I've been generating income from http://aminosoftware.com going on 11 years now. There have been updates with every release of SQL Server and a handful of bug fixes over the years but it's amounted to about 10 hours of work per year.
I put up a test page for a niche C++ library I had developed, but haven't actually gotten around to selling it. I do keep getting a lot of e-mails from people who are interested in it though. But making sure the thing compiles on a lot of target platforms (especially Linux) is a hassle. So, what I've found, is that people need to be able to find you (duh). Try and figure out what the most likely search terms are for the problem they are solving and make sure you rank well there on Google. That'll get you 90% of the way there.
If you wait until it's perfect you'll never sell a single copy. My advice is to launch it, get the money going, and use that to refocus your efforts on the edge platforms on which it won't compile.
We used to have that but it only accounted for a small fraction of sales. Our customers are large enterprises that have a quotation/PO invoicing cycle that pay by check or wire.
I have been running http://aminosoftware.com for almost 10 years now with a partner. It's not huge money but we do zero promotion and support amounts to a handful of emails a year and pays for my kids private school. Our customers are government and enterprise so purchase through invoice/PO paperwork but that's just a few minutes using a google docs template.
You can be injured doing any activity, especially activities incorrectly. You can also die prematurely from inactivity.
I've been doing CrossFit for 2 years and feel better than I have in decades. I do have a background in weightlifting (college football). However, my wife does CrossFit as well and prior to starting she never touched weights. Again, she feels better than ever. But then again she isn't being stupid about doing movements she is uncomfortable with and isn't loading until she has got the technique down. Furthermore, there are 70+ year olds in our classes, some of them first timers as well. They are obviously not snatching their body weight but scale the exercises appropriate to them.
I guess this just goes along with a general societal trend to eschew personal responsibility and blame externalities.
I completely agree. Your comment seems to support my assertion that there are "well-documented hazards" which I took the time to cursorily reference. And yet you replied with "Thanks for the laugh! :) 'Hazardous'. Haha."
Your comments don't seem logically consistent. (Plus there's more than a touch of ad hominem attack in there, which isn't necessary.)
You follow this with bandwaggoning and appealing to anecdote: "I do X, I know someone who does X" etc etc.
> "general societal trend to eschew personal responsibility"
I just have absolutely no idea how you arrive at this.
For the record: I lift weights. I highly recommend it. It mitigates the risk of certain diseases. It increases the risk of certain injuries.
I support giving poor people any amount of money (or food, I guess?) directly. I don't support messing up the commodities market (and numerous other things as a result) for the alleged purpose of feeding them HFCS.
355ml glass bottle in mex costs 6 pesos, or 0.30usd, while the plastic bottle version at half a liter goes the same price. cans can go as much as 10 pesos in vending machines.
2L plastic is around 25 pesos or $1.50USD. I don't buy soda so my numbers may be off by 10%.
I attended an Ivy (Penn). Most of my friends were far from wealthy. Many from what most in the US would consider poor backgrounds. It's hard for me to speak on their behalf here, but it's quite obvious seeing them now how radically their lives have changed.
It seems that there are those who pursue greatness and success and use their challenges and circumstances as motivation to do better and those that see themselves as handicapped and disadvantaged.
Are there pompous kids? Sure. But I believe that exists anywhere and quite frankly, I felt that those kids were the ones who were missing out. Missing out on relationships with people who were not caught up on the superficial, either because they couldn't afford to be, or didn't care.
I think it's a mistake to apply one-size-fits-all advice to CrossFit. Can it be dangerous? Sure. Can it work well if you are not an idiot? Sure.
Bottom line is, you, as the athlete, must listen to his body first and foremost.
Push through soreness, sure. But acute pain? No way.
The problem is, perhaps, that non-athletes come into CrossFit and haven't learned the difference and are not coached on the difference. As a former college athlete (football), that nuance had become second nature to me and therefore I know when to use the coaching prompts to push through to motivate me and I also know when to ignore them because I feel a potential injury coming or realize my form is breaking down.
I think part of the problem might lie in how easy it is to become CrossFit certified, not with the regimes themselves.
just another story of a business getting involved in public policy in order to hurt competitors. costco can (and already does) pay workers more than minimum wage as is in line with their operating philosophy. government shouldn't be in the business of regulating wages, that's an agreement between an employer and employee.
I think one of the biggest things I see is the ability to handle uploads/handling of images inline of your content. You still have to provide the server side implementation (see http://paltman.com/2012/08/15/how-to-setup-upload-handler-fo...) but having the ability to browse previously uploaded photos, as well as upload new ones, and have them appear inline with your content with resize handles, is pretty nice.
Niche was key for this to work.