Archive for January, 2010

2 years + 56,000 dollars = ?

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

After two years of blood, sweat, tears, and a scholarship worth US$56,000, here's the end result: (click for a larger view) Sans the blood and the tears, it was quite an amazing ride. Traveling to Rochester, NY, spending 2 years at RIT and meeting all the awesome people I met along the ...

To err is human

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

We're usually aghast when software from well-established, successful companies fail. We hold this idyllic vision in our heads in which software from IBM, Apple, Microsoft, or Google is simply perfect and error free. After all, Google employees are not mere programmers like most of us. They're wicked smart, 4.0-GPA-at-MIT-while-also-enjoying-a-vibrant-social-life programmers! ...