borghildhedda

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   Ask HN: How many Slack messages do you send/receive outside working hours?

   8 points by borghildhedda 3y ago|11 comments
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   by borghildhedda 3y ago

   On 29 November 1947 the UN General Assembly voted on the partition plan, adopted by 33 votes to 13 with 10 abstentions. The Jewish side accepted the UN plan for the establishment of two states. The Arabs rejected it and launched a war of an
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   Tell HN: The Software Developer OnCall Manifesto

   2 points by borghildhedda 4y ago|1 comments
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   by borghildhedda 8y ago

   from google SRE workbook: "Night shifts have detrimental effects on people’s health [Dur05], and a multi-site "follow the sun" rotation allows teams to avoid night shifts altogether." "For each on-call shift, an eng
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   by borghildhedda 8y ago

   it should be an automatic must take day off after finished an oncall duty, just like every workweek ends with resting days, oncall which is 24/7 of low-stress should end with resting time.
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   by borghildhedda 8y ago

   I think if companies need to pay with "days off" instead of "money" they would be much more carefull with on-call and have a much greater incentive to make the on-call - not call, proper procedure, taking care of on-call
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   by borghildhedda 8y ago

   1. for every week of oncall a developer should get 1 day off. 2. If developer had to work nights, he should be compensation with additional days off. 3. no payment would reduce the stress so we should not ask for payment compensation. 4. We