Informing, Not Bragging

I am a design lead building custom integrated circuits for Apple Inc.

My first Thunderbolt product TPS22980 just ramped to production for the mass market as an A0. It has already sold millions.

The design cycle of my second product as design lead just completed with the largest wafer chip scale package ever designed for production at Texas Instruments. In contains a dc-dc power converter, high voltage and bandwidth power amplifier, and large digital core. It went to production as an A0.

A third product Thunderbolt product TPS22985 with original circuits I designed has ramped to production as an A0.

During four years in the group, three Apple products went to production as an A0, and I was the design lead for two of them. The third product that went to production as an A0 was a simple metal spin.

Can Apple Improve UX?

http://www.wikihow.com/Transfer-Files-to-iPad-from-a-Computer

Stop making Rube Goldberg machines.. Please..

Eric Schmidt's Autobiography : "What I Learnt from the Softbank Jerk"

Quoting from Fortune :

He also talked co-founder Page into relaxing his famously centralized hiring protocol so Arora could staff up more quickly. Eric Schmidt, then CEO of Google, says Arora's moves signaled the start of a "federating" of Google as it transitioned from a U.S.-centric search engine into a global powerhouse. Google Europe hit $8 billion in revenue in five years, doubling Arora's initial projection and increasing its share of Google's revenue from 25% to nearly 50%.

Aruora also created analytics tools that spat out daily reports on the health of the European business, something the rest of the company eventually adopted. The tools helped Arora spot the 2008 financial crisis early, alerting the mother ship that something was amiss and enabling Google to adjust spending ahead of a slow quarter. That was invaluable, Schmidt says: "After that I decided anything Nikesh wanted to do, I wanted to do as well."

Aha.. what's the moral of the story here?

Inadequate journalism, that's what. If Fortune was really worth reading, they would have a side note tellng us we could go online and see how you can create such reports for yourself. Why not empower people to be more effective? Come on guys..

Find da Windows 10 Win10 WiFi Password for Saved Network

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnohPTdojwk

• On taskbar, right-click on WiFi icon and choose Open Network and Sharing Center
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• you should see your network. On the right, you'll see a link for "Wireless Network Connnection (name)"
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• Click the link to get a new window called Wireless Network Connection Status.
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• Go to the Wireless  Properties button and, in the resulting Window, go to the Security tab and check "Show characters"

After Years and Years, Finally, nedit.wordDelimiters

Multi-year frustration thanks to the *ds to put out Cygwin.

Never could figure out how to get the Xresources to be honoured by the once-great-still-unmatched Nirvana Editor. ~/.Xresources has no effect whatsoever.

All my own fault - the waiting part of it...

See, I had been using an alias in bash just to get around the problem of NEdit using csh for filtering selections through a shell command. And bash is all we have these days on cygwin (why?).

So,

function medit() { /usr/bin/nedit -xrm "nedit.shell: /bin/bash"  "$@" ;}

Has been in my ~/.bashrc for a while now. And I put it there without really thinking about what I was typing - and, today, I see the light and upgrade to 

function medit() { /usr/bin/nedit -xrm "nedit.shell: /bin/bash" -xrm "nedit.wordDelimiters: .,\\\`\'\!@#%^&*()-=+{}[]\":;<>?" "$@" ;}

And it's heaven again. Thank you Fermilab. If high-energy physicists from a once-great institute can't do without a decent text-editor, how sir can you and I?