Charuru
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Comment · 15 years ago
Comment · 15 years ago
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.
Comment · 15 years ago
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.
Comment · 15 years ago
Sounds unfair, developers don't get paid, why do designers do.
Comment · 15 years ago
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?
Comment · 15 years ago
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!
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.