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Queen Victorian posted:I mean, at least it’s passive and you can get stuff done during that time, but still, that’s a huge chunk out of the day.
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New Yorp New Yorp posted:Some NYC employers do that as a perk for their employees who commute from New Jersey. Commuting from NJ to NYC can easily be $300 or $400 a month.
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Sep 11, 2019 22:04
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Every company I've worked for (almost all in Massachusetts) has this benefit where you can pay for commuting costs with pre-tax dollars. Sometimes they even throw in a bit of money to sweeten the deal.
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Sep 11, 2019 22:06
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California and/or the relevant subset for me has pre-tax commute benefit, pays for my monthly bus pass but there's some way to make it pay for car stuff.
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Sep 11, 2019 22:10
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Khisanth Magus posted:I have a sleeping disorder that makes it pretty impossible to sleep before 2am.
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Sep 11, 2019 23:15
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6am to 2pm (or 7--3), and I eat two or three small meals during the day so I don't add an hour just for lunch. Most days my creativity has waned by 10am. I have serious doubts that the 1030/1100 arrivals who go out daily for their 60--90min lunch are sticking past 6pm, though I admittedly have never bothered to pay much attention to the timestamps on tool-generated email. People schedule 3pm design meetings. So late in the day, it's no wonder the designs suck.
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Sep 12, 2019 01:09
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mr_package posted:If you have 'night owl' circadian rhythm disorder, low dose melatonin can help. 2 or 3 drops out of '1ml = 3mg' liquid melatonin drops is enough. OTC products' dosages for melatonin are way too high (3mg, 5mg, more). You need between 0.3 and 0.5mg, IIRC. This is very true, less is more for melatonin. Also, I'm a big fan of benadryl/any diphenhydramine product for falling asleep, if you've been struggling with actually falling asleep. Not something to be taken on a regular basis but if you want to break you body's habit of staying awake in bed for 2 hours, it helps.
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Protocol7 posted:Also, I'm a big fan of benadryl/any diphenhydramine product for falling asleep Just fyi it has a correlation with dementia
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Sep 12, 2019 02:03
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PhantomOfTheCopier posted:6am to 2pm (or 7--3), and I eat two or three small meals during the day so I don't add an hour just for lunch. How do you pull yourself out of bed early enough to be in the office by 6am? I just got out of my 20s and thought by now I'd be old enough to Personal Responsibility™ myself to work by 8am but I can barely manage 9.
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Sep 12, 2019 04:40
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rt4 posted:Just fyi it has a correlation with dementia You’d be lucky to live long enough to get dementia in this highly hazardous field of work.
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Sep 12, 2019 04:50
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graveportents posted:How do you pull yourself out of bed early enough to be in the office by 6am? I just got out of my 20s and thought by now I'd be old enough to Personal Responsibility™ myself to work by 8am but I can barely manage 9. Having children would do it for ya
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mr_package posted:If you have 'night owl' circadian rhythm disorder, low dose melatonin can help. 2 or 3 drops out of '1ml = 3mg' liquid melatonin drops is enough. OTC products' dosages for melatonin are way too high (3mg, 5mg, more). You need between 0.3 and 0.5mg, IIRC. Doctors here are trying to get the government to make melatonin prescription only, they say they see many people who don't know how to dose it properly and when to use it properly and it fucks up their sleep rhythm even more.
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Queen Victorian posted:My new office is two miles from my house and a straight shot on the bus. My total commute time is a bit under twenty minutes, and than includes time spent waiting for the bus and walking to and from bus stops. Steve French posted:Having children would do it for ya Worked for me. Talking about starting times, it is 8:30 now and aside from myself (present at 7:30) and the VP there is nobody on the floor. I already checked my calendar to see if I missed some sort of all hands event or something. Keetron fucked around with this message at 07:30 on Sep 12, 2019 |
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For me latest I can show up is at 10. Usually do 9am - 4.45pm with 15 minute lunch. Been thinking of coming earlier, but that's still a work in progress. Also enjoy my ~40 minutes of reading during my commutes AngelesXO fucked around with this message at 11:59 on Sep 12, 2019 |
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Sep 12, 2019 11:22
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Keetron posted:Take a bicycle, you git. The street that gets me to work is four cramped lanes of terror and bad drivers. There have been some improvements made for bike access and safety elsewhere in the city (like designated bike lanes painted into streets), but not this area. Also my bike got stolen a while back.  However, I’ve been considering jogging to work because there is a shower at the office. Want to give it a try before the weather gets bad, at least.
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Sep 12, 2019 13:06
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Queen Victorian posted:The street that gets me to work is four cramped lanes of terror and bad drivers. There have been some improvements made for bike access and safety elsewhere in the city (like designated bike lanes painted into streets), but not this area. Also my bike got stolen a while back. Is there a separate running path? Seems strange to not want to bicycle but be willing to run in the same traffic.
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Sep 12, 2019 16:00
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Just approved a ticket to change the lowercase p in our logo to an uppercase P
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Sep 12, 2019 16:30
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Rubellavator posted:Just approved a ticket to change the lowercase p in our logo to an uppercase P "Singlehandedly orchestrated major company rebranding in a collaborative team-based environment."
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Sep 12, 2019 16:32
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My Rhythmic Crotch posted:API chat. Do you maintain a web API? I need to bounce ideas around. Update on this from a while back, in case anyone cares. I ended up doing a generic patch capability for a few of the endpoints. The execution goes like: select all data for object -> make java object -> use reflection to patch up the object based on whatever json was sent -> use the existing update query to update the DB. So at least nothing needed to be added or changed int the DB layer of things. When I explained this to the guy, he was visibly flustered: "So it's just a read, modify, write like it was before!? UGH!" I had to explain that, if nothing else, type and table information is needed in the DB layer to be able to construct a sql query. The API doesn't magically know how to update a table given the information { "thingX" : "123.4" }. He responded "But wait, what if I included the column type and table name in my json?" I kinda just flatly responded "No." and that seemed to be the end of it. I also indicated that race conditions would still be possible, somewhat less likely I suppose, and he seemed okay with it. The generic patch capability was settled on because he insisted that a few dedicated endpoints for updating specific columns just would not do, he couldn't live with such a limited capability, no sir... but once he heard how the generic patch capability worked, he hated it. 
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Sep 12, 2019 17:52
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Sounds like a gently caress, tbh. Probably just ignore him forever
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Sep 12, 2019 18:30
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Nostalgia4Ass posted:Is there a separate running path? Seems strange to not want to bicycle but be willing to run in the same traffic. There is a sidewalk which is fine for walking/running, but it’s too narrow for bikes and also you’re not supposed to ride your bike on the sidewalk anyway. Also I hate people who ride their bikes on sidewalks that I’m trying to walk on and I don’t want to become what I hate. Besides, the bus ride is my time to read news and catch pokemon and poo poo.
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Sep 12, 2019 18:35
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Queen Victorian posted:There is a sidewalk which is fine for walking/running, but it’s too narrow for bikes and also you’re not supposed to ride your bike on the sidewalk anyway. Also I hate people who ride their bikes on sidewalks that I’m trying to walk on and I don’t want to become what I hate. Besides, the bus ride is my time to read news and catch pokemon and poo poo. Bikes on sidewalks are quite often jerks, so I appreciate you wanting to avoid that. In my city cyclists will get ticketed for riding on the sidewalks if a bike lane is present, or if they are downtown regardless of the existence of a bike lane.
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Sep 12, 2019 18:40
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ChickenWing posted:Sounds like a gently caress, tbh. Probably just ignore him forever I have feelers out to get onto a different team as this is starting to get really tiresome. Everything I slam out for him is always on a quick-turn, gotta-have-it-now basis and it's getting so loving old. "Hey if you could do this sooner rather than later, that'd be great. I need it so I can finish up my sprint items" Okay let me just drop whatever I was doing!
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Sep 12, 2019 18:52
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My Rhythmic Crotch posted:He responded "But wait, what if I included the column type and table name in my json?" 
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Sep 13, 2019 01:10
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I did bus commuting for 6 months. Not for me. Living close to light rail was great - I could spend my commute loving around on my phone, and it wasn’t hardly affected by traffic. I didn’t think the apartment was horrible for the price either. I had loud neighbors but that’s apartment living.
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Sep 13, 2019 03:53
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My Rhythmic Crotch posted:I have feelers out to get onto a different team as this is starting to get really tiresome. Everything I slam out for him is always on a quick-turn, gotta-have-it-now basis and it's getting so loving old. If he needed you to do something to finish his sprint items, that should have come up in sprint planning.
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Sep 13, 2019 04:11
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Naup, no kids here.graveportents posted:How do you pull yourself out of bed early enough to be in the office by 6am? 
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PhantomOfTheCopier posted:Naup, no kids here. God drat! Do you ever worry that you might get a cut some day and your blood won't clot due to all the caffeine?
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My Rhythmic Crotch posted:Update on this from a while back, in case anyone cares. At this point I would say "if you see potential improvements, please submit a pull request and I'll review it! thanks for your feedback!" Sounds like he is the type of person to hate anything that he didn't write or wasn't his idea.
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Sep 13, 2019 12:18
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:God drat! Do you ever worry that you might get a cut some day and your blood won't clot due to all the caffeine? Maybe I should create an Ask/Tell. (Note the post times, but I'm abed a bit early this week due to medical appointments.) Edit: My first question for graveportents was going to be, How much coffee are you drinking and when? PhantomOfTheCopier fucked around with this message at 13:30 on Sep 13, 2019 |
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Sep 13, 2019 13:15
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Sleep hygiene and coffee intake are very closely related... I've generally had 4-8 cups of coffee every day for the last few years (at the office, anyway), but I'm cutting back now because my sleep pattern is all kinds of hosed. I don't really need more than a cup or two in the morning anyway, so there's no point in self-sabotaging more than I have to 
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Sep 13, 2019 15:11
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We have nitro cold brew on tap in my office and it is simultaneously the best and worst thing
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Sep 13, 2019 15:19
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I quit drinking coffee after 10am when I found out the half-life of caffeine is 5-6 hours. My sleep has definitely improved since then.
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Sep 13, 2019 15:40
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Weird - I feel like coffee only lasts about two hours for me :\
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Sep 13, 2019 16:25
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I think people metabolize caffeine at different rates. Also, I doubt if you need to be feeling effects for it to still be able to mess your sleep up.
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I think caffeine basically blocks the signals that tell your brain you're tired, which is why it has a not so subtle way of loving up your sleeping patterns. Your brain asks why are you trying to sleep if you're not tired? And then you spend 3 hours in bed wide awake.
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This is the book that scared me into big changes to improve my sleep. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams I feel a lot better after a few months of keeping a regular bedtime and wakeup and getting more sleep generally.
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Roll Fizzlebeef posted:I quit drinking coffee after 10am when I found out the half-life of caffeine is 5-6 hours. My sleep has definitely improved since then.
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I've known a lot of people who become managers and then immediately turn into the worst sort of caffeine addicts, because the default format for a 1:1 is "let's grab a coffee."
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