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Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by winwang »

fzeroracer wrote: post #256
IshKebab wrote: post #204

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More important note to people reading this: use your brain. Is it likely that a scammer will create an extremely professional website and product, and then their scam is that ride the coat tails of another brand and try to keep that scam up with Hacker News comments ? (I think lots of HN people have issues with reality so just in case the answer is: absolutely not.)

Yes, actually. Well, everything except the last point. If you're unfamiliar with UFO 50, it's a recent collection of games inspired by 80s-esque computer game design. The reason why I bring this up is because there's a website (ufo50.net) which is actually fake and completely unrelated to the actual ufo50 site (50games.fun) which is designed to be SEO-bait so that it can absorb traffic from search engines.

Same, except the last point, I feel like I've seen that pattern multiple times. And it's not like it's expensive to do (presumably unless you get sued or something).

Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by adamyormark »

Antipode wrote: post #120
nixosbestos wrote: post #114

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Truly, it's so hard for me to not see this as just dressed-up techie-flavored consumerism. If you can't look at your phone to run a timer without getting distracted, I think there's a different problem to solve. (reminder that Android makes it trivial to not show notifications on the lock screen, or even in the top bar. I see notifications only when I want to.)

This is primarily to inform other people in the same building as you.

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Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by adamyormark »

drdaeman wrote: post #144
nixosbestos wrote: post #114

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Truly, it's so hard for me to not see this as just dressed-up techie-flavored consumerism. If you can't look at your phone to run a timer without getting distracted, I think there's a different problem to solve. (reminder that Android makes it trivial to not show notifications on the lock screen, or even in the top bar. I see notifications only when I want to.)

Feels like a problem in search for a solution to me. Although I haven’t worked in an office for a while now, so it could be that I’m not understanding the importance in such setting (or whatever is this device’s target use environment) that can’t be replaced with a sticky note.

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Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by adamyormark »

Aurornis wrote: post #289

This is at least the 3rd version of this product idea that I’ve seen in the past decade. Certainly the nicest design! The first time I saw this was some friends of friends who were trying to make it into a startup. They quickly discovered that their users liked the idea of a busy light for the office, but didn’t like to update it on or off throughout the day. So after the first few days people just defaulted to leavi…

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Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by adamyormark »

Aurornis wrote: post #295
stavros wrote: post #294

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That seems like an easy fix: Tell visitors to look at the light.

That’s the problem: If the light is always on, or almost always on, then it quickly loses meaning. Unless the user actually adds green available time at regular intervals throughout the day, people learn that they have to ignore the red busy light and ask.

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Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by adamyormark »

jll29 wrote: post #240
parhamn wrote: post #177

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Put a CO2 + temp/humidity sensor in there and it's a no-brainer. The sensors could be nice to hack on too.

It's a beautiful site and product. However, the original inventor of the Pomodoro technique explicitly advocates a "low tech" approach - a mechanical kitchen timer, because he argued that the tactile and auditory elements (i.e., the turning moves and ticking sounds) get associated with the elements of the techniques in the human brain. It would be interesting to evaluate both variants of the approach in a scientific…

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Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by adamyormark »

kstrauser wrote: post #121
frereubu wrote: post #51

This reminds me of my first job in London looking after the network of a recruitment agency. The consultants got headsets for the first time and one got so annoyed about being interrupted when on a call - because you couldn't tell when people were wearing headsets the whole time - that she taped a big bit of card to the top of her headset saying "ON A CALL" that she could flip up and down depending on whether she was…

I had a coworker who felt free to interrupt me at any time. Even if I were frowning and leaning in to read some code word for word, he’d stop by to talk about nothing. I started wearing headphones when I was in concentration mode and that didn’t help. Then I wrote “DO NOT DISTURB” on a post-it note, stuck it to my headphones, and dug in for some thought-intensive hacking. He came to my desk, pulled the note off the h…

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Re: Busy Status Bar

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Post by adamyormark »

RockRobotRock wrote: post #224
vel0city wrote: post #106

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Our old Plantronics phone headsets had a TRS jack which would connect to an optional status light. It would light up when the headset was on a call. https://www.headsetsdirect.com/product/poly-busy-light-strai...

My old company used these more recently: https://busylight.com/

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