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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 orng »

donquichotte wrote: post #70

"I turned the face manipulation code into a runnable binary, which I intended to wrap with a Slack bot." So you turned your Python program into a single, statically linked executable? May I ask how you did that?

> So you turned your Python program into a single, statically linked executable? May I ask how you did that?

I think the author's application was written in Go which as I understand it does static linking by default.

However, creating standalone executables from python is called freezing and can be done using various tools[0].

0: http://docs.python-guide.org/en/latest/shipping/freezing/

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

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Post by jon-wood »

jamiepenney wrote: post #58
exergy wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> social-bonding hacks/disruptions First, honest question: is there some secret lease that needs to be signed before posting on HN that requires that every real-world phenomenon be framed using 1337 h4x0r terminology? For some reason, it really rubs me the wrong way, people trying to shoebox anything and everything into a faux-technological perspective. Also, the reason Vinyls still sell is that there is a sense of o…

Smart phones kinda ruined chitchat a little bit for me. Someone states a fact and I have a strong urge to pull out my phone and check it out. Takes me out of the flow of conversation, so I have to make a major effort not to do it.

Some friends and I have a standing rule that Wikipedia, IMDB, and other such resources are banned while chatting at the pub. It used to be you could get a good 30-40 minutes of good natured argument out of two people disagreeing about a fact at the pub, whereas now there'll be a disagreement, then someone will pull out Wikipedia and immediately settle the matter. What are you meant to do for the next 35 minutes?

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

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Post by wtbob »

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.

I use emacs-slack and dunst to display the notifications for just long enough to read them. No flashing, no beeping, just a simple text box. And I don't reply or jump into a conversation unless it passes a threshold of importance, or I need to step away from work for a few minutes.

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

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Post by grkvlt »

jon-wood wrote: post #72
jamiepenney wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Smart phones kinda ruined chitchat a little bit for me. Someone states a fact and I have a strong urge to pull out my phone and check it out. Takes me out of the flow of conversation, so I have to make a major effort not to do it.

Some friends and I have a standing rule that Wikipedia, IMDB, and other such resources are banned while chatting at the pub. It used to be you could get a good 30-40 minutes of good natured argument out of two people disagreeing about a fact at the pub, whereas now there'll be a disagreement, then someone will pull out Wikipedia and immediately settle the matter. What are you meant to do for the next 35 minutes?

Berate whoever was wrong mercilessly, of course

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

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Post by kop316 »

autokad wrote: post #37
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…

before the internet, there was real capital in knowing jokes, and the same for unusual facts. you wanted to know who was in that movie? you called your friend who knew those things. now just IMDB it. i suppose that is part of the reason for the appeal in the seemingly recent interest in bar trivia nights. i think we are still working out the kinks in the things we lost due to the internet.

Personally, I think the big appeal of trivia nights is very much the same reason for the resurgence of board games, it's an in person social thing to do. I can go out with some friends, have fun, and I have met some other people and made new friends that way too.

I have tried to do a lot of the online video games (even with friends), but to me, it doesn't have nearly the appeal of having friends over and we all play a game together For me, the Nintendo 64 was one of the best consoles to do this.

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

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Post by r00fus »

chimprich wrote: post #57
r00fus wrote: post #26

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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?

Slack does have a "Snooze" and "Do Not Disturb" setting, in case you weren't aware -> https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/214908388-Do-Not-Di... . This alone makes Slack far more useful for me than HipChat.

Thanks for the reminder - I often forget to use those (or properly). Any good ways you've found to automate pomo timer set/rest/reset through bots?

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

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Post by PeterisP »

whowalrus wrote: post #67
webkike wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Vinyls also still exist because some people prefer analog sound. There might not be any substantive reason for this other than random bias.

Another oft-cited reason is because vinyls can't have a "brick-walled" dynamic range, as it often happens with new digital music thanks to the loudness war [1]. So audiophiles tend to favor it. From the article: As explained earlier, due to the physical limitations of vinyl, there are limits as to how loud you can press a record, and because vinyl is “for audiophiles” – there is less incentive for record companies to…

Is there any good reason why someone shouldn't simply listen to digital versions of the vinyl masters ? Lack of availability wouldn't make it impossible, in pre-internet days people ripped their CDs, and especially for vinyl that can literally wear out, it would make all sense to use a perfect recording even if you have bought the vinyls - at least so that you'd listen to that in your car instead of the CD.
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