2015-04-12 20:40:30 This morning when we got into the car to take Saatchi and her friend to their Soccer game, both of them got into the second row seats. Saket came and sat down shotgun…so I complained that my bride of 25 years (ok 17, but that’s another story) was going to sit so far […]
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Good…no great cooking
Bubby (my wife Nikita) is a really good cook, and for dinner she had made a new dish, a chicken curry that was really good. A dark curry with small bits of chicken that was tasting really nice. I told her, “The chicken is really good!” She said, “It’s a very different recipe, when you […]
Hmm…posting this because I want to revisit this again some other time… http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-leadership/wp/2013/05/23/leadership-is-the-militarys-snake-oil/
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Laziness, a personal fault or a virtue
I like to think that I’m lazy. So lazy that I will spend a lot of time to find the most optimal way to do something, and do it only once. I get some weird looks when I tell somebody that I’m extremely lazy. If it is somebody who knows me, they will look at […]
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The low cost curse
The price of embedded hardware development boards has been dropping. What used to be $4000 boards have been steadily coming down over the past few years. Today you can get a beaglebone for $45. Sure I like low cost hardware, but I kind of feel that has the possibility of reducing innovation, instead of increasing […]
I generally use the gcc as an example of where open source has hurt competition and hence innovation. That seems to be changing… http://www.embedded.com/electronics-news/4414199/Does-the-GCC-compiler-still-have-a-future?cid=Newsletter+-+Embedded.com+Tech+Focus “One reference point I can give you is XMOS Ltd. (Bristol, England), a developer of event-driven, low latency multicore processors. XMOS has recently started to reposition the company as a high-end […]
I write this after I came back from a session on why cant we build modular cars…every once in a while I get to hear a speaker who not only has a far out concept but has done his homework. The session started simple, with some questions on if we came across a 50 year […]
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Time Sync – 1
You must have heard the old adage… “A man with one watch knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never quite sure!” I grew up in a time of wind-up watches, every night at we would wait for the 8:00pm news to set our watches. Every watch had some sort of […]
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Sell $3000 equipment…or a $50 app…
Over the past three years I have been seeing the systematic disruption that the iPhone/iPad and the related Android devices have done to the devices market. Wherever there was a screen people are increasingly using the iPhone/iPad/Android device. Today I got into a discussion about this with somebody that I met and I think he […]
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