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I've got some desktop Mac software. Today, I've got an application of mine on MacUpdate Promo. We discount my app, they promote my app, I tweet and post on my blog, they take a cut of the sales, I take a cut of the sales, and with any luck at the end of the day we'll both be happy.

I try to do 1 or 2 promotions a year. Any more and your app is 'always on sale'. Results vary for me. I find my business app outsells my 'geek toy' app most of the year, but during promotions the toy gets good sales. Business users don't tend to hang around looking for cool toys at promotions. Geeks do.

Generally I find out about these promotions by keeping my eye on the Mac developer community. In todays case I got an email out of the blue about a month ago saying they were interested. (There's some sort of mechanism where users vote that they'd like to see a piece of software on their promotion.)

I don't think I've ever spent more than an afternoon setting one of these up. These people do this constantly, and I'm more than happy to let them play to their strengths.

That's one way you promote. Instead of getting your app in front of reviewers, you get it in front of actual customers.

That being said, I also:

- Send out a lot of personal emails to various editors, bloggers, etc. when release time comes around. Give them a little advance notice.

- Make sure you're listed on major directories. For me, this is the Apple Downloads page and sites like MacUpdate or VersionTracker. Most of my traffic comes from these kinds of sites. (That being said, I really need to improve my sites Google ranking for certain keywords.)

- Get to know the salespeople at your local computer stores. I'll admit, I'm biased on this one since I used to work for one of my local computer stores. These are people who sell things all day to your potential customers. If somebody complains "I keep having to switch my SMTP servers when I bring my laptop home from work" when they're in the store, I want the sales people to know that there's something they can point the customer to. Some people also have the same reaction to 'local developer' that they do to 'locally grown lettuce'. Somehow it's better, even if it's the same.

- Show your app to everyone you know. As a bonus, they might even start to understand what it is you do all day.

Those are the strategies I use myself.

Here are a couple of videos from the C4[1] conference that I found fantastic on the subject. They're long, but they're worth it.

Wil Shipley: Monster Marketing (http://www.viddler.com/explore/rentzsch/videos/4/)

Adam Engst: Hacking the Press (http://www.viddler.com/explore/rentzsch/videos/12/)
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Especially the in-vitro human meat. It'll probably cause mad-human disease or zombies.
I appreciate the call for a comparison, but I think Microsoft's solution and Amazon's solution fit way different needs. The biggest S3 usages I have seen in production environments have been for large asset hosting on websites, not data storage for backends. We use S3 because it's dev friendly, cheap enough, and doesn't require talking to a sales person at Akamai.
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This must be Tuesday. I could never get the hang of Tuesdays.
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Investment is what you need.

There are no technical problems for startups in Kathmandu. GSM networks working 24/7. Mero Mobile tariffs is reasonable. ARM-based linux-powered devices could work for days without recharge. Free services, such as google's, are pretty enough for communication. Hosted trac+svn is enough for collaboration. Heroku or similar services is reasonable hosting solution. (Amazon is too expensive.) And of course it is always possible to rent some 2U 8-core server on some US colocation and create 7 kvm-based servers. Just a task for a student.

What you really need in Kathmandu is the motivator for young people. Unfortunately, the only one I know is the plain money. So, if you have a budget to pay talented people there is no problem to start even tomorrow. Bunch of ARM-based devices, SIM-cards and solar chargers is not a big deal.

btw, I spend last winter and spring in Thamel, and I had tried to find opportunities to found some startup. http://hello-namaste.com/ is a remains of my failed attempt. =)
For a good time,take a look at some of the commits on c99-to-c89.diff. Looking at a diff-diff makes my eyes cross a little.

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Don't laugh, excellent books!
Seriously. High standards are one thing, but e is a prime example of perfectionism as the enemy of the good. You seem to have fallen in and out of love with it at the exact same times as I did.
Yes, but as a large corp, you have the momentum to survive if you can't bill for a month, but it might be fatal for a startup.
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That would depend on why one was a vegan. Some do it for health, some for various philosophical reasons.

For myself (vegetarian for philosophical reasons), if no plausibly sentient being was harmed to create this stuff, I'd likely have no ethical reasons against eating it.
At a conservative 1ct per click we're talking 1500 dollars per day here.

I'm not sure what your definition of 'not all that great is'.

As for your friend, he could lose that domain in a heartbeat if netflix set their mind to it.
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Why would you suspect that Hacker News readers would be most interested in a meditation technique that is heavily grounded in metaphysics?
I am equally surprised by both choices. I rarely visit the site consciously, but I often end up there through internal firefox redirection, say, after an automatic addon update. Given Mozilla's marketshare, a very popular addon can easily spike the site's traffic. The recent security issue removing the Microsoft .NET plugin is a good example.

Seems like they have the resources to keep php and python running under duress.
Another good letter is "My Darling Little Cecily". Ernest Shackleton's wrote this to his 9 year old daughter before he set out to rescue the stranded crew of the Endurance.

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I work for Windows Azure. I think the right equivalent to S3 is Windows Azure blob storage. I'm really not sure what you're refering to by SDS. SDS used to refer to an older version of what is now called SQL Azure but the technology there has been changed dramatically.
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The first lexer and recursive descent parser from Levine's "Lex & Yacc" book has been hammered into my head. I rewrote it from memory so often it's now part of my internal standard library; as late as this morning I was writing it in lisp to process the beanstalkd message queue protocol. I wrote it a few days ago as well, for Redis, and before that by a week for Memcached.

Manual lexer writing is a reusable but non-transferable technique, specially when regexes are slow or over kill; every little use-case has its small set of states, own termination condition, constituent characters and tokens :-)

Basic compiler techniques gave me the freedom to write software that I wanted, not software prescribed to me by a book or work specs (let's face it, writing tools is the most fun kind of programming.) Sometimes I am grateful I know these things and can make whatever I fancy, other times I am spiteful for not being good at it; my work has thus far been marked by exuberant incompetence :-P

[Edit:

Or you can skip lexing and go straight to language design:

http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/200...

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I think your math is off. 150k daily uniques, at a conservative $0.01 CPM is about $1.5 a day.
well shit, the python guys could use some good news.
Apparently it's all rainbows and sunshine from here on out. I really don't see the meat industry dying out for a long time, and I have some doubts about how easy it will be to be able to ship "in vitro kits" to food deprived nations. Maybe someday, but not for decades is my guess. I'm curious as to how much the materials that the cells grow in will cost, and how hard that will be to make.

One of the commenters put it well:

"In Vitro meat will do to pasture grown meat what margarine did to butter. Despite nearly 50 years of food science, still the most economical way of getting the wonderfully rich flavor of butter is to milk it out of cows.

In vitro meat will be fine for industralized meat products that just want the approximate taste & texture of meat but anybody wanting a fine steak is still going to get it from good old fashioned cows."
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Yes, I can actually understand that some people might want an enforced immigration policy. Most democracies have one, so empirically I would say such "wickedness" is popular.
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Sorry for not being more clear. If you had to go and buy that kind of traffic you'd end up paying $1500 per day, that is its value.

You can probably sell it for some multiple of that because 1ct per click is ridiculously low.

So we're talking about at least half a million dollars per year here and probably substantially more, 100% pure profit, near 0 expenses.

Here is a sample of the data of such a site:

http://ww.com/adsense.png , these pages have three adsense tags on them, two with pretty good conversion, one a lot less (but still 3x better than the 'overal average' of all adsense tags that I run.

21,500 euros is roughly 30,000 dollars, 3 million impressions is also roughly 3 million uniques on sites like this, so figure dividide by 20 to get to 150K uniques, which is just about 1500 dollars per day.

And that's just adsense, you can bet that people that live of this stuff tend to put a few more tags on those pages.

The CTRs are ridiculously high because the user doesn't have much choice, they can either click an 'ad' or click 'back'.

Not a very honorable business model though, but then again, would you say no to a free $0.5M per year ?
This article reads like it was written by someone with an axe to grind against traditional meat.
I really feel like a different title might have helped this submission. It's truly incredible technology, this is what we need to start expecting when we think "augmented reality." Hopefully this will obsolete smart phone augmented reality!
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I unfortunately have had way too much experience with CakePHP. It is the second to worst framework I have used. Second to .NET 2. CakePHP trying to emulate Rails while supporting PHP was an idea destined to fail especially when trying to support PHP 4.x.
I haven't personally played it, but people I respect have been saying that the Left 4 Dead series is actually doing a good job of this.

(also, as a general rule I have an extreme distrust of "nobody I know of has managed this yet, therefore no-one anywhere ever will")
I think that commenter has it right: that "traditionally grown" meat will always have a place in society. However, right now, a significant amount of meat is ground up into hamburgers and sold in McDonalds; that seems like a waste to me. Maybe taking that mass market out we can get back to sustainable farming.
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There's no such thing as an effective benchmark. Plus cell automatons are easy to write efficiently in an imperative/low-level language (eg an asm impl is easy) and are only representative of a small specialized class of programs: I don't think I have evere wrote such a thing in a business app. You may find similar programs in image processing though.
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Because it can be done as a technique while ignoring all of the voodoo-mumbo-jumbo. The book linked doesn't discuss the metaphysics. Just watch your breath, then be aware of all of the sensations in your body. Personally I find the metaphysics rather cute.

For empirical evidence, I linked to a popular thread where few people had negative things to say about Vipassana. Of the people that suggested alternative meditation styles, one was modded to 3 points and one was at 1 points.
MS has some interesting technologies, like F# & .NET, but I wonder if people trust MS to do the right thing on the server? (One braindead misfeature can screw up everything)
Wow thank you for that suggestibility.org link. After reading the telegraph article I googled it, read a bit of the wikipedia page, and then read a few reviews on amazon about TM that said "great book, but the personal lessons are where it's really at." Pretty soon I was on the actual TM website.

To my knowledge I have never fallen so blatantly for something; I mean I almost checked out what their prices are. That is just plain embarrassing. I can't remember the last time I fell for something like that.

What can I say; as much as I hate some of the stupid stuff that's posted on ycombinator I think most people here are bit more scientific and logical than I fully appreciate.
So what do people around here recommend for a php framework? I normally use and love Django, but I would like to add a php framework into my toolset.
Do you know what's in the average hot dog? Hamburger? Package of frozen chicken strips? The fact is that while people do eat a lot of steak, chicken wings, and bacon a lot of meat is merely an ingredient.
I made a similar plunge several years ago. My best advice is to look for a position in a research group that does both wet-lab experiments and computation. They may be very interested in your web background.
I am.

I had about 5-6 1 hour sessions with a psychiatrist and had about 2 sessions with a psychologist before that , and they diagnosed me with inattentive ADD.

I am on twice-a-day dose of Ritalin 10mg as of the last 2 weeks. It really seems to work , I find that I am getting a lot of work done.
I am suffering from slight insomnia and occasional nagging headaches though(classic side-effects).
The relevant liberty here is the liberty of data. It is probably the most widely exercised form of political protest/lawlessness/criminality today (drug use being a close runner-up: liberty of body).

So, no, I don't think our apathy will allow the government to be overrun by copyright thugs -- we already have the cure and it's already prevalent.

Now, these are fairly base liberties being totally about the individual:
"Copying data doesn't deprive. I want this data. Yay!" "Doing drugs doesn't hurt others. I want to feel different. Yay!"

The trick will be to maintain our loftier ideals like freedom of speech, freedom of press, and the right to privacy which I can very, very easily see being taken away.
However there are still two seemingly fundamental limits to the small portable device.

1. Battery power - every time you are doing something interesting you get the message saying that power is low and it's time to find a socket and plug in. Every month it seems we see posts on HN and elsewhere telling us that "super dooper" battery technology X is on it's way and will revolutionise our lives - they just never seem to turn up.

2. Data input technology. We are talking keyboards, stylus, finger gestures etc etc but at the end of the day you just can't create any appreciable volume of input using any sort of mobile device. OK - I take that back in the specialised arena of video. Maybe a twittering generation could cope but for "meat and potatoes" applications mobile devices can't meet the need.
Agreed. I can't tell how Azure fits in here... It looks like this just installs the tools on your local machine (or I guess server). So, perhaps they are taking the next (perhaps logical) step and assuming that you can use this to install stuff on an Azure instance?
This scares me to death.

There is no way that humanity has figured out all the complexity that billions of years of evolution has created when it comes to animals eating each other.

Corporations are now coming up with new types of 'food' that they can sell for much more profit than the things our species have been surviving on for thousands of years. Take margarine for example - no cows to raise and milk, therefore a much bigger profit margin than butter. They also tell us it's much healthier too. But then studies like this come along http://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/05/us/study-links-heart-disea... , and the whole french paradox, which indicate the opposite may be true.

"When In-Vitro Meat (IVM) is cheaper than meat-on-the-hoof-or-claw, no one will buy the undercut opponent." I seriously doubt it. Even though a grass fed, dry aged steak is quite expensive, many people splurge because they are delicious. Has the author heard of the organic movement growing 20% a year over the past decade? People buying more expensive food because it's healthier and tastes better, that defies logic.

The article claims that this IVM is also healthier for the planet, but it neglects to mention where all the raw ingredients for the IVM will come from. Mother nature already created the perfect way to stay healthy - plants get energy from the sun to grow, animals eat plants, and excrete fertilizer to grow new plants. This happened for millions of years before humans came along. Unfortunately, our farms are no longer run using this perfect natural solution (another issue entirely), but I don't see how IVM would solve this.

My favorite quote from the article: "We won't even choke to death because IVM contains no malicious bones or gristle." It's amazing our species has survived so long with so many malicious bones and evil gristle after us. Malicious bones - I cant stop picturing zombies, haha.
I'm showing my personal bias, of course. I just launched a business/economic social news site called http://newsley.com.

But, far from being parasites, social news sites expose readers to a much greater cross section of news than a local newspaper ever could. And, a well moderated social news site like Hacker News or a heavily filtered reddit is much more useful than an editor could ever be. There's still a whole lot of room for news aggregation/content crap filtration online. Social News is just getting started.

But then, I'm probably preaching to the choir here on HN. :)
This sounds like one of those "In The Year 2000" articles from Popular Science in the '50s. It is hyperbolic beyond credulity, probably missing some extremely important aspects of the central tenet of the story, and too light on cited facts to take seriously.

I do think there will be major changes in the way meat for the majority of meat eaters is produced in the future, but it won't be in three years, or even ten. The changes have to happen because meat production is simply too resource intensive for an ever-growing population to keep on eating more and more of the stuff without ever increasing environmental impact. But, they will come extremely slowly, because peoples habits change extremely slowly. People will choose "real" meat for a long time after cheaper in-vitro meats are available.

If I ate meat, I would be somewhat suspicious of the new stuff, just as I'm suspicious of most modern, and not so modern, lab-created food additives. As with most artificial sweeteners, HFCS, hydrogenated fats, etc., I'm suspicious of them as beacons for general poor quality when I see them on a label. I know if the manufacturer chose the cheapest options for the sweeteners and fats, they probably chose the cheapest garbage for the rest of the ingredients, too. Much like soy in burgers indicated to people in the '70s and '80s that it was a poor quality, cheap, food, in-vitro meats will probably go through a phase of being thought second rate. And, of course, a few years on, we now know that soy in some forms actually can be detrimental to health, particularly in men.

It will take a pretty brilliant marketing coup to overcome that kind of resistance. Splenda and Nutri-Sweet both had very effective marketing that seems to have countered any feelings of badness about them. Though what Nutri-Sweet replaced (Saccharine) had such a bad reputation at the time that anything probably would have been a shoe-in. It's not coincidence that Splenda began to hit big just as questions about the safety of Nutri-Sweet/Aspartame started to get mainstream attention. I'm not sure people will be convinced about the unhealthiness of meat, since artificial meats aren't exactly mainstream today, despite many of them being quite tasty (certainly tastier than diet sodas) and reasonably healthful. This makes me think the desire for healthier substitutes for meat isn't very high, and the awareness of most folks of the environmental impact is even lower.
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Which is a sequel to 'the space merchants'.

And I really wonder why that got you modded down, it's perfectly on-topic.
Okay, this is weird. I just upvoted a few of the comments here that mentioned being a bit more critical to this research, and something weird is going on. A few minutes later those posts were below their original karma value! The only thing common among the downvoted posts was that they were a little critical of the research. I would just hate to find out that a few TM people created new accounts to bias the comments here.

Just thought it was interesting, but who knows, I might just be getting a little paranoid.
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what is ADD? any links to explain this syndrome?

[edit] ok maybe this is what you are referring to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention-deficit_hyperactivity...