Hacker News: blueicecubeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=blueicecubesHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:28:25 +0000<![CDATA[Thousands of UK workers begin world’s biggest trial of four-day week]]>Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jun/06/thousands-workers-worlds-biggest-trial-four-day-week

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31648530

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]]>Tue, 07 Jun 2022 00:55:38 +0000https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jun/06/thousands-workers-worlds-biggest-trial-four-day-weekblueicecubeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31648530https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31648530<![CDATA[New comment by blueicecubes in "Creating Serendipity with Python"]]>The article starts with "We've been experimenting with breaking up employees into random groups (of size 4)." How does stopping at a list of group sizes (numbers) help you do that?

]]>Sun, 28 Feb 2021 04:36:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26290712blueicecubeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26290712https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26290712<![CDATA[New comment by blueicecubes in "Creating Serendipity with Python"]]>If you want to assign people to groups randomly, why not just something like:

  import random
  import numpy

  people = [...]
  min_size = 3

  random.shuffle(people)
  groupings = numpy.array_split(people,len(people)//min_size)

]]>Sat, 27 Feb 2021 20:45:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26287991blueicecubeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26287991https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26287991<![CDATA[New comment by blueicecubes in "At the International Mathematical Olympiad, computers prepare to go for the gold"]]>"'Elementary' means that very little is required to know ahead of time in order to understand it, except to have an infinite amount of intelligence."

]]>Mon, 21 Sep 2020 21:14:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24548560blueicecubeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24548560https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24548560<![CDATA[New comment by blueicecubes in "Apple: Person-to-person experiences do not have to use in-app purchase"]]>Is there a (business, legal, etc.) reason for the distinction between one-to-few and one-to-many? Both are one to "more than one".

]]>Fri, 11 Sep 2020 20:05:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24446774blueicecubeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24446774https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24446774<![CDATA[New comment by blueicecubes in "How Inuit parents teach kids to control their anger (2019)"]]>This was discussed a year ago at length: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19396563

]]>Thu, 23 Jul 2020 16:12:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23928896blueicecubeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23928896https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23928896<![CDATA[New comment by blueicecubes in "Pirate our games, don't buy them from key resellers, say indies"]]>latency

]]>Tue, 09 Jul 2019 16:17:02 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20393367blueicecubeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20393367https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20393367<![CDATA[New comment by blueicecubes in "Facebook addiction linked to staking your self-worth on social acceptance"]]>> "good moderation"

pun intended

]]>Mon, 20 Aug 2018 16:24:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17801262blueicecubeshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17801262https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17801262