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I wouldn't be surprised if many of them were born in the US.

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if you haven't launched yet, why not change your name? I understand that there are costs involved, but did you quantify those costs and see if it's possible or not? You don't have to redo everything at once.

Agreed about the ugliness. A simple inductance-based charger would do the trick, but I'm not holding my breath for Apple to adopt that.

Perhaps, but I thought Windows Live Messenger have a bigger user base already. Maybe I'm wrong though.

First of all, congrats. I'm sure it wasn't easy getting to this stage.

Now, there are lots of good comments that others have made already. I think the most important ones are the issues with the speed of taking orders and the suggestion to talk to local restaurants and bars for input.

My two cents are related to the video. It looks too amateurish. The camera is not 100% steady (use a tripod, or set the camera on a table), the narration is not very fluid (practice, practice, practice) and it's too technical. The video should target your audience and highlight the advantage of using your system. Show a waiter taking orders, and the kitchen receiving them instantly. Show how a fast and easy it is to print receipts and how a manager can help resolve customer issues/complaints. How would you convince a restaurant owner to ditch the multi-thousand $$ POS system that he/she has, and invest in yours?

Also your FAQ page seems to be outdated and missing a few links.

Good luck!

> The main problem visual programming encounters is the sheer number of options you have when you are entering code in text form.

Agreed. So maybe the solution is to adopt a completely different approach to "visual" programming. One that doesn't involve entering code, and has a bigger dependence on gestures. I have no idea how it would look like though, but something that would allow you to develop on a touch-screen device is quite intriguing.

what's wrong with IMHO? And how does it somehow make me unworthy of correcting your grammar?

You also used "it's" instead of "its" in a couple of places.

My mother tongue is not English, but such silly errors are inexcusable. It takes a second to google the correct form. In fact, "it's self" put me off completely and I never completed the article.

So, IMHO, good spelling and grammar are essential to any discussion.

Perhaps you're right. With a smallish company, it's possible for everybody to jump in and do whatever needs to be done. As a company grows, though, this will become impossible. Many a great company in history have suffered spectacular deaths simply because they couldn't scale correctly with their success.

In my opinion, it will be impossible to have 200 employees with a flat structure.

> To clarify... "President" isn't a title I use, it's a title often ascribed to me as the founder of the company.

I apologize if I got things wrong. I was just going with whatever is here: http://37signals.com/about

"Jason Fried is the co-founder and President of 37signals."

and

"Jason co-wrote all of 37signals books, and is invited to speak around the world on entrepreneurship, design, management, and software."

with that kind of workload, I assumed you wouldn't have enough time for anything else. I never said whatever you do is useless. Far from it. Non-technical work that is focused at growing a company is more important than any technical work. After all, what can you do with an insanely great product that you can't sell because you didn't prepare for it properly?

Jason seems to imply that managers are useless when he says "We do not have room for people who don't do the actual work".

I think this is very naive of him, and a little selfish. He's enjoying the title of "President" which, to me, is a purely managerial position. I doubt if he considers himself useless, but he's happy to label other managers useless. I might be wrong, but it seems that he's either too selfish to see other people take away some of his control or he's afraid to tackle the problem of a growing company. Both of these will have negative consequences in the future.

Just for the record, over my 14+ years in a technical field, I have been a manager for 5+, and have given up that title twice before to focus on more technical work.

I'm not a designer, but my limited experience with Photoshop et al. is that you really need the precision of a mouse pointer for single-pixel-resolution manipulations.

Can someone with more experience chime in and explain whether Photoshop on a tablet is really useful?

Thanks. Zynga are the exception rather than the rule. I don't expect my app to go viral like Farmville (but I wouldn't mind if it did!).

I've already been all through FB's dev website, but wanted to get some feedback from real users.

Thanks again for the input.

Helps greatly. Thanks for the info.

Perhaps you're right. Personally, I would be more interested in comparing actual finished apps, as opposed to meaningless benchmarks.

I don't know if there is much to deduce from these benchmarks. They are good for bragging rights, that's for sure. But that's about it.

Note also that while the Xoom is a new product, its Tegra 2 processor is relatively old. NVIDIA first demoed it in January 2010. So here they're really comparing apples to oranges.

In any case, good for Apple. The iPad 2 does look like a good product.

Perl/Tk has ZooZ (http://search.cpan.org/~aqumsieh/ZooZ-1.2/). But it hasn't been updated in a while.

Why wait five years? You should be able to get a Motorola Atrix within a couple of months:

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/06/motorola-atrix-4g-hd-mult...