Non-intrusive product placement. Kind of like cigarettes.

It's not. Actually it's almost worse because it tends to hide issues even deeper.

This practice is very similar to when teachers would reward students for good behavior on days the teachers would be evaluated.

Principal looks good to the board/state, teachers look good to the principal, and students look good to the teachers - but yet, we get caught up in looking good and impressing others, that we forget the real issue of children that are still getting left behind.

> I have had to deserialize into map[string]interface{} to handle ambiguous situations at runtime a lot.

Something I worry about is if I'm getting too jaded. You really think things are different elsewhere, but then you see that we all eat the same shit sandwhich.

That code would never have to be written if someone just used their brain before switching their integer IDs to string GUIDs. Bless your soul but I wish we didn't have to resort to such things. Some things code can't fix.

private groups work best for this, lets not get ahead of ourselves and try to make some sort of jira bounty ticket tracker for some indie diy crowd

if requirements were a solved problem... everyone would have a very valuable skillset to determine the things worth doing given the inherent ambiguity across all levels

but if you are cut from the same cloth, lets paste a gist as a sign up sheet of whos interested in private group projects and work from there?

This is a stretch. How does scheduling a meeting turn into an emotional battle?

Ask this again once you've worked for someone who wants to be a manager more than they want to manage people.

You're whole premise is wrong, a similar mistake we often make as programmers is trying to optimize without profiling.

You can build homebrew but still be rejected at Google.

I think relying on traditional public education is the reason for this impedence mismatch.

My city offers free tap water at a spot accessible to everyone (i.e. picnic water fountain at a park). But I still purchase bottled water.

Regardless, kids of today can use the internet to find the info they are looking for.

How did you deliver the guides? Confluence doc + screenshots? What worked?

Also, what is the category/term called for those type of pain points? It's like those typical enterprise-y, sad but true, jaded senior tropes.

Like this question:

> How to represent a form from an object that isn’t backed by a row in the table?

I don't know how to describe it exactly, but it's like a question that gives off a strong signal of someone operating at a high level in an enterprise context.

I'm genuinely curious on the ways people solved those types of questions.

You have to leave HN for a little.

It is likely that HN has been influencing you into associating writing/coding/building with failure.

Try to work on things without the idea of "Show HN" on your mind. I think a lot of paralysis can come from trying to impress people here. The hivemind will find some way to discuss (lack thereof) profitability, novelty, and accessibility.

>> It is likely that HN has been influencing you into associating writing/coding/building with failure.

Thank you for your opinion, but it does not feel right. I think there might be some truth in that part about trying to impress someone, but I do not think it is HN crowd. I hope this is not going to sound kiss-assy here, but I returned to reading HN after years and it feels inspiring and uplifting.

However, what your comment made me realize with more clarity is that if I manage to work on something again, it should be for me, for some intrinsic value, not to impress someone.

do vs have python vs c interpreter vs compiler

but then who is the doer and haver c vs asm complier vs assembler