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I guess the new benchmark for development is can it run Slack? (While developing)

by zitterbewegung 5y ago

thebean11 5y ago
In my experience, yeah unfortunately. Slack goes to shit if the computer is under load, way before other software.
- criddell 5y ago
  Just be thankful you don't have to use Teams.
steveBK123 5y ago
arguably slack having performance issues might increase most developers productivity
- Nextgrid 5y ago
  When I had to use Teams it gave me a good excuse to opt out of bullshit meetings. It used to be that I can leave the BS meeting in the background and get some work done, but with Teams running I couldn't even use my IDE without seconds worth of keyboard latency, so now they had to explicitly choose whether to let me go or have me stay and get nothing done.
- nicoburns 5y ago
  I realise your post is in jest, but I've found that responsive slack (due to a similar machine upgrade) has actually had a noticeably positive effect on my productivity. Checking a slack notification is now a ~2-5 second task, quick enough that I can switch back to my task with losing context. It used to be more like 10-20 seconds if my machine was under load which was highly disruptive.
  - steveBK123 5y ago
    I do not in any way post in jest. Slack is an abomination. Slack is all the bad organizational behavioral issues of email, except harder to filter with rules & with more sender-side options for creating noise for the recipient. It's lovely to send a slack and get quick response. It's a huge productivity killer to get dozens/100s of half-thoughts ad-hoc sent over IMs to individuals and blasted to groups. Is there a massive production outage? (I care about) Did someone just share a funny GIF? Is Bob helping Jim debug a firewall issue for a client? (none of which I care about) I got that stupid red dot, hard to tell without checking.
- hughrr 5y ago
  When they broke Slack the other I actually celebrated for the couple of hours and got some work done for a change. No joke but it's the single most productivity destroying tool I have ever used.

I guess the new benchmark for development is can it run Slack? (While developing)

thebean11 5y ago

In my experience, yeah unfortunately. Slack goes to shit if the computer is under load, way before other software.

criddell 5y ago
Just be thankful you don't have to use Teams.

steveBK123 5y ago

arguably slack having performance issues might increase most developers productivity

Nextgrid 5y ago
When I had to use Teams it gave me a good excuse to opt out of bullshit meetings. It used to be that I can leave the BS meeting in the background and get some work done, but with Teams running I couldn't even use my IDE without seconds worth of keyboard latency, so now they had to explicitly choose whether to let me go or have me stay and get nothing done.
nicoburns 5y ago
I realise your post is in jest, but I've found that responsive slack (due to a similar machine upgrade) has actually had a noticeably positive effect on my productivity. Checking a slack notification is now a ~2-5 second task, quick enough that I can switch back to my task with losing context. It used to be more like 10-20 seconds if my machine was under load which was highly disruptive.
- steveBK123 5y ago
  I do not in any way post in jest. Slack is an abomination. Slack is all the bad organizational behavioral issues of email, except harder to filter with rules & with more sender-side options for creating noise for the recipient. It's lovely to send a slack and get quick response. It's a huge productivity killer to get dozens/100s of half-thoughts ad-hoc sent over IMs to individuals and blasted to groups. Is there a massive production outage? (I care about) Did someone just share a funny GIF? Is Bob helping Jim debug a firewall issue for a client? (none of which I care about) I got that stupid red dot, hard to tell without checking.
hughrr 5y ago
When they broke Slack the other I actually celebrated for the couple of hours and got some work done for a change. No joke but it's the single most productivity destroying tool I have ever used.