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Dropbox on iOS is disappointing

adam@koszek.com (Adam Koszek) — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 00:00:00 +0000

Dropbox popularized the idea of cloud storage. They were the first widely used product which normal people like my mother could understand. On OSX Dropbox is integrated very well with the OS. In fact, you can see Dropbox as a folder and basically forget that the files which you save locally will be transmitted on the server in the background.

On a daily basis I use Google Drive, but when I got an iPad, I thought it’d be good to keep Dropbox as my iPad backing store, so that I don’t get distracted with my normal stuff. I intended to keep PDFs, books and other documents in Dropbox so that I could use my iPad for productive work.

I've got an iPad Pro yesterday

adam@koszek.com (Adam Koszek) — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 00:00:00 +0000

When iPad Pro came out, I got really excited. The price was fairly high, but this model seemed to include all features I always wanted from a tablet.

My priorities when making a tablet purchase:

big, high resolution screen. Should mean no more eyeballing of A4/American Letter size documents on small screen with scaled down fonts; also more trees saved on printing down things I’d only read once.
decent pencil for drawing
a lot of memory for podcasts, trainings and audiobooks

I got iPad Pro. It is my first tablet ever. Up until this point I felt like buying a tablet would be a total waste of money, since the features from the list are pretty essential for my usual workflow.

Random notes on "Barely usable"

adam@koszek.com (Adam Koszek) — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Hall in my new apartment is narrow enough to make it impossible to bring ANY form of the furniture in. Wanna desk? NEEEEEEEEEEE. Cupboard? NEEEEEEEEEEEEE. Just impossible. Last 8 months I tried to live without a desk, but I must admit — just like the Internet access, I really do need a desk. I guess better chair is yet another investment I need to make. Anyway: hall = too narrow.

Almost usable — Sharp MFP printer menu

adam@koszek.com (Adam Koszek) — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:00:00 +0000

I decided to give Sharp MFP printer a try. I’m pretty conservative (lets say I’m radical: if something works nicely for me, I don’t wanna change). But printers which we had here in the company never really worked for me, since on the floor of hundreds of people printers are the things that nearly never work. Either lack of toner or lack of skilled human being to figure out, what’s wrong with the darn machine, which claims it’s jammed, but it’s not.

Funny mistakes and The Toyota Way

adam@koszek.com (Adam Koszek) — Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

This article has a strange mix of UNIX and methodology and mental problems of post’s author, related with inspirations from the The Toyota Way. I read The Toyota Way, since I tried to find something related to couple of things I’m interested in: (1) how companies work (2) Japanese culture (3) computers. (3) I involved myself. The way I think about stuff in “The Toyota Way” is that I’ll not only get to know how Toyota solves problems, but I’ll bring experiences from the book to my problem solving, mental toolset and I’ll transmute them to my daily job with UNIX systems.