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The difference is, third world countries have these 'crisis' on a daily basis and it's a part of life. That's not a real crisis anymore for them.

> Battery life on the 520 is pretty great

That's not my point. You are getting better specs (higher mAh) on Moto E for the same price. That's all. Which one will last longer per charge will be out soon.

Can you point to a reliable retailer that's selling an unlocked Lumia 520 for $70 ?

The MSRP on Lumia 520 > MSRP on Moto E. It's possible that some e-tailers might give you a good discount on 520 because it's more than a year old. The price on unlocked Lumia 520 that I see is $110. http://www.amazon.com/Nokia-Lumia-Unlocked-Windows-Phone/dp/...

Not having gorilla glass / less RAM / smaller battery has less to do with being a year old. Nokia has always skimped on RAM for Lumia series (even for 620 & 720). Many popular games won't run on them. They have Gorilla glass on models 720 & upwards. Similar story with battery capacity. I'm not shooting down Nokia, just saying that Moto E is more value for money.

> Lumia costs half as much as the new Motorola

You are mixing carrier subsidy. Price is in the same ballpark.

> big difference, however

Lumia 520 is far behind in features. It has single SIM, no Gorilla glass, smaller screen, smaller battery, half the RAM (although double internal storage)

Flashlights on mobile phones are like the 'Leatherman' of the underprivileged. I've seen almost every technician / handyman put it to good use to illuminate a dark nook of your home while doing his job.

Moto E & Moto G, both are very well designed, hot selling items in developing countries. They offer so much more value for that price point than ANY of the competitors. Granted you'd find pain points but the fact is, they are providing a quality user experience to the masses at a fraction of the cost.

I think a first time budget user deserves a quality UI with a great touch experience to start with. (I'm looking at the sluggish Samsung etc. models at this price point with crappy touch experience).

You are comparing power failure of hours/day vs minutes/year.

Whenever I look at the iMessage icon on my iPhone/iPad, I feel it had so much potential when it came out but Apple just squandered it like a brat. If only they had opened the gates on interoperability ..sigh !

Sometime back they were arrogant and brilliant, not just the former.

Hashing doesn't solve the problem completely. You are still giving away information about file count, size & hierarchy.

Regarding selective sync : you'll have to organize the files logically into containers. I think even Dropbox doesn't let you sync files selectively, you have to have content separated into folders.

I'm not saying that one is better than other, just giving an example of where de-duping at block level is needed as @lugg asked.

If you are encrypting each file individually, you are still giving away the file names. Hence you use encrypted file containers. They benefit from block level deduplication. They can be large in size.

Yes, had my hopes up when I saw it first but the "compact" part is a deal-breaker. Plus I want a touchpad, not a trackpoint.

Wait till the author can tell what you ate based on spectroscopic analysis of the reflection from the building across the shore. A la CSI syle.

Granted that posting a pic from your hotel room, with emphasis on outside view doesn't leave a lot to be guessed but the author has done some reasonable sleuthing to be accurate, let's give him credit for that.

The editable box model & color picker are very useful. I wonder if the editor would one day catch up so that you do your development in the browser itself.

I have my gripes with SO but I can't imagine a day without it. The number of views on trivial questions says that finding an answer on SO is easier than the way we document code. If there's supplementary documentation done in a Q&A or FAQ fashion, with the right tweaks to rank up in Google, people would not use SO to ask things like ' how to iterate through a list'.

Subtle & important yet widely misunderstood or misinterpreted. Being happy is important, not the other way round.

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The barrier to entry for writing an app has been lowered because of money+innovation in tech. Hoping for same in medicine. Human simulators would make it so easy to test medicines.

IFTTT is more web+data oriented - e.g. sharing pics, location, etc. + actions based on them. Look at the featured recipes.

Tasker is for your inner geek to control your phone like you would with a shell script - volume, wifi, etc. to name a few.

Link's been removed from Techccrunch. Any other source?

This article may not seem relevant to most on HN (especially non Indians), but this is an outstanding case study that shows hacking, marketing & bootstrapping in an altogether different realm. The political party founded by Arvind Kejriwal (an IIT graduate & an activist) - Aam Aadmi Party (common man's party) went from zero to near majority in a year in the capital of India. It was fully funded by a transparent donation campaign. Arvind served as the chief minister of Delhi for a little less than 2 months. Within a few months, they have gone national - fighting the world's biggest election from almost 80% of the constituencies (I guess that's more than any standalone existing party). Time will tell if they've moved too fast or will people embrace them.

However what's worth admiring is the tenacity of Arvind Kejriwal with which he's fighting against crony capitalism & corruption & bootstrapping for an election where the total budget could be in billions of dollars (double digit).

P.S. Obligatory thanks to twitter that has been a source of unbiased news when all local media has blacked out the fight against corruption.

Great specs, but I prefer the Moto G model. Other than its camera, everything is superb for a pro-user who doesn't play games. Battery life is great, screen is awesome, 1GB RAM is more than sufficient. Best of all, it's the price that I love.

Interesting move. I've often heard people complain that the best minds are writing HTML/Javascript when they should be solving real problems (e.g. medicine/health)... obviously because Tech pays big money. I'm not undermining the utility of FB & Whatsapp but I feel a larger percentage of the World population needs better healthcare & medicine. I'd be happy to see the balance of crazy paying startups shift towards life sciences. What could be a better incentive to innovate than this. Have a BS/MS/PhD? Good, go hack the body & decode it. 'x' years from now, there'll be open plugins to debug & fine tune your body.

India is witnessing an arguably revolutionary uprising against crony capitalism, their political nexus, unchecked flow of black money & corruption from top to bottom. The elections in the capital (Dec '13) were a strong indicator of what people want as opposed to what media portrays. Social media played a very important role in bringing a party from inception to near majority in almost a year. That was phenomenal. Now the same party is resource stretched to reach out the masses in the biggest election in the world (at country level). The media has blacked out most of the positive news (for obvious reasons). This is where twitter comes in. It's cementing day to day advancements of a revolution across the country. Unfortunately twitter is still limited to a very tiny fraction of the population.

Right. unfiltered is a better generic term. Though I should state that it's unbiased from my perspective when I can trust a source.

Twitter is a godsend for unbiased news. In many developing countries, Twitter is playing a very important role of spreading the revolution against incumbents. Granted that it's penetration is a tiny fraction of print & TV media but going forward, it'll be an essential fabric for survival of society.

I prefer popups (floating elements) instead of altering the flow of the document. The continuous re-flow of the document is distracting.

People are viewing this project as a 'lego' phone that sounds great in theory but doesn't charm practically. However manufacturers can take a middle ground approach where future electronics slowly move towards hot swappable components. Upgrading & replacing defective parts shouldn't require a screw driver and perhaps as easy as plugging in a USB cable.

When I'm buying a high end phone & spending $600, I'd want it to last 5-6+ years. However the current ones typically stay relevant for barely 2 years and the residual value is below $200. How about a phone that I'm not scared to drop because if something breaks, I can easily swap out a new LCD, ofcourse at a reasonable cost. Many users like me would be willing to sacrifice the form factor slightly to get the ability to make my device last longer.

However all this goes against how manufacturers make money i.e. make you buy new product frequently & charge an arm & a leg for repairs.

> if they can establish intent to burglarize

That's a line that'll generate hours of debate going nowhere.