News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Shopify cancels all recurring meetings with over two people “in perpetuity”. Parent comment

Re:Shopify cancels all recurring meetings with over two peop... by dagw on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @11:14AM (#34233348)
One advantage with "call communication" is that I can clear the problem in single 'block' of time and then get back to what I was doing know that the problem was put to bed. With "type communication" there is a risk I'll be pinging every 10 minutes with "no that didn't work, got this error message, any other ideas?" for an undefined amount of time, constantly taking me out of my flow.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Shopify cancels all recurring meetings with over two peop... by marcosdumay on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @12:12PM (#34234303)
On the other hand, there exist people like me. I simply can not do research while on a call.

It has happened plenty of times that I had a simple question during my research, and the other person very helpfully decided to help me solve the problem, instead of just answering. The result is always that it takes hours of both of our times to get little done, and the problem actually gets solved afterwards because the research was not all done yet.

[ Parent | on HN ]