Vanderson

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by Vanderson 3y ago
Advanced results require advanced skills. CSS is one of my favorite languages. And the only way I can consider CSS to be difficult is if you have no experience with HTML. If you try to do HTML by hand, then doing CSS by hand on top of HTML
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by Vanderson 3y ago
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 because the more you do
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by Vanderson 3y ago
I could certainly put you in touch with my friend. What I meant by "offline" is that I really don't want to put my email address into a public forum to be spammed. Any suggestions how to share contact info?
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by Vanderson 3y ago
Well, by "science based" my understanding is that they could prove the system worked to effectively teach kids to read with predictable results.
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by Vanderson 3y ago
I have a friend who I met in college who got his PhD working under Zig, which is how people who knew Engelmann called him. And this friend gave me a copy of his book "How to teach your child to read in 100 lessons" and I used it t
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by Vanderson 3y ago
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) doi
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by Vanderson 3y ago
Siegfried Engelmann from the University of Oregon developed a science based method for teaching reading. With simple ideas like making sure the letters were distinguishable, teaching the most common letters first, teaching the sounds the le
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by Vanderson 4y ago
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 specific larger
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by Vanderson 4y ago
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, which I have found can r
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by Vanderson 4y ago
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?
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by Vanderson 4y ago
Thank you! I haven't tried it yet, but this was one of the only things that I sorely missed when I went from Windows to Linux.
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by Vanderson 4y ago
Same here. I am really, really hopeful there is a drop in replacement for ULIDs if they ever get abandoned.
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by Vanderson 4y ago
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 have not bothered te
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by Vanderson 4y ago
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) was similarly im
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by Vanderson 4y ago
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 issues,
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by Vanderson 4y ago
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
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by Vanderson 4y ago
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? > We've got on
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by Vanderson 4y ago
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 likely temporary, as y
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by Vanderson 4y ago
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.
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by Vanderson 4y ago
I hesitate to even post here about my software, but "web designer first" is a key idea behind the CMS I've worked on for some time now. https://archetypewebsites.com/ A key premise is that the designer decide
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by Vanderson 4y ago
Nothing is in a vacuum, and employees (myself included) feel the opposite responsibility. I want a paycheck and to get that I need my employer to stay in business. There is a synergy there. Maybe this is a scale issue. As a single owner of
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by Vanderson 4y ago
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
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by Vanderson 4y ago
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 reliant on
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by Vanderson 4y ago
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 reputation for doing good
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by Vanderson 5y ago
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 the visual
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by Vanderson 5y ago
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 mattered and I think we&#x27
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by Vanderson 5y ago
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 shifted out from un
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by Vanderson 5y ago
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 torture her se
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by Vanderson 5y ago
I would also add that many people are not used to asking for help like this, and he may need to really encourage his mother to get requests out of her. It took a long time for my father to ask for help, and I could have been helping sooner.
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by Vanderson 5y ago
My sympathies. My father has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer a few months ago. He's lost a ton of weight and energy and has had a few minor endoscopic procedures and one by-pass surgery (tumor closed off end of his stomach). What

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