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Would agree with your sentiment, but Whatsapp itself is an example of a messaging service that relied on their 1$/year model and had around 200 million active users before it went …

Agree! And it's not just limited to math. I used to study for my engineering entrance exams with the Problems in General Physics book by IE Irodov. They were some of the most chall…

Even with over 1000 friends on Facebook - the maximum engagement that my posts reach is probably in the range of 10 to 200 or at the max 300. One thing I have noticed is that the f…

If you look at the Q&A, there's a question about whether the product is original Apple or not. And there are 5 answers to the question all on the same day saying the same thing. Th…

Strangely, the small merchants in India are doing a great job when it comes to door delivery of groceries. Even over 15-20 years back, my mom used to get door delivery of the month…

Why not just increase the fees for companies that are filing a lot of H1B applications? For example, they could charge 4000$ per application for the first 100 applications and then…

The one that I bought through Elcot -- in association with the TN Govt (in 2008) had OpenSUSE installed by default.

I think the reason for this is the same as the reason why companies do not disclose salary information of their employees.

I wonder why GitHub has a separate domain githubengineering.com for this blog instead of a subdomain like engineering.github.com. I notice that there is an inactive user account ca…

This approach is probably in complete contrast to what Flipkart/Myntra have been doing in India. Both are widely used e-commerce websites that are going complete mobile-app only by…

Tweetdeck provided an easy way for me to read tweets from different lists that I had created. And then Twitter bought them and killed off their Android app. And from that point the…

Whatsapp is the primary messaging app for many of my teenage cousins. Most have it as the default message app and is a permanent fixture on their phone home screens and rarely use …

http://xkcd.com/927/ :)

I've been using Xoom for money transfer to India. For amounts larger than 1000$, there is no fee.

The irony is that the emails from Stellar have been marked as spam. PS: I use live.com

But then when you casually want to have a look at your news feed, it not really feasible to go back and follow your friends. This, CSS trick is a simple hide/show functionality tha…

Only the web version is ad-free. The iOS version has ads. Its longevity I believe will be greater compared to the Threes game. What makes you think otherwise - that Threes will sta…

I am looking for datasets of size greater than 1 GB for a graduate academic project. Datasets which are publicly available (or available upon request) and contain location-data and…