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Show HN: Stretch My Time Off – An Algorithm to Optimize Your Vacation Days
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#152I don't get it. This doesn't net you additional days of vacation. A day off in the middle of the week is still a day off, and rejuvenating.
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sorry, I don't understand - why wouldn't you do that?
Parent (heh) means they have no choice but to plan their holidays during the days off in the school roster. Tools like these are pretty much pointless if you can take a day off from work, but your kid is required to show up in school.
This sounds like a feature request / opportunity.
Like, can the tool be expanded to do:
1) Finding vacation time for a group of people (family? college friends?)
2) Can you include black-out days (school days for kids, whatever your specific job requires, etc)
I mean, as long as _I'm_ not responsible for making this thing I can make feature suggestions all day :)
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#154With Agile, I have found that I'm never able to just take a day off here and there. I need to take enough time off that I can meaningfully commit to taking less work in the sprint, otherwise my day off just leads to working nights and weekends to catch up. So it's either take the entire 2-week sprint off, or an entire week and hope I can correctly estimate what half a workload looks like. Yes, yes, doing Agile wrong…
Or you can just catch up when you're working? I don't understand what this has to do with agile. Are they going to fire you if you don't finish the sprint's tasks?
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#155Ha, this reminds me of a very similar practice I used to engage in with a few buddies when we started work. It was always fun to try to figure out how to optimize the PTO to get the “most days per day”. Nowadays, I find that the best time to take PTO is when I feel like taking PTO. Taking a long weekend when I’m feeling burnt out or disengaged goes much further for me than grinding for the entire first half of th yea…
It's important to take off a day when you're feeling burnt out, but for some, I think it's also important to plan ahead a little bit to see the "most days per day" where you, your kids, your partner, etc. will all have off together.
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#156Ha, this reminds me of a very similar practice I used to engage in with a few buddies when we started work. It was always fun to try to figure out how to optimize the PTO to get the “most days per day”. Nowadays, I find that the best time to take PTO is when I feel like taking PTO. Taking a long weekend when I’m feeling burnt out or disengaged goes much further for me than grinding for the entire first half of th yea…
Exactly! I will throw a day off a few weeks away so that I have something to look forward to. When it actually arrives sometimes I don't even care anymore, but it is a great morale booster in the moment. A few three day weekend can be so much more impactful than having 9 days off instead of 5ish.
Looking at the calendar and seeing the next holiday is 6+ weeks away can really drag you down.
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#157LOL, this works well. I used to do exactly this manually every year to maximize free time blocks for pursuing pet projects.
Bravo. Great use of GPT.
Could you also add factoring in sick days per year (mon/fri)?
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#158With Agile, I have found that I'm never able to just take a day off here and there. I need to take enough time off that I can meaningfully commit to taking less work in the sprint, otherwise my day off just leads to working nights and weekends to catch up. So it's either take the entire 2-week sprint off, or an entire week and hope I can correctly estimate what half a workload looks like. Yes, yes, doing Agile wrong…
Or you can just catch up when you're working? I don't understand what this has to do with agile. Are they going to fire you if you don't finish the sprint's tasks?
Eventually, yes?
Everywhere I’ve ever worked has treated sprints as an endless series of 2 week deadlines.
(Yes, I understand this is not “real” agile. I’ve never seen “real” agile and don’t personally know anyone who has.)
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#159FYI your site is blocked by corporate firewall, guessing SSL cert issue. Seems to happen with a lot of hobby project sites.
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#160I knew a guy that just took Friday off every day.
Three day weekends for 14 weeks of May/June/July/August = win.