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IRC is often mentioned in regards to slack, but I find Instant Messenger(s) a bit closer in spirit. Did everyone stop using those too, in favor of facebook and slack, etc?
IM in a corporate setting has never really take off IMO. Email is usually the choice, which has a more mature in-house management model.
Exaggeration aside, how do you guys get anything done?
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To be fair, Vice is an online magazine, not a programming firm. I can absolutely imagine that group conversations are more important in such an environment.
Actually they are an ad agency. Their core business is to create advertisements for their customers. It may sound weird when you read it like this, but on the other hand it's not that uncommon: Google is also an ad agency. So the right point to make here is that their pseudo-magazines are for the most part intended as an outlet for their ads. This is all what I have been told anyway, by a buddy who had a job at one o…
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IM in a corporate setting has never really take off IMO. Email is usually the choice, which has a more mature in-house management model.
I've seen Lync (Skype For Business) gain some traction in more corporate settings.
They claim Slack is distracting while the picture at the top of the article is a bunch of people working in cramped quarters in an open office. I think they have bigger fish to fry here. Slack has a mute button. All that requires is self control. You can't mute coworkers sitting too close to you. Even with headphones (which notice half the people in the photo are wearing) you can only somewhat filter out the distract…
No kidding. That office layout is a nightmare. My last 2 gigs have been pretty weighted towards slack as the preferred communication medium amongst the team. My experience has been that it allows me safely ignore my email inbox with the assurance that anything truly vital will be directly messaged to me on slack. It's lived up to the hype for me.
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IRC is often mentioned in regards to slack, but I find Instant Messenger(s) a bit closer in spirit. Did everyone stop using those too, in favor of facebook and slack, etc?
IM in a corporate setting has never really take off IMO. Email is usually the choice, which has a more mature in-house management model.
We've got customers that are doing tens and hundreds of thousands of chats per day across their organizations.
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It really amazes me that you're doubling down on this absurd analogy. In addition to drinking you've thrown in tobacco and meth(!) as though they somehow compare to the rather vague and amorphous "dopamine addiction" caused by notifications on a computer. To bring all this back into context, Slack has a mute button. You can't mute the physically addictive qualities of drug addictions. This is a completely bizarre com…
Absurd, yes, and a bit naive or ignorant too perhaps. But offensive? neh.
Cigarettes also considered an addiction. I smoked from 1992 to 2002. I have never felt a cigarette craving as strong as those impulses to check email, this HN forum, etc... I quit smoking yet i'm pretty much slave to the internet communication habit and fighting hard to control it.