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Comment #4395974
I'm sorry, can't refrain from correcting you. It's Gandhi not Ghandi. And I see this mistake very prevalent.
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Comment #4357699
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 cha…
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Comment #4356945
Is there a reason you chose to do this as an app instead of a webapp?
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Comment #4319936
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 m…
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Comment #4261841
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 Flipkar…
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Comment #3970270
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…
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Comment #3666165
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:/…
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Comment #3076838
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 i…
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Comment #3074344
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.time…
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Comment #3067651
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 packa…
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Comment #3065845
>> 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…
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Comment #3014399
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 …
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Comment #2953880
"Now isn't that cruelty" - was meant at the species going extinct. Just a pun. Not a literal comparison with slaughter.
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Comment #2953236
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 extin…
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Comment #2828080
>>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 spec…
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Comment #2799957
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 peopl…
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Comment #2799943
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.
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Comment #2768457
Actually you don't even need photoshop. Firebug would do.
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Comment #2632207
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.
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Comment #2497088
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 flo…
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Comment #2458137
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 …
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Comment #2395478
Introducing Cleartrip Enamel - http://blog.cleartrip.com/journal/2011/4/1/introducing-clear...