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Cybernetic Vermin posted:i mean, he is 110% correct that no one cares about this stuff, or the people who actually do care are bound to be terrible bores. having worked both in companies where no one cared about this (which were hell) and currently in a very well organized company (a video game company where people only rarely work overtime and only if they choose to) I'm extremely grateful that we have a lot of people working full time on production planning and tasks and boring excel spreadsheets
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:i mean, he is 110% correct that no one cares about this stuff, or the people who actually do care are bound to be terrible bores. imagine tracking your work by hand like a caveman (also enjoy getting hosed by nepotism from recruitment/procurement people that don't even own shares) e: to elaborate on the nepotism bit: a company we acquired had a terrible problem with nepotism on all levels because there was no process that highlighted that fuckface from hr is only promoting his distant cousins. the company tree had rows of people with the same last name. and they aren't even related to the owners/shareholders. needless to say we "deduplicated" them lol. Workaday Wizard fucked around with this message at 11:32 on Jan 30, 2020 |
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on the one hand i've never personally encountered a process that works, but that is sort of beside the point, as i am perfectly willing to accept that it can work. rather i'm just noting that doing (and even trying to do) software properly with a lot of process is incredibly boring.
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:on the one hand i've never personally encountered a process that works, but that is sort of beside the point, as i am perfectly willing to accept that it can work. rather i'm just noting that doing (and even trying to do) software properly with a lot of process is incredibly boring. if you're doing software dev your version control and issue tracker *are* your workflow.
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Shinku ABOOKEN posted:if you're doing software dev your version control and issue tracker *are* your workflow. what, no, this is a horrible summary. you can install as many pieces of software as you want without it becoming a workflow, much less a process.
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:what, no, this is a horrible summary. you can install as many pieces of software as you want without it becoming a workflow, much less a process. love this idealism, but even just using software, the version, and whatever tedious, exact ways the version came to run... all this garbage detailbkinda has to be able to be done again by someone somewhere, or else why did i bother? and goddammit, that means every time a loving thing works, i have to record, some way or another, at least enough info that future me or some other shithead can make it happen a second time
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# ? Jan 30, 2020 12:32 |
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tbqh i think we've been talking past each other entirely too, the jwz screed is pretty much proto-agile (basically making the point that if you say 'groupware' it means you are planning to invent a gigantic list of enterprise needs out of nowhere, where quick revisions of the existing calendar, driven by actual user needs, would have produced a better software product even for corporate use). it notably is not about not *using* groupware things, it is about how ill-defined a thing "groupware" is to *build*. while i do think all process is by nature pretty boring my experience has been that starting from something agile'ish and adding to it where needs pop up tends to work out. i've worked on projects where the initial requirements engineering was a huge part, with a large dedicated team, (due to legal restrictions and the need to maintain a lot of legacy behaviors of a past system), but predictably tons of things had to change during the project, and the requirements in the end didn't specify some of the most important parts at all.
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Shinku ABOOKEN posted:this is such a silicon valley brogrammer quote at no point does he suggest that it doesn't. he's saying building software for managers rather than day to day users makes software that only managers want to use, and probably not even they like it. idgaf about his goal of making software people want to hack on or whatever, but the line is funny and the point is sound. building software for a process sounds like a great idea until you use any erp ever. calling your product "groupware" invites that sort of checkbox feature set for the enterprise crowd, and in his experience resulted in terrible trash that no one wanted to actually use.
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sony presents: the ipod touch, but worse
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# ? Jan 30, 2020 16:59 |
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actually, it is "drat compelling" - gizmodo dot com, 2020quote:Carlos Zahumenszky
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personally i'll wait and see what neil young has to say about it
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:personally i'll wait and see what neil young has to say about it
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Endless Mike posted:actually, it is "drat compelling" - gizmodo dot com, 2020 of course, given that his main complaint is that it's loving bad at just running for any length of time and most of the features don't make any sense also, a pro is that it prevents you from being distracted by your phone, because you're distracted by the device itself which he admits he was using the same way he used his phone. gizmodo product reviews are always a masterclass in quality journalism
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FMguru posted:i always take audio advice from a guy who has been standing in front of giant stacks of amplifiers onstage for the last fifty years, thats someone who can really hear the subtle differences between different encoding methods WHAT?
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just type code, what’s the problem?
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FMguru posted:i always take audio advice from a guy who has been standing in front of giant stacks of amplifiers onstage for the last fifty years, thats someone who can really hear the subtle differences between different encoding methods haha, you're so loving jealous of my ponoplayer, apple scrub.
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# ? Jan 30, 2020 17:16 |
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eh?
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# ? Jan 30, 2020 17:16 |
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Looks similar to the Walkman that Techmoan reviewed a while back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzdy_2kGGhM Good to see Mat is faster than pro tech sites, and gives a far better review too (as in his review says it's bad).
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# ? Jan 30, 2020 17:23 |
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tbh I love that tape skin for the music app
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# ? Jan 30, 2020 20:13 |
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Imagine if smartphone makers would just put a couple more customizable buttons on the side so you didn't have to buy a special device just to have walkman style controls.
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mystes posted:Imagine if smartphone makers would just put a couple more customizable buttons on the side so you didn't have to buy a special device just to have walkman style controls. to be fair to the bad idea it is also very small.
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# ? Jan 30, 2020 20:21 |
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:personally i'll wait and see what neil young has to say about it oh the guy who just bitched about people using macbooks pro for music production?
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quote:Why would anyone want a Walkman in the streaming age? That’s the question I asked myself when I first fiddled with the small Sony NW-A105. One month later, I’ve learned enough about the music player to answer that question and many more. Sometimes its good to cut out the distractions of texts and phone calls and just embrace a tiny device that pumps out high-quality tunes quote:It costs $350, gently caress lmao
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# ? Jan 30, 2020 20:31 |
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congratulations on inventing the ipod touch
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# ? Jan 30, 2020 20:32 |
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Sony touchscreen music players have been around for years
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[Sony comes out with their 200th Android phone]BangersInMyKnickers posted:congratulations on inventing the iphone
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sony has had some success selling insanely expensive androids to weird rich audiophiles, they're just trying to go downmarket
qirex fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Jan 30, 2020 |
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sony's telephones are abject failures because they called them "xperia" instead of "talkman" e: oh they called their "audiophile" telephones talkman lmao
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Best Bi Geek Squid posted:gently caress lmao I mean, I got a refurb'ed Kindle a week or so ago for this explicit reason, but an mp3 player in 2020 for "three and a half frankies" (as the kids say these days)?
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Endless Mike posted:sony's telephones are abject failures because they called them "xperia" instead of "talkman" audiophiles talk to their hifi equipment because no one else can stand to be around them
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there's some little fiio players that are under 150 dollars without storage that I'd go for over that sony https://fiio.com/m6 https://fiio.com/m5
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i just use my telephone, op
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mystes posted:Imagine if smartphone makers would just put a couple more customizable buttons on the side so you didn't have to buy a special device just to have walkman style controls. the article posted:The right side of the device has a series of physical buttons (power, volume, play/pause, skip forward and skip backward) and a switch to block them all in case you have the Walkman in a tight pant pocket and don’t want to press anything by accident. One note about these buttons: They’re designed to work seamlessly with Sony’s Walkman application (see below.) The skip buttons haven’t worked for me on Spotify or Google Music, but they did work on Tidal.
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The best part of it is:quote:Sometimes its good to cut out the distractions of texts and phone calls and just embrace a tiny device that pumps out high-quality tunes.
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~Coxy posted:The best part of it is:
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# ? Jan 31, 2020 03:17 |
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lol remember hen sony put out digital music players before the ipod and they were really nice and would have been contenders...except they only played ATRAC-format files (and not mp3s)?
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# ? Jan 31, 2020 03:17 |
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remember when sony hamstrung the minidisc format by resolutely refusing to support digital file transfer?
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Endless Mike posted:chromeo's music ambitions are pretty straightforward: make electronic dancy music and put themselves with sexy lady legs on album covers i wish id empty quoted this at the time because its popped into my head multiple times since reading it and i laugh every time
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# ? Jan 31, 2020 04:20 |
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the thumper devs had to change the game code to make it playable on stadia., which was nice of them but lol at the idea of putting a rhythm game as one of the free demos
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was the change in game code basically making the input targets several seconds long?
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