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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 m…

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…

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…

>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 ha…

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 I…

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?…

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. Exper…

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 ava…

"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 ca…

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 emplo…

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 m…

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 beco…

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 …

You are assuming that it is computed on page load.