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

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Post by sakisv »

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.

I have no reason to doubt your explanation and intention, however I think it would have been more efficient if this misunderstanding could be avoided.

Maybe something like "This looks good. Would be nice to see it extended to support companies that do not follow the calendar year.".

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

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Post by madcaptenor »

shagie wrote: post #25

> ... each quarter is ~13 weeks ... When I worked at Network Appliance (Q1 earnings call is August 27th), they used a strict 4-4-5 calendar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4–4–5_calendar This meant that it wasn't "about" 13 weeks for each quarter, the quarter was defined as 13 weeks (91 days).

They would have had to add a leap week every five or six years to keep that in sync with the normal calendar - did they do that, or did they just let the calendar drift?

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

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Post by fweimer »

mattas wrote: post #27

I really like this. As easy as it is to be cynical about corporate-speak, I find that it's sometimes actually useful (except for the whole touching base and circling back jargon). Questions. When do weeks start? On Saturdays or Sundays? How do you account for partial weeks at the beginning/end of years?

ISO 8601 covers that. Weeks start on Mondays. The first week of the year has January 4th in it, which means that it sometimes starts on a Monday in the previous Gregorian year. This is why strftime has separate format specifiers for ISO year and ISO week year, %Y and %G: https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/strftime.3.html#NO...

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

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Post by BaudouinVH »

pbronez wrote: post #41
MortyWaves wrote: post #33

Unsure if this is either meant to be funny and cringe or a cry for help. I can see it being either. There is something awful about corpogarbage speak.

Its content marking for a metrics tracker / project management tool https://objectivetrackr.com/?utm_source=corporatewatch&utm_m...

It sounds like a marketing guerilla tactic rather than a funny web site.

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

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Post by 9dev »

efdee wrote: post #29
mattas wrote: post #27

I really like this. As easy as it is to be cynical about corporate-speak, I find that it's sometimes actually useful (except for the whole touching base and circling back jargon). Questions. When do weeks start? On Saturdays or Sundays? How do you account for partial weeks at the beginning/end of years?

I would understand someone asking if the week starts on Sunday or Monday, but I honest to God did not know some people start their week on Saturday.

Just an off by one error on OPs part, I guess
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