Thanks I hate it. I would stress so much. I cant imagine doing that.
I feel like only a psychopath or an artist could have come up with this.
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#12Not to knock on this, but a few years back Hipchat(now part of Atlassian) did a black & white GIF-like video wall. Smooth interpolation between the frames, at almost 1 or 2FPS & no audio unless someone requested a video call. That way at a glance you could look at your team & see if they are at their desks in case you wanted to reach out
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#13Is this a thing to pitch the very same thing with different names every few months for 3 years? https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=kentich
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#14I don't get it. How is it different from Zoom with a turned off camera?
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#15Dear colleagues, Let's say your company hired a remote developer. You want to guide him and train him on the trial period or because he's a junior developer. How would you do that remotely? Can this app be the answer for you? It is a free experimental app I have developed. I am researching whether it can be helpful for senior developers, team leaders, or small IT-business owners like you. I appreciate your thoughts!
Why would I need a webcam?
I used Drovio and it was fine.
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#16I'm trying hard to see the value in this, but I'm not seeing any.
At the moment we could get 80 % there by just having an all-day Zoom call for everyone to join on their schedule, but almost no one is doing this.
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#17Dear colleagues, Let's say your company hired a remote developer. You want to guide him and train him on the trial period or because he's a junior developer. How would you do that remotely? Can this app be the answer for you? It is a free experimental app I have developed. I am researching whether it can be helpful for senior developers, team leaders, or small IT-business owners like you. I appreciate your thoughts!
I'm currently training a junior dev, and we're 100 % remote, because of Covid.
We use JetBrains' Code With Me inside RubyMine, which allows us to work on code together and talk to each other at the same time. I don't need to see him and I especially don't want him to see my deep-thinking faces.
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#18I'm trying hard to see the value in this, but I'm not seeing any. At the moment we could get 80 % there by just having an all-day Zoom call for everyone to join on their schedule, but almost no one is doing this.
We considered this in my team, to have a feel of real office, but after a few weeks remote it was obvious we rather need some guaranteed no-zoom time, then more zoom.
edit: even without that idea implemented!
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#19If you just want to train your new hires:
- prepare good documentation
- be on a call with them when you have to explain stuff verbally
- be available in text chat to answer their questions
No need to be always on call like this.
I can only imagine this being used as yet another control tool for paranoic managers who want to make sure employees are always "working" at the desk.
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#20If you just want to train your new hires: - prepare good documentation - be on a call with them when you have to explain stuff verbally - be available in text chat to answer their questions No need to be always on call like this. I can only imagine this being used as yet another control tool for paranoic managers who want to make sure employees are always "working" at the desk.
>- prepare good documentation
That's already out of the question in most companies I worked for that weren't established in a field like automotive, robotics, medical, aerospace.
All web dev companies I know have their documentation in slack chats and in the heads of the senior devs with longer tenure who setup the greenfield, as their main incentive is to concentrate their efforts to ship-ship-ship to get features/sales/customers, not spend time writing docs that get outdated in a couple of sprints.
Needless to say, being a junior in such a place is demoralizing AF as you don't understand anything and by the time you think you're there, the goalposts have moved again.