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"RIP Flipkart"

it isn't that simple. Flipkart is aggressive, funded (150 million $ a few days ago), has superlative customer service and (generally) satisfied customers. Meanwhile the law of the land does not allow 100% Foreign Direct Investment in retail, and while that will inevitably change, it will take some time, thus giving Flipkart more competition free runway.

Junglee.com is just a 'dip toe in water' move, trying various things "for free" in a new market (and hence non use of the Amazon trademark).

"Amazon launches Junglee in India" (the original Junglee.com was a comparison site) is a more accurate title than "Amazon launches as Junglee in India". The site is close to useless for anyone actually trying to shop,but it will enable debugging of parts of the logistics chain Amazon is trying to set up.

The 'real' war begins when Amazon.in launches. Junglee is just a sideshow (and everyone knows it)

Eventually,assuming they don't enter into some kind of partnership, there will be a huge fight between Flipkart and Amazon, but it is going to be long and bloody and last at least a couple of years, and will not be a quick knockout.

Amazon's advantages (when it finally starts full operations) - existing client base (I was told that Indian customers spend more on the Amazon website than Flipkart's turnover), the Kindle devices and ecosystem adapted to the local publishing landscape (this will, imo, be huge), better recommendation systems, better payment systems, efficiencies of scale, (better tie ups with foreign publishers and so) better deals for foreign books and products, way deeper pockets.

Flipkart's advantages - (relatively) nimble, speed of decision making (Amazon will likely replicate its middle management heavy organizational structure, and bureaucracy), a satisfied customer base and good will, and a time advantage in working out the kinks in logistics and delivery.

Most importantly, Flipkart is running for their life, where Amazon is running for an extra spoon of dessert. I wouldn't underestimate this factor.

So if I had to bet, I'd bet on Amazon to "win" in the long run, but I would bet only money I am prepared to lose, and it is a very long way from "RIP Flipkart"
that means RIP ebay IN ?
Let me know how you find it and what works and what didn't... It sounds like you have a lot of bookmarks.
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I know (I lived in Pakistan as a teenager). I was just wondering if online usage differed from street usage. For better or worse, I suspect that the dominance of American companies on the web would have a homogenizing effect on English offline.
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Amazon can't directly sell products in India due to FDI (foreign direct investment) laws. These are laws that restrict foreign companies on multi-brand retail in the country.
This is hardly amazon. It's merely a product search engine that takes you directly to the product site and shop there. Yikes.
Please refer to the original article and search for ‘But the work has not been going very smoothly’. Also, check out the link posted by smoody and search for ‘nerve-wracking moment for the drillers’. We don't want antifreeze and other stuff to get into the clear water underneath, I guess.
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RE: "the operating system’s Open File dialog."

I'm a MacVim guy. When working on a project, I exclusively use FuzzyFinder_TextMate and the :edit command. Occasionally I still use cmd+o (primarily when I want to do a one-off file edit and know where the file is "visually" relative to my DropBox folder or something)

Anyway: Here's a Mac tip!

In the native file chooser dialog, simply type ~ or / and the "Go to folder" sub-dialog will slide down and you can type a path! It even has (very primitive) tab completion.
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Not disagreeing with the rest of the article, but what's wrong with craigslist? It's super clean, simple, fast, and easy to use. What could extra javascript/flash/ajax possibly add to the site?
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Mongo is single-master, so last-write-wins is how writes are resolved.

However, they do support partial updating. So you only need to write the specific part of the document that you are actually changing.
Wonder what? Clearly the submitter found it through the comment. So what?
I think that design could still be really helpful if its helps achieve one of those core 'needs.' Craigslist leaves alot to be desired when searching for apartments (my only experience with it) compared to Hipmunk's hotel search, which plots the results on a map with color/size coding.
Moreover Flipkart don't have sub-sellers or retailers to sell items, whereas Amazon works on a different model altogther.
And here, Junglee is just like a aggregation of all the products which are shipped to India.
I have used the keyboard navigation extension with Chrome, not sure if it's the same one.

The Chrome extension works well by default for a touch typist by setting the shortcuts to be available by typing two letter key codes, but you can change that from what I remember to numbers too.

Give Lynx and W3m a whirl they are both worth a look in. Lynx's numbered links mode is fantastic, to set it, you need to go to options>keypad mode.

The other browser, that makes link navigation a lot easier is Opera, use shift and arrows, to move around the links.

I love the above interface so much, it's so simple, and could easily be mimicked with a trackball and a touch pad such as that on the Blackberry. The Blackberry utilises a similar method for it's nav and menus and it's very easy, quick and intuitive to use.

Of course you could place the directions on the home row, for touch typists too. But I guess you can do something similar with Vimperator etc.

I read your blog post, and firsts thoughts were that shift and arrows could be used for OS UI navigation as well. Tiling window managers work well for me, but I have a lot of trouble with keyboard navigation in applications, mainly due to inconsistencies. Something as simple as moving from text pane, to toolbar, to sidebar - can require - some dexterous moves using function keys.

Hitting escape, and then moving around the UI with arrow keys would be much easier. Hit escape twice to move up the application stack. Hit the menu key - for context sensitive menu, hit escape->menu for app menu and so on.

Tabbed browsing for me is a real curse, as there is so much inconsistency between applications. This should be the preserve of window managers. So back to your blog post. Why haven't the best parts of some of the esoteric window managers propagated through to the mainstream OSs?

Interestingly tabbed browsing is what won me over to Opera and Firefox in the first place - the desktop OSs should have picked up on this earlier. It's a hack, to get around a poor desktop UI.

Back to Mozilla, why have they barely touched or been creative with the UI for the last decade? The native implementation of tabbed browsing is nothing but horrendous. I'm hoping some of this will be picked up with 'Pancake'!
I doubt you are going to fine the statistical evidence. Though that would be an awesome find.

The main reason I want to be the user of the product I make: it's 100 times easier to get out of bed in the morning to work on the thing you want to use that day. If you are working on something for someone else, and the "I'm an entrepreneur" honeymoon wears off and you are struggling to get your first revenue, it's HARD to work on that thing you think other people need. Even if you've got some evidence that other people need it.

Doing customer development is so much harder in practice than theory :) When you get to be your own customer, you get to save tons and tons of times waiting for folks to return your emails and calls.
If you are serious about it, I would learn either Ruby, JavaScript or Objective-C. Those are the hot markets right now and what many start-ups are focused on.
I would guess the vision is typically, well, "flash". In the "pizazz" sense of the word.
Not really, eBay has a different business model. eBay enables local trade and allows small businesses or individual to sell products.
And junglee is discovery website, it discover products from online and offline retailers in India and from Amazon.com ( which are shipped to India).
Only making products that you are a user of is a great advice. Vote up.
All the accounting systems and websites / apps for Indian audience follow this.

And the number separators are also handled accordingly (1 lakh is: 1,00,000) even when lakh or crore is not mentioned.

For some (lot?) of us educated in Indian numbering system but dealing with businesses outside India thanks to our everyday work it takes time to do the mental adjustment every time we see a number. :)
I recently discovered padmapper while apt hunting, and it's a godsend. It scrapes craigslist for data and posts it to a map.

The killer feature is obviously to be able to look at a region and see what's available, but the filtering options are also way easier to use than craigslist's rather pathetic interface.
Yes they are drilling, because drilling results in ice cores that are scientifically useful (provide context).
Go to craigslist, and try searching for only 1 BR apartments.
The internet predates html by quite a bit. Perhaps html is a better format today, but the internet is not the same as the web, so it's silly to assume the default web format would be the default internet format.
A 'greater chance of success' is too loose a variable to really correlate with something like intuition. Success and its magnitude are highly variate. The best you can do is, as PG says, don't make the stupid mistakes.

Speaking of examples, a lot of products have come from building things for oneself (BaseCamp for instance.) Building a product you use may not be much of a help if you're making any fundamental mistake. However, it makes the life of the developer a hell lot easier.

When you are designing a service you use, intuition comes to your aid. Some things just feel right and some things just wrong. It is not something I can really put into words. Intuition, like determination, may not be something you could measure or plot on bar graphs but boy, it does matter.
i heard this is just the beginning of things to come for Amazon India
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That was awesome. A couple of times there I thought to myself, "he nailed it", but then you went and made it ever better. This is why I will always have a healthy respect for good designers and programmers. It's never done until it's perfect.
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Perhaps not SimTower, but Tiny Tower shares a lot in common with flash game Corporation Inc[1] by well known flash developer jmtb02, which came along before it. Nimblebit was called out by drumcowski for doing so[2]. Tiny Tower isn't really all that original itself (it took the Sim Tower/Corporation Inc. framework and added social gaming/Skinner's Box type reward to keep people playing). What does this mean? People steal/borrow/improve upon game ideas all the time. Is this bad? That depends on your point of view.

For the record, jmtb02 disagreed with some of drumcowski's comments in his response to drumcowski's response to Nimblebit's message[3].

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I disagree with the whole bad meme in languages, languages are a way to express human thoughts in terms the computer can understand. As such I don't think that we can qualify anything as truly bad or evil moreover things can be dangerous, complicated or abstract. People think very differently so while one thing may be difficult to comprehend for one person, it may be very easy to comprehend for another. I tend to subscribe to the "uncle Ben" (Spider Man reference) theory of software development, and that is with great power comes great responsibility. I personally like the power of Lisp and it certainly takes a certain kind of thinker to appreciate it. It's not a better or worse kind of thinker, just different. As well, I am sure there is a guy out there that's thought process would be complemented by GOTO type procedural jumps. There is no one size fits all languadge that is why we see so much diversity in them.

In the two views thought you can see the age old tension of art or science in programming. One one had it is born out of mathematics and attracts the personality type that likes the world to be concrete. At the other end of spectrum programming is probably one of the most expressive activities that we humans can engage it, it is an art of pure expression, one views it scientifically and the other views it creatively. One looks for structure and order the other looks for freedom and possibility. Neither is right or wrong, they just have different ambitions. Given that, it is easy to see why one branch took root in business and the other in academia.
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"Indian customers spend more on the Amazon website than Flipkart's turnover."

Got anything to support that? My experience suggests otherwise.
I type a phone number exactly once. When I enter it into my contact book. After that, I only ever tap a person's name.

Phone numbers are definitely obsolete.
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Very disappointed that they launched as price comparison website! But probably this is just a beta-test they are doing. I know they are huge practitioners of testing and experiments.
Also really good advice:

A year into my first startup, my first major product epiphany was to never, never, ever try to build a product you couldn’t be a user for

You have to have the vision, understand everything around it. Relying only on (potential) outsiders doesn't cut it. You need prioritization, focus (" means saying NO"), simplify the UX... You need to be committed. Otherwise you just get "feature creep"
Those are some pretty solid ideas. I also agree that improvements can be made to the comment system, possibly something for me to play around with in my spare time.
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I didn't know about this. That'll definitely come in handy. Thanks. :)
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Would you really refuse to look at a 2 BR that's in your price range? Personally, I always just set a price and then take the best available. I guess if you wanted to pick a configuration and then take the best price, craigslist doesn't help filter much. But the price first approach is also the one every broker I've used took.
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Hey int3rnaut,

Awesome man! I haven't tried codecademy's javascript tutorials yet (heard great things), but I spent a ton of time on stackoverflow, quora, w3schools, api.jquery.com, and google. I also bugged my developer friends when I got really stuck. I would start with something incredibly simple. For UI use something like http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/ or http://foundation.zurb.com/ so you can get started on your product's functionality quickly. I think the best way to learn a language is to build something with it. Feel free to ping me if you have any questions - happy to help where i can. Hope this helps and good luck! Oh and I'm working on adding images knitted keyboard covers and wedding dresses into hackerest to make it better.
I wish you could too! What's stopping you right now?
No source I can point to, just something that a friend who works at Amazon told me when we discussed the coming Flipkart vs Amazon war. I don't think Amazon publishes revenue broken down by country. (and even if they do I am not aware of it - I am a hacker, not an Industry/finance analyst :p).

There are some 'figures' here. http://www.quora.com/What-is-an-estimate-for-revenues-gross-... According to Mahesh Murthy Flipkart (or did, at some random point in time) Rs 55,00,000 worth of revenue (not profit) a day . That is about 100,000 US $ worth, which equates to about 36 million US $ a year

Again these are all estimates, by hearsay.I don't think anyone except people working at or investing in the companies have solid information.
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The advice in this article is dangerous for finding success and profit as an entrepreneur if your only knowledge relates to the needs of a developer. Developers are an infamously hard bunch of people to sell products to; as developers, I'm sure we've had all these thoughts:

- this is cool, but I could build something better (how many 37signal open source clones are there)

- this is cool, but way too expensive (Github complaints)

- this is cool, but let me use Google AdWords to get free upgrades (DropBox)

- this writing is great, but I'm blocking all the ads on the page (daringfireball)

Another problem is that when developers decide to do their own startup, the only domain they really understand is software development.

There are millions of people who have problems who can't code - building another bug tracker, productivity tool, email management app, GTD widget might be fun, but the economy of real "business" software that's out there is far larger and more lucrative.
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Distribution works the same way. It's where the money is.
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You are talking about integration tests, not unit tests.
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Nice to see Google pilloried from the right for overcharging and from the left for undercharging.
Can someone with knowledge explain to me why is AAPL's P/E 12.99 and AMZN's 130.72?

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