelectronic — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 18:45:08 +0000

I think it's generally accepted at this point that the WSJ has become the conservative mouthpiece of Murdoch since it's acqusition in 2007.

New comment by neuroelectronic in "[dead]"

neuroelectronic — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 23:39:56 +0000

Circle jerk reddit posts on HN?

New comment by neuroelectronic in "Why Google + Will Win"

neuroelectronic — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 18:55:25 +0000

You are delusional. any data? Facebook doesn't sell any user data? Not only do they sell user metrics, they sell actuall user generated content.