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Please don't get me started on Odoo. We've tried to use Odoo as the base system for an ERP for a customer from us. We've started with OpenERP (7 ? - the last version).

It looked pretty good - there were books available which showed how to customize OpenERP for your workflows. We've started planning the ERP solution for our customers.

Then one of our bosses had the idea to update to Odoo, because it was the "current version". I don't think that it is automatically bad if you change the reporting system completely - but I've hardly seen such a half ass job of documenting the new version. The last time I was working on it the only "documentation" was a 3 page presentation from the Odoo days. Half of the plugins we used with OpenERP didn't work any more, and some functionality was in the GUI(updating plugins) but didn't work (in a stable and released version).

When searching for answers Stackoverflow didn't really work and the whole vibe in the forums was along the line "I've finally got it working - it was not that hard after I found out how to do it" or "you just have to pay company x a certain amount they will gladly do that for you".

I was really lucky that I got transfered to other projects and was able to stop working on this project.

We had the same discussion in my office. If I am developing a feature (in a separate branch) - why shouldn't I rebase to make a single commit out of this feature ?

Is this really interesting for you that it took me 10 commits to do sO ? Even if one of the commits was just a "I have to switch an fix a bug and want to commit before switching to another branch" - commit ?

I think there is nothing wrong with rebasing and to merge commits before pusing them.

I didn't had any problems with Jack or plugins - the problem with 3.x was Midi editing. Well it was introduced in this release, but I did some drum programming (our drummer was sick, so we've programmed drums to our music) and it sucked.

It was totally normal that Ardour crashed at least twice in the 1 or 2 hours when we were editing drums. And the devs knew that this problem existed, but they've basically told, that it should be fixed in 4.x.

I am a big advocate of Ardour. But I really hope they get their act together and stop adding new features, but start making the release more stable. The last really stable and great version for me was the last of the 2.x releases.

They improved the looks but there was always something that didn't work quite right. IN the 3.x series Midi was introduced, but it crashed all the time (and I've updated every time there was a new release).

Now I am using 4.x and it is dog slow for big sessions (which I originally recorded and mixed in 2.x on a much lesser PC with no problems).

I do understand their arguments. I know that they want to release something for Windows, Mac and Linux to improve their customer base (greatly). But I really hope that Ardour solidifies and they start improving the quality that it comes back to the quality of the 2.x releases.

Have you ever tried ninite (https://ninite.com/) ? Not perfect at all - but at least it works for some of the freeware utilities / programs I'm using on my windows PC.

Simply run the generated exe to install the program. Run it later to update the program.

I have a feeling every time something is called a "snack" in headlines like this it's probably pretty bad for you.

My mother never allowed us to eat chips or other junkfood as snacks during the day. We ate them on special occasions (e.g. watching TV on saturday night).

If we were hungry, we could eat apples or other fruit that was around.

In retrospect a good habit to have.

Sorry I misunderstood your comment. Was just wondering how you are doing OCR in Paint.Net. Thank you for your clarification.

How do you do OCR in Paint.Net ?

Well it may be a bad time to start with Debian unstable, when they are switching to systemd (or are in the process of doing it).

I remember updating to Debian testing (never had the nerves for unstable) when they switched to Gnome3 and I experienced bugs (and really nasty ones). When they make big changes it is going to break things.

If you don't want to have things broken, either use a stable distribution, don't upgrade for some time or live with it.

Right now I am using Arch Linux mostly - but I've heard the change to systemd had some rough edges for Arch Linux too (didn't use it at this time).

I can say that I am completely fine with systemd on Arch Linux and I don't understand the big problem some people have with it (on a philosphical level I do understand them, but not on a pragmatic level).

I think KDE is as XP-y as it gets. No big frill, but you can configure nearly everything you wish.

Ever tried KDE ?

Pretty much my thinking.

I think Apple offers a big walled garden for computing.

My grandparents were farmers - and they've always had breakfast. They had to get up early to milk the cows. I don't know their exact morning routine, but they had breakfast before or after milking the cows in the morning (I would say before milking the cows).

I think breakfast works pretty well for a farmer's livestyle. So I wonder, if this is really the big exception.

And there was always a break in the morning (at 9 o'clock) from a "second breakfast" - or a small lunch break.

I've started later with Android Development than you did. So I've just used Eclipse for a pretty short time. To be honest, I can't stand those different views (e.g. when starting to debug). The resource editor with its live preview is so much better in Android Studio. Showing the content of the string instead of just showing the ID - there are so many little things which are far better than with Eclipse. I really like the decision to go with JetBrains instead of Eclipse.

It makes the model simpler, but I found this pretty cumbersome. I wanted to write a method returning two values (Boolean), so I had to return an array of Booleans. Out parameter seem easier for me (and more concise)

Sounds like you just recreated Microsoft Biztalk.

But to sound less like a dick - communicating with a low probability of errors is hard !

coming back to Java, after some years of programming C# I have the same feeling.

C# feels like Java done right. Many of Java's shortcomings can be masked with a great IDE (making setters and getters) nobrainers - but I prefer C#.

Every update was a lesson in frustration. So I thought either I'm stying on LTS or I use another distribution.

Right now I am using Debian stable for my "it has to run" systems (the ones my gf is using too) and tried Arch on the other systems.

So far I am pretty much sold on Arch linux (my Linux knowledge got better too) - but I still don't know if I'm just using Debian stable for things like my HTPC.

Isn't the cost of living there (eating) cheaper than in San Francisco ?

I am from Austria (Western Europe) and have been in Istanbul some weeks ago. If you are not going to eat at tourist traps I had the feeling that eating was cheaper than in Austria.

Buying clothes and shoes was cheaper than in Austria too - so I guess the cost of living there is less than in Austria.

Beer and alcohol is / can be pretty expensive - but other than that I thoughts it is pretty cheap there (as a tourist)

I don't think that developing for Android is so complicated - but maybe you had some bad luck with a device.

But RELEASING your app is much easier on Android (the Play store) than on Apple's store.

We had developed some apps for some customers and it was always a chore to release them into the Apple app store.

Somebody paid us money to make an app for them and then we can't release it on IOS because you think it has no sense for people and that it was written with the wrong toolset.

It would be no problem if there was an easy way on IOS devices to use another, more open store.

Sorry to be cruel - but I really think you should cut down the usage of buzzwords and abbrevations on your homepage and in describing your service.

This reminds me a little bit of a company I've visited.

They cooled the office so much in the summer that some of the people in the office (I'd say 5 out of 20) used electric heaters under their desk to warm their feet.

In Austria they're still quick. I remember seeing the old cahsier as a child - but it is still my favourite shop in terms of effectiveness.

Now they've started something like a bakery in stores with many people just buying one or two items, which slows down the process. The process in the shops is optimized for people to buy in bulk.

I really wonder if LibreOffice is not totally adequate for the users in the city of Munich.

I know that it has its problems if you want to use it with Word generated documents, and it obviously has problems with add-ons developed for Word.

But I could really think that it works quite nice, if all your documents are generated for LibreOffice.

I am using Open / LibreOffice since nearly 10 years exclusively at home and I don't have any problems using it - but my needs are VERY modest. Basically I am using it as an WYSIWYG typewriter.

That's exactly how it works - you tap it in the beat you would like and this sets the bpm.

This is used pretty much in electronic instruments or effects (nearly every drum machines or delay has a tap button).

I was not so thrilled when playing Braid. First of all I really liked the idea - but after some levels it got cumbersome. Some of the events can not be rolled back totally - so you have some annoying levels, where you have to start from the beginning (at least this is my foggy memory).

The story was absolutely cheesy - I simply lost interest in it. Which is not really something unusual, because I am not a gamer at all.

I really like Yii. In my opinion it is exceptionally well designed and offers so much functionality.

The Yii programmers designed it with performance in mind. I can understand that you find it opinionated, but in my opinions the pros outweigh the cons.

the "64er" magazine (from Germany) even had checksum programs when typing in programs by hand (one for Basic code and one for machine language).

So you could be pretty sure that your programs worked afterwards.

Nothing beat the feeling to type a program and then finding out that the game sucked.

But in one of the magazines there was a drum computer for the C64, which was pretty cool (forgot its name).

in German it is "scissors-rock-paper" (Schere Stein Papier). I guess all combinations are possible...

I think it would be great, if they would polish the core libraries.

Too many subtle differences when I've tried it the last time (some years ago). Afterwards we changed our course and stopped using it.

We were mostly interested in using Winforms applications on Windows and Linux - but it didn't really work for our application. I had the feeling that Xamarin wasn't interested in making the code any better for our use - instead they were interested in mobile application development.

If Microsoft baught them I really wished our use case would be improved too.

reading this in my RSS reader i didn't understand it all. Seems like it couldn't show the GIFs correctly. On the web site I finally understand it.