Re:Envoy: Elegantly greet visitors to your office
by idlewords on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @03:17PM
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"Your lobby is the first thing visitors see when arriving at your office. It's a reflection of your brand and culture. Make sure they don't deal with a human being"
Re:Envoy: Elegantly greet visitors to your office
by bryang on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @03:17PM
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It's so exciting that going to a meeting will soon be like going to my doctors office, filling out tons of forms and I can spend more time poking at a little screen.
Technology can be super useful (obviously), but this is just total overkill.
Re:Envoy: Elegantly greet visitors to your office
by checker on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @03:29PM
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I for one am looking forward to a day where strangers don't have to see my awful handwriting. Although the thought of touching a tablet that all of the infected patients before me have touched might keep me to the pen and paper.
Re:Envoy: Elegantly greet visitors to your office
by iandanforth on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @03:27PM
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I'm not a fan of this idea, that said I've seen it done right and done poorly.
Done poorly - Google - Typing on a screen to get your badge is always a slow, painful process. Trying to have an event with several people who all have to sign in demonstrates how much of a painful bottleneck this can be.
Done well - Hacker Dojo - Multiple kiosks with real keyboards. You can sign in and (at some events) get a badge super quickly.
The code for the hacker dojo kiosks is open source and available here (https://github.com/hackerdojo) along with a bunch of other useful tools.
Re:Envoy: Elegantly greet visitors to your office
by dang on Tuesday September 16, 2014 @04:08PM
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Not quite identical. Trailing slash.
We're working on a new de-duping system. The current one is deliberately left porous so that reposts of good stories that didn't get attention won't be killed as dupes.
Technology can be super useful (obviously), but this is just total overkill.
Done poorly - Google - Typing on a screen to get your badge is always a slow, painful process. Trying to have an event with several people who all have to sign in demonstrates how much of a painful bottleneck this can be.
Done well - Hacker Dojo - Multiple kiosks with real keyboards. You can sign in and (at some events) get a badge super quickly.
The code for the hacker dojo kiosks is open source and available here (https://github.com/hackerdojo) along with a bunch of other useful tools.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8325634
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8325701
We're working on a new de-duping system. The current one is deliberately left porous so that reposts of good stories that didn't get attention won't be killed as dupes.