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So far, i've just been putting my apps on the app store with no promotion. It's going alright, making ~$100/day. For my next app, since i'm putting a bit more effort into it, so i'm going to match that with more effort into promoting it too so i'm trying to figure out where would be most effective. So... long story short: i'll find out soon.
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You're digging yourself a deeper and deeper whole. In fact, it was the right number of front-page submissions for various reasons, #1 being that it is what people submitted and voted on. #2, it was a legitimately monumental news story not merely because a pillar of our industry passed away but because he was only halfway through his career. Finally, it would be difficult to overstate the impact Steve had on the PC and consumer electronics industries. And film industry. And really the world in general.

Responding to one of your other notions, I am actually pretty confident that the web would not be at nearly the stage it is today without Steve's contributions both in popularizing graphical computing and supplying a computer programmable by a mere mortal (TBL, in this case).
You're digging yourself a deeper and deeper whole. In fact, it was the right number of front-page submissions for various reasons, #1 being that it is what people submitted and voted on. #2, it was a legitimately monumental news story not merely because a pillar of our industry passed away but because he was only halfway through his career. #3, thre was not going to be much other news that day. Any important news would have needed to be accidental since no one was going to try and make other news that day. Artificially generating diversity would have been...artificial. Finally, it would be difficult to overstate the impact Steve had on the PC and consumer electronics industries. And film industry. And really the world in general.

Responding to one of your other notions, I am actually pretty confident that the web would not be at nearly the stage it is today without Steve's contributions both in popularizing graphical computing and supplying a computer programmable by a mere mortal (TBL, in this case).
In my experience C# the language is much better than Java the language, but the .NET ecosystem doesn't even close to Java's ecosystem of both open source and proprietary libraries and frameworks. There's been too many times where I had to write my own stuff for C#, where in Java it'd already be mature, fully tested, and free to use right away.
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Granted, you sounded somewhat depressed on the aforementioned post... You should probably look for some professional help on that matter.
Yes, and the person you're quoting is talking about the 3GS and no-one else reports the same problem.
The WSJ is saying the opposite: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3105596

They're both probably right, investors can be more selective with the glut of entrepreneurs while still paying out top dollar for great companies/deals.
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RIP Mr.Ritchie !
Well, i haven't been following him long enough to comment on that. But i do know i prefer his rant compared to the other two. It seems to have more facts/details than the others.
LOL at bias of action :) Reminds me of ex-manager's parrotry of Amazon's values
Hand't seen that before. Not quite the same situation but applicable, I learnt a crash course in trademarks and cover your ass for startups. Guess I should look at it as a big learning experience instead of a downer.
It's a sad day. I came across a passage recently from The Tao of Programming which reminded me of Dennis Ritchie.

"The programmers of old were mysterious and profound. We cannot fathom their thoughts, so all we do is describe their appearance.

Aware, like a fox crossing the water. Alert, like a general on the battlefield. Kind, like a hostess greeting her guests. Simple, like uncarved blocks of wood. Opaque, like black pools in darkened caves.

Who can tell the secrets of their hearts and minds?

The answer exists only in Tao."
Haha, actually I just happened to have it open in a separate tab when I read people saying it 404'd, though I do have a habit of saving loads of random things to my ~/Public/ NFS share when browsing HN and reddit.
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I really hope they go through with some form of the proposition and not throw it all aside in the name of backwards compatibility.
I am not trying to make this my main stream of income, I just want to monetize it so that it can pay its own bills. What other sources of funding do you recommend?
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I prefer phone for urgent and important matters like bank transactions , for others i prefer email, i can think before replying to them , it will help both parties ,if the email is framed properly, there will be no need for further converstions. But yeah reply does take time , it would be good if we include a php script that lets us know if they had opened our mail or not.

And for physically impaired people , there must be an option for SMS , as he said it is 2011 and technology helps :)
I know change happens, maybe it's a function of my age but this increasingly feels like I am living in a different world to the one I started my career in. Interestingly it's no the technology that that feels different, it's the loss of people and companies that shaped the older world.
This is the reason why most online relay services, such as i711, provide their users with free inbound numbers.

When a call is received, the user is notified via a variety of mediums, including instant message, SMS, and I think some other desktop/mobile apps they have. If the deaf user accepts the call, the relay informs the caller that the other individual is deaf and begins to transcribe the call.

2-way conversation (text<----->relay<----->caller)

In addition, these services provide transcriptions of voicemail / etc and are completely FREE (sponsored by individual state tax dollars in US). I'm really surprised that the post makes no note of these services, since I have known about them for years and am not hard of hearing.
I've thought about doing an App Store wrapper around the App Store, more than once.
It's a little hard to talk about this broad topic without bloviating. Here goes.

So first, take that stuff Steve said about extensibility to heart. He has another blog somewhere, oh here it is

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/01/pinocchio-problem.ht...

about software that is alive because it's extensible. That is true of your startup too. You don't want to be a "site", you want to be a "service". And that means you want to be an authority for a unique kind of data, that you want your users to create and use.

I think the Google+ data is pretty unique and cool. I like the user experience. But you can't call it a service, which is bad news until they get their crap together.

I'm a strong believer that flowing data puts pressure on software to work correctly. You want a public API because you don't assume that you and your team are world class geniuses who have exhausted the search space of valid use cases for your data... but your customers can, close enough. (A very Amazon virtue: start with the customer.)

You want to have a well-designed interface for yourself and your users because it's so painful to scale, migrate, control security, etc. without it. So sure, I would say start with it as early as you can stand. Make it public as soon as you can. Allow your users to contribute and build on your data and service.

You'll probably treat your public-facing interfaces with different levels of scrutiny than internal-only ones. This is convenient, but it might be a mistake. You don't want to put off security or user data integrity until it's too late.

Having multiple services means that you can scale them independently. This costs some overhead but you'll be able to right-size your hardware, say with appropriate fleets in EC2.

Sorry that's all kind of generic, but that's about as deep as I would go without a real-world example to talk about.

The High Scalability blog is one I would recommend at the leading edge of this thing. I see posts on the front page alone that cover all I've been talking about and more.

http://highscalability.com/
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http://www.anandtech.com/show/3794/the-iphone-4-review/11

Puts the iphone 4 over 3g as ~3x quieter than a nexus s over 3g. (2g is closer, but no one I know uses their iphone 4 over 2g).

From the review: "For a long while, people have complained that the iPhone [3g & 3gs]'s speakerphone volume was too quiet... I'd say the iPhone 4's speakerphone is still loud enough, though calls over 3G are still a bit too quiet. Until Apple increases the gain on 3G calls, iPhone 4 customers who are hard of hearing should invest in a bluetooth headset."
I am doing exactly the same thing. Wondering why it took so long for somebody to bring it up.
Here's his bio which is, as he puts it, 'in first person instead of obituary style.'

http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/bigbio1st.html
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Most people who love the Mac or some other Apple product are fans of the _product_, many of them have never even heard of Steve Jobs, and most of them don't know what he looks like.

I know that doesn't jive with the popular misconception that everybody who loves an Apple product idolizes Steve Jobs, but, really, it's all about the product.
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I feel like I must be one of the only people on HN who doesn't mind a phone call. Yes, admittedly, I am not hearing impaired, and I do understand the desire to pick your preferred method of communication, but a lot of times it can take me 30 seconds to solidify something in a phone call that could take 4-5 texts or chat messages, especially if you are trying to actually make plans with someone.
So this is somewhat related, somewhat off topic from the subject at hand, but...
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As for bringing content owners on board - as far as I can tell, they did. Their developer support was also very responsive. A+ on forming a dialogue with developers.

Their problem IMO is that they don't appear to feel it in their bones how important product differentiation is. Maybe they get it, but I don't think it's sunk in.

Allow me to elaborate. What's the difference between an embedded device, a phone, a mini-tablet, a tablet, and GoogleTV? Well...

* Embedded devices might have a pre-2.x Android that never got updated. But that's okay, nobody develops apps for them anyways.

* Phones probably have 2.1, maybe 2.2.

* A mini-tablet could be 2.1 or 2.2, and has the mobile device UI.

* A tablet might have 3.0 or 3.1 on it.

* GoogleTV has 3.0 on it, but its market app might filter like it's 3.1. How do you differentiate this in code? Version specifiers, specifying notouch (which will break if googletv ever supports any kind of touchscreen, on a large screen size (which is smaller than a tablet, which has a extra large screen), etc.

Want to develop for iOS? Great. Would you like iPhone or iPad? Or both? Need to make sure it works on 99.9% of the devices that can download it? No problem. And hopefully, sometime in the future, maybe Apple will see fit to enable the AppleTV for developers.

Circling back to address your statements, if Google's aim, or one of them, is to make GoogleTV into a gaming platform, I don't have much confidence in Google's ability to deliver on that goal, because GoogleTV is little more than a revision of Android plus some optional APIs, and Android is architected as a multi-device platform. It's not a single device with multiple revisions, as is the case with the iPhone 3G/3GS/4/4S sequence, or even the Nintendo DS and its subsequent revisions. There are reasons that Android isn't as compelling a game platform as iOS is, and that is a big one.

With respect to building a multimedia application platform, GoogleTV has potential if for no other reason than it's one of the few set-top boxes with an app store, period, and a programming interface that isn't thoroughly obtuse, but the GTV's design and usability are very weak, almost pre-alpha, even, as if it were scarcely more than a straight-up port of Android's touch-optimized interface with an inadequate amount of polish. It's nothing your average TV-watching user is going to grok, if the keyboard+mouse remote didn't clue you in.

Really, what it comes down to is that, even for hardware, Google just doesn't seem to want to release something "perfect". They just want "shippable" -- or I daresay "just barely shippable" - if you can call it that. Even if they have critical bugs, so long as developers can work around them, even if they haven't nailed down the UI, and make a sweeping change right before public release, that's still "good enough". And "good enough" is the enemy of "great".

Until Google puts design thinking into their products from the ground up, as you put it, they aren't going to be able to lead the marketplace.

/rant
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But is that advice only given because nobody would dare not to give that advice?
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At Zwapp (I am the founder) we've actually attempted to address this issue, and yes, we use users and their social networks to see if we can make more apps discoverable than just the top popular lists. So far it seems to work out really well, people are interested in sharing their apps and providing each other recommendations. You see this in real life all the time. We meet up, put our phones on the table, and often the conversation is lead to "what apps do you use". We try to stimulate and support these types of conversations.
There are more reasons why this approach is valid. Gaming reviews is less important because you wil trust a review of a person you know. It may be more interesting to see the most popular apps of your friends instead of the most popular in the app store.
And finally, we have spend a lot of effort trying to provide excellent app detection. The reason for this is two-fold. it helps you get started quickly as a user, but more importantly it helps us to understand what apps people have and use, allowing us to provide qualitative recommendations. It is better to get a few users to download your app and then really use it, then get a whole lot of users downloading it and running it once because of a mismatch.
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You are right about the math and I respect that you did that with delicious but not many entrepreneurs are like you.

No matter how it much it "make sense" to not raise more, most entrepreneurs will do the opposite and not take the risk of running out of cash before the exit. It's like the blue and red pill.

I'm not sure how you define startups but that's subjective and I think all new companies are startups. I would say most new companies have a clear revenue model in the beginning and it's all about making it happen or pivot till you got it right. There are some that don't have one at the early stage and it's also rare to see one that had gotten successful versus most that just got bought without even breaking even or mmde a single dime.
That must've been one seriously downvoted comment to get someone with over 2000 karma to a -2 average.
When their bonus is tied to the success of the company in social software, you'd expect them to use it. No? If Google is trying to make an identity play, shouldn't identity start at home?
This is what I love about our neighborhood. It's quiet and safe and there are a lot of kids between 7 and 13 (who, for the most part, all seem to be very well-behaved, kind, respectful kids) running around playing. They're usually outside, on bikes, playing ball, or some made-up game, water gun fights, etc. On rainy days, they'll end up at someone's house, which does sometimes mean movies and video games, but it's just as often LEGOs. We have about a dozen cubic feet of LEGO.
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Plus, Intuit's also using Fonzie to shill reverse mortgages to seniors these days: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CogQBgAFwI4

As a startup, I might want to steer clear of that particular borg unless prospects were truly dire.
> There has been, and continues to be, massive propaganda efforts from Amazon to try and pitch them to people, and to position Bezos as a visionary in the style of Steve Jobs.

I couldn't help noticing that if you go the Amazon.com page for Isaacson's Steve Jobs bio http://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Walter-Isaacson/dp/14516485... , you see http://www.amazon.com/One-Click-Jeff-Bezos-Amazon-com/dp/159... on the first page of "Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought" results; I couldn't help wondering if that placement is solely determined by a computer assessment of what customers also bought. But who knows, maybe it is.
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What about Scipy? Will Pypy support Scipy soon, too? Without Scipy, I don't neet Numpy.
> GMOs, herbicides, and pesticides have saved hundreds of millions of lives from death by famine. Current levels of food production are not possible with GMOs.

That's great. But, we need to look ahead. Monsanto's high-yield crops rely on herbicides/pesticides and monocultures. This negatively affects biodiversity[1], genetic diversity, pollinator populations[2] and increases risk of cancer[3] and land degradation[4]. High-yield crops are a quick fix. Patch work. What about in 25 or 50 years? What if we have severe colony collapse? What if we have severe soil contamination and degradation? How will we feed ourselves then? What if we have to increase our use of pesticides just to get the same yield?

[1] http://www.pesticides.gov.uk/environment.asp?id=1834

[2] http://www.epa.gov/pesp/pesp/members/strategies/north
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[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9498903

[4] http://news.mongabay.com/2006/1214-unu.html

I don't understand why you chose India and Africa as examples? Their food situation is vastly different from China. India especially, has not (on a whole) benefited from Monsanto's GMOs (http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/1087730/how_i...)
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Fair enough and interesting reading...thanks for taking time to write the replies. When I speak of corruption, I’m speaking primarily in banking. Banks know this game. Banks also know the position that the fed is in, and what decisions it must make. I can agree that Krugman is likely the wrong target, but I still don’t' think that Keynesianism is. Wouldn't you agree that the majority of the mess we're in right now was and is caused by misapplied Keynesian theory? Misapplied subsidies, interest rates, monetary policy? What I'm trying to understand still is how anyone believes (including Krugman) that Keynesian theory can ever be successful in a political system as we have now or in a banking system as we have now. The fed has simply been a tool for achieving whatever Washington and corporate elites plan next. I have a hard time believing it will ever be anything but. Taking that power away from Government and living with natural fluctuations in the economy seems a far better option.

We got off the original track here… I can tell you why this original post sparked my interest, and it’s that I was angered by #OWS’s attacking business and corporations, when the vast majority of them (my employer) are innocent and profoundly important. I was intrigued by your reply but I disagreed that they weren’t attacking manufacturing or retail. What else is “corporate greed”? Then you stated that the “ Federal Reserve is funneling free money to banks” and I thought, of course they are. I kept hearing Krugman’s arguments that they didn’t do this or didn’t do that…and my thought was, when are you (Krugman) going to realize that they aren’t going to? When will you realize that this theory will never be applied in a manner that is actually helpful? As long as we live in a divided state, with a fed that is manipulated and a banking industry that is guaranteed by their importance to the fed philosophy… the application will always create messes like this one. I firmly believe the next one will be even bigger.

Krugman may be right on his grievances, but I think he’s wrong to ever believe it will be done right. We simply keep getting left with fewer and fewer options.
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This doesn't just apply to children.
Your comment reeks of fanboyism much more. Don't litter the frontpage posts on our heroes with bitter comments please.
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Cool. Are there examples of folks using Zwapp to reach the same number of downloads as being featured by Apple, ro something close to it?
I'm not intimately familiar with adwords|sense. But I don't think it meets my definition of platform is something 3rd parties can build on not just with. Can you create an "plugin/app" that uses custom ad selection algorythm? that extends or uses the platform in ways it's creators did not imagine? is there a marketplace somewhere I can upload my "plugin/app" and others use it? etc.
Cool how would you do it, or design it?
A few points:

I know a 6th-grade teacher who complains about kids not having any time for homework because they participate in non-school sports. This is someone who coaches football/wrestling and has had a least one child play in the majors. The level of emphasis put on activities like these is ridiculous.

>"Individuals suffering from anxiety disorders describe losing emotional control as one of their greatest fears. They are afraid of their own fear, and therefore small degrees of fear generated by mildly threatening situations lead to high degrees of fear generated by the person's fear of losing control."

This is absolutely correct.

Finally, I wonder how much parental social lives relate to the issue of isolation. My parents did not have any local friends when I was growing up and I feel this may have contributed to my social isolation during that time.

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