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"Agreed, thinking isn't words."

But what's the definition of thinking?

For me there are two ways of "thinking", the conscious one, in which I'm
talking to myself and the unconscious, intuitive one, in which I don't
talk to myself, but get some kind of "enlightenment", just see or
understand something without a conscious thought.

The unconscious thinking works for me on all stuff I'm good at, stuff I
learned und exercised a lot, so in a way the conscious thinking has been done
before, created some kind of neural connection, and know this connection
is activated without my assistance.

For me it's also the case that my logic sometimes works in a unconscious
way, that I just get something, but it's the question how much this
unconscious logic is assisted by former training.

A quite long time I only used the unconscious thinking. As long I
advanced, there has been no need for an other way of thinking. But I got
at a barrier, where my unconscious thinking couldn't go further.

I think, that If you're confronted with something completely new and
very hard, then the unconscious thinking can go some way, but at some
point it won't get further. You need then to change to the conscious
thinking, create the necessary neural connections, and If that's done,
then you're able to think again in an unconscious way.

I think, that you can limit yourself, if you're only used to one way of
thinking

Often I'm debbuging in the same way as you. But sometimes it's very inefficient,
when I'm stumble around without a direction.

Sometimes it's way more efficient to step back, get the bigger picture,
ask yourself some questions, build assumptions and verify them.

Sometimes during the "conscious" debugging, when I'm talking to myself
I'm getting an "enlightenment", and the bug is solved.
There is nothing special about Africans that will make them "properly[sic?] be so long after we are gone". The same tendency for long wars is everywhere. The history of Europe in the 19th century and earlier was almost a series of continuous wars. The main difference is that the cost of war is now too high for advanced countries.
Even WWI wasn't enough. People recognize it and made the League of Nations, which still wasn't enough so the lesson had to be repeated with bigger losses.
good point, but then I could counter-argue that Apple had more domain knowledge in the area of building and marketing consumer electronics that people love :)

depends where you see the domain as being.
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History is written by the victors.
I'm not sure he understands what e-ink is.
ok, if I understand well this is a competitor, smaller, slower with an inferior screen and touch technology and you have to (easily but still...) change its software to support those features given it's not build for it.

The only advantages being cheaper (I would hope so given the specs!), running Android (debatable) and using an SD card for storage.

Even the site lists more cons than pros...
Thanks. What kind of tools are you talking about?
I've heard some people say that only being able to see a small amount of code at a time forces good programming practices, compared to what you'd be able to do with a large monitor. Do you think that having such a small screen helps in this way?
I have a Toshiba Satellite (Dual-Core 1.6 GHz) with Ubuntu 10.04 extended on an external monitor (19") and an old Compaq desktop (Dual-Core 2.0 GHz) with Windows XP on a 26" monitor.
> What's with all the laptops?

I have a 15" Macbook Pro (version just before the aluminum ones)

I love being mobile. I'm never at a desk. I'm always at a table or couch somewhere. (I love coffee shops. I'm at one drinking an iced tea right now.)

One use case I never envisioned for my laptop was hooking it up to a friend's TV to watch videos. I can store an entire anime series on my laptop. (or loads of rifftrax[1]) When some friends and I want to watch some stuff I just bring my handy case of cables and hook up to their TV and fire up Front Row. (or MPlayer) OSX is pretty good at handling this, my desktop icons stay where I put them when unplug from the TV.

[1]: http://rifftrax.com
To those who are bickering about how this in not optimial programming and how give me my GWBasic. Read the whole page before commenting. It is a project of Harold Abelson, the Co-Author of SICP,
It's also on Scribd for free. You can download the PDF as well.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/47180/Paul-Graham-Hackers-And-Pain...
Very cool - how did you monetize this?
There are plenty of UI designers out there. Some are good. Some are great. Some suck donkey balls. Choosing the right one is an art form in itself. Make sure you ask for code as well as just screenshots. Or better yet, ask for the mockups they created during their iterative design process. This will show you how they think about how the UI changes based on feedback from the client.
FYI the kindle edition is always $9.99 and available at the Amazon link above.
you dont write an OS in GWBasic, but it sure does makes you interested in CS, rather than just watching some stupid crap on itunes
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I think my concealed carry permits in the US are good in about 40 states (WA NH NV UT FL NH OR ME MA). Aside from CA and NY, I basically avoid the others (IL WI IA NJ mainly).

It is slightly crazy, but I think I am going to Strongly Encourage that everyone in my next startup get concealed carry permits, plus own firearms, even though it is not at all core to the business -- mainly because friday afternoon at the range once or twice a month might be a fun team-building exercise.
They're really not. My dad knows what an iPad is. Unless this device lays golden eggs he'll probably never hear of it.

Also, there are unmentioned features in the iPad's favor, most notably an App Store with 200k titles in it.
A lot of Visual Basic's success was the ability to buy components that were easily hooked into your programs.
"Trimming facts off at the first few levels of details makes everything feel, well, oversimplified."

But it's not just oversimplification of collective action, the plot was overblown even at the level of purely individual events in individual characters' lives. Arguably the greatest theoretical/experimental crossover physicist of the century takes the occasion of accepting his Nobel Prize to escape with his Jewish wife from Il Duce, and a few years later stands musing over a nuclear chain reaction in a secret project in Chicago? Puhleeze.
...unless the boss is a Jobs or Gates who intimately understands the market and/or technology.
Do you really think people buy the iPad for reading ebooks? I find it to be not significantly better than reading on a monitor. The iPad is great for some things for sure (Plants vs Zombies being first and foremost in my experience) but I think if I wanted to read books I'd get a Kindle or some eink device.
Partnering with designers (or ANYONE) is tricky. You sound like you have an existing product that you want "designed and cleaned up". The best UI designers (unless they LOVED the product idea) don't want to work on someone ELSE'S baby. Same is true for the best coders.

In terms of hiring designers-- I think it's like hiring salespeople-- most people who need them don't know how to tell the difference between good ones and bad ones.

As I hunt around for co-founders (I just stepped down from RescueTime a month or so back), I'm purposefully AVOIDING settling on an idea because I think it's best when founders co-author the idea together.
Why is that better? You can use JSON here.

(I say this as someone who used to use random HTML attributes.)
Primary non-development machine (gaming/entertainment):
i7 920 @ 2.8ghz, 6gb ddr3 1600, XFX Radeon HD 5770, Win7 Pro

Laptop (most of my dev and schoolwork is done on this):
Thinkpad SL500 (2.0ghz Core2duo, 2gb ram)
Dualboot ArchLinux (main/default) w/ Awesome/Xmonad and Win7 (for visual studio and dj software).

Netbook (eeepc 900A):
ArchLinux, mostly used for IRC/web when on the run.

Much of my web and non-gui programming is done via ssh to my server in vim, so OS doesnt really matter to me.
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Wow, never heard about that one. Did they never duct-tape bottle rockets together as kids? Might have taught them a little humility and saved some time.
The video is perfect. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: aside from porn, pictures of cute animals are the best way to get people to use a new technology.
OTC caffeine pills: 250-500mg caffeine (about 3-6 cups of coffee equivalent), with the difference being it's much cheaper than coffee, and more deleterious to your stomach. Less liquid, so it's much easier to dehydrate yourself, or get to dangerous (2-3g) caffeine levels. You might actually notice minor-league OD symptoms off 2 pills (500mg), and definitely at 1g.

Really, a bad idea. Modafinil (provigil) or ritalin (methylphenidate) or adderall (d-amphetamine salts) are probably safer physically than caffeine pills, but potentially more addictive.
This works now, in all relevant browsers, which is what I need.
>Or also, the G1 has a camera button but the nexus one (foolishly) doesn't.

Note that a trackball press will take a picture on both of these devices (and because of the shitty design of the regular camera button on my G1, I end up using the trackball anyway).
Definitely try a selection of different blades. If you can find a supplier which offers 'sample packs' that would be perfect.

There is http://connaughtshaving.com/samplepack.html in the UK but it sounds like you're US based.

I had quite a lot of problems with the Feathers blades when I tried them. I suggest you try them anyway as what works for me won't necessarily work for you and vice versa. Try a variety and find what works best for you.
Rails was released after basecamp from which it was extracted. Basecamp was launched in Feb 2004 and Rails in July 2004 http://37signals.com/svn/archives/000542.php
http://rubyonrails.org/core
I really like the new Motorola Charm.

It's a solid, beard of bees device. Not super pretty, but you could beat someone up with it. Check a review first though, as I'm slightly worried about the 600Mhz CPU.

http://www.motorola.com/Consumers/US-EN/Consumer-Product-and...
Bah, that's not a domain-- but I agree with you. The best "domain" is being awesome and making stuff that people absolutely love. That often trumps domain knowledge, funding, etc.

Might be challenging selling that idea to investors, though! :-)
http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/july/the-helvet...
ah, to be single again....
Yes, and depending on the trim-length I look like either a terrorist or a history professor. Neither is preferable!
A Macbook (black) with a triple-monitor display (internal display + 2 x 24" Acer 1080p monitors on either side).

I'm using the EVGA UV Plus+16, which is a USB-to-DVI adapter for the second external monitor, which is really nice, but it only allows the one monitor to go up to 1680x1050, so I just use that monitor for email, IM, IRC, etc, where it doesn't really matter.
Don't forget Bosnia and Darfur.
Not if you think of it as "do this but repeat while EXPR"

EDIT: Perhaps renaming it to "again while EXPR { ... }" would be a better option.
I think it's more weird that no one's objected to the four clocks. Even as a member of the jet-set elite, I'd think that local time is still most important in the general sense. Feature that. Have the global times underneath; gotta know when the markets open after all.
Laptops should be flying type. Then embedded devices can be ground type.
The "rewrite" didn't help them, though. If you think people complain about IE6, it's got nothing on Netscape Communicator 4.
I didn't know that- interesting! One thing to note: They continued to consult for a year after they launched Basecamp. So I'd still say that the RoR attention splashed onto them (and continues to do so).

Salesforce.com spends 50-60% of their top line revenue on sales and marketing. 37s (unless you count the time they spent thinking of and writing linkbait) spends zero.
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Plan C.3 - beard and write a new programming language, since that is the main prerequisite for being a famous language founder. (the new language will be called "Stubble" of course.)
I wrote about http://PeterAnswers.com on my blog and it became the #1 google result for "ask peter". The post got a ton of traffic and I built a clone called http://askjud.com

-- Redirected everyone, added Adsense, and now it gets 6k - 10K visits / day.
I'm fairly sure that the author meant to write "probably" instead of "properly".

And no, there is nothing special about Africans, but a lot that is "special" about Africa. The rampant disease. The widespread corruption. The poverty resulting from those. The political boundaries that are a remnant of European map making rather than any sort of internal logic. These have contributed to generations of misery, and there is no immediate prospect of this changing.
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Yes, it is a competitor, but is it a "real competitor"? Real is the operative word. When you suggest that this product is a "real competitor", I expect it to have real potential to sell more than a million devices.

The reason why I am dismissive of this device is that the headline of the OTA is a little bit linkbaitish considering that the device is made by a little known Asian manufacturer who is going to spend next to nothing on marketing and has a questionable pedigree when it comes to product quality.

There will be real competitors from Android and WebOS, once the big players enter the market. But this thing? No way. I would say that none of the big players with plans for an Android slate would even consider this thing competition.
So your dad never browses Wal-mart, Target, Best Buy, or anywhere else?

This is in the netbook range Best buy will throw next to the check-out aisle.
Although I agree that adding a new feature is not enough to make a product stand out, there is one case where a new feature can mean everything: When the product is designed entirely around it.

Case in point: Posterous. As discussed more extensively by Dustin Curtis (link below), their novel feature was to allow blog posts by email. Any existing blogging platform could have added this feature. But Posterous is different; the product is posting-by-email.

I think something similar can be said about Twitter. Again, any social networking site could have added the option to send short text messages to their already large user base. Facebook in a sense encompassed Twitter with its News Feed.

But again, Twitter is different; short text messages are the product.

http://blog.dustincurtis.com/i-dont-laugh-at-startup-ideas-a...
Well I'll be getting a cheap Android tablet eventually for stuff that the iPad simply is too expensive for. For example to make a kind of dashboard out of it, or sticking it to the fridge.

Not every tablet needs to compete on all the same aspects as the iPad.
Market research still works when you admit to your audience that's what you're doing. They say it's somewhat less accurate that way, but even if that's true it doesn't entitle anyone to throw chaff into the system that allocates resources to us.
True there is nothing special about the Africans that makes them more likely to make wars. It is just that the meddling that we have done the last couple of centuries, combined with the culture has left them with little alternative.
> The issue is that providing a physical back button or not isn't meant to facilitate different types of usage.

It may facilitate different form factors and different price points. I suspect most Android phones are used the same, but people prefer different sizes of devices. I prefer having a hardware keyboard but currently most devices do not have one.

> I have never bought a notebook that had the keys in the same place as the one I bought before... when they change something and that has to have something to do with what the software does.

I'm not sure how the keyboard layout has anything to do with the software running on your laptop?
Ok, so supposedly this is a "real competitor" for the iPad, but the author lists the following downsides:

1) It’s a resistive screen.
2) It’s not a very bright screen, like the iPad.
3) It’s not a blazing fast CPU.
4) It’s limited for video.
5) It will be heavier than most eInk devices.
6) There’s no 3G, it’s WiFi-only.

Here's why these matter.

1) There is a very good reason no one uses resistive touch for devices intended to be used with your finger. The experience is horrible. You're better off trying to use your fingernail than you are your finger, and that's just awkward.
2) From the photos (and they might just be bad photos) the screen looks find for black & white, but muddy and washed out in color.
3) So responsiveness will suffer when running the full version of Android
4) TILT
5) This hasn't really been a problem for the iPad, but the iPad doesn't suffer from the cumulative negative effects listed here.
6) Not a big problem, IMO. A lot of people bought the WiFi iPad, and for good reason. If you're going to have a 3G data connection, it should probably be in the form of a MiFi or something similar.

Here's the biggest problem of all, items one, two, three, four add up to a lousy experience, and experience is everything. Sure, people might buy it once, but they won't use it if the experience sucks, and they won't buy another. The shame of the matter is that they may condemn tablets in general, rather than understand the attribution as I've listed it above.
I think that just goes to show you the power of Apple's marketing machine.

Just because your dad won't know about it, doesn't mean that features and price aren't competitive.
I would bet his dad asks him what device to buy instead of buying a random/cheap device in a store. My dad would.
Are you sure? Their site tells me otherwise:

http://www.shapewriter.com/android.html

I think I read something about it them stopping selling it for Android. Does anyone know why?
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Hmmm. I was promised eight and got seven.

Isn't counting the whole idea behind sophisticated finance?

Never-the-less (pun intended), seven good points.
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13.3" MacBook Pro (2010) and a 23" external display (1080p)
He probably didn't or used ads. He can always use the user base later on for other projects.
This is a weird article, I read it twice I still don't understand what is it's purpose. Looks like someone just wrote down some random thoughts.
Are Amazon music files in AAC or in MP3 format?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Audio_Coding#AAC.27s_i...
I think that this sounds more like being the first employee of a company rather than a technical cofounder. When recruiting the first few employees, this is exactly the pitch that I give to them but if you are going to be a cofounder, then reasonable hours, working environment, etc. are really up to you and the other cofounder. Thus, you make what you want. The point about "reasonable guy" is thus paramount. In fact, I would argue you need much more than reasonable.
This reminds me of my favorite quote from my favorite business book, Differentiate or Die by Jack Trout, with emphasis on "Anything that others could claim just as well as you can, eliminate.":

The best way to really enter minds that hate complexity and confusion is to oversimplify your message. The lesson here is not to try to tell your entire story. Just focus on one powerful differentiating idea and drive it into the mind. That sudden hunch, that creative leap of the mind that "sees" in a flash how to solve a problem in a simple way, is something quite different from general intelligence. If there's any trick to finding that simple set of words, it's one of being ruthless about how you edit the story you want to tell. Anything that others could claim just as well as you can, eliminate. Anything that requires a complex analysis to prove, forget. Anything that doesn't fit with your customers' perceptions, avoid.

http://www.amazon.com/Differentiate-Die-Survival-Killer-Comp...
My favorite messed up weapons from WW II.

The Americans came up with an anti-tank grenade that was really sticky so that it would stay to the tank it was thrown at. Discontinued due to an unfortunate tendency to remain in the thrower's hand.

The Russians (land of Pavlov and all that) came up with the idea of dogs with bombs strapped to their backs that had learned to associate the under side of tanks with food. Great idea, and it might have worked, if the Russian trainers had access to German tanks for the training. Unfortunately when first deployed the dogs proved able to tell Russian tanks apart from German ones, and immediately put the Russians in full retreat.

(I found these in a book of world's worsts that I read many, many years ago.)
With regard to point 1, my N900 has a resistive screen, and it feels almost exactly like an iphone (except I can use a stylus to click on tiny links on web pages instead of having to zoom).
There were actually successful attacks with water-skipping bombs. In some cases it was the only way to get the bombs to the target due to the low angle needed.
I tried this once. I'm sure it kicks ass when it works, but when I was done, my face looked like something out of a Hellraiser movie. Never again!
I love the line "All that’s involved is installing a different device driver and then a new Home launcher!" 99% of the population will respond with, "huh?" and then stop considering it.

I hope they sell enough to stay in business and make a bit of money, but really, this is a niche product compared to the iPad. And that's saying something.
in link form:

http://www.innoq.com/blog/st/2010/07/rest_litmus_test_for_we...
Don't do it. I bought a Merkur two years ago and I just back the switch back to the Gillette.

Here's the issue: errors with a single blade safety razor are much worse. I didn't cut myself 99% of the time, but when I did, the cuts were large divots out of my skin. It sucks.

Go with the modern technology and leave the single blades to the obsessive.
For ASP/Windows Dev: An AMD quad core cobbled together from spare parts. Cost about $300 and works like a charm.

For iPhone and Android programming: MBP 13.3"
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This is not a competitor. It's a hacker hobbyist machine, which is something the iPad is not, by both design and price point.
Um dude, I recommend that you take a marketing course.

Just because they are in the same larger market doesn't mean that two products are "real" or "direct" competition.

Do you think BMW considers a person who buys a Corolla (and can't otherwise afford a 3-series) a lost customer?
isn't this a reductionist view? the night of the long knives is just the first example I can think of, but I'm pretty sure there were more examples of people _becoming_ undesirable.
I personally wonder how the advance of usability has hurt the educational aspects of a computer. We had a computer when I was a kid, and sure, all I wanted to do was play video games. The problem is, at that time, this required a lot of work. I spent hours trying to figure out how to free up enough memory so the damn things would run. Before that it was messing with an Apple IIe

Computers were a real chore then, and I'm young enough that I was spared much of the difficulties. My little brother, only six years younger, never had any difficulties in doing what he wanted to do. Put the CD in and it automatically fires up. He's never had to do anything about interrupts or whatever to get sound to work, or anything like that, but his computer skills have never been beyond your typical user.

I've often though if I were to have children I'd give them a computer, but I'd intentionally leave it crippled so that some pain is needed to actually use it.
I'd rather buy a Windows 7 slate than this thing. Now that's saying something.