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Ask HN: Effective communication in the office?
Hi HN,

I am working on some soft skills in the office, and this might seem dumb, but I am trying to figure out how to write requests and comments that are constructive and firm but not intrusive or abrasive.

For example, a co-worker said they'd schedule a meeting for tomorrow, and I wanted to point it out to them that they made the meeting at the wrong time, so I said:

"For the meeting, it looks like you scheduled it for today instead of tomorrow", and he responded a little coldly, so unsure how I came across.

Another example is the way I ask for things. From a sentence today,

"if you have some bandwidth, I was wondering if you could [do X because Y]"

I needed the data by the next day but this person just came back from vacation and had a big backlog, so I wasn't sure how to convey that but also be respectful of their time. My boss needed the data for a presentation to his boss but it was a little unclear how important the data, so I sort of let it slide. I ended up getting the data anyway.

Does anyone have guidelines, maybe books, or examples of converting common phrases to get the point across?

Apologies if I am overanalyzing.

Thanks for any help!
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That's not how it works in practice, however. As of late, most of the cries of "cultural appropration" have come from people outside of the "appropriated" group, white-knighting for them, often in opposition to those actually part of the group.

It reeks more of siloing than anything. Certain people want everyone grouped up into nice little packages that we can't step outside of, and they've co-opted the most vocal (and often times extreme) advocates of social justice to do so.
From what I can tell the Symfony guys have always been at the forefront of PHP development. Many Composer dependencies I use seem to depend themselves on Symfony libraries.

Even though I'm not a massive PHP fan I can appreciate the hard work they're doing to make it a more viable and approachable language.
The price would definitely move down if you sold 20% of facebook's float. The market doesn't care that you borrowed and are the one selling (as opposed to the party you borrowed it from selling them), all that matters is that 20% of the shares are being sold.
That's a horrible thought experiment. and probably correct

So how about this as a hypothesis- spend the money on improving parental engagement. Weekly training events, much better planned homework (xeroxd sheets handed out is not the same as a guided syllabus for the parents to follow)

You can do a lot just by engaging those parents
The point of school papers is to teach students about writing. The point of the length requirements is to make sure the students demonstrate actually spending at least minimal effort on the writing part.

Arguably it would be better if we got rid of grades, had the students devote a large amount of time and effort to making the best paper they could without worrying about length per se, went through multiple editing cycles with each paper, wherein teachers gave detailed constructive feedback in response (even if that feedback was “this paper has a fascinating idea but it would be best stated in 2 pages; the extra 4 pages of analysis are facile and tedious and would best be cut out”).

But devoting serious effort to engaging seriously with every student assignment takes an incredible amount of time and effort for teachers. The best ones spend hours every day outside of class examining/grading student work, and as a result have very little personal time.

Most of the students I knew who “used dirty hacks” frankly just didn’t want to put in the work. Their papers were often thoughtless, with a boring often implausible claim poorly supported by boring evidence/reasoning, held together with confusing writing. They would have benefited a lot from having significantly higher-touch editing/feedback loop, but their teachers didn’t have the bandwidth and their parents didn’t really care. The students only really cared about getting their grade.
I use it a lot for everything from shopping lists and quick reminders to sales leads.
Then ideally, you'd accept plaintext submissions, and have your reading/marking software format them in whichever way you want for optimal viewing (possibly depending on your taste, device, time of day, phase of moon, etc).

That's why math journals require LaTeX - that takes the formatting steps like margins, fonts, etc. out of the writer's hands.
People will have to wait 2 years instead of 18 months to afford a new iPhone.
I just used Google Maps to get to work this morning using Apple Car Play - it's awesome.
There were a few annoying errors in Apple maps on my daily route that I won't have to deal with ever again.
I submitted the story with a "Make a Lisp in 200 Lines of JavaScript" which I think is a better title because Repl.it is only the platform that the author implemented on.

Unfortunately, the mods reverted it to the article title.
Correct me if I'm wrong but a galley kitchen is just a kitchen of certain dimensions(that is, long and narrow), whereas the Frankfurt kitchen is a complete layout, involving location of drawers, appliances, etc.
China should just levy heavy duties on goods from states Trump won big, and the states where Republicans are in peril; while at the same time offering concessions to goods from states where Trump lost and Democrats are doing well.

Then it should start an advertising blitz to highlight how workers/farmers in the former states are suffering.
360 employees for a note taking app? Really?
You can gauge user interest by, for example, counting page views. You don't need to fingerprint users, create a catalog of all articles they view, try to guess their interest in certain topics using "AI", and do all the other absurdity that they think they "need" to do now.
Warning: raw personal opinion ahead. You're welcome to downvote, but I'd prefer it if you left a response so I can learn something.

Europe in general but France in particular seems completely unprepared for the changes technology and the web are still rolling out. The market seems to me to be a morass of entrenched, sclerotic industries that grew fat after decades of governmental protection. Naturally, in many cases the response is simple: more governmental protection.

As dominant as Amazon it, at least in the US is has a nascent rival in Walmart, a massive retail chain that's frantically piling onto the internet to try to catch up. The American system has produced a challenger to Amazon's mega-consolidation by seeing another champion of mega-consolidation attempt to pivot its business. Where is France's answer to Amazon? Does France not have large national retail chains? Why are we not seeing companies to buying one another up in order to form like Voltron against a large threat like Amazon?

My (admittedly uninformed) impression is: because the competitive and regulatory environment doesn't seem allow for it. Laws on hiring and firing workers. Laws limiting discounts on books. Laws governing corporate takeovers. Why else would industries whose very existence depends on cushy regulatory favors have no way of dealing with tech giants besides more regulatory favors (Article 13, Article 11, Right to be Forgotten, the entire charade of fines for "anti-competitive behavior")?

Instead of ripping off the bandaid and establishing a new and competitive economy by deregulating, taking the hit, and nurturing a new generation of cutthroat competition, France and the EU has protected its weakest and least-competitive industries, to the detriment of its people and the world at large.
Transparent to developers, yes. But not to end users.
The chances of a document making sense as a will and matching SHA and MD5 hashes placed in a blockchain must be infinitesimal.

The blockchain places the production of the hashes in time; in this case showing that - all else being equal - this will supersedes any previous wills.

Proving things existed at a particular date is important for contracts, wills, IPR, and such.

It doesn't solve everything, you could have a collusion between relatives and lawyers such that they created multiple blockchain entries. But the blockchain would show, for example, if they did it after the subject had died. The relatives would also need to buy off those running the public blockchain, and not just the deceased's law firm, in order to get a legal attestation -- and audits would show the public servants lied. Auditors can be bought off too, no system involving people is perfect.
That was way over blown in hindsight. Apple sold the same GSM iPhone 4 without any modifications for 3 years.
I've looked briefly at Lumen. I don't do any JS work, so cross-compiling to JS doesn't really appeal to me personally. I would expect that compiling to two targets would make it more difficult to implement clean, readable compiler output the way Fennel does, but I haven't checked.

The docs for Lumen are a bit sparse, but it looks like it doesn't make globals opt-in or make you flag locals as mutable the way Fennel does. IME calling these things out explicitly makes certain kinds of bugs easier to catch. Fennel also allows for optional arity checks on functions.

I would expect that Lumen's keyword arguments would cause some complication when interoperating with Lua, which doesn't have them. In addition, cross-compiling to both JS and Lua means that it can't seamlessly support multiple return values, which are used pervasively in 3rd-party Lua libraries.

As I mentioned elsewhere, Fennel can run in the browser with Fengari, but it's a very different approach because Fengari includes a full Lua VM. This means there's some overhead to load the VM (~220kb) but once it's loaded you get access to coroutines, which are a much nicer way to code non-blocking functions than callbacks.

But these are just my initial uninformed impressions.
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One alternative solution for multi-device charging that avoids the overlapping coil approach that apple is reportedly having issues with is to simply move the coil to the middle of the device(s). That was the solution that Panasonic used for the QE-TM101 [0]. This particular implementation has only one coil so multiple devices are charged in series.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpSHJwiDfv4 (Not my video. Shows a Nexus 4 being placed in worst-case positions and an illuminated robotic primary charging coil attempting to couple with the secondary on the phone.)
It's the bookstore syndicate making an argument here, not the publishers. The bookstores should be blaming the publishers for refusing to pick up this book. Instead they are blaming Amazon, and the Renaudot contest for considering this book.

Their self-interest is completely transparent, the Renaudot winner will have good sales, they don't want a book that they won't sell to win.

I read the press release in French, they are warning the Renaudot prize jury that they could be hurting the author by depriving him of having his book sold in bookstores. The argument is nonsensical.
I will buy an iPhone the day I can choose a different rendering engine for my browser. Or, at minimum, Safari stops being a turd.

Just yesterday I watched hilariously how a friend tried to do an online job interview on her iPad. But no MediaRecorder API support. Had to lend her my 200 euro Android burner to get it done. Pathetic.

Edit: To be fair, Edge would also have dropped the ball, but then again you probably have FF or Chrome also installed. In iOS you are SOL.
The Modern Language Association (http://www.mla.org) is the main scholarly society for the study of literature in modern languages (including English) in North America. "MLA Style" is one of several styles used in scholarly publishing in the humanities, and its citation format is often taught in schools.

Old editions of the manual did talk about margins and pages; newer editions make far fewer assumptions about your medium (though it assumes you are going to be often -- though not exclusively -- citing physical books and media in your work).

It's been years since a publisher gave me a "page count" in their guidelines; word count is nearly universal. I stopped assigning page counts to students around the time that the publishers stopped (a long time ago at this point), and I think most of my colleagues did the same. So I'm not sure what kerning and em-size wizardry really does for you, unless your professor is pretty old school (and hasn't bought a new edition of the MLA Handbook since the Clinton administration).
I knew we'd see this comment! Do you guys have a TextExpander template for it or something?
That was my first thought.

A company grows into its funding, not what it needs to do (and they raised more than $300M over the years).
To quote koolba: "That [lifestyle] is not possible without a car."

Living in a dense urban area, taking trains, walking, and biking. Goods delivered all in close vicinity. Large building with the opportunity to be more energy efficient than your single family home.

All that, I'm convinced makes the carbon footprint of the average urbanite much lower than someone who often drives miles for errands
I know this must feel contrary to the intuition to those who live very close to nature
Honestly I didn't even notice that until you pointed it out. I guess my mind is trained to jump straight to the content and ignore everything else around it.
Anyone have a link to the .txt interview were the Mirai creator claimed they made their creation to escape "a shitty eastern European country" and their main customers were "Top 5 Minecraft servers"?
Partner and I use it for grocery lists, that's about it.
Asking again: What’s the benefit of having enforced seasonal schedule changes vs. the DST change?
Are there any browsers which allow you to do your own electron-like wrapping of webapps? Would be nice to have your own native icon etc, but also be able to tune exactly what behaviour you want, for instance set per app caching levels, cookies, what happens when it goes to background, etc.

A good example is on mobile, where playing media on the web is a hassle because you never know what the background behaviour will be, whether it’ll carry on playing when you’re on another tab, or on another app, or with the screen off, or after five minutes. It seems to be a free for all now for the browsers, not much user control.
I felt extremely dizzy when I started scrolling.

How can I trust the makers of a design tool when their website is literally nauseating?
The right question for most people is not am I happy at work but rather "can I tolerate work", same as marriage.
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I've been trying without success to find a picture of the Stuttgart kitchen mentioned in the article. Anyone?
My iPhone X is at 90%. You don't think it's worth the $29 + trip to Apple Store?
> I don't see what role the blockchain plays here.

> [1] and who's to say there aren't multiple signed hashes on the blockchain anyway?

The timestamping of the blockchain is the use case. If multiple signed hashes exist, the latest one supersedes all the previous.

> What do you gain if the lawyer has to reveal it anyway? If you don't trust the lawyer[1], just give a hash of the document to the people who would be affected.

I'm afraid I don't understand. Who would hold the original text of the document in your plan?

Edit: Nevermind, I see what you mean, here. I see the issue as one of public record. If there was a revision to the will which no one in the family liked, and benefited some estranged cousin of yours who lived in another country, the family and the lawyer could conceivably hide the new will and the fact that you were dead from this cousin. Having it all on the blockchain prevents this.
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness."

Cultures have appropriated each other since the dawn of humanity. I understand how some can feel irritated that "their" concepts, whatever they are, have been "stolen" and stripped of their essence by others, but what's the alternative?

It's not like the other cultures are forcing the originators to change theirs (or, they might, but that's not cultural appropriation) so it kind of feels like the same fallacy as claiming something was stolen from you if someone made a copy of something you own.

Your culture is your own, no one else can debase that, only your own feelings can. It's the Stoic saying of "it is not outside events that affect us, but our opinions about them."
I would argue time is (and always has been) on US's side. US has the more powerful economy, and the consumer market that China desperately needs to keep afloat. In addition, time will allow US companies to move its supply lines out of China without triggering volatility in its stock prices.
Please don't think I'm dissing diversity - I'm all for it.

> And that's also why you see people on both sides of any given issue

Often that's a great thing. Sometimes it's not. That was the point I was making.
Twice the work for front-end only, and even that is arguable. The overall logic of the client across different platforms will be very similar. The only thing that will change is language and implementation details.
I have no idea how likely that is, but that looks like an ideal scenario for the White House, and a possible existential threat for the Chinese Communist Party. People have a habit of putting up with a lot when the economy is growing dramatically and their lives are noticeably improving, but they might not be so happy with an increasingly oppressive government and a struggling economy that isn't giving any sign of future greatness.
> it is just NOT assuming that the worst WON'T happen.

But it won't. You attempt to comply with the rules, show good faith and you won't be in danger.

It's not a real risk.
Don't you have to trust the state then?
Yeah, a ", ..." got left out.
Can someone explain the downvotes on this? There are no factual errors and the poster does not seem to be on the attack.
Try MoodDiary[1], it has a scale of 10 but also allows tracking multiple metrics (e.g. I track 4 metrics: sleep, mood, energy level and overwhelmed vs. undercontrol)

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.jonathansau...
Superbly done hero element on that page.
“They,” as if their government wasn’t our federal government.
I've tried Evernote a couple of times and don't even understand why people use it and why does it take more than a couple of devs to maintain, it seems sooo simple (yet hardly intuitive) and lacks any smart features I sought when looking for a personal information management tool.
Literally same situation here except with a 6 Plus. Upgraded this morning and the speedup and faster animations are pretty damn noticeable. Camera used to sometimes take 6-7 seconds to open which is now cut to about 1-2s. Definitely recommend the update, the new features are also pretty convenient, I especially like the new Do Not Disturb and Screentime provides some interesting stats. Now it's just battery life getting awful, but I've been putting off getting the battery replaced because spending a week+ without a smartphone is borderline impossible and I have no backup device.
> Then I want share, because I can’t get on the stage without talking a little bit about the problem we call Going Dark, which is encryption. And then I’d like to take your questions. And I’m hoping you’re going to think up a question that has nothing to do with Secretary Clinton’s e-mails.

Dear Lord... "going dark" like when people go to their banks website?
> I still feel amazed to see the green checkmark on my CI after a long and challenging git push

How is this "amazing"? Can you not build a branch locally to see if it works as you go? Have you no facilities to run local tests?
Keybase doesn't do smart card/token support so it would at most be replacing keyserver usage for a notary that would need to continue to use pgp keys.
Sales with commission is where real money can be made even while working at leisure pace but, coming from a technical role, you will probably need a partial or complete refocus first, more of the former if you are not a techie at heart as you say. A hybrid role is possible if you are also responsible for the post sale assistance, which is the case more often than not. It’s fun, overall, but you need a knack for that on top of a broad set of salesman techniques.
In most essay or reports I've written the requirement was given in number of pages, but always with the definition of a page being 2400 characters (I don't remember wether that was with or without spaces).
Amazon Createspace lets you sell both paper and digital. (In fact, to be precise, selling on Kindle is quasi-independent of selling PoD from Createspace.) I've actually published a print copy of a book through Createspace without a Kindle version because the non-DRM PDF digital version is free from my website.
The thing is, I find half of those types of apps can be replaced by trello in some way or another, it is like the excel of lists.
Of course, it has to be the Hardy-Ramanujan number....
Firefox used to support this but they nixed it (but hey, they gave us Pocket instead, yay! /s)
C# and call it a day.
Yup.

Google Keep for anything fleeting.

Evernote for keepers.

Google Docs for structured stuff.
There are more complex apps with native versions for multiple platforms, by smaller companies.
We're living in a world (at least in tech) where the boundaries between work/life are becoming increasingly blurred. Right or wrong, it seems like WeWork is a breed company that expects deep employee alignment on values that extend well outside of what's normally considered the sphere of work.
Slacks annual revenue was 200 million in 2017, when they were a 5 billion dollar valued company. 200 mil is just 1000 Bay Area salaries, and they do have other budget items.

Its entirely possible that they cannot fund 5 native development teams, while building their core features to justify their valuation, and paying their sales and marketting team to actually generate revenue.
that feature was in some promotional material i just recently watched, either within their recent presentation or an ad. that is really disingenuous of apple to have not removed it from their ad campaign while knowing it was delayed. that feature alone was a major consideration of mine when recently deciding whether i should get an iPhone (i chose not to) since my family has iPhones.
While I would disagree with the specific example of dreads you provided(for reasons the other replier mentioned), I think you have provided the most charitable explanation of cultural appropriation. However, most of the time when I hear the phrase is around halloween, when a 5 year old girl who wants to be Mulan (or her parents) are accused of cultural appropriation.
I made a regex search for GitHub and emacs plugin. In theory I could put this on GitHub. It uses the bigquery ghtorrent table. There's only so much time in a day though. If you want it upvote me
If it means we now get a term that, at least for a couple of years, filters out all the garbage roles recruiters throw at me then I'm on board with adopting this terminology.
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It takes a lot of effort to feed and raise a unicorn.
I'm currently looking for lisp-like language for Lua. I've looked into Urn, Lumen and Fennel, still haven't decided on one.

Maybe someone can answer - why does fennel description insist on macros as compile time feature? I'm interested in live coding and self-modifying code; is there a speed penalty or some other reason why Fennel would be a bad option?
Why try to appeal to the creators when people are willing to pay thousands of dollars for pretty social media boxes?
It's the funding meta-trap.

If Evernote did not take funding, they likely would have had a path to profitability, even a meager one.

But, if Evernote did not take funding, it's likely another note-taking app would have, and Evernote would not have been able to compete with free VC money and RSU compensation.