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I don’t recall ever encountering an explicit “you can not exceed a vacation longer than X” policy- but most places I’ve ever worked have had a policy that generally sums up to “if you’re going to be taking a long vacation we need to review/plan around it a little differently than the typical process”

I took a month off for hunting and camping a few years back (possibly a decade ago) and what it amounted to was: go document the little things that no one knows you do to keep the ship afloat and cross train this guy in how to do it.
I personally like DI because you can take one glance at the constructor and know what the class depends on, as well as the testability benefits. Can you expand more on what you don’t like about it?
Scary but amazing stuff, thanks for taking time to explain!
I encountered this policy at a previous job at an MSP. A good portion of the workforce were from other countries so the situation was very similar.
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Also to provide a less damaging surface for the knife blade.
> You can never detect a read overflow otherwise: it will just access data outside your structure, but inside mapped memory, so the bug would be totally harmless and silent, with the exception of doing the same operations at the end of the mapped region.

Unless you use one of the sanitizers while fuzzing, right? If not ASan then I would wager MSan could detect this.
https://qntm.org/abolish

Mandatory read every time this comes up.
How likely is the EU removing DST to pressure the US into considering the same? Any chance at all?
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The new X1 carbon is out in the UK today. I'm used to US American keyboard layout but Lenovo cannot supply this in the UK. They recommended I go for Euro English. I'm told its very similar but how similar is it? (Keyboard layout is very important to me as someone who writes code). It's not easy to find Euro English photos online. Especially not on Carbons.

Is it just a difference with the extra Euro label on the "5" key and the right Alt labelled as "Alt gr"? Or are there more layout-specific differences?
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Summer time all year would work for me, but I do appreciate that there are many occupations where this wouldn't be acceptable. I can imagine a dairy farmer at 05:00 in mid-winter might appreciate a little extra warmth and earlier daylight.
This is what stopped such ideas before - even if majority of people that want to stop the clock change they disagree on which timezone to choose
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I have often wondered why human colour vision is not evenly distributed across the spectrum of visible light.

Daniell Dennett (I think?) had a good explanation of this:

Q: Why is the sky blue?
A: Because leaves are green and berries are red

That is: our colour perception evolved in a particular environment and is optimised towards doing well in that environment by contrasting things that we care about (in that environment).
I'd say a much more important purpose of a cutting board is to protect the edge of your knife. If you hit the edge of your knife on something really hard, it'll chip, or fold--basically just ruin it. This might not be such a big deal for home cooks with super dull knives (after all, glass cutting boards still exist for some reason!) but for a professional I'd think a cutting board that destroys your knives would be worse than useless.
For me it's the opposite. With ~3 weeks I manage to properly disconnect from work and recharge myself to get back. First week is winding down, second week is enjoying the time off, third week is looking forward to get started again.

I do take long weekends and the occational day off beside that though.
Appreciate your comment. It always impresses me how many people misunderstand the (what I feel to be) basic concepts of evolution. I'm not educated on the matter either, mind you - I'm sure I'm very ignorant on many aspects of it.

Regardless, it always makes me wonder how much the anti-evolution "movement" would be affected if people simply had a better grasp of it.
Yes!

No more jet-lagged minors twice a year, no more train tickets stamped ~200 years in the future (yes, that has happened to me) and no more confusing server logs with odd duplicates.

Also, contact your local EU parliament member and politely explain why this is good...
As I no longer get vacation or sick leave, and get PTO instead, I can use it all up in one stretch if I want.

Previously, when the vacation time was actually vacation time, you had to get manager approval in advance for anything more than five consecutive business days. For us, it was a matter of filling in a form and getting it rubber-stamped, but I can see how that policy might be more selectively enforced for different classes of worker.

The common practice now is to limit the amount of PTO that accrues per pay period in the first place, and then cap the amount you can bank for the future. I have never had enough to take more than seven consecutive business days at once. And that has happened exactly once.

American employers (overgeneralizing) do not care about employee morale. They will use us up and throw us out if they can. The onus is entirely upon the employee to avoid their own burnout.

The letter-of-the-policy move here would be to take two weeks, work remotely or from a satellite office for one day, then take another two weeks. But I think this company may be treading on thin ice, legally. If the policy de facto discriminates against Indian employees, they may want to consult with an employment-law lawyer.
One of my staff members needs 1 month off to visit family in India. Our company does not limit Vacation time use.
A bit of a click bait title ?

'Parliament accepted our proposal to ask the European Commission to come forward with a recommendation that we would end the bi-annual clock change'

So if I understand it correctly, this is a 'proposal' 'to ask' for 'a recommendation' ?
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> No! Let's keep time that make sense, I like the concept that the sun is at its highest at noon.

But in how many places during 'normal time' is this even actually true? No where in Spain is this true, and even for territories within their timezone, only a tiny sliver of land actually meets the above criteria.

In England, the further east or west you get from GMT, the further you are from the Sun being the highest at noon by minutes, quarters and more.

Timezones aren't even really accurate currently if we ignore daylight savings time, so why pretend it is?

And honestly, if the purpose is for there to be more lighter hours during the evening, why not just adjust time so our current 14:00 is 12:00? And stick with that all year round?
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I recommend this excellent and hilarious documentary if you'd like to find out more about cane toads:

> Cane Toads: An Unnatural History

https://imdb.com/title/tt0130529/

(I have found versions of this on YouTube, but unsure how legal they may be)
I don't think the externs story necessarily needs to be complete. The building blocks are all there waiting for you in Clojurescript. You might lose out on a particular library you like, or some random bootstrap + js re-integration, but overall clojurescript has a large number of libraries already available to build top notch frontends. The missing bits are usually small - I need support for <specific analytics library> and those are easy to rewrite, especially given an open-source PoC.

The npm ecosystem is absolutely massive, but 99.999% of it is irrelevant for most frontend development.

All that said, clojurescript is not necessarily the best choice for any given org. Mostly just saying there's nothing regarding the ecosystem that should hold you back.
No limit, though most of us who do 3-5 weeks take it over xmass because we're visiting family overseas and work is petty dead for 2 or 3 weeks then so it's less disruptive. US company.
I enjoy twitter for being able to promptly get links to news from newspaper people.
Sadly this was the policy of my last defunct startup. We did get to enjoy the benefit, tho, twice:

For every day early we delivered a point release, the whole team got double days holiday, half paid for bonus.

Editing got in s twist somehow I have dumped the context in my profile because have to go away just now.
"This document may not be reproduced or transmitted in any form, in whole or in part, without the express written permission of Apple Inc."
Totally agree. Without Facebook, they would probably never reached this level of success anyways. Also: Don't like Facebook? Don't fucking use it.
Dairy farming is actually one of the occupations where the time change is harder because the cows are ready for milking regardless of the time on the clock. At least according to my uncle who used to be a small time dairy farmer.
I didn't join twitter due to Trump, but I kept going there to see if his ludicrous tweets were real, when one day I decided on a whim to create an account since I liked the design compared to Reddit and Facebook. I found a lot of good people and pages to follow, and now I login everyday, and it's probably a more useful use of time than my usage of Reddit/YouTube/Facebook.
You'd destroy your knives/cleavers with a stone cutting board. The wood needs to give a little bit so the blade doesn't chip and holds an edge long enough to be useful. Sounds like pop writing sensationalism, as with Damascus steel, which TV shows imply (or outright state if they have no shame) is better than any steel we currently know how to make.
That doesn't even move the needle for Google. I am sure they used some sort of formula to determine this fine based on their laws, but an international corporation might bother to fight it on merit for PR purposes, but really won't care about the fine or change their behavior because of it.
Author here, feel free to ask me anything, and I'll give it a shot :)

There's been a lot of churn to get GHC/Haskell to better support cross-compilation lately, and thought I try to assemble a lot of the pieces of information and posts, into something that's hopefully easy to follow for newcomers.

Also, I would be very interested to hear experiences from other people that have had a chance to toy with this, or perhaps also experiences from people using GHCJS for mobile development.

In fact, I'm interested in all kinds of mobile development using pure FP langs, like PureScript, Elm, Haskell etc, so if someone has some resources of stories to share there, please do!
It would be paramount to look at labour productivity changes after the implementation of this proposal.
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> An "extra" hour of daylight during summer evenings has a large positive impact on my mental and physical health.

It would be nice to have the same on winter evenings (or afternoons) too, i.e., "summer" time all year long. No clock changes needed for that.

Of course depending on where you are, "winter" time can help you get out of bed in the morning, and you might find that more important. There is no pleasing everybody, especially in a time zone as big as CET. Its eastern and western extremities are separated by about two hours of solar time...
I guess it depends a lot on where you live. An extra hour of daylight during the summer makes no difference to me since chances are it's still pretty light outside when I'm going to bed anyway.

That being said I do find it really hard to adapt the few times I've spend summers further south where it gets dark before dinner time. That just feels so incredibly wrong to me.
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Ask HN: How is your New Year's resolution going?
One month ago we shared our aspirations for 2018. How are you holding up?

> Ask HN: 2018 resolutions? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16044255

> Ask HN: What Are Your New Years Resolutions or 2018 Goals? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16022339
Nit: Why isn't the server running in UTC?
Interestingly, in terms of vacation I found banks to be better than technology companies. I have worked with two of them and both had instituted a policy where employees were compelled to take at least 2 weeks of leave. If not, upper management got involved and started asking question about work pressure.

My last job was at a technology company. While there was no limit of vacation time, the unsaid rule was to limit it to 1.5 week - 2 weekends + 5 days.
That's why I titled mine 'to thoroughly reassess' and linked to a Bloomberg article.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16332264
> This just feels like an excuse to find a way to filter human communication

Interesting. I've modded a fair amount of communities and the censorship argument to moderated discussion comes up frequently as new rules are implemented.

From an online discussion point of view I don't think it holds merit at all. If I run a football board and have a rule that says "no basketball talk" that's my prerogative.

As long as it's not government driven, censorship is perfectly fine (if you don't like the rules of my service, you are free to use someone else's). When it is government driven, censorship is murky territory at best, but not immediately bad and illegal/unconstitutional. The FCC in some form or another has rules against broadcasting certain types of content. You can't swear, you can't show nudity (or certain types of nudity anyways). That's government driven censorship, and its largely accepted.

Slashdot had a hands off approach for a long time. I couldn't go to their site without seeing a n-word reference in the comments because their approach was abused. If you go to reddit, facebook, twitter, snapchat, instagram, or any other major site you run into astroturfing campaigns. We've grown to accept that Microsoft is good at it and Sony is bad at it. But somehow when AT&T does it, it's evil.

I don't know what the solution looks like. I just know that we need to evolve. Filtering communication is part of it. A bigger part of it would be finding ways to drive healthier habits.
None. Why should it?
I thought it was a random person's github account because Lang is a common Chinese/Asian name...
> Can you absolutely trust Clojure(Script) and its tooling?

Use Clojure/Script because it's a competitive advantage. If Cognitect went under, my company http://www.hyperfiddle.net/ would still use Clojure/Script and we would, quite frankly, maintain it ourselves, because it really is that important to us. De-risking dependence on any one company is half the point of open source.

I'm also interested in the proper way to fund open source, coordinating donations and putting them to effective use is harder than it sounds, it seems to me the easiest way for me to give someone money is for them to sell me something.
Thanks. Well, I've heard of the language Julia, but didn't connect the title with it as it sounded like a person, robot or something.. Mm sounds good. Is it as fast as, say, C?
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9am - 9pm Mon-Fri of local time get translated to UTC:

Eastern Time: open 2PM to 2AM UTC (Mon evening -> Sat morning)

PST: open 5PM to 5AM UTC (Mon -> Sat)

This makes exactly 0 sense.
Is that because your code must be precompiled with moc before it's legal C++? It seems a little unfair to say QtCreator is faster and more accurate if you're working with Qt code. Qt chose to extend the language and make many of their vocabulary types opaque pimpl'd bags of void*, which makes it very hard for any other IDE to support Qt to the same extent.

FWIW CLion also has built-in static analysis.
> An "extra" hour of daylight during summer evenings has a large positive impact on my mental and physical health.

Another automobile slamming into you because the driver got an hour less sleep negatively impacts (heh) your mental & physical health.

Have you lived your entire life with DST? If so, do you have any evidence that brighter summer mornings wouldn't have a similar positive impact?
Exactly the way we started our SaaS about a year and a half ago and currently reached 68k Euros MRR with a 50% profit margin.

I am pretty sure this pre-existing contact was a great helper. Far beyond being the first customer.
Those actions can still be done unintentionally. For example, a particular kind of snake can prefer to eat some particular kind of fruit when they are young, which also happens to be the favourite plant for a cane toad to rub on to get rid of itchy bottoms.
UK, more than 10 working days consecutively requires director approval according to the written policy, but I can't imagine it ever being denied or enforced (I have never had or heard of a holiday request being denied at all). We're not allowed to carry days over though, so people do not generally accrue large holiday allowances.
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Yes. It's the prototyping phase. Medicine, hardware, even food. Cliff made his energy bars "work" first in his kitchen, then started to figure out how to make them scalable and optimized for taste, etc.

Any hardware startup does the same. Get a giant, hulky prototype going, with shotty wiring, way too much weight, and get it working. This make it work first adage is because you don't know what the final product/project will need to be (e.g. do it in python and then figure out how to make it better)
Hi! I was doing similar research a little while back and I thought this page was super helpful: http://cyberseek.org/heatmap.html

Lots of info you can dig through based on location, job title, etc.

Btw, that course looks super interesting! Def something I wish I had a year ago when I was starting out.
> If they are losing, the public market or VC's cover their aes and their value stays neutral

In the past year TWTR has been as low as $14.12, it has been anything but neutral.
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Unlikely but keep in mind that two states (Hawaii and Arizona) don't use DST. So it isn't outside the world of possibility.
5.6 weeks throughout the year is not incompatible with limits on the consecutive weeks at time though. Three vacations periods a year, each two weeks long, is still six weeks total, both satisfying the minimum number of days you preset here as well as the company limits on vacation length given by the OP.

Is there anything in UK law that prevents businesses from requesting that the 5.6 weeks be spread out throughout the year from their employees?
This page has a good list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_American_keyboards

For software development the biggest difference is the position of the @, #, |, \ and ~ keys.
You presumably could do both, sell it for a million dollars, and then send an email to apple as well. I'm sure the terms of the sale stipulate you can't share it with anyone else, but if you can hack the iPhone but can't figure out how to send anonymous email to Apple, you are doing something wrong.
This is the only option. Also, you should any changes to your employment contract reviewed by outside counsel.
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That last one is practically impossible for any but the most simple of applications. It is much easier to reuse a (graphical) UI between desktop and mobile than it is to reuse a GUI with a TUI. TUIs have core differences, from using character cells for positioning and only allowing characters for presenting the UI (i ignore stuff like sixel and regis since those aren't supported by most terminals), to only having a very small selection for colors (again ignoring things like terminals with 256 color support) and a very limited input (often special keys do not work, mouse may or may not work, etc). These things affect greatly the type of UIs you see in terminals - which is also why even today you rarely see terminal applications use the richer UIs that you could find in text based DOS applications in late 80s and early 90s.

But as far for the rest, FWIW, everything you describe seems to be a thing in Blender's UI (including the ability to right click on every actionable element and see what Python function it calls), which probably is kinda expected considering that it was built around Python. Sadly the Blender UI is not something you can use outside of Blender since it is tightly coupled with the rest of the application. There are some attempts to recreate it as a reusable library (e.g. Blendish), but they only go as far as to recreate the look.
I'm a big fan (and user) of Clojure.

However, I feel 150$/h is quite a bit for something that was done for free previously.

Taking the 3 months of figwheel, we're talking no less than 60 days * 1.2k/d = 72k$.

It's probably just a (slightly above?) average consulting salary in the US/Western Europe but everywhere else that's really a lot. Heck, even some friends of mine working as developers in Germany or France don't earn that in a year, even after adjusting for taxes and social security.

Being a (Clojure) consultant myself, I know the mathematics and I charge the same order of magnitude but I don't go around telling people this because I feel that might have negative consequences. (Most of my friends don't read HN, hence the contradiction in the last sentence)
I'm not saying the current system is perfect, but a lot of these "gate keepers" are performing useful functions. Particularly for things like books and movies a major publisher or distributor gives some level of quality assurance. They also handle a bunch of stuff that you wouldn't expect an author or independent filmmaker to be good at.
Being a protocol company is risky for adoption, but helps develop a huge moat over the competition, which doesn't remove the possibility of becoming an E-Corp-like company and/or dying from inefficiency. No idea about these two in particular sorry.
Before I had kids I would often just plow through the time change without changing anything, because my job had enough flexibility that it wasn't a problem. Generally in a few weeks I'd be "back on schedule" but I didn't have to deal with any sort of shock, which for me was at least modestly bad. (I know people who have it worse, but I'm certainly far from the "Eh, I'll just get up an hour earlier without any particular effort or consequence" some people seem to have.)

Now that I have kids, I'm tied to the school system and can't ignore it. Much less pleasant.
People should be able to do what they want and companies shouldn't be so reliant on one person that they can't take a month or two away, but taking 3-4 spaced out 1-2 week vacations is better for preventing burnout than a single 6 week vacation. According to this article, maximum benefit is achieved at 8 days of vacation https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/opinion/sunday/vacatio...
Would you rather have your employees recharging their batteries multiple times a year, once a year, or one every two years?
> This makes exactly 0 sense.

Why?
Given that everyone else could be doing the same thing if they are driven by natural daylight, and not what some clock on the wall tells them to do, maybe everyone else _would_ do the same thing, including your son's school.

I think there's a case to be made of Stockholm syndrome going on with the fans of daylight saving time. Meanwhile, everybody under its control suffers.
If I recall correctly, the European Parliament doesn't have the power to introduce new legislation on its own. Instead, they can ask the Commission to present legislative proposals. This might be what's happening here...
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