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flanker··on I and my brother built Marvin-a better way for product teams to do user research
Have been using Marvin for a while, one of the biggest challenges it solved for me was, how do I share concise actionable information with teamates on what was the conversation with client/users about without introducing my bias to it. Great work guys!
flanker··on Time to Upgrade Your Monitor
Those keypads, you could throw anything to them and they would still give you that travel, click and satisfaction.
flanker··on Ask HN: Career and life advice for a 30yo
>The Gervais Principle

I cannot thank enough for the article, absolutely nailed it. I have seen & been part of a startup growing from a mid stage to a unicorn and now after reading it I can connect the dots, it all make sense in such exhilarating way. My journey till now has been from over performing looser to a looser which is not bad. I'm seeing a pattern though, every 8-9 month I over-perform become a looser then get completely disillusioned and go off to a backpacking retreat. This worries me a bit now.

flanker··on On Coding, Ego and Attention
I feel that to be something that resonates with me. I started as self thought freelancer loved the symphony of creation and the end product you make. Then I got myself a job I had sucha enthusiasm and thirst for knowledge, I would go above and beyond. Then I burned out, the cycle has repeated couple of times now forcing me to take breaks in 7-8months. One thing I realised I still love creating stuff, but it's all too painful to do it for someone else. The major contributor to it is constantly changing of requirements, sometimes goals altogether scrapping of projects you put lot of brain power in and finally sometimes fighting against the tide. I have experienced people who are just there in the middle management adding unnecessary layer of red tape and doing anything to survive. I feel I'm done with it. I have picked some other stuff, currently searching for something other than a programming job, it's a risk because majority of my work has been programming, other than a failed startup. But I think I will take the risk of exploring.
flanker··on Ask HN: Career and life advice for a 30yo
> Shit, are you me?

That's what I said, I suppose there are lots of people in their early 30's having a dilemma. I'm also struggling with something similar, but I recognise I have much to attain in level of expertise but do I want to do that? Is another question.

flanker··on Akira Kurosawa’s hand-painted storyboards
This is so awesome for someone like me. I have been a Kurasawa fan and almost went through all his movies except for Dreams which I so wanted to see. To get more understanding into the process and imagination, to me is like a treasure land now.
flanker··on Mom and pop investors are on a stock buying spree, fueled by free trades
> If you're trading with money that you need you're doing it wrong.

This makes so much sense.

flanker··on Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1834)
I had this poem in high school and frankly the only one I read countless times out of leisure somehow it stuck, for me especially the following lines keep playing in my head:

       Water, water, every where,
        Nor any drop to drink.
and hence Iron Maiden song with the same name is now in my every playlist since.
flanker··on Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro?
I was looking for something like that a few months back, took a gamble on LG Gram. I have been using MBP(work) and Gram(home) side by side for past 3 months. Given the price and performance Gram for me hits it out of the park. Cherry on top is that it's just ~900gms, with USB and HDMI, also upgradable ram.
flanker··on Subsurface – An open source scuba dive logging platform
Is it a better experience over SSI app? I am not a expert diver, but used that app during my open water certification and it was painful for me as a developer, though I was surprised people made their peace with it.
flanker··on Antergos Linux Project Ends
Similar situation here I have Antergos on 3 diff systems and being using it for past 3 years longest I have used any distro before switching to new one. It was such a good arch spinoff.
flanker··on Ask HN: Remote companies prefer not to hire remote developers from India?
Being a fellow Indian I am also facing the similar issue, I have been actively searching for remote work, facing the similar problems and haven't been able to pin point the cause.

I don't spam and don't use generic scripts, I invest time in applying so it's more painful. I also have hard time showing my work with majority of my work being propriety in nature.

After going through thread, going forward when applying I will also explicitly mention that I absolutely don't have a problem with the timings and maybe attach a voice clip also.

flanker··on Ask HN: As a team lead how to handle project going off the rails?
How should you go about delivering a bad news and solutions for without being termed as a negative influence?
flanker··on The F-35 Is a $1.4 Trillion National Disaster
One size does not fit all, it would be a silver bullet, whenever F35 replaces legacy fighters. Maybe by that time the who theatre of war would change with swarms of drones.