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Re: Establishing secure connection

#101

Post by bobbles »

hoka wrote: post #95
acdha wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the best designers I've ever worked with had a similar great strategy with clients who considered themselves design experts (usually senior marketing/advertising managers) and who would almost inevitably want to change something in the “final” design. The solution he had was to leave one obvious minor flaw in the final design – a color which doesn't quite match, odd font choice, etc. It was a lighting rod for…

There's a (Dilbert?) comic somewhere out there about this. Can't find it at the moment, though :-/ edit found it: http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/...

The tv show had a part where they say they always give the manager a stupid option and a realistic option to make it feel like he made the decision

Re: Establishing secure connection

#102

Post by jbri »

acdha wrote: post #93
hysterix wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My father was an audio engineer/mixer and worked with some big names. He told me a similar story that happened to him later in life when he finally owned his own studio. There were clients that would always insist on making audio adjustments, for no good reason at all. They were paying to have their music professionally mixed, yet still insisted on making adjustments and changes. Finally my dad and his friend came up…

One of the best designers I've ever worked with had a similar great strategy with clients who considered themselves design experts (usually senior marketing/advertising managers) and who would almost inevitably want to change something in the “final” design. The solution he had was to leave one obvious minor flaw in the final design – a color which doesn't quite match, odd font choice, etc. It was a lighting rod for…

An alternative is to add a duck, or something else gratuitously out of place.

Re: Establishing secure connection

#103

Post by og1 »

hoka wrote: post #95
acdha wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the best designers I've ever worked with had a similar great strategy with clients who considered themselves design experts (usually senior marketing/advertising managers) and who would almost inevitably want to change something in the “final” design. The solution he had was to leave one obvious minor flaw in the final design – a color which doesn't quite match, odd font choice, etc. It was a lighting rod for…

There's a (Dilbert?) comic somewhere out there about this. Can't find it at the moment, though :-/ edit found it: http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/...

that is a corporate lore story. See item 5 "A duck"

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/07/new-programming-jar...

Re: Establishing secure connection

#104

Post by lizzard »

igrekel wrote: post #89
jd007 wrote: post #63

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This reminds of airport nowadays. They were getting a lot of complaints about the slow speed that checked luggage comes out of after landing, so they simply moved all arriving flights' gates to the furthest away possible from the luggage claiming area. People had to literally walk across the airport after they get off, but complaints about luggage speed dropped significantly.

Actually, if I remember well (ut can<t remember where I get that from), another reason was so that people walk a little while to let their back recover from slouching all the flight before they pickup their heavy suitcase. Meaning in the end they had to bring less people out on a wheelchair.

Maybe you mean this as a joke, but I am a wheelchair user, and it is often really not fun to push myself through the airport. So.... your joke falls a bit flat.

Re: Establishing secure connection

#105

Post by jpdoctor »

hysterix wrote: post #88
ben1040 wrote: post #62

This reminds me of something we had at my office about 15 years ago because people were complaining their workstations were slow. In reality, their workstations were just slow machines; standard issue box for most people was a 70MHz Sun SS-5. So we wrote a perl script that printed out a bunch of platitudes like these, while printing out an ASCII "progress bar." It had some randomly determined sleep() calls in there t…

My father was an audio engineer/mixer and worked with some big names. He told me a similar story that happened to him later in life when he finally owned his own studio. There were clients that would always insist on making audio adjustments, for no good reason at all. They were paying to have their music professionally mixed, yet still insisted on making adjustments and changes. Finally my dad and his friend came up…

> audio engineer/mixer

Audio really attracts crystal-power wackos, somehow more than others. I've had to dodge all sorts of completely idiotic thinking both in the digital and analog world. Hell, it's the whole business model for Monster Cable, as one example.

Video encoding is a close second.

Re: Establishing secure connection

#106

Post by jpdoctor »

jbri wrote: post #102
acdha wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the best designers I've ever worked with had a similar great strategy with clients who considered themselves design experts (usually senior marketing/advertising managers) and who would almost inevitably want to change something in the “final” design. The solution he had was to leave one obvious minor flaw in the final design – a color which doesn't quite match, odd font choice, etc. It was a lighting rod for…

An alternative is to add a duck, or something else gratuitously out of place.

Yet another case of rubber duck debugging FTW.

Re: Establishing secure connection

#107

Post by grakic »

bobbles wrote: post #101
hoka wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a (Dilbert?) comic somewhere out there about this. Can't find it at the moment, though :-/ edit found it: http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/...

The tv show had a part where they say they always give the manager a stupid option and a realistic option to make it feel like he made the decision

What if the manager chooses the wrong one?

Re: Establishing secure connection

#108

Post by gknoy »

lizzard wrote: post #104
igrekel wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually, if I remember well (ut can<t remember where I get that from), another reason was so that people walk a little while to let their back recover from slouching all the flight before they pickup their heavy suitcase. Meaning in the end they had to bring less people out on a wheelchair.

Maybe you mean this as a joke, but I am a wheelchair user, and it is often really not fun to push myself through the airport. So.... your joke falls a bit flat.

I don't think he was joking, but rather implying that people with stiff backs could be more likely to injure themselves.

Re: Establishing secure connection

#109

Post by peterkelly »

hysterix wrote: post #88
ben1040 wrote: post #62

This reminds me of something we had at my office about 15 years ago because people were complaining their workstations were slow. In reality, their workstations were just slow machines; standard issue box for most people was a 70MHz Sun SS-5. So we wrote a perl script that printed out a bunch of platitudes like these, while printing out an ASCII "progress bar." It had some randomly determined sleep() calls in there t…

My father was an audio engineer/mixer and worked with some big names. He told me a similar story that happened to him later in life when he finally owned his own studio. There were clients that would always insist on making audio adjustments, for no good reason at all. They were paying to have their music professionally mixed, yet still insisted on making adjustments and changes. Finally my dad and his friend came up…

Did it go up to 11?

Re: Establishing secure connection

#110

Post by asimeqi »

acdha wrote: post #93
hysterix wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My father was an audio engineer/mixer and worked with some big names. He told me a similar story that happened to him later in life when he finally owned his own studio. There were clients that would always insist on making audio adjustments, for no good reason at all. They were paying to have their music professionally mixed, yet still insisted on making adjustments and changes. Finally my dad and his friend came up…

One of the best designers I've ever worked with had a similar great strategy with clients who considered themselves design experts (usually senior marketing/advertising managers) and who would almost inevitably want to change something in the “final” design. The solution he had was to leave one obvious minor flaw in the final design – a color which doesn't quite match, odd font choice, etc. It was a lighting rod for…

2 examples from a former communist country.

- A theater director was putting on a new show about some workers in a factory. In the background he put a wagon wheel. Before the premiere the communist representative came to evaluate the show. It was usual that some random scenes would be adjudicated unacceptable and cut from the show. When discussion started the communist rep asked what the wheel, which was used in agriculture, was doing in a show about factory workers. The director argued that it shows the connection between proletariat and agriculture workers. A vigorous discussion followed at the end of which it was decided that the wheel should be removed. The director ended up being the first ever to not have any scene cut.

- A painter visited France and desperately wanted to bring back some modern art reproductions so that his colleagues, who where not allowed to leave the country, would get a chance to see them. But modern art was forbidden and there would be no way customs would let the reproductions in if they knew what they were. So the painter got also some nude reproductions. The customs people confiscated the nudes as soon as they saw them and let the modern art go through.

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