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Charuru··on The Missing Native/Web App Link: Google Says Native Client Almost Ready To Go
Would it be possible to port something like auto cad to chrome with this?
Charuru··on Zynga Raising $500 Million at $10 Billion Valuation
But it's only 10 times revenue.
Charuru··on Game Closure Makes it a Breeze to Build Multiplayer, Cross-Platform Games
Can someone explain the cross platform part? Are they going to publish to the AppStore?
Charuru··on Last.fm co-founder: Apple just fucked over online music subs for the iPhone
Too bad apple can actually do whatever they want rather than working within a codified framework. Loopholes are not going to work.
Charuru··on Hashbang URIs Aren't as Bad as You Think
Much of the speed increase (assuming fast and properly cached server) can come from the decreased need to repaint the entire DOM. For my site, this is a big deal.
Charuru··on Will the Female Founders Please Stand Up?
I do think if you're putting on a Female Founders event, you are under obligation to show up with some female founders. Like many other types of relationships, having mentors are as much about empathy, understanding, and having good role models as it is about actual business advice. The women can get advice from many other places, having Female in the title means the advice should have something to do with females.

> YCombinator created a dynamic where every man at the table was there to “advise” and every woman at the table was there to “be advised”. Every man was a “guest of honor” and every woman was a “paid attendee”.

No. This is just self victimization. It's called a coincidence, and something that should be changed. But reading into it too deeply will hurt you more than it helps you.

Charuru··on Mubarak ordered Tiananmen-style massacre of demonstrators, Army refused
From what I understand, the army stationed at Beijing also refused to fire on the demonstrators in 1989. However they obeyed the order to leave the city, not expecting what would happen next. That is, the politburo mobilized into Beijing an undereducated army from a remote area in a different province to do the deed.

The Egyptians have learned it seems. From what I understand the army did not just refused to fire but is also actively being disobedient.

Charuru··on IE9 vs. Firefox 4 (done in canvas)
Anyone else find this infographic hard to read?

Chrome 10.

Charuru··on How India's banks killed the future of commerce
Interesting to learn. Thanks!
Charuru··on How India's banks killed the future of commerce
It seems to me like it was the government that started the whole mess.
Charuru··on Poll: Who do you think will win Jeopardy with IBM's Watson playing?
They store lots of data into Watson's memory, including wikipedia, imdb, the bible. They run hundreds of algorithms attacking a question from different angles, and produce a confidence level for each answer.
Charuru··on Poll: Who do you think will win Jeopardy with IBM's Watson playing?
There's no way they would ask that question.
Charuru··on IBM's Watson starts on Jeopardy Tonight
You're right. Looks like IBM is doing pretty well.
Charuru··on IBM's Watson starts on Jeopardy Tonight
Shouldn't IBM start their own search engine if they have algorithms like this?

Or conversely, maybe Google should buy them?

Charuru··on Domainzomg: Super fast domain availability checking using WebSocket
It's also impossible to copy and paste the url I typed in?
Charuru··on "Move" — a simpler programming language as a subset of JavaScript
What about coffeescript.
Charuru··on I pay my wife to do my laundry
Must not be Asian. My friends give their wives all their money.
Charuru··on Domainzomg: Super fast domain availability checking using WebSocket
Doesn't work on iPad, which I'm using now as I lay in bed
Charuru··on Inside the DNA of the Facebook Mafia
Alright, Techcrunch is sometimes journalism.
Charuru··on Christopher Monsanto gives up trying to delete PL articles
This problem is hardy unique to this instance alone, or even to wikipedia alone. This is a question faced by All publications, that of target audience and market. Obviously on a tech forum like HN we're more likely to be interested in langs like factor. But imagine a journalist looking through langs to report on computer sci or a teenager looking for something new to study... It would be a waste of time.

Problem with wikipedia is that it does not have a target audience defined clearly enough to answer these questions easily. And as with many sites, except for the specific use case it was designrped for, it's not useful. For eacmple could a student learn any calculus from the calculus page?

We should stop trying force wikipedia to be the ideal resource for everything, as it's clearly impossible. There are better mediums for that.

Charuru··on Zynga Valuation Rises to Over $7 Billion
Uh, Zynga has been mostly advertising for a long time. I don't know the ratio now but I would not be surprised if it's still the majority of their revenue. Advertising is also money you know.
Charuru··on Adobe: More than 84M Smartphones and Tablets Support AIR
I get flash, but what's wrong with AIR?
Charuru··on Domainzomg: Super fast domain availability checking using WebSocket
Is there one which provides suggestions of similar words/synonyms?
Charuru··on Falling Off The Ladder: How Not To Succeed In Academia
Sounds like her biggest problem is this:

However, I was always hampered by self-doubt. My initial conviction -- essential for anyone who wants to make it as a scientist -- that I could really make a difference, maybe even win a few prizes and get famous, eroded when I realized that my brain was simply not wired like those of the phalanx of Nobelists I met over the years; I was never going to be original enough to be a star.

Seriously, what the hell does this mean. I believe this kind of confidence problem could be fixed by better mentorship earlier in life and perhaps a cultivation of a more hackerish mentality.

Charuru··on Apple sets deadline for Amazon's Kindle app to change - They want 30% per book
http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/img_2196.jpg

- Vic Gundotra

Charuru··on How Aaron Barr revealed himself to Anonymous
Define mob? It's ok for the government to imprison people. But when I do it it's called kidnapping.

Edit: Just to clarify, I agree if you mean mob as in an actual mob. However you're replying to a parent who's talking about government, so that led me to think you're implying government is some form of a mob.

A representative government with powers endowed to them by the people and working within the limits of a codified legal system is very different from a mob.

Charuru··on We’re not like Yammer or Chatter, and we don’t want to be
Why are you charging so much money?

Convore is free.

Charuru··on 1 bitcoin worth more than dollar
OK, I understand how they're created and how many there are. But why?
Charuru··on Ask HN: Sites that connect HN designers with developers?
Build it with me might be the one you're thinking of.

http://www.builditwith.me/

Charuru··on The difference betwen skill and luck.
You can also just google it with quotation marks.
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