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I'm sorry, can't refrain from correcting you. It's Gandhi not Ghandi. And I see this mistake very prevalent.

In general it's a fine balance of what makes a v1. It's a huge challenge to identify those features that are must have vs those that are good to have. A poor v1 experience will chase your early adopters away and I doubt many people give a second try at all. But a delayed product and late or no feedback from users would result in building a product that is tangential to what the user actually wants. No amount of user studies would fill in that gap. In this particular case, however, if I'm listing down all my expenses, I definitely would also want to sum it up and expect that sum to automatically update too. If I and those who think so are in the minority, well and good. For an app so elegant, no one would want or hope it to fail. But if you are releasing the app and not expecting or ready for honest feedback, I can't see a point in releasing it in the first place.

Is there a reason you chose to do this as an app instead of a webapp?

How does it matter if I use data for my phone or my computer? To some extent I agree that this would end up costing higher when the carrier has unlimited data. But even there, if more people start "misusing" the connection (download songs, movies?) the price is going to go up and you don't need tethering to do that.

To give you a perspective: Tethering is available in India with every single connection. You just need a supporting phone (USB or WiFi). The plans are all capped there but so are most plans here. You guys seriously have to wake up and realise that you are severely restricted on everything from which phones you can buy to how you use your phone and what apps are installed. I mean, seriously!

I think it's all about demand. You can compare the following two links for yourself. It's really easy to get a laptop without any OS in India.

Amazon: http://amzn.to/OasYWz

Flipkart: http://bit.ly/Q72mcV

What you say makes sense for the screening rounds - resume shortlisting and a phone screen. These are centered around rejecting candidates. But face to face interviews are supposed to be the other way. As far as I know, Google asks for the GPA mostly towards the end. That doesn't save them any time. It shows they care about academics.

On a general note, is there any company that tries to extract patterns out of their employees performance track records; like a feedback loop into their interview process?

This is one of the most careless mistakes devs make especially those not so experienced with security. Not without a reason it is there in the fourth spot of OWASP top ten: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Top_10_2010-A4

I really love Github and have been trying to get it adopted in my organization. After the recent events though I'm having second thoughts. I don't think any application is 100% fool proof. But a well known vulnerability; one that is always brought up in any audit, going unnoticed for so long? I honestly did not expect this from Github.

Anyone who remembers the initial events would remember very well that the Nano was overbooked initially. So it is not the price point that led to lowered sales.

Cheap in price is in general associated with cheap in quality as well - market psychology. People buy it only when they feel it is good enough. Nano having been already branded and popularized as cheap in price got severely damaged by a few glitches and got rebranded as cheap in quality.

Essentially, production delays and a few unpopular news items made people reconsider their choices and before Nano could recover the market is filled with cars in the small segment made by Honda (who thought of a Honda car in small segment), Maruti/Suzuki, Ford, Hyundai...etc. Also remember that it was Nano which spawned a new generation of small segment cars by various manufacturers who would otherwise have not considered the option at all.

India is doing good in software patents and drug patents as well. Software cannot be patented and drugs have to be innovative (incremental is not good enough).

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-01-13/india...

May be someone could answer a question I have for a long time.

There are two different modes of operations wrt the mobile phone industry. US and most other European countries package phone and services together. Whereas in a lesser sophisticated market like here in India phone and services are independent of each other.

Both have their own pros and cons - Here I would never choose a crappy network because they have a better phone (I buy the phone of my choice) but at the cost of paying an extra premium (and that's quite a bit) for the phone (and the freedom to switch network anyday). The advantage wanes away as more operators provide better choice (but there is always the possibility that a phone maker could enter into an exclusive agreement).

Which of these models would result in a better service for the customer? Which is likely to succeed (or rather, be more successful)?

>> Bad position

Bad sitting posture, bad chairs and anything that could strain the spinal cord could result in serious issues. A friend was just short of a disk slip because of his sitting posture. He had a bad headache and after a diagnosis that took a month it turned out to be a problem with his spine.

If they are using number of questions as the benchmark I would buy your argument. It doesn't matter if pageviews is considered. Developing for Android and searching for a solution related to android need not happen from an android device. Most developers don't code in their handhelds.

"Now isn't that cruelty" - was meant at the species going extinct. Just a pun. Not a literal comparison with slaughter.

Hypothetical question. Let's say this fruitions and is widely popular. Wouldn't that mean we would simply stop rearing cattle and poultry? Would that mean the species will go extinct? Now isn't that cruelty.

>>but even if they havent, someone other company would've done so.

This is a hypothetical statement and there are n different ways our world could have diverged. Better not to speculate on how things could have moved forward.

In any case, it didn't look it was a natural progression of technology before Windows became popular as the preferred OS for a personal computer.

Exaggeration and over generalization. You should check with a decent CA on the number of people availing their services to file tax. And just so you know there are 30 million people filing tax returns every year. Quite a low number (in comparison to the population) but definitely not a small market.

You still have to file tax returns. There are many reasons for that. Just to state one, capital gains doesn't come under the ambit of TDS.

Actually you don't even need photoshop. Firebug would do.

Amazon has created new markets. The article mentions Kindle and AWS. The ebook reader and ebooks did not (really) exist before Kindle. Same with AWS.

My first phone was a Nokia. My subsequent phones were Nokia too. All these phones predate the iPhone era. Nokia's phone were rock solid. One even survived a fall from the first floor with minor scratches. But their interface was one of the clumsiest; inconsistent, not very user friendly and sometimes not very usable. The only two things I remember doing is messaging and phone calls. I haven't got my hands on a WP7 yet. But judging by my ZuneHD I'm sure the interface must be very good. So far I was hoping that the deal would bring a solid phone with a pretty interface to the market. But now it's obvious, it's going to be another superb phone spoiled by the OS and the interface.

The concept is great. Kudos to that. Just a minor quirk - there is no timezone information in the create new call page. Even if timezones are not supported, indicating the current timezone would have helped.

Introducing Cleartrip Enamel - http://blog.cleartrip.com/journal/2011/4/1/introducing-clear...

Apple should follow suit.

This is not new. This has been there for quite sometime.

You should read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre

"Since 1983, it is defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum in 1⁄299,792,458 of a second"

Piracy might be one of the reasons. But there is another possible reason - underpowered machines. Unlike the western world, owning a computer is still a luxury here (India). Most people are stuck with old machines where firefox and chrome are terribly slow.

I was expecting India to have a much higher share. But as statcounter's stats[1] suggests, chrome already has ~25% share. IE in general and IE6 in particular are losing market share drastically. This is a welcome trend.

[1] http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-IN-monthly-201002-201102

Starts at about $150; decent ones are about $300. (http://www.flipkart.com/android-all-mobiles?query=android...).

Chrome 11.0.686.0. Ubuntu 10.10. No issues here.

Works with BBC. Thanks.

Hotmail now has a limit of 25GB. Setting up an email forward to a hotmail account is an easy solution.