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Honda makes cars. Toyota makes appliances for people who hate driving.
Nope; both are like that now. They used to make fun cars for people who love driving. Honda held out some five to ten years longer than Toyota, that's all.
In the 1960s, my father was a manufacturing engineer for BigTechFirm (this was back when BigTechFirms built actual stuff, rather than trafficking in webshit). On the shop floor, there were A, B, and C workers on a line in descending order of skill level required and roughly ascending order of available workers. It was a true assembly line model. I believe the A and B workers had more variety to their work but the C w…
You should know that Toyota went full Agile last year. Not pure Agile but Agile in the Toyota Way -- where they produce 20x the documentation that the Waterfall Method produces. I'm not commenting on whether this is a good or a bad thing because my opinion doesn't matter but it enabled everyone to try something new. If the upper management in charge of tech had any free time, they'd might benefit from reading The Myt…
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There is a long history of American automakers and their cohorts in the media and elsewhere who use these scandals to scare buyers away from Japanese makes. See what they did to Suzuki with the Jimny in the eighties for the most egregious example. I watched this “scandal” closely at the time, and it smelled like a rat all along. Fortunately, these tactics are ineffective, but there will always be anecdotal persistenc…
Putting aside other aspects of your bias, it's ironic that you insinuate that a "slander" happened, because the opposite effect occurred (as described by slide 9 in my second link). The US Transportation Secretary claimed that Toyota was exonerated, even though the report given by NASA did not support that claim.
In the 1960s, my father was a manufacturing engineer for BigTechFirm (this was back when BigTechFirms built actual stuff, rather than trafficking in webshit). On the shop floor, there were A, B, and C workers on a line in descending order of skill level required and roughly ascending order of available workers. It was a true assembly line model. I believe the A and B workers had more variety to their work but the C w…
What is webshit? It seems like you are trying to say that you don’t think web developers build anything worthwhile, but I’m hoping there’s a less insulting interpretation of your comment?
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Honda makes cars. Toyota makes appliances for people who hate driving.
The Supra would like to disagree with you.
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Putting aside other aspects of your bias, it's ironic that you insinuate that a "slander" happened, because the opposite effect occurred (as described by slide 9 in my second link). The US Transportation Secretary claimed that Toyota was exonerated, even though the report given by NASA did not support that claim.
The “slander” (not a legally accurate use of the term) referred to the media campaign, which was effective around 2010-12 and has lingering effects, as seen here.
Those interested might also find these worth reading: Deming and Software Development https://management.curiouscatblog.net/2014/03/17/deming-and-software-development/ What’s Deming Got to Do With Agile Software Development and Kanban https://blog.deming.org/2013/07/whats-deming-got-to-do-with-agile-software-development-and-kanban/