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For Halloween, you can tweet an electric shock to one of the Si team

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Re: For Halloween, you can tweet an electric shock to one of the Si team

#11

Congratulations to the team on marketing idea and technical implementation. It's really cool and fun. On the other side, I don't like the kind of message you're trying to get across which is in a nutshell: "these are our monkey engineers, have fun with them". It's a little bit too self-deprecating and demeaning. I get that it's made in fun, but it buzzed me the wrong way.

Aw man we are pretty much all devs here, didn't mean it to come across like that :(

Re: For Halloween, you can tweet an electric shock to one of the Si team

#12
I have often wished for this exact feature when using software of poor quality. E.g. years ago when I still used Microsoft Windows, I often had the thought that it would be appropriate if I could press a button to buzz the developers responsible for a particular part of the system. Very happy to see that a similar idea has been implemented, and I hope it catches on. =)

Re: For Halloween, you can tweet an electric shock to one of the Si team

#13

Congratulations to the team on marketing idea and technical implementation. It's really cool and fun. On the other side, I don't like the kind of message you're trying to get across which is in a nutshell: "these are our monkey engineers, have fun with them". It's a little bit too self-deprecating and demeaning. I get that it's made in fun, but it buzzed me the wrong way.

Aw man we are pretty much all devs here, didn't mean it to come across like that :(

Hey, I like the idea from marketing and tech side, kudos on that :)

But I said what I said because I work in the agency and in my opinion we have created an atmosphere that is not working towards our advantage.

* Designers are expected to present their work in advance and the best team will win

* Developers are often considered as coders only and their input is not valued, even after they have solved an impossible taks

This kind of self-deprecating humor does not help and I'm pretty sure you would not see managers and sales people putting themselves in this situation, because it will not help in their jobs.

Re: For Halloween, you can tweet an electric shock to one of the Si team

#15

This is marketing spam and doesn't belong on HN.

I didn't submit this link but I'm from this agency. Fair enough if you think it is, but we thought you might be interested in the tech at the bottom and the way we hacked some toy shock lighters to produce this!

I actually quite like the idea and am glad it popped up on HN. Sad that the website is hammered so I can't properly take a look. Sent a tweet anyway. Bzzt!

Re: For Halloween, you can tweet an electric shock to one of the Si team

#16
Seems like nobody has read up on Halloween for a while. The Wikipedia page is a good place to start. I don't think there is an event on the calendar that is so far lost-the-plot as Halloween. Nobody knows the slightest thing about the origins of it and this stunt is just a million miles away.

Re: For Halloween, you can tweet an electric shock to one of the Si team

#17

Congratulations to the team on marketing idea and technical implementation. It's really cool and fun. On the other side, I don't like the kind of message you're trying to get across which is in a nutshell: "these are our monkey engineers, have fun with them". It's a little bit too self-deprecating and demeaning. I get that it's made in fun, but it buzzed me the wrong way.

It's just a bit of fun.

Re: For Halloween, you can tweet an electric shock to one of the Si team

#18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aw man we are pretty much all devs here, didn't mean it to come across like that :(

Hey, I like the idea from marketing and tech side, kudos on that :) But I said what I said because I work in the agency and in my opinion we have created an atmosphere that is not working towards our advantage. * Designers are expected to present their work in advance and the best team will win * Developers are often considered as coders only and their input is not valued, even after they have solved an impossible ta…

Sorry to hear about your work situation but I can assure it is not like that here.

Our own MD is hooked up too, as is the designer. We don't have that divide here everyone's opinion is as important as the next.

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