There has been a lot of nonsense lately about Apple’s decision to charge $5 for XCode 4. Lots of otherwise intelligent people are claiming that this is somehow the end of the world as we know it, and that it represents some “new low” for Apple. Actually, no. First, if you’re complaining about this, you’re […]
So I’ve been doing some thinking about where we should move. I’m leaning towards Austin, which seems to be the hacker capital of this part of the world. No, it’s no SF, and there’s no FIOS but the rent is reasonable and it looks like a good value. Plus I lived there during an internship […]
So I’m reading Steve Blank’s The Four Steps to the Epiphany: What if a customer tells you the issues you thought were important really aren’t? Realize you’ve just obtained great data. While it may not be what you wanted to hear, it’s wonderful to have that knowledge early on. Do not, I repeat, do not, […]
If you are a knowledge worker, the most important thing is to know things. Although the idea of knowing is the basis for everything I do–from sales to marketing to programming to creativity–I had never sat down to think about it for as much as an hour. It turns out that knowing is a lot […]
There’s been a lot of discussion lately in the hacker community about cooking. There are plenty of reasons why cooking is important: Entire generations of Americans have sworn off cooking and eat mostly or entirely prepackaged foods. In the whole rest of the world, cooking is part of national pride and food culture is cool. […]
So first: I finally broke down and got a SSD for my MBP. A Mercury Extreme Pro, 120GB, $250. Worth every penny (they’re not paying me). If you are a developer who depends on your machine to make money, you absolutely must go buy an SSD today. Read the articles, do the research on wear-leveling […]
I’ve been using my WakeMate for 17 days now. Today they released a CSV export feature and so I’ve gotten a chance to run my data through some basic statistical analysis. I’m primarily interested in knowing what factors affect my sleep. My goal is not to publish some new findings in sleep research but rather […]
Experts-Exchange was bad. Really, really bad. StackOverflow is much better. But. That’s not saying much. It’s still pretty bad. I try to avoid it when I can. However, I recently got stuck–something weird was going on with Blocks and memory management. So I posted this question. It’s quite a detailed question. The question itself is […]
Overall, 2010 has been a good year. I’ve taken my iOS development company from a 0.5-man operation to one with me full-time and several contractors. We’ve gone from Ramen-profitable to to fancy-hotel-and-a-macbook-pro-profitable. The Good: Six months ago, I was still thinking “Maybe I should think about starting a company instead of getting a ‘real job’”. […]
There’s been a lot of talk this week about $100 Android phones: What’s most interesting is that unless Apple (AAPL) has a plan to keep up, their iPhone, once one of the only usable smartphone games in town, may wind up back where most Apple products are slotted– at the top of the market, affordable […]
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