Is that a "wokeshop"?
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I can see mess of certain companies and their bullshit but I was wrong thinking that they would collapse as they still are limping and alive. Granted it is during good times and have to wait to see during such bad times.
Yes I have seen this. This person was boasting about being a "Vice President" and then I see almost everyone is a VP. What is up with this?
I always suspected this. I know someone who got into VP position (inflated position of course) with his so called "contacts". He is the most useless person I have seen.
Now it is a complete mess of APIs and frameworks with the core hidden deep. It gets so hard to start anything due to this and the interest evaporates very fast.
After some personal family issues, things started declining rapidly as I was attacked from all sides emotionally and my very character was under the lens and being questioned. In the meantime I decided to change my company and all my personal projects were kept on hold prepping for the leetcode dance. Now getting back to what I was doing is becoming very difficult and I just don't have any interest in learning the never ending stream of new things to do even the most simple and basic of tasks.
Coupled with all this the horrible closed source mess of present embedded devices, terrible tools and also corporate nonsense and stupid colleagues really has me burnt out. I sometimes miss the days that my medical electronics would make a lot of difference to the end user. Now all I do is enable wireless connectivity for my customers who produce bullshit lifestyle gadgets in the name of IoT. Most of my colleagues are least interested and curious in anything.
It is also becoming very difficult to stay in a company for more than 2 years because of loss of interest coupled with hikes not matching rapid inflation. No meaningful work and relationships can be made with such rapid changes in life.
(Sorry for the rant. Going through some tough times.)
Not sure what is happening. I had come out of some very bad days in personal life some years back and now I just chill with no interest.
Reminds me more of Hindu Dharma. I like his take.
Now I got tired of this and switched to Kindle and go through the book on Kindle web app. Curiously staring at my mobile screen does not evoke such response.
I don't think so. It is a "Parker Jotter Standard CT Ball Pen".
>You can find Japanese offerings on Amazon India and if needed, get it directly from Amazon Japan (i do both). You can also contact the resellers (who import from Japan and sell on Amazon India) directly for a better deal
Won't this be too costly due to import taxes?
>These guys are very good and are optimizing their product based on their available skills. Making a nib requires metallurgy, high-precision CNC etc. which as small specialized Artisans they cannot afford to setup.
I think Ratnam makes the complete product. I must say that I am not much into Artisanal pens though. Similarly I am not much into funky anime type colored pens from Japan. :-)
>Finally, i should note that a lot of branded Pens are manufactured in India; eg. Parker Pens are manufactured by Luxor India and exported.
I don't like Luxor very much. I think there are quality control issues with the Parker pens as there is a lot of rattling in their jotter pens. I researched and found that it is not universal and was pretty pissed off as the Jotters are not cheap. Another reseller is Linc who are resellers for Uniball and they don't care about what they are selling. Similarly Pentel has a measly collection even though they have a manufacturing plant in Gujarat.
In my school days I used to use a Hero Fountain pen (Currently Shanghai Hero group) which was pretty good and my daily driver. My mother still had her beautiful Pilot pen from the 70s which I started to use later. I also sometimes used to use my classmates Butterfly pens too. I bought a Hero fountain pen in 2008 and it was horrible. Not sure what happened to it.
I for some reason don't like the Parker Jotters as they are too thin for my fat fingers. Also the blue color of the ballpoint is too much on the purple side and gives me a headache. I too have one but I don't use it much but I still love it ;-). I am aware of their Gel lines but not sure whether they work for the Jotter.
>Finally, always check the offerings from Japan
I love the Japanese offerings but I don't get much in India. For eg Pentel has its factory in India but manufacturers limited set of models. I love Pentel pens btw but I am not satisfied with its offerings in India.
I am currently using Uniball Signo retractable UMN 207. Although the build and the ink is very nice it skips a lot and I am not sure whether it is because the ink is not designed for Indian weather or paper quality. I do see people having complaints with skipping but not much. I have ordered some UMN 307s and have to see how it fares.
>Many of the OEMs who actually manufacture the pens but which are sold under other well-known brand names are now releasing them under their own name. Two of them are TWSBI(Taiwan) and Penac(Japan).
I am thinking of buying the TWSBI as I really love its unique see through styling. I was thinking of purchasing a Lamy though. I am afraid to use Fountain pens as I work in harsh environments and I am not sure how it will fare but then again our ancestors were using these pens with ease. :-)
>If you are a Fountain Pen connoisseur, you should know that India has a large number of Artisanal Specialist Fountain Pen makers
Yes I am aware but the problem is I think they they import their nibs and just make the body of the pens. Somehow I don't feel like buying this Frankenstein and would love to buy the complete product if they make it.
Very true. I had realized this during and after graduation some 15 years back. Exposed to the internet I saw people doing amazing things on open source and wanted to do the same but simply didn't have the infrastructure in my country to do it. I spent all my life struggling to be the best but my environment simply isn't conducive enough to recognize my effort. Now I think it was just a waste of time and I should have just lived and enjoyed the moment. There was also a talk by Linus Torvalds who said he is incredibly lucky to get to do what he is doing which really started the questioning process as I was always told to put hardwork when I was young and achieve things discounting the support for it.
>And no, the people who made it where you failed didn't do so because they just pushed through that same hardship, generally it just wasn't as hard for them to find the motivation to push through.
This sentence makes a lot of sense. Thanks! I have been exposed to a lot of wrong signals saying "I have done the hard work to achieve it and you should be doing it too or you are just lazy" without them not acknowledging the circumstances.
You need luck to not have broken families and friends. Sustaining a family is so fragile these days.
>You can achieve that by finding something you have a natural aptitude for, or for which you have the right environment to succeed at.
Again to explore this requires you to throw the dice and you will stumble upon it. Also aptitudes change with time and to explore the next aptitude requires you to throw the dice. You should also be lucky that you will get to throw the dice.
The thing is it is impossible to know if will be lucky or not. So the only way to know the truth is to roll the dice.
Headquartered in Switzerland, its German office was mainly just Product managers writing requirements. Most of them would do endless paper work and all technical work is outsourced to multiple contractors. One of the requirements of the Product managers was to handle all these contractors so that things run smoothly. Many of the product managers had PhD degrees or Masters doing this nonsense. Finally the wonder why the cost of their products are so high.
I have noticed that it is better in the United States where a lot of medical companies have a lot of in house technical experience.
Do you need someone to write embedded tools? I am getting into FPGA for RISCV with the Arty board and was wondering if you need any help regarding this.