| ▲ | throwaway150 7 days ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This is one of those posts where I cannot work out if this is earnest or satire. I kept waiting for a punchline but I don't know if it ever came. Makes me suspect the whole thing was the punchline. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | knuckleheads 19 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I took it seriously and wrote up the reply that came from my gut: https://substack.com/@zackmaril/note/c-185137941 Why does one really need a slack channel to ask people if they want to go for a walk? Why not walk around and ask people if they want to take a walk? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | groestl 19 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FWIW, we use Slack in that way, and it works. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | antonvs 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
It seems serious. I can only imagine it’s referring to a pretty small company. I suppose it can be tempting to do everything with one tool. I’ve seen some slack maximalism before, like using Slack as a primary operations platform - sending alerts and so forth to it, and nowhere else. But then that company hired a real engineering manager. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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