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That programmers don't change their opinion about types. He did.

> They are rather straightforward to reimplement Not really. Very often you will find the crucial details that make it work missing. Not sure if things have vastly improved over pa…

>> can not already joining it in hordes. > Sorry, I can't figure out what you meant here. Yes, typos are hard to process, especially when you have context. I meant "are not already…

You speak as if those not on the internet can not already joining it in hordes. And those opposed to FreeBasics are somehow holding the keys. When looking at the two camps here, yo…

Because it is not a static scenario. Internet users in India grew by ~30% over last one year itself and that growth is not slowing down. And FreeBasics is not limited to people com…

If those opposing the FreeBasics are trying to decide on behalf of poor, isn't FreeBasics itself not doing the same thing? In fact the word play now is just ridiculous. When questi…

In the FB vs Orkut example, not only is the Orkut Free, FB is inaccessible to Orkut users. What do you think will be the outcome then? You are also assuming that if not for Free Ba…

You are assuming that the other services can just wait it out while people break out of FB ecosystem and discover them. Development of these kind of walled gardens significantly ha…

Yep. We don't want you to see our elephants and tigers. And the snake charmers.

I understand that there are a lot of people who care about chocolate and who don't care about banana. I know plenty in the other direction (majority around me). But there are two p…

Actually bananas are a huge deal since they provide the basic nutrition for large populations in many parts of the world. Also Cavendish is the dominant set of varieties world over…

With diseases, world might actually run out of chocolate or at least some varieties of it. Like Panama disease wiped out Gros Michel banana and is now also threatening Cavendish ba…

Yeah but the DELETE blocking affects any customers on this ISP as well. I am now working on moving to SSL asap.

Problem is often the competence of people handling these proxies. Yesterday I discovered that my ISP is blocking all DELETE http calls (ACT fibernet in India)! And before that they…

And it is all or none. If you fall on bad times and can't pay the subscription, you cannot have any books. Unlike your owned collection which you can reduce down to books you love.…

I wish this feature would be available in Youtube and other video sites. I worked through half the Graphical Models course on Coursera at 1.5x and it was very comfortable. This wou…

This. Being a slow writer, it was a constant struggle for me through out school & college to keep pace with the instructors. I can imagine the same problem for the instructor as we…

Retailer's purchase price is almost always a percentage of the cover price.

I am betting so are the searches on Google and sales of ebooks on Apple iStore for "1984". Oh the irony!

As per my understanding, two things drive the prices in the market. One is the perceived value the thing provides to users. This is the primary factor is the cost of producing the …

> (some) people negotiate all the corner cases in extreme detail, to the point where the law of diminishing returns kicks in pretty strongly. I have seen that. I once negotiated a …

Disagreeing with someone is not the same as jumping on him! Did you find any of the replies personally insulting the person who raised the concerns? Or making fun of him or writing…

One of the biggest problems in building something on top of Drupal is the 2 year cycle of major releases with no backward compatibility. That means you will need to port all your c…