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It is as if you were doing work

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Re: It is as if you were doing work

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Post by werber »

majewsky wrote: post #103
fomojola wrote: post #15

Clearly it needs the following 3 things: 1. It needs a fake calendar that is randomly populated with meetings. 2. It needs to randomly require that you open Google Hangouts and chat with other users. 3. It needs to send random Slack notifications.

> 1. It needs a fake calendar that is randomly populated with meetings. While we're on this, can everyone please post their favorite ridiculous meeting title that is really real? I'll start with a recurring meeting series from last year that was called "mid-sprint calibration".

Tacos, Tequila and Brainstorming (bi-weekly, friday late afternoon)

Re: It is as if you were doing work

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Post by literallycancer »

vortico wrote: post #70
Aissen wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

…and, I'm missing a word, so I said the opposite of what I meant: If only some games had less busywork as part of their gameplay. To reply @stdbrouw and @ericdykstra: I hate grinding. Old-school RPGs and mobile F2P games are guilty of this. But all other games that have random collectibles in an open world, or "do X Y times" trophies/achievements are just adding stuff to keep you busy. I heard some people like this,…

I like grinding, so I thought this game was entertaining for a while, not just for its artistic statement, but for its actual gameplay. When I'm in the mood to play video games, my mind is so mushy that I can only comprehend repetitive tasks. Following a storyline or achieving a complex goal is too much for my brain to handle after a day of work.

Interesting. Do you play any competitive multiplayer titles? Perhaps when you are in a different mood? Or do you avoid them completely?

Re: It is as if you were doing work

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Post by xz0r »

majewsky wrote: post #103
fomojola wrote: post #15

Clearly it needs the following 3 things: 1. It needs a fake calendar that is randomly populated with meetings. 2. It needs to randomly require that you open Google Hangouts and chat with other users. 3. It needs to send random Slack notifications.

> 1. It needs a fake calendar that is randomly populated with meetings. While we're on this, can everyone please post their favorite ridiculous meeting title that is really real? I'll start with a recurring meeting series from last year that was called "mid-sprint calibration".

Brown bag

Re: It is as if you were doing work

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Post by nerdponx »

rocky1138 wrote: post #102
eckza wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of my favorite things about OSX is the fact that applications rarely / never are allowed to steal focus.

Plug in a phone and a popup steals focus. Some photo thing.

You also have the option to disable it once you have plugged in the phone for the first time, in both Photos and iTunes.

Re: It is as if you were doing work

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Post by QuantumGravy »

fomojola wrote: post #15

Clearly it needs the following 3 things: 1. It needs a fake calendar that is randomly populated with meetings. 2. It needs to randomly require that you open Google Hangouts and chat with other users. 3. It needs to send random Slack notifications.

> 1. It needs a fake calendar that is randomly populated with meetings.

Not enough to compete with the real deal. Has to have multiple team calendars, so it can support conflicting mandatory meetings so people can bitch at you on Google Hangouts and Slack afterward for missing the ones you didn't attend, even though you'd told everyone in advance that you couldn't make it.

Re: It is as if you were doing work

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Post by otachack »

nerdponx wrote: post #114
rocky1138 wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Plug in a phone and a popup steals focus. Some photo thing.

You also have the option to disable it once you have plugged in the phone for the first time, in both Photos and iTunes.

For each new phone. It's beyond annoying and can be embarrassing when Photos opens to reveal your colleague's pictures stored on his/her phone. I've learned to open Photos first and hide as much of the application as possible before plugging in a new phone.

Re: It is as if you were doing work

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Post by otachack »

pinum wrote: post #88
eckza wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of my favorite things about OSX is the fact that applications rarely / never are allowed to steal focus.

It's better than on Windows but it still happens to me, especially with update alerts.

It most definitely does, such as Google Calendar event alerts at least under Chrome. I'm not sure why it doesn't have unobtrusive desktop alerts instead. I'll have to take a look later to see if that's an option.

Re: It is as if you were doing work

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Post by iamben »

My brother and I have been laughing about something like this for a while. 1. Create a 'real time office / trading simulator' game and market it well to folks who like playing playstation / xbox. 2. Connect it to 'the cloud'. 3. .... 4. Profit :-)

Re: It is as if you were doing work

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Post by yttrium »

factsaresacred wrote: post #84

Having worked in an insurance company this brought a pang of PTSD. A stream of minor frustrations, just mild enough to not trigger an audible and cathartic 'f*ck', over and over and over again. The only thing missing was a mandatory health & safety quiz. Now excuse me while I go thank the Universe that I no longer work in such a place.

My god, I'm starting to think Post Insurance Trauma meetings are in order. Everyone else I've met who worked/started in Insurance feels the same way. I can still recall those janky 'Internet Safety' etc. web seminars that restart if you accidentally click the wrong button and inexplicably take 45 minutes.

Re: It is as if you were doing work

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Post by rocky1138 »

ytjohn wrote: post #108
rocky1138 wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Plug in a phone and a popup steals focus. Some photo thing.

True, but you probably won't be actively working in some other app when that happens. Your hands were, up until that point, actively involved in connecting the phone to the laptop. It's still a bit annoying - maybe you only wanted to plug in the phone in order to charge it. But I'd say for that moment, the phone is your focus, and the pop-up app is related to that.

I plug in the phone to charge it or to test an app I'm writing, so no, the phone is not my focus and the pop-up is not related to what I'm doing.

A much better solution is a notification, which is what Windows and KDE do.

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