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The plan to pay for ETFs to switch from other carriers does not seem to make much financial sense. For a monthly plan of $50, it would take T-Mobile many years to break even on thi…

Your $30 plan must be grandfathered in. Their current deal is $50 for an "unlimited" plan that switches to EDGE after 500MB and $60 for a similar plan with a 2 GB limit (or 3 GB, c…

Agree, it could totally work for Amazon Fresh items, say, that are bound to be ordered regularly.

I hope it works too - it seems so cool. But I am not sure this is the big problem in this space. Current delivery time = 1 day for last mile + >1 day for warehouse -> local area Th…

hardik is actually a common Indian name.

You bring up a good point, which is what I keep wondering too - where do they go? Dropbox already has sync APIs [0] across both iOS and Android (and presumably desktop), which must…

Facebook has an explicit program (hackamonth) to avoid limiting internal mobility - https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/hackamon...

Julie Larson-Green brought the Ribbon interface to Office and then to other parts of Windows. Her ability to bring change to something as stable as the Office UI and the Windows Ex…

I agree there is a problem with the lack of knowledge, but I wouldn't assume that it is all regarding "shadowy private companies". A number of public privacy scares like the concer…

While it is reasonable to assume a user's intent, it is also reasonable to assume a content publisher's intent to monetize their content. An advertising-funded web is the reality o…

From what I have heard from people who work in pharma companies in India, the main reasons drugs are cheaper when manufactured in India are: - not much R&D costs to design new drug…

The article also quotes that this has changed in the last 7 years and adds more subtlety to the issue. "But in 2005, India brought its law in line with World Trade Organization (WT…

It isn't their fault alone. Lots of software has backward-compatibility breaking changes all the time. Maybe if all platforms ensured all existing applications worked correctly wit…

I don't think those words are very practical. For example, 4 consecutive runs produced: shippon preannouncer half-hourly withgang egotize baffs chapter monolater photoengraver beac…

http://www.google.com/search?q=iphone+proximity+sensor+bug Just to counter the "brilliance" part of your statement, there was an issue with the proximity sensor in iPhone 4 that to…

Also, in your method, instead of guessing where 6 was to hit right after unlocking, you could also just use the backspace on the key pad. So to type in 1234, you could type in rand…

Yeah, sounds possible. So do you see similar numbers from your campus to speedtest SFO as well?

I suspect too that there just might have been a fast link between the google and speedtest datacenters, maybe because google earlier rented part of the other dc. A 3 ms ping looks …

I doubt if the majority of them do, but you are totally right, there is very high cell phone penetration in India. Cell phones with some basic software could help them a lot.

I do not follow - isn't it all the more amazing that poorly paid, uneducated workers without proper salaries are able to achieve this? I would measure their performance by insertin…

It will be very interesting to know if Pakistani military was completely unaware of his location until the US got this intel, or if this intel was obtained through a section of the…

To combat these kind of issues, maybe the law should move to some kind of a majority of three decisions, each hearing being random in all possible senses.

Microsoft already tried their hand at it with Windows Live Mesh. Technically Apple's MobileMe is the same thing. The 'corporates' are already on it :)