The conversation

ironmanszombieHNSource author
Lessons learnedExperience excerpt · English

Back in my early career, the company I worked for needed an inventory system tailored to their …

Back in my early career, the company I worked for needed an inventory system tailored to their unique process flow. Such system was already in development and was scheduled to launch "soon". A few months went by and I got fed up with the toil. Sat down one weekend and implemented the whole thing in Django. I'm no genius and I managed to have a solution that my team used for a few years until the company had theirs launched. In a weekend. Amazing what you can do when you want to Get Shit Done!

Original discussion1972 Unix V2 "Beta" Resurrected148 source comments · at import
2

What was this responding to?

Parent context · original excerpt

XA
xatttHN

I’m wondering what the process was for the early UNIX developers to attain this level of productivity. Did they treat this as a 9-5 effort, or did they go into a “goblin mode” just to get it done while neglecting other aspects of their lives?

Full original

Community replies 0

No community replies yet. Add your perspective.

Replies from the source 2

Direct replies available in this import. Original-language excerpts.

DE
deaddodoHN

That's fine when it's self-motivated, but it sets a terrible precedent for expectations. Doing things like this can put in management's mind unrealistic expectations for you to always work at that pace. Which can be unhealthy and burnout-inducing.

Full original
SM
smm11HN

I worked at a place in love with their ERP system. Some there had been using it 30+ years, since it ran in DOS. My Excel skills completely blow, and I hate Microsoft with a passion, but I created a shared spreadsheet one long Saturday afternoon that had more functionality than our $80K annual ERP system. Showed it to a few more open-minded employees, then moved it to my server, never to be shown again. Just wanted to prove when I said the ERP system was pointless, that I was right.

Full original
Continue on Hacker News

Respect different perspectives. Share concrete experiences.

Sign in to post, reply, repost, and quote.