Really great companies have a competitive advantage: Coca-cola has marketing and taste, Geico has low cost, Apple has ingenuity and quality, etc. These competitive advantages are what Buffett deems a moat, the natural defence that keeps competitors at bay. It’s this moat that keeps companies as number one in their market and produces ultra-loyal customers.
— Anonymous
Here are two articles I found useful recently. The first describes in great detail how to compile a static library in Xcode, and the second describes how to get a project to link against one of your own static libraries over dylibs that come with the system.
Put the two together, and you can package your own little libraries into your projects, and you can ignore the requirements of your target system (or systems). In my case, I wanted to get iPodRip working on 10.4, which only comes with SQLite 3.1.3 or something like that. So bundling a custom static library was the only option for it.
Worked out great after banging my head on the wall for a bit.
Too many entrepreneurs stop after they build the product. They think that building products is what makes them an entrepreneur. But entrepreneurship is about building businesses, and the product is just one part of that.
— Rob May
Here are a bunch of quotes from Jon Stewart’s commencement address to the college of William and Mary. They are listed in no particular order whatsoever.
So how do you know what is the right path to choose to get the result that you desire? And the honest answer is this. You won’t. And accepting that greatly eases the anxiety of your life experience.
College is something you complete. Life is something you experience. So don’t worry about your grade, or the results or success. Success is defined in myriad ways, and you will find it, and people will no longer be grading you, but it will come from your own internal sense of decency…
Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age. And let the chips fall where they may.
I was in New York on 9-11 when the towers came down. I lived 14 blocks from the twin towers. And when they came down, I thought that the world had ended. And I remember walking around in a daze for weeks. And Mayor Giuliani had said to the city, “You’ve got to get back to normal. We’ve got to show that things can change and get back to what they were.”
And one day I was coming out of my building, and on my stoop, was a man who was crouched over, and he appeared to be in deep thought. And as I got closer to him I realized, he was playing with himself. And that’s when I thought, “You know what, we’re gonna be OK.”
— Jon Stewart
From news.yc:
Small tweaks in the requirements can reduce the amount of work dramatically. Don’t be a hero, nobody really cares and you’ll just wear yourself out.
