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iPhone 4 is the best mobile phone on the market — period.

Summary: not enough.

Strictly speaking, you can't get smarter; you only gain greater knowledge.

That being said, there are numerous ways to gain more knowledge in whatever you chose. The resources are there — you just have to seek them out.

My advice: be an effective gatekeeper. You can't do everything. You can't know everything. Don't even try. Instead, select the areas that are most valuable to you personally and focus on those. Hone what you're good at; progress at what you're bad at.

One particular area to focus on is communication. Being able to effectively communicate verbally and in written form is very important. If you can speak and write eloquently, no matter the audience, you're well on you're way to becoming more academically rounded. Plus, it makes you a better human being. If nothing else, it makes you sound smarter too ;)

Also: getting into good schools is often less about your grade point average and more about you're overall resume. I'd focus less on a perfect gpa and more on building a solid resume. It's also a good idea to get involved with the school. Connect with key people and alumni. That'll definitely help your chances.

Good luck!

There's a lot of great tips here, some I use every day. However, there's one conspicuously missing: whiteboards.

To me, whiteboarding is the best brainstorming tool possible. It's useful for just about everything, too. My whole wall is covered in them and they're almost always full. Get a whiteboard and you won't regret it.

Write awesome content.

The real world.

I'm lucky in many ways to have the girlfriend I have. She's a very patient, logical and intelligent human being. She understands my conviction for building a business and penchant for spending ungodly hours on the computer. She's also an invaluable resource: anytime I have a problem, I talk to her. Almost every time I come out of that conversation with a better, more elegant solution than I could have ever dreamed. Her ability to reason in both a right- and left-brained fashion and communicate to me in my extreme left-brainedness is incredible. It doesn't even matter that she doesn't program: her ability to step back and think in a different, elevated fashion is just so helpful.

And that's the thing: I talk with her about everything. She's not a part of the company, but she's incredibly integrated into our workflow. Because she's there with us in everything we do, I think our relationship has actually strengthened — and quite a bit at that. Being able to share this experience with her has been wonderful. She cares deeply about what I do and wants to be a part of it. And I think that's key. Even despite the distance (we spend 9 months out of the year over 3,000 miles apart), we're extremely close and I'm hopeful for our future, notwithstanding the insane hours I put into building the company.

And, above everything else, I think that's important. Don't overlook her; instead, integrate her. There are a lot of great tips in this thread, but I'd say if you take anything away, it's this: allow her to fall in love with entrepreneurship as much as you have. If she truly loves you — and I very much believe this to be true — she'll love what you do as well. That's especially true with us: we're entrepreneurs to our core and with everything we have.

My girlfriend truly believes in what I am doing and my vision for the future. She supports me in everything I do and without her, I'd probably have given up long ago. Her steadfast support keeps me going. The adage "behind every great man is an even greater woman" is so very, very true.

I'm currently available for freelancing, especially to commit to a fixed amount of hours. I'm a kickass front-end and back-end guy. Send me an email to get in touch, logan@loganleger.com.

Chargify.

This is as untrue now as it was the first time it was said. MobileMe does not need to be free. MobileMe just needs to become indispensable. It needs to suck less and be so integrated into all Apple products that not having it is simple not an option. Making it free would be great and would certainly dent Google, but doing the above will also have a deleterious effect on their rival.

Yeah, I meant Transmit, specifically the new version. My bad.

You are totally right about that. I just committed a template to do that, but left the script for posterity.

This is just absolutely heart-wrenching. Louisiana is a very beautiful place with a wonderful ecosystem. It really, really pains me to see BP totally destroying my home. Louisiana's coast has a hard enough time as it is, what with erosion — this is the last thing we needed.

Wow, thank god. The old, titanium one was awful. This one looks pretty solid. Good job.

No.

Mine still aren't available. I just tweeted them, so hopefully it'll be available soon.

None. We had a few close friends provide valuable feedback, and then we launched publicly.

OS X, dual monitors. Textmate, Sequel Pro, Transmission. I do all of my web development with these three applications and in my opinion, they're the best.

I always go for the opportunity.

Mega Men Sport by GNC. It's the best I've found.

We actually haven't seen any conversions yet on http://twoschedule.com. It's only been online for a month or so, but we have a fair amount of users and I expected to see more than that. I imagine it's because people are looking for more of an incentive to upgrade.

Dear god, a post about Facebook's privacy change that's logical, non-extremist and generally makes sense. Thank you.

Absolutely — AppleCare has paid for itself multiple times over every time I've purchased it.

I use Chargify in my app and it's absolutely brilliant and totally wonderful.

College student and bootstrapping a startup? Yeah...

According to Wikipedia, there is a similar organization (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Engineer), but the chapter at my university is inactive (according to their website). Such a shame.

That's a really interesting tradition, Joe — thanks for sharing. As an engineering student in the US, I was unaware of this, but I kind of wish we took part in such a sacrament too. Being an engineer is an honor and truly is something you must be called to do.

On a side note, I get really offended when people nonchalantly call themselves engineers. It's a title you have to earn, not one you just can decide to call yourself.

I've been beta testing this for a few weeks now and it's pure awesome. It's worth every penny.

I remember reading this in high school. It's a really compelling story that makes me think when I read it.