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I have not seen or used the app. Having the labels in non-English languages can be very helpful. Typing vernacular languages on keyboard with just English alphabet is complicated t…

If online verification is used, issues of no-connectivity/poor-connectivity/latency can cause problems. Polling units are sent to remote corners of the country. Loading the polling…

To go slightly off tangent, will it make sense for Twitter to enter into the micro payments landscape? All (almost?) bloggers, people working on open source projects have twitter a…

You saved my eyes!! And that is not an exaggeration. I too recommend gtk-redshift if you are on Linux.

This year they have come up with something called netbanking verification. With that you don't have to mail any documents even if you don't have digital signature. If I remember co…

How does this deal with the load-all-discard-all-per-request approach of PHP? With everything in the JVM, does it keep eating up the memory on a per-request basis? I don't know any…

And Drupal, Joomla, Magento, SugarCRM, CiviCRM, WebERP .....

Doesn't the use of check constraints add an overhead and possibly negate the slight performance advantage that was gained by using text instead of varchar/char?

What is generally spoken is a mix of Hindi and Urdu (Hindustani, as Mahatma Gandhi would have liked to call it). We rarely come across anyone speaking "Shuddh Hindi" or "Khalis Urd…

Maximum packet maths came from the wikipedia entry. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_knocking . First two paragraphs under the "Benefits" section.

Each value is a 16-bit number, with a size of two bytes, or equal to two ASCII characters or one Unicode character. Port knocking examples generally do not run to more than three p…

What if someone wants to write a kernel with Rust? This might be a very naive question taking into account my ignorance of language and kernel design.

So, it is okay if Denmark or India drop a bomb on wherever David Headley is in USA, killing him and whoever is with him. And, it is also okay if Headley's child is killed in anothe…

"Allahu Akbar" is "Allah is great" not "Oh my God".

I have no clue how granting patents on plants and animals is supposed to diminish biodiversity. Won't new plants and animals increase biodiversity? I mean yes, without the patents …