Category Archives: Technology

How Toyota Is Like A Startup And Other Thoughts

Posted on May 11, 2008 by James

The New Yorker recently ran an article titled “The Open Secret of Success.” It talked about how Toyota has sold more cars than General Motors has in the first three months of 2008. What makes this significant? G.M. has sold … Continue reading →

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Contemplating Mac

Posted on April 17, 2008 by James

I’ve been using my current laptop for a 2-3 years now. It’s an old Dell Inspiron 6000 that I got for about $1,000. It works fine for the most part, but the wireless is flaky and dies on me randomly … Continue reading →

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FIRST Robotics Retrospect

Posted on March 3, 2008 by James

I don’t think I have mentioned on here that I have been participating in the FIRST Robotics Competition this year. We had talked about doing it last year when we finished InvenTeams and I was asked to join drafted. I … Continue reading →

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I Hate Misleading Progress Bars

Posted on January 11, 2008 by James

I was installing Autodesk Inventor the other day. It went pretty smoothly, though it took an ungodly amount of time as CAD programs like Inventor do—I think SolidWorks took even longer. But one of the things that annoyed me was … Continue reading →

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