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How I Ruined Office Productivity with a Face-Replacing Slack Bot

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Re: How I Ruined Office Productivity with a Face-Replacing Slack Bot

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Post by jmkni »

Zikes wrote: post #20
jmkni wrote: post #18

Side point, but what is going on with the scrolling on that page? Anybody else find it caused performance issues? That aside, great article!

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the article. Sorry about the scroll problems, I really hate scrolljacking so I don't have any JS for that on there, but I imagine that fixed background image could be causing some problems. Would you mind sharing your OS/browser info so I can investigate?

No worries, Windows 10 Professional, Chrome 56, no issues on Edge/Firefox, maybe it's a weird bug with this particular issue Chrome?

Re: How I Ruined Office Productivity with a Face-Replacing Slack Bot

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Post by auggierose »

minimaxir wrote: post #19
auggierose wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't see where I ridicule anyone with my comment.

It's a backhanded compliment that implies that silly hacks aren't worthwhile.

Do you think that a silly hack is only worthwhile if it appears on the front page of HN?

Re: How I Ruined Office Productivity with a Face-Replacing Slack Bot

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Post by nealabq »

mosselman wrote: post #17

All you ruined was the fun of photoshopping his face into things. Let me draw a parallel with a story of my grandfather, whom I never knew: Apparently a great hobby of his used to be to collect sayings from people. Whenever he'd meet anyone, let it be new or already known, he'd ask them if they knew any new sayings. He wrote all of them down in his little book of sayings. My father started picking up the hobby and th…

So you're saying social-bonding hacks/disruptions sometimes ruin the fun. What about other situations?

Will gatherings be less fun when Alexa becomes the life of the party, cracking jokes and proposing toasts? Will Siri join in the dinner conversation (parent, friend or good-listener mode, with wit, personality and intelligence sliders).

Will fans be turned off when self-driving cars start winning the Indy 500? How about when the Boston Dynamics Red Sox win the World Series?

Re: How I Ruined Office Productivity with a Face-Replacing Slack Bot

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Post by hackermailman »

patricklynch wrote: post #15
jasonzwalker wrote: post #12

I have to use Slack at work, and it is fun. But when I'm trying to focus on programming, it is like being in an all day long meeting without an agenda.

Same situation for me. I disable notifications for everything but direct messages. Sometimes I'll exit it entirely for an hour or two, but I don't want to look like I'm unavailable to help teammates.

I successfully convinced my coworkers to run Slack like old IRC where you just dumped to one channel and there is no urgency to immediately reply, instead whenever we have the time can go through the history and respond. Cut down on meme spam and other interruptions. It also relaxes junior team members since they don't worry about interrupting somebody to ask questions. If it's something catastrophic we can just call each other.

Re: How I Ruined Office Productivity with a Face-Replacing Slack Bot

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Post by r00fus »

jasonzwalker wrote: post #12

I have to use Slack at work, and it is fun. But when I'm trying to focus on programming, it is like being in an all day long meeting without an agenda.

My only recourse on some days is to shut down the app on my desktop, and let my iPhone ping me if I get a DM or mention. @here messes it all up, but I've found a way to at-a-glance determine if it's directed to me without losing much concentration.

Has anyone else gotten a good way to merge things like slack/email with Pomodoro or other focus hacks?

Re: How I Ruined Office Productivity with a Face-Replacing Slack Bot

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Post by pjc50 »

nealabq wrote: post #23
mosselman wrote: post #17

All you ruined was the fun of photoshopping his face into things. Let me draw a parallel with a story of my grandfather, whom I never knew: Apparently a great hobby of his used to be to collect sayings from people. Whenever he'd meet anyone, let it be new or already known, he'd ask them if they knew any new sayings. He wrote all of them down in his little book of sayings. My father started picking up the hobby and th…

So you're saying social-bonding hacks/disruptions sometimes ruin the fun. What about other situations? Will gatherings be less fun when Alexa becomes the life of the party, cracking jokes and proposing toasts? Will Siri join in the dinner conversation (parent, friend or good-listener mode, with wit, personality and intelligence sliders). Will fans be turned off when self-driving cars start winning the Indy 500? How a…

Yes to all of those?

Re: How I Ruined Office Productivity with a Face-Replacing Slack Bot

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Post by whorleater »

r00fus wrote: post #26
jasonzwalker wrote: post #12

I have to use Slack at work, and it is fun. But when I'm trying to focus on programming, it is like being in an all day long meeting without an agenda.

My only recourse on some days is to shut down the app on my desktop, and let my iPhone ping me if I get a DM or mention. @here messes it all up, but I've found a way to at-a-glance determine if it's directed to me without losing much concentration. Has anyone else gotten a good way to merge things like slack/email with Pomodoro or other focus hacks?

This involves that your channels are setup sanely, but I just selectively mute/unmute on a per channel basis, and try to encourage not using @here among my coworkers. I have a textexpander macro for the `/dnd 30 minutes` for my Pomodoro.

Re: How I Ruined Office Productivity with a Face-Replacing Slack Bot

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Post by zulln »

r00fus wrote: post #26
jasonzwalker wrote: post #12

I have to use Slack at work, and it is fun. But when I'm trying to focus on programming, it is like being in an all day long meeting without an agenda.

My only recourse on some days is to shut down the app on my desktop, and let my iPhone ping me if I get a DM or mention. @here messes it all up, but I've found a way to at-a-glance determine if it's directed to me without losing much concentration. Has anyone else gotten a good way to merge things like slack/email with Pomodoro or other focus hacks?

> The @here mention lets you notify just the team members in a channel who are currently active in Slack. @here is best for sending announcements relevant to team members that are currently working or available.

If anyone else had to Google it.

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