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For Halloween, you can tweet an electric shock to one of the Si team
- mcenedella 13y agoThis is marketing spam and doesn't belong on HN.
- alexcroox 13y agoI 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!
- kops 13y agoEven if we leave the tech aside, this is a good example of PR hacking, which I think is pretty relevant to a lot of people here. Congratulations to you and your team for spotting an opportunity and exploiting it. edit : typo
- m4tthumphrey 13y agoI posted this for the tech involved and I personally think it is very well done. Of course they did it for exposure and look, it's working; 5th on front page. Well done Alex, Tom and co!!
- imdsm 13y agoI 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!
- whyleyc 13y agoNo it's not - it's a fun side-project using tech we discuss regularly here on HN with interesting links too. Climb down from your horse :)
- JonnieCache 13y agoIf we started thinking like that we'd have to delete half the links on here.
- algorias 13y agoWell, that is an idea worth a moment's thought at the very least...
- muratmutlu 13y agoPeople are voting it up for a reason, it's great Congrats to SI
- bagosm 13y agoFunny and sadomasochistic, whats not to love? Maybe you should pretend a heart attack or something like that so you can scare the shocker back
- selectnull 13y agoCongratulations 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.
- alexcroox 13y agoAw man we are pretty much all devs here, didn't mean it to come across like that :(
- selectnull 13y agoHey, 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.
- alexcroox 13y agoSorry 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.
- selectnull 13y agoIt's not my situation, but I've seen it too many times and I cringe whenever I see any action that could be turned against engineers. Even if I completely misunderstand the situation and make a fuss out of it when it's not needed :)
- meriksson 13y agoI 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. =)
- adrianb 13y agoI believe there is a Microsoft April Fools video with this exact theme.
- davewhat 13y agoWindows WSYP Project -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-c0YSsF_O0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-c0YSsF_O0 Such a good video... even this many years later.
- fennecfoxen 13y agocf. also http://bash.org/?4281 http://bash.org/?4281
- salgernon 13y agoInterestingly, we used to joke about having a "yea!" button when we came across a particularly well designed feature or small UI touch (particularly on older Macintosh software.) I guess its a glass is half ( empty | full | full of something noxious ) thing. (Now that I'm older and more cynical, I tend towards the latter.)
- stigi 13y agoSeriously? Giving people electric shocks for fun? I don't even wanna try that...
- DanBC 13y agoThere are toys and games that give people mild electric shocks. Did you never grab an electric fence when you were a kid?
- stigi 13y agoI did, but it was all but comfortable.
- DanBC 13y agoI grabbed a few sheep fences, and they weren't pleasant but not horrible. I grabbed a few cow fences, and they were not fun. I never made the mistake of peeing on one.
- dswiese 13y agothe further out in the fields the less the fence hurts, we would get a couple city cousins to grab them way out in the field, see they were safe. Then back closer to where the line started, just tell them to go pee on the corner fence post.... its safe...
- mortov 13y agoSure about that ? The Milgram Experiment would suggest otherwise (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment).
- sp332 13y agoNothing about that was "for fun".
- Theodores 13y agoSeems 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.
- maxerickson 13y agoWhat particular interpretation and stopping point in history do you think is probably the correct one? From what I see people have a party, which harkens back to the whole harvest festival thing.
- mike-cardwell 13y agoSo what? What is your point?
- blueblob 13y agoAccording to the out of office thing, at 8:10 AM EDT these guys have lunch, and a 4 hour and 50 minute one at that. I wonder when they have breakfast.
- jalada 13y agoIt's always lunchtime somewhere. (In this case, it's noon in England)
- alexcroox 13y agoHaha it's definitely lunch here. But our lunch is being spent spinning up more servers and load balancers! Traffic has been a little crazy...
- blueblob 13y agoHave you guys had a problem with people scripting tweets? I know there are some command line twitter clients like TTYter.
- alexcroox 13y agoWe expected abuse from the beginning so we built in a 30minute cooldown on accounts. Hopefully someone doesn't have an army of accounts out there though!
- webdisrupt 13y agoThese are the ideas that make you truly appreciate what you do and could achieve with our skills! Great work guys and A+ for creativity! :)
- frozenport 13y agoIs today April Fools or Halloween?
- voyou 13y agoSigh. A 2005 parody of new-media bro idiocy, come to life: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06AS8SiY3rw#t=54 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06AS8SiY3rw#t=54
- recursive 13y agoI think your server is misconfigured. I'm seeing php code.