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UPDATE: My application was approved within 30 minutes.

Same experience here. Not sure whats new.

I'm not sure if this is comparable to Stripe's signup process.

I just tried signing up from: https://apply.braintreegateway.com/

At the end of it, my application for queued to be manually reviewed (~24 hrs) by an underwriter. Am I missing something here ?

Its amazing that the BBC article has 11 links to 'share it', but nothing to actually comment on it.

My experiences are unlike the blog says. You've got to know your city and where the services, things are not that organized ofcourse. Also, India is big on Human powered telephony search query based services(see 1). It really really works here. For example, you could ask who runs the nearest color copier via phone, and the answer would be SMSed to you.

Also another thing which is unique in India, is the home delivery & pickup culture. You can get virtually anything home delivered like fresh meat, booze, and ofcourse snacks(see 2) etc. Also pickup services like laundry (one of many), are really popular.

Need a new credit card, or a phone connection ? You can have a representative visit you. These kinda of services are primarily possible to India's abundance human resource (and various other factors of course).

In my opinion, these are more accessible that internet based services are they rely on a phone.

Its a pity that blog posts these get a lot of attention because of their extreme nature. Most of the local media tends to be sensationalistic, for grabbing eye balls I guess

My daily reads of good quality Indian news are

* http://www.thehindu.com/

* http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/

References:

1 Eg. http://justdial.com

2 Eg. http://www.delyver.com/

Interestingly Adrian Holovaty(django) also spoke about similar things http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ml88L39cng

If I were in the audience I would ask this: Most people like to treat servers as generic JSON APIs so that they can build multiple clients for it - iOS, web, etc. If the server serves html specific code, then does not bind it to one type of a client/view ?

So its fine for Samsung to copy Apple? But when Samwer Bros copy - there is a huge uproar.

You guys should know how it feels when your products are copied.

Hindsight, I don't agree with a lot of things in that essay. Its mostly hard lined towards software development point of views.

I like the documentation navigation style using affix in rc - http://rc.getbootstrap.com/customize.html

Mathematics when studied alone can get a bit difficult. In my opinion mathematical concepts are better understood through applications of it such as Physics, specially Mechanics.