I'm a multidisciplinary product designer with 13 years' experience in designing web and mobile products for B2B and B2C (5 years full-time; 8 years as an independent contractor).
I specialize in designing complex products and in working as the solo/founding designer at startups, taking care of many aspects of design.
Thank you for SumatraPDF. I love that it's faster than any other PDF/ebook viewer I tried. I hate that EPUB content doesn't flow fluidly, which IMO defeats the purpose of the format, and that there is no way to customize its look in the advanced settings, because of which I couldn't use it to read ebooks.
One can try to make 'me things', and strive to make them good enough, or good, or even to their best extent, but not necessarily the best out there, at least always.
Now imagine if all such fluffy articles posted on HN have such a gist; how much time and sanity it could save. https://hngists.com is my 15-year-old nephew's attempt to do it. It would be great if you could post your comment there.
I'm sure this is useful to some, but I come to HN more for longer-form articles these days.
This change might have originated when I ditched programming as a career, or merely growing older. Dunno.
Language is so disposable these days (much of my received text messages are about 50% emoji now), I really respect someone who takes the time and effort to ply an interesting tome out of English.
An advantage of hngists: you can read all the gists of all the 30 articles on the same page without navigating to a separate article page—a few clicks and a few minutes could be saved per visit.
Gist: The authors think, without interruptions, we get adapted to the pleasures of a show; it becomes less pleasurable as we get used to it. Interruptions re-trigger the initial enjoyment. So, commercials (interruptions) make us like TV more.
Thoughts: Clickbait title. A better title would be: 'Interruptions make us like a TV show more'.
Note: The authors are "working with a large TV network, which is replicating the study in its market research".
I've always thought 'don't break the chain' is a flawed technique. When you do something not because you want or have to do it, but for the sake of not breaking the chain, the first time you break the chain you'd realize that you can break it again by telling an excuse to yourself without much regret. Making excuses would become a habit, and you'd be back to square one.
Remote: Only remote
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Product design, UI/UX design, Brand identity design, Graphic design, UI writing, HTML & CSS
Résumé/CV: https://radesign.in/files/Resume_Rakesh.pdf
Email: rakesh[at]radesign[dot]in
Portfolio: https://radesign.in
I'm a multidisciplinary product designer with 13 years' experience in designing web and mobile products for B2B and B2C (5 years full-time; 8 years as an independent contractor).
I specialize in designing complex products and in working as the solo/founding designer at startups, taking care of many aspects of design.