shalinmangar

I loved Adioso! I used it all the time to find great deals in Europe. Thank you for building it!

Can you please explain how did you come up with the figure of 6.25m?

Whatsapp is hugely popular in India where phone contracts are not popular and most people use pay-as-you-go prepaid mobile services. Very few, if any, of them come with unlimited messages. Unlimited messages are a US-only thing I guess.

In case of Nexavar, another company is able to manufacture far more cheaply and that says something about Bayer. Either they are unable to manufacture cheaply or they are unwilling to price it cheaper.

Suppose that big pharma stops selling drugs in India. That wouldn't make much difference because the generic drug manufacturers would still make cheap copies of the drugs. The only downside would be that new drugs will take time to be introduced because of the time needed to reverse engineer the formulae and set up manufacturing capabilities.

I must point out that your comment does not apply to a large number of markets. Consumers in India, for example, decide on a handset independent of which carrier's service they use.

Samsung's devices compare very favorably to similarly priced devices. iPhones are very expensive compared to Samsung's devices in India and in my observation (warning: anecdotal evidence), most iPhone owners that I know have sourced their devices from the US (usually via the used device markets) to get around the price problem. There's no wonder that Samsung continues to thrive and Apple continues to languish in the Indian market.

>If that's the case, why has inflation been so low in the US in the last two years, when the Fed undertook the largest expansion of it's balance sheet in modern history? i.e. it has printed more money recently, than at any other time in it's mandate - but inflation AND inflation expectations are still low.

That is because all that inflation has been exported to other countries. There are economies who have bet their growth on exports and depend on a strong dollar.

From the article: "They observed that residents of the compound burned their trash, instead of putting it out for collection, and concluded that the compound lacked a phone or an Internet connection."

How do you go from burning trash to lack of phone or internet?

I've used at least three Android devices now and I always recommend people to buy only the flagship device of a manufacturer. They usually get upgrades...eventually (hello Samsung?) and the experience is usually better.

Why would they? They get free QA this way.

What I often wonder is why didn't Nokia decide to try its hand on both Android and Windows Phone 7? Samsung has managed to do this while keeping its in house platform intact. Experiment and see what finds uptake rather than bet a huge corporation on a single platform.

Although it'd be nice to have diffs available for all earlier versions but it doesn't need to be mandatory. A simple way to get started would be, for example, to make the diffs available for the last version released by Ubuntu 11.04 as well as the last security update on top of 11.04 -- which I guess should take care of the majority. If people are running older versions of the packages, or if they haven't applied security updates regularly, they download the complete binary.

"Well, it still has destroyed these industries."

No, the industries have destroyed themselves by letting piracy go out of hand when they could have done something about the root causes of piracy. Instead, they have focused their efforts on treating the symptoms and not the disease.

What can they do now? They can make it available, convenient and priced reasonably. Piracy may never go away but giving people an option between illegal and legal means of obtaining content can improve their chances of making money.

What is Panda update?

How is this different from ZooKeeper in terms of features offered or possible use-cases?

Java is quick to write because of the excellent IDEs out there. Typing out the full structure of a simple pojo by oneself makes one wonder why.

Per-employee earnings may make sense as an indicator of the health of a company but they do not mean much in this context because without the collective team, the earning per employee may be impossible to achieve.

Do people really believe that Apple wants to dominate the mobile market? It seems wasteful to critique sales comparisons of iOS vs Android when Apple has never shown any signs of making iOS devices a monopoly.

The article assumes that a functioning judicial and investigative system exists which can help you in a reasonable amount of time. If that were the case, bribery wouldn't have become so rampant in the first place.

How is one supposed to show evidence of wrongdoing? What keeps the government official from exercising his powers and punishing the reporter in the future?

I don't think it has anything to do with the domain. Every time I see another post about Color, I become more and more convinced that the $41 million dollars were meant to trigger exactly this kind of frenzy. The usefulness of the application depends on a lot of people using it simultaneously and Color making it big without this kind of buzz was almost impossible.

You are assuming that it is computed on page load.

What the author said is true, Quora and Q&A sites in general are more about accumulating knowledge than helping individuals. So, trying to help someone with an XY problem can get you penalized.

One service that I really liked was Aardvark which for a long time did not have public Q&A pages. Also, connecting people through IM allowed for a very personal and instant help.

You may be taking this to an extreme. Besides, bugs aren't so bad if you can fix them fast.

I call them RESTy or sometimes just HTTP APIs.

I don't think it was Google's intention to sell a lot of Nexus One units. I believe that they wanted to set a standard for Android phones over which other manufacturers could improve. Android phones before Nexus One were not good enough and they wanted to tell people that this is how an Android phone should be.

I cannot include my middle name on my twitter profile because they have a limit on how long a name can be.

Really? What about Red Hat, Canonical, SpringSource, Xen, Cloudera, Github etc.?