May 2008
How Toyota Is Like A Startup And Other Thoughts
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 more cars anually than any other company for the past seventy years.
So how did Toyota, a [...]
April 2008
Contemplating Mac
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 which kills it for me. I need my wireless to be rock solid and reliable. [...]
March 2008
FIRST Robotics Retrospect
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 had no intention of participating at the beginning of the year because I would be [...]
January 2008
I Hate Misleading Progress Bars
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 the misleading progress bar. Like most program installations, Inventor has a little bar that fills [...]