kaushikt's comments

On: Show HN: I built a modern Goodreads alternative

[kaushikt]

YouTube changed to thumbs up/down from 5-star rating system many years ago like Netflix. They learnt most people either give it 1 star or 5 stars. It’s also hard to understand the meaning of 2,3, and 4 stars in the context of a video.

On: IBM completes acquisition of HashiCorp

[kaushikt]

If you are a good at your job and want to deliver fast then you need to adapt to changing circumstances and continue on. Nothing wrong if you can’t but I have learnt that’s how you play along to deliver your best continuously.

[asimovfan → kaushikt]

You mean perhaps if you define "your job" and "adapting to changing circumstances" strictly through a corporate vocabulary.

One could argue that to deliver his best continuously he adapted to changing circumstances and left.

On: Do Lake Names Reflect Their Properties?

[kaushikt]

Good read. Most lakes around southern India seem to derive their name from small kingdoms that once occupied the land.

Many of them don’t have meanings and I’m not sure what they mean to further analyse like you did.

On: Show HN: I center aligned Paul Graham's website and published a Chrome extension

[kaushikt]

The extension is install once forget forever.

Reader mode is an additional step. Plus, I haven’t quite figured reader mode on chrome.

On: A study on how turtles navigate using the Earth’s magnetic field

[kaushikt]

Same with my old man. He is a farmer in southern India. All the farms nearby are super identical with tall beetlenut trees. Im often confused where we are and which direction is the house, he is not. He has set over a 100 water gates across the farms and the instructions he gives is always east face or turn the gate north facing as an example.

On: Show HN: I center aligned Paul Graham's website and published a Chrome extension

[kaushikt]

Yeah, that's another website I would like to center.

On: Show HN: I center aligned Paul Graham's website and published a Chrome extension

[kaushikt]

Thanks, I wanted something that can be installed once and forgotten forever.

On: Celebrating the timeless allure of Tintin's aesthetics

[kaushikt]

10 Tintin comics/books came as donations to my small school in a small town in India. Hardy boys were also donated but Tintin just hit the sweet spot for me.

I sometimes think it's the artsy design which feels so warm. As an 11-year-old, I was mesmerised by them. I didn't understand a ton of things Captain Haddock said with English being the 2nd language.

The adventures were sooo good. I saw the movie when it came out more than a decade ago and it brought back so many memories.

Even today, I love it's aesthetic design a lot. I discovered Asterix and Obelix when I was 17 and they had similar vibes and energy with their designs in them too.

Popular Indian comics at the time (Chacha Choudhary and others) were great too but the design aesthetic were worlds apart.

On: Show HN: I built a self-hosted status page and monitoring tool for my projects

[kaushikt]

I have been using healthchecks.io for over 4 years and I can vouch for it. Super reliable, I think it might do the job :)

On: Heroku Security Notification

[kaushikt]

I feel saddened to see this as a heroku side-project user since 2011.

We are a small team and were hoping to migrate all our infra to Heroku in the upcoming quarter.