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Are they hits to the front page? Direct would suggest something like a Twitter client or email. But I don't see much mention of your url on Twitter. Perhaps it's been shortened. Really annoying that there's probably no way to figure out what's going on in that case. What's the network distribution of your visitors? Does it look legit?

High unlikely your app is going "viral". It's probably on the front page of something big. Uhh, can't you look at the referrer logs to find out where?

Who here thinks that Zuck has always known about this contract? And has been praying every day that Ceglia had forgotten about it / died / etc. And the stress and stakes rose day after day, Zuck dying on the inside like w/ the tell-tale heart, stress coming through the cracks at his AllThingsD meltdown, etc...?

Amazon reaching out is the opportunity. Not the droid/berry/nokia you have sitting on your desk that will be sitting there next month.

What's going to happen is that they will disappear in the middle of the night some day, probably whenever some cop they've paid off let's them know they're about to get raided.

Maybe you're on Substance D?

It's definitely killing Wikipedia in the area of random text generation. Reading Cpedia is like dropping acid and having William S. Burroughs read you search results.

I'd upvote you twice if I could for pointing out this amazing resource. I'm amazed I never knew about it.

Interesting ideas. I think I agree with trafficlight's reply. Without domain knowledge, it's hard to tell whether these are real pain points or not. Like - which of these are actually costing people money right now? Which of them need the human touch (e.g. plumbing scheduling, carpet cleaning sales)?

And then selling to these small businesses - how do you scale it? I almost think there's a meta problem here, of small business outreach. How can you connect people to tools that might improve their businesses - where are they even looking for tools to improve their business?

How would you monetize this hypothetical FeedBurner challenger?

The irony of Peter Cooper advocating the Peter Principle is not lost on me.

Please explain this site... I don't get it! Especially the part about how it gets traffic! :)

Even if you assume all the traffic comes in during just an 8 hour window of a 24 hour day, that's still barely over 1TPS. It's nothing. You didn't say how big your dataset was in mysql. If you were at 100x data to RAM ratio I would definitely be worried, or if you had any especially slow queries. I think even if you were at 10x data to RAM ratio you would be okay mysql-wise, assuming you're getting something close to 10ms latency on your disks. (Which you ought to be able to with Linode/Slicehost/EC2). If your app for whatever reason has burstiness (e.g. sharing/viral events) then you need to plan around whatever peak load you're willing to support.

BTW, my personal opinion is that Joyent is grossly grossly overpriced. And are they still forcing you to run Solaris?

Roll Through the Ages - Yahtzee meets Civilization. My wife AND parents both like it.

reference counting != "manual garbage collection"

Hah, okay, make it 3 then. I was only thinking of NSString and char*.

Are blocks available in the iOS version of Objective-C? (Not trying to refute your point, just curious, since that would be exciting news for me if I do another iPhone app...

It's the same as in C. va_list, va_start, va_arg, va_end, etc.

Didn't see a single explanation of why the language deserves my love. Let's see.

* The language is verbose.

* Practically speaking, it's only used to developer for two platforms (OSX and iOS).

* The frameworks for those platforms are MEGA verbose.

* The memory management model for the iOS platform is not GC, and it's not manual management. Frankly I found manual management of memory simpler than retain/release. And the autorelease pool? That's just wrong.

* Typically speaking back to two files per class.

* Doesn't have any functional elements to it whatsoever. Any manipulation of collections = instant development velocity kill.

* Typically have to deal with two different kind of strings (NS versus C).

So for now, yep, I still hate ObjectiveC.

A lot of people have done a lot worse things than Jason. I don't know why people feel the need to piss down his throat on a daily basis.

I do wish he'd put his energies into something better than Mahalo though.

Sure. Hiring?

Can't say for a variety of lame reasons. But it's a game.

Nice game. I logged in to play it a bit. I'd love to hear how the game is doing for you (e.g. paying for itself, ramen profitable, ferrari profitable). I'm actually in the middle of developing a browser based "MMO" myself right now. (Nothing deployed yet.)

Dude. I think 3 mentions in the same thread is a bit much.

You don't get paid anything until you make >$150 month in one particular financial region. In my case, been going on near a year and I still haven't made $150. whimper

Why don't you save me the capital outlay and just tell me what will happen?

Don't understand why you can't imagine someone wanting these jobs. Are you suggesting that this is most menial form of labor on the planet? There are far worse jobs to have. There are far worse jobs that are performed in abundance everyday (e.g. fast food).

Anyway, regardless of where the work is in the pecking order, it's still work, it's still opportunity, it's still income. People who take pride in their work will take pride in their work in any context.

I know people personally right now who would be happy to have the job. When you can't find other work and your savings have been depleted by healthcare bills, I don't know what would stop you.

Are you suggesting that everyone in the US has their pick of jobs right now? Do you really think with how desperate times are people wouldn't be willing to work in a nice air conditioned factory for $8/hr? And how about the supervisor positions, the industrial engineer positions, the HR positions, etc etc that are paid above that wage. "No one will do the jobs" just seems like FUD. I've never seen any proof of it. I don't know where the basis for the argument comes from. It almost seems... classist?

Thought: do data urls work in .css files? e.g. background: url(data:....); ? Because then you could have one cacheable file (everything.css) that sits along side your pages (use background images instead of plain old imgs), so you would only have to download them once, not on every page load.

I thought the favicon could be a data url? Isn't that how they implemented Defender Of The Favicon?