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Troubleshooting some Azure DevOps pipelines late in the afternoon, and I think it's telling me I should finish the work for today. e: this is a horrible snipe.
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Is there a concise term for the concept of a block of say, 4 hours of uninterrupted time being more productive than four 1 hour blocks of time spaced out between interruptions? At least within the scope of trying to implement any sort of technical project that requires a certain level of focus. My team has been getting interrupted by all sorts of loving stupid poo poo the past few weeks that is making some projects take longer than they should because of this, and management is just looking at total hours and going "Why not done??"
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Nov 18, 2020 18:51
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J posted:Is there a concise term for the concept of a block of say, 4 hours of uninterrupted time being more productive than four 1 hour blocks of time spaced out between interruptions? I've heard the term Thrashing used in regards to this. Humans can't switch contexts without some overhead. More context switches means more overhead until nothing gets done.
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Nov 18, 2020 18:59
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J posted:Is there a concise term for the concept of a block of say, 4 hours of uninterrupted time being more productive than four 1 hour blocks of time spaced out between interruptions? At least within the scope of trying to implement any sort of technical project that requires a certain level of focus. My team has been getting interrupted by all sorts of loving stupid poo poo the past few weeks that is making some projects take longer than they should because of this, and management is just looking at total hours and going "Why not done??" Context switching is the term you’re looking for.
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Nov 18, 2020 19:02
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Thrashing or I've also heard "Cognitive Switching Penalty" which is less cool sounding
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Nov 18, 2020 19:03
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https://blog.rescuetime.com/context-switching/
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Nov 18, 2020 19:04
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Places I've worked have referred to this as "focus factor" and included it in time estimates. Your exact example isn't great though because there exists a time management tool called the pomodoro method that intentionally splits up focus time along the 30 minute ish boundary to improve productivity. I'm a big fan of it myself. You're gonna need something like that you get interrupted x often which is y expensive because it takes us z long to regather focus and context so we can start productive work again. It might start some awkward questions like "why does it take you 20 minutes to refocus on a task after being interrupted?" which hopefully you have some good answers for. Basically you have to be careful pursuing this line of thought with management because if you aren't prepared for the conversation you can accidentally communicate that "it's delayed because we aren't good at our jobs" which nobody would appreciate.
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Nov 18, 2020 19:05
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The first time I read about context switching was this great article from way back in the day. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/02/12/human-task-switches-considered-harmful/
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Nov 18, 2020 21:18
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J posted:Is there a concise term for the concept of a block of say, 4 hours of uninterrupted time being more productive than four 1 hour blocks of time spaced out between interruptions? At least within the scope of trying to implement any sort of technical project that requires a certain level of focus. My team has been getting interrupted by all sorts of loving stupid poo poo the past few weeks that is making some projects take longer than they should because of this, and management is just looking at total hours and going "Why not done??" Focus time. Cortana has helpfully booked some for me in my O365 calendar automatically.
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Nov 18, 2020 21:19
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J posted:Is there a concise term for the concept of a block of say, 4 hours of uninterrupted time being more productive than four 1 hour blocks of time spaced out between interruptions? At least within the scope of trying to implement any sort of technical project that requires a certain level of focus. My team has been getting interrupted by all sorts of loving stupid poo poo the past few weeks that is making some projects take longer than they should because of this, and management is just looking at total hours and going "Why not done??" I'm forced to use a calendar app called Clockwise that calls this focus time. Some people love it for giving them larger blocks of focus time. I hate it because my meetings constantly dance around my calendar and I never know when they'll actually occur.
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Nov 18, 2020 21:24
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12 rats tied together posted:It might start some awkward questions like "why does it take you 20 minutes to refocus on a task after being interrupted?" which hopefully you have some good answers for.
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Nov 18, 2020 23:46
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What are the different names you've heard for the tilde key?
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Nov 19, 2020 00:57
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Dick Trauma posted:What are the different names you've heard for the tilde key? sometimes I call # the tic tac toe sign to make people mad
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Nov 19, 2020 01:31
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Dick Trauma posted:What are the different names you've heard for the tilde key? grave key or squiggly line key
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Nov 19, 2020 01:41
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I still call ! a "bang", and it confuses SO MANY people.
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Nov 19, 2020 01:41
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Methanar posted:sometimes I call # the tic tac toe sign to make people mad Don’t call it a hashtag
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Nov 19, 2020 01:42
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Bob Morales posted:Don’t call it a hashtag hash is acceptable though
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Nov 19, 2020 01:44
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chin up everything sucks posted:I still call ! a "bang", and it confuses SO MANY people. hash bang user bin bash
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Nov 19, 2020 01:45
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Pound bang. Are there any recommendations for resources for starting up freelancing? I guess the first thing I need to figure out is a reasonable rate, it would be a pretty big promotion from what I've been doing (I'm confident in my ability to do it, my current company hamstrings the hell out of me), then I think I would want to make a single member LLC, open a business bank account for accounting purposes, figure out estimated taxes based on a forecast of income, then find a small business / self employment accountant with a good reputation to actually do the taxes. Does that sound about right? I'm in CO in the USA FWIW.
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Nov 19, 2020 01:52
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As long as you don't call / and \ whack and backwhack
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Nov 19, 2020 01:52
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CLAM DOWN posted:As long as you don't call / and \ whack and backwhack 
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Nov 19, 2020 01:59
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Dick Trauma posted:What are the different names you've heard for the tilde key? I usually call it twiddle unless I concentrate.
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Nov 19, 2020 02:03
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Pound bang. I don’t know about the legal side of things in the states but everybody who does this tends to undercharge, so don’t do that.
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Nov 19, 2020 02:05
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22 Eargesplitten posted:Pound bang. make sure to to maintain 2-3 fulltime jobs at once
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Nov 19, 2020 02:06
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I'm trying to figure out what's a fair rate. I'm inclined to say double what it would be on salary, but it's going to be very part time, so maybe more is reasonable? I'm still going to do my day job since I expect maybe 5 hours per week on average from this. My day job is an average of 16-20 hours per week of actual work and 20-24 of shitposting, so this would still leave me at an average of 4-5 hours of shitposting per work day.
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Nov 19, 2020 02:07
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I'm trying to figure out what's a fair rate. I'm inclined to say double what it would be on salary, but it's going to be very part time, so maybe more is reasonable? I'm still going to do my day job since I expect maybe 5 hours per week on average from this. $150
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Nov 19, 2020 02:34
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Does anyone pronounce ACLs as "ackles"? My co-worker does this and it confused me for the longest time. I've always heard it pronounced letter-by-letter "Aay See El".
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Nov 19, 2020 02:40
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Weaponized Autism posted:Does anyone pronounce ACLs as "ackles"? My co-worker does this and it confused me for the longest time. I've always heard it pronounced letter-by-letter "Aay See El". I've heard both though I personally use aay see el
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Nov 19, 2020 02:45
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Weaponized Autism posted:Does anyone pronounce ACLs as "ackles"? My co-worker does this and it confused me for the longest time. I've always heard it pronounced letter-by-letter "Aay See El". How do you pronounce SCSI?
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Nov 19, 2020 02:47
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Weaponized Autism posted:Does anyone pronounce ACLs as "ackles"? My co-worker does this and it confused me for the longest time. I've always heard it pronounced letter-by-letter "Aay See El". This is the worst thing I’ve learned all week.
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Nov 19, 2020 02:48
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Methanar posted:sometimes I call # the tic tac toe sign to make people mad I personally use octothorpe because I am a pedantic rear end in a top hat.
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Nov 19, 2020 02:49
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Weaponized Autism posted:Does anyone pronounce ACLs as "ackles"? My co-worker does this and it confused me for the longest time. I've always heard it pronounced letter-by-letter "Aay See El". Yes, But usually letter by letter. Also heard “nackles” for NACLs in aws
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Nov 19, 2020 02:49
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Dick Trauma posted:How do you pronounce SCSI? I mean it's always been scuzzi.
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Nov 19, 2020 02:51
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Dick Trauma posted:How do you pronounce SCSI? Scuzzy, as god intended
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Nov 19, 2020 02:54
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Bob Morales posted:$150 I mean I wasn't asking for a number from you guys, but a generalist sysadmin around here getting paid fairly seems to be around 100k/yr so I was thinking $100/hr. OTOH since I'm probably going to be working somewhere around 250-300 hours per year I'm worried that taxes and an accountant will cut into it too much at that rate. My business partner and I are going to be partially (at least at first) replacing the client's incompetent MSP, which I'm pretty sure is charging at least $200 if not $300/hr, I'm not sure if he got that information from the client (he already knows them, which is part of why we got this), so whatever I ask it will probably be under what they are paying. I don't want to overcharge, just get a reasonable rate.
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Nov 19, 2020 02:55
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If you’re going to go off on your own, going off of a pay scale for an FTE in determining your rate is not how you want to go. Also back of the napkin, 100k fully loaded is about $65ish/hour. A full time employee is usually anywhere from 35 to 60 percent more expensive fully loaded when accounting for PTO, health insurance, and all the other stuff companies need to pay for. You don’t get any of that when you’re doing your own thing. You also need to prepare for two things: 1) eventually leaving your full time job and 2) eventually running out of billable work. You do this by not setting some bullshit rate before you peace out of FTE world and charging enough that you can make it when the work dries up.
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Nov 19, 2020 03:07
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Weaponized Autism posted:Does anyone pronounce ACLs as "ackles"? My co-worker does this and it confused me for the longest time. I've always heard it pronounced letter-by-letter "Aay See El". I’m not made of syllables. While you’re sitting around spelling it out all day I’m out there killing it. (Scuzzy, sequel, saita, sass, sifs, eldap, eldif)
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Nov 19, 2020 03:33
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I was kind of planning on keeping my day job since this will be fairly minimal work, as is my day job. That way I still have insurance. If I was going to quit my day job it would be after finding a lot more side work and getting approved for CO's medicaid for working adults with disabilities program. But I don't necessarily see that being likely. This is at least partially to build up more experience than I can get at my current job so I have a bunch of stuff to point at if and when it runs out and I go for a more senior role.
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Nov 19, 2020 03:34
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22 Eargesplitten posted:I mean I wasn't asking for a number from you guys, but a generalist sysadmin around here getting paid fairly seems to be around 100k/yr so I was thinking $100/hr. OTOH since I'm probably going to be working somewhere around 250-300 hours per year I'm worried that taxes and an accountant will cut into it too much at that rate. My business partner and I are going to be partially (at least at first) replacing the client's incompetent MSP, which I'm pretty sure is charging at least $200 if not $300/hr, I'm not sure if he got that information from the client (he already knows them, which is part of why we got this), so whatever I ask it will probably be under what they are paying. I don't want to overcharge, just get a reasonable rate. A good Labour charge-out rate is 3 times the hourly rate the person gets. this covers the on costs, downtime, business profit, etc.
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GreenNight posted:I mean it's always been scuzzi. In the old days there was an alternative that I never used because it was creepy. quote:Until at least February 1982, ANSI developed the specification as "SASI" and "Shugart Associates System Interface" however, the committee documenting the standard would not allow it to be named after a company. Almost a full day was devoted to agreeing to name the standard "Small Computer System Interface", which Boucher intended to be pronounced "sexy", but Dal Allan pronounced the new acronym as "scuzzy" and that stuck.
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