Mac Pressure
After I do some miscellaneous gigs this summer, I’m sure I’ll have collected at least enough money to get a Macbook Pro. The problem is, do I really want one? I know they’re awesome. They’re so much better for our rails dev and everything, not to mention on my own time I’ll be able to develop for the iphone. But maybe it’s just peer pressure? Everyone in freaking Berkeley and Palo Alto uses a mac. Actually let me rephrase this…everyone who does anything related to web dev here. It’s sort of ridiculous and awesome at the same time. Still, it’s a lot of money. I could save the money toward a car…or something. Iono. But it’s like a tool I actually need: I’m not buying the mac for looks. It’s actually very useful now I’ve come to realize. Like windows, it can use flex builder 3. Like linux, it has a terminal and the stuff I need to get shit done. Currently I have to dual-boot or run two laptops side by side or use windows with lame editors (notepad++ is my best option) to do my code. I am lusting after textmate. adsfjkl!
Oh well, I also need a 24″ LCD for school, definitely. I can forego a mac for a year or two, but I can’t forego a separate LCD. The benefits are endless as I have now learned. I don’t think a bigger LCD is a good idea, but 24″ is perfect.
Dinner tonight with Lightspeed — got to know more about how the funding program works and all. I’m thinking in the future if I want to start my first company, it needs to either be with them, HCP, or another group that does what they do. They don’t take a stake in the company! They just provide seed funding for what they think are good ideas and then give companies a chance to pitch for real round A funding later on. I’m not sure if my ideas are going to work with this but it’s worth a try next year probably, if I’m not still working with Indinero or whatever.
Working here is great! I get to solve cool problems and later I’ll get to tackle what I’m interested in learning. Food isn’t bad, life is good in general…camera battery ran out otherwise I’d upload some pictures.
Time to sleep, gotta work tomorrow morning. Not much time to do much else than research for code or actual programming, but yeah, I’ll spend the weekends doing odd webdesign jobs or something.