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I think you gain more publicity than competition (especially if it's not something that can be ripped off in a weekend). Besides, to me it's more important to share data with other…

I'm pretty sure Flower Garden is definitely an anomaly. It falls in that category of not being a super-hit, but not being a flop either. Check out some of the other sales figures b…

This is Noel, the author of the post and of Flower Garden. I was planning on leaving a detailed analysis of the effect of IAP for a later post, but you're right that some people di…

I used AppViz for most of the charts (it's a great program to keep track of your sales and visualize them in different ways). The chart with colors it's just generated from Pages s…

Except that human bodies are not engines. Calories in != calories out + stored energies. A healthy body will store just enough and discard the rest of the eaten food. For a much mo…

Great technical book postmortem! I've also gone through the painful process of writing a technical book and I agree with everythig he says. And seriously, never, ever, think about …

Doesn't seem to work for me with pages protected with .htpasswd. The page is blank, no prompt to enter a password. Anybody else having that problem?

John is a genius. No doubt about it. But he didn't come up with it, he just recognized it as a useful optimization: http://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/8/

And a week and a half after release, it's up to 150 units. I guess that's more or less what I would expect of a niche app that was thrown in the App Store without any marketing.

7.5 is the ideal for me. I do a lot of running and cycling though, which make me need more sleep. When I don't, I'm fine with 6 hours. I also experimented with polyphasic sleep and…

The original link doesn't work for me. Here's a fixed link: http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1... Seems like the Economist moved it under science.

We're just using Skype for conference calls. The cost of SkypeOut and SkypeIn is something like $20/year or something. Works fine for us.