Personally have had great experience in high throughput, complex paas / saas webapps by rigourously only adding things when it was clearly needed.
Recommend you try to start with webcomponents + a well thought out design system -> move on from there and you're pretty sure to have a solid base from which you can always add react, lit, vue or whatever else cooks your noodle.
read some books about how to deal with people on the spectrum - which is what you're really asking about.
Usual acronyms of Asbergers, ADHD, ADD, PDA etc. "difficult engineers" is not something that exits in this world.
There are difficult people, sometimes highly ordered jobs (like programming) attract people who like order -> many of which are on "the spectrum".
Be human, Be Kind and understand how to communicate effectively with several types of people.
You advise to be human and kind but automatically categorize "difficult people" as being on the spectrum? And no worry, some engineers don't need to be on the spectrum to be difficult. Conversely, people on the spectrum are not inherently difficult either.
But I do agree: communication is key. Craftpeople can have trouble taking the team or the business priorities into account. Being the manager, you have to take the other parties' side and talk about the non-technical problems: time to implement (= money and unavailability of the engineer), additional complexity, fragility, making changes more difficult... Convincing is always better but if you argued to no avail, you have to impose your decision – being careful not to be the asshat in the mix.
The point is that "people"'s behaviour is on a bell curve and none of us are "normal"
-> some lie at the edges when they are pressured but are fine when they are relaxed.
-> Some gravitate towards the center - but may slide to either side depending on specific circumstances and situations.
The true fallacy is to think there is anything "normal" at all!
-> rather we have "permissable / accepted" behaviour and "impermissible / unaccepted" and a very very large grayzone in between.
And educating yourself on the edges of that bell curve gives you the tools and acceptance needed to better deal with most of the stuff happening on that curve.
> You advise to be human and kind but automatically categorize "difficult people" as being on the spectrum?
Perhaps like me they reject the people referred to are "difficult people" but believe the behaviors listed refer to people on the spectrum or otherwise neurodivergent.
exactly - all people are normal, all people are difficult, no person is normal, some people are more often challenged that others.
Judging for normalcy is a fallacy
Looked into building a house out of EPS panels, since it (at first look) looks like a splendid material with built in insulation.
However:
1: it loses its integrity around 80-100c causing catastrophic failure on bearing capability
2: it burns literally like any other hydrocarbon, and its foamed construction makes it highly flammable
3: to reduce flammability and adhere to code you need to use EPS with flame retardants - which fuck you up, you're basically building a house out of Frozen gasoline and flame retardants.
so if you want to go this route, take a look at Corkwood instead - comes in large industrial panels and can be used to build houses - been used for 100s of years, doesn't burn - at-all - and contains no nasty shit.
reasons:
Easy to build, integrated insulation and loadcarrying in same simple structure, and (this is the mayn reason why instead of foamed concrete) it is permeable, meaning that you do NOT need active ventilation system (Causing dryair in winter etc.) and air moisture is constant year round.
you coat it with a silicate based coating on both sides (also permeable), and nothing else. The result is a breathing house, that is net-zero, you can even build your bathroom from that stuff and it will just wick moisture from the air and slowly release it again.
is this normal for an american rollover election?, does anyone have data on how often this has happened or time (this last minute firesale of public assets?)
“Practical electronics for inventors” is a great book for getting started - and most importantly : nobody builds from scratch anymore - it usually a waste if time - there’s bound to be a platform/devkit out there that does more or less what you want it to
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