Microsoft's Creepy New 'Productivity Score' Gamifies Workplace Surveillance

Re:Microsoft's Creepy New 'Productivity Score' Gamifies Work... by bayindirh on Friday November 27, 2020 @04:24AM (#25226911)

As a Turkish, I can confirm the story.

Also the same story highlights the roots of the term "Tape Out".

Since the designs of ICs were stored in the tapes at the time, you write the final design to a tape and send it out to fab, hence you Tape out the design.

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Re:Microsoft's Creepy New 'Productivity Score' Gamifies Work... by TeMPOraL on Friday November 27, 2020 @04:33AM (#25226972)

I recall from some HN story that "tape out" is an even older term, referring to the practice of putting black line tape on the (much magnified) artwork for the photomask. Wikipedia seems to confirm this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape-out#History.

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Re:Microsoft's Creepy New 'Productivity Score' Gamifies Work... by bayindirh on Friday November 27, 2020 @05:06AM (#25227207)

Thanks for the info, TIL something new.

Cheers!

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