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Re:Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day by mellosouls on Thursday September 25, 2025 @12:29AM (#45369280)
Per hour? In the UK they bill by the 6-minute! If ever anything told you something about a profession...
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Re:Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day by typpilol on Thursday September 25, 2025 @02:43AM (#45369909)
They sell in blocks of 1/10th hours??Thats gotta be the jail call special
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Re:Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day by jedberg on Thursday September 25, 2025 @03:36AM (#45370211)
Every lawyer in the USA that I've ever worked with also bills in 6 minute increments. Which means every email is 6 minutes. Every phone call is at least 6 minutes. etc.
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Re:Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day by PMunch on Thursday September 25, 2025 @03:49AM (#45370286)
Isn't this better though? The alternative being that every email or phone call is an hour, or that they batch it up based on gut feel. If I get a phone call that could easily steal 6 minutes of focus time (note that I specify focus time, even if the call is only 30 seconds you'd have to mentally switch tasks back and forth).
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Re:Show HN: Dayflow – A git log for your day by notpushkin on Thursday September 25, 2025 @11:05AM (#45373537)
I’m not sure that 6 minutes is a useful denomination of focus time. Maybe legal work is too different from IT and it makes sense there, but when I need to focus on something, 15 minutes is the smallest amount I would allocate for a task.
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