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Re: Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate

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Post by esseph »

codingdave wrote: post #10
iancmceachern wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've always been curious about folks who use this phrasing and tone. "Are you aware" always seems condescending to me. It's a weird assumption to make that because someone made a choice, that they weren't aware that there were other choices. It's like walking up to someone who drives a Honda and saying "are you aware you could have bought a Ford?" Please help me, us there another interpretation of this kind of phrasi…

You could take it at face value. I have no idea if this was a 15 minute off-the-cuff effort, or a larger researched project. Rather than assume they either did or did not know, I asked. If they knew, they can explain their choice more. If they did not, they have something new to look into. If you are taking it as condescending, that is on you. It was simply a question.

It is in a condescending tone.

I know this, because I have to self-correct my own communications because of the same or a similar problem (a bit on the autism spectrum).

Re: Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate

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Post by megadata »

lokimedes wrote: post #35

Our corpo year starts May 1. Please add an offset functionality to your free solution immediately, as it has now become a core component of our operation, or we will be forced to take legal action. Also, we appreciate if you could sign a retroactive NDA with our legal team ASAP.

> we appreciate if you could sign

No need to appreciate. Signing the retroactive NDA is a non negotiable.

Re: Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate

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Post by berkes »

It's very unrealistic. There aren't any OIDC and other authentication flows that involve at least five redirects and intermediate login screens. Nor are there any T&C and data processing dialogs. I'd expect at least one "this only works on that very old version of edge/IE" error. And it should have at least three different brands and logos hacked in, in order to be close to be a realistic corporate service. /s

Re: Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate

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Post by megadata »

yitchelle wrote: post #81

Based on previous discussions during a review with higher ups, there need to be some options as to how the week numbers are counted. Can you action that by KW10.3 and report back. I will create a JIRA ticket for tracking. Many thanks for your support.

Sorry, Jira is a bit slow today.

Re: Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate

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Post by dragonwriter »

etothepii wrote: post #95
_n_b_ wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Offset financial years mean your finance people aren’t working furiously between Christmas and New Years getting the EoY stuff done. I feel bad for the ones in my company every year.

Though it means that some years have 53 weeks in.

Well, 52 weeks is 364 days, and a calendar year is 365.5±0.5 days, so if you are doing “years” by whole numbers of weeks and don't want to get more than a week out of sync with the regular civil calendar, you are going to need a 53 week year every few years, regardless of your start date.

Re: Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate

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Post by soneil »

_carbyau_ wrote: post #91
lokimedes wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My boss tells me we need it in Comic Sans for the next meeting with our board of directors. Thank you.

Real World aside: The other day I tried to 3D print small text. (Not super small, just the usual 0.4 nozzle size.) Comic Sans worked out best for this due to pretty constant line width.

Fonts with 'routed' in their names are often a good place to look for this - they're named thus because they were designed to be scribed/engraved with a router, so very frequently have a constant width.

(and if you're up for a rabbit hole, https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/ )

Re: Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate

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Post by froindt »

icameron wrote: post #37

You know what is really wild and caused a few bugs in corporate reporting apps? Every 5 or 6 years you need to account for a 14 week quarter. 13 * 7 is 364 so four 13 week quarters will not add up to a calendar year.

6-week December threw off a bunch of reporting last year for my company. The reporting group was not aware of the 6-week fiscal month, and the date dimension table didn't reflect it.

Thankfully no particular harm was caused by it.

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