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Charuruon This is what it's like for an innocent man to spend thirty years in jail

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.

Charuruon Burning Chrome

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.

Charuruon Designers, how do we get you guys to contribute to open source projects?

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.

Charuruon Designers, how do we get you guys to contribute to open source projects?

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

Charuruon The Myth of Japan's 'Lost Decades'

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?

Charuruon Asynchronous Iteration Patterns (in Node.js)

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

Charuruon I built a 'Crush Notifier' 3 years ago. No one cared.

I still don't care.

Charuruon Why didn't the Romans have hot air balloons?

No... just no. :S

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

Charuruon Crush Notifier backlash: if Dan Lowenherz is a crook so is your favorite company

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.

Charuruon Why didn't the Romans have hot air balloons?

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.

Charuruon OnLive willl give you a free console if you buy a game

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

Charuruon OnLive willl give you a free console if you buy a game

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.

Charuruon OnLive willl give you a free console if you buy a game

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"

Charuruon Is the omission of Chrome from the suggested list of browsers deliberate?

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

Charuruon Google Forecloses on Content Farms with "Farmer" Algorithm Update

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.

Charuruon Google Forecloses on Content Farms with "Farmer" Algorithm Update

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.

Charuruon Reminder to HN: Think "how will this software get my users laid?"

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

Charuruon Show HN: I'll help you name your next startup/product for $50

You have two vowels next to each other. Not good

Charuruon Rate my startup - Slowcop - measure your website's speed

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

Charuruon Spreedly Core - API powered payments w/o burden of PCI compliance

I want this so much.

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

Charuruon Show HN: SiteSupport.com - Remote Desktop For Webbased Applications

I didn't have sound on so I couldn't hear what you were saying. But my first impression from that video was that you need to take a shower.

Then it got impressive, and I understood what was going on.

I think it would behoove you to just start the demo immediately without preface. I can't be the only one without sound on.

Charuruon Steve Jobs Email Suggests In-App Subscriptions Don't Apply to SaaS?

I thought this was common knowledge. He IS regarded as a shill. His analysis is still often pretty good as long as one acknowledges the bias.

Charuruon Why David Karp Started Tumblr: Blogs Don't Work For Most People

You don't have to write a title. That's huge, I hate writing titles.

Charuruon TinyGrab abandons iOS because of new App Store rules

Is it just me or does this comment not make sense?

Charuruon A Simple MVC Setup in Node.js

3 months ago I would agree. But just recently many things have come together for node.js.

uglify.js, mongoose, and stylus, just to name a few.

Charuruon Google is a surveillance company

Google is not a surveillance company. It's an AI company with a rapacious appetite for data so that it can learn about the world and make better decisions.

Charuruon Website Layouts

Read the HN FAQ. That title is against the rules.

Charuruon What will happen to Bit.ly links when Gaddafi shuts down the Internet in Libya?

Uh, yes?

Charuruon If Libya Shuts Down the Internet, What Happens To .ly Domains?

The schadenfreude is strong in this thread.

Charuruon The Missing Native/Web App Link: Google Says Native Client Almost Ready To Go

Pretty sure this is part of their ChromeOS strategy. It would be impressive and a big differentiator for a tablet (presumably an x86 tablet will exist at some point) to be able to run srs bzn programs.