I learned to take it personally but not react badly. This way I am not trying to counter a normal human experience, but instead changing something I have total control over, my response. This is a fight worth having…
Here's a video of Siegfried Engelmann, who is mentioned in this article, demonstrating how he had taught inner city grade school age kids that were considered "unteachable" (I can't recall the exact label I was told)…
I recommend just starting from scratch. As a programmer at heart I find programming like playing with Legos. While I needed to understand how all the underlying parts worked, I didn't need instructions on how to build a…
I actually have not touched any of the code yet as we are using a 3rd party developer to help us. (I will likely work on templates and other things down the road) My experience when evaluating Odoo was using Studio,…
We are doing an Odoo implementation right now. (a few months in) What did you find is a mess about Odoo? And why is customizing it a nightmare?
Same here. I am really, really hopeful there is a drop in replacement for ULIDs if they ever get abandoned.
At one time if you even _looked up_ the availability of a domain name they would immediately register it so if you tried to then register it at Namecheap or GoDaddy the name was taken already. That should be illegal. (I…
To be clear, I agree with your assessment and I would not recommend an agency unless you are a huge company as well. It's a mis-match of interests and goals. The work I did as a web programmer for an agency (freelance)…
You said you'd next time go with a freelancer as one of your solutions. I'd argue you can run into the exact same problems as you described in your main post, just on a smaller scale. In this comment: > There were still…
While I agree with your list, it's not _always_ going to be 90/10. Day to day work is the opposite, 10/90, especially if you have a lot of production to get done. (then it can be 100% fun for stretches of time) It's the…
I think you are agreeing with the article, but the details are different. I like how he distinguishes between specific use case, user generated content, or part of the site design. > So, which method should we use? >…
Focusing on other people will take your focus off yourself. I have found satisfaction in helping others. The less personal time I have, the more I value it and the more satisfying life generally is. Also, this is very…
That's kind of you, I appreciate that. I think I am going to redo some things to target the market it serves better and maybe I will post a "Show HN" here.
I don't know what the remote version of this is, but instead of having an "after work" event, we found that having a lunch or event during work hours was far more valuable. While it's only been done a few times it seems…
Privately owned companies have the direct responsibility to care for their employee's and view their employee's as necessary partners to the company's success helps avoid _some_ of what you are describing. This is…
From a family business started by my great grandfather, been running for over 100 years. Things I learned from my dad and grand parents. 1. Being decent to people will cover all kinds of other problems. 2. A great…
MDN is the single most useful and impactful site in my webdev/design career. Above all things, I want this site to stick around and exist. Some comments seem to be critical of any change. And while I don't like some of…
Thank you. It was really hard to deal with when all the new code stuff was Node based. But since I stuck with a principle to keep things as simple as possible and this balanced my concerns some. Results are what…
Yes, I have planned to become a carpenter or some other profession many times. But, I have been blessed/lucky to be a one man show for many years and I had to stick with one tech stack and my learning only added not…
Choosing treatment is a very personal thing. My father chose to stop his chemo treatments and it improved his standard of living dramatically. (he's still fighting cancer) A friend of mine (a nurse) said she'd never…
There's nothing to look at for the game. It's just a spreadsheet where I picked the English words from the Toki-Pona lexicon, and printed them out on paper. :)
I made a game based on the idea of Toki Pona using a sub-set of English. Instead of learning a new language (I tried to learn Toki Pona) I used Toki Pona as a template for basic English, Toki English, a subset of…
Adobe Fonts is near the top reason I currently am pushing people I work closely with away from Adobe. Adobe's font control is simply dystopian. Many hours wasted debugging why a font was having issues _only_ in Adobe…
I was a beta tester for Fireworks for one version. It was a pure joy to work with. It was the best web design/interface design software for years. And yes, another reason I have lost faith in Adobe as a company is them…
Wow, thanks this was more than I expected. Here's my considerations on your reply, though it's likely not useful for you, but it is good for me to write this out. 1) DB performance has as much (or more) todo with time…
I learned to take it personally but not react badly. This way I am not trying to counter a normal human experience, but instead changing something I have total control over, my response. This is a fight worth having…
Here's a video of Siegfried Engelmann, who is mentioned in this article, demonstrating how he had taught inner city grade school age kids that were considered "unteachable" (I can't recall the exact label I was told)…
I recommend just starting from scratch. As a programmer at heart I find programming like playing with Legos. While I needed to understand how all the underlying parts worked, I didn't need instructions on how to build a…
I actually have not touched any of the code yet as we are using a 3rd party developer to help us. (I will likely work on templates and other things down the road) My experience when evaluating Odoo was using Studio,…
We are doing an Odoo implementation right now. (a few months in) What did you find is a mess about Odoo? And why is customizing it a nightmare?
Same here. I am really, really hopeful there is a drop in replacement for ULIDs if they ever get abandoned.
At one time if you even _looked up_ the availability of a domain name they would immediately register it so if you tried to then register it at Namecheap or GoDaddy the name was taken already. That should be illegal. (I…
To be clear, I agree with your assessment and I would not recommend an agency unless you are a huge company as well. It's a mis-match of interests and goals. The work I did as a web programmer for an agency (freelance)…
You said you'd next time go with a freelancer as one of your solutions. I'd argue you can run into the exact same problems as you described in your main post, just on a smaller scale. In this comment: > There were still…
While I agree with your list, it's not _always_ going to be 90/10. Day to day work is the opposite, 10/90, especially if you have a lot of production to get done. (then it can be 100% fun for stretches of time) It's the…
I think you are agreeing with the article, but the details are different. I like how he distinguishes between specific use case, user generated content, or part of the site design. > So, which method should we use? >…
Focusing on other people will take your focus off yourself. I have found satisfaction in helping others. The less personal time I have, the more I value it and the more satisfying life generally is. Also, this is very…
That's kind of you, I appreciate that. I think I am going to redo some things to target the market it serves better and maybe I will post a "Show HN" here.
I don't know what the remote version of this is, but instead of having an "after work" event, we found that having a lunch or event during work hours was far more valuable. While it's only been done a few times it seems…
Privately owned companies have the direct responsibility to care for their employee's and view their employee's as necessary partners to the company's success helps avoid _some_ of what you are describing. This is…
From a family business started by my great grandfather, been running for over 100 years. Things I learned from my dad and grand parents. 1. Being decent to people will cover all kinds of other problems. 2. A great…
MDN is the single most useful and impactful site in my webdev/design career. Above all things, I want this site to stick around and exist. Some comments seem to be critical of any change. And while I don't like some of…
Thank you. It was really hard to deal with when all the new code stuff was Node based. But since I stuck with a principle to keep things as simple as possible and this balanced my concerns some. Results are what…
Yes, I have planned to become a carpenter or some other profession many times. But, I have been blessed/lucky to be a one man show for many years and I had to stick with one tech stack and my learning only added not…
Choosing treatment is a very personal thing. My father chose to stop his chemo treatments and it improved his standard of living dramatically. (he's still fighting cancer) A friend of mine (a nurse) said she'd never…
There's nothing to look at for the game. It's just a spreadsheet where I picked the English words from the Toki-Pona lexicon, and printed them out on paper. :)
I made a game based on the idea of Toki Pona using a sub-set of English. Instead of learning a new language (I tried to learn Toki Pona) I used Toki Pona as a template for basic English, Toki English, a subset of…
Adobe Fonts is near the top reason I currently am pushing people I work closely with away from Adobe. Adobe's font control is simply dystopian. Many hours wasted debugging why a font was having issues _only_ in Adobe…
I was a beta tester for Fireworks for one version. It was a pure joy to work with. It was the best web design/interface design software for years. And yes, another reason I have lost faith in Adobe as a company is them…
Wow, thanks this was more than I expected. Here's my considerations on your reply, though it's likely not useful for you, but it is good for me to write this out. 1) DB performance has as much (or more) todo with time…