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by justinlloyd 865 days ago
We had physical green and red lights controlled via USB on a build machine. So when someone checked in code to SVN, the build monkey would kick off, and if the build passed, the green light would come on. And if the build failed, the red light came on. Whilst the build was running, no lights would be on. You could glance up from your desk and see the status of what was recently checked in and it motivated people to keep the red light off. Someone then installed a USB camera that would look for the green light or the red light, and send a notification to their desktop computer so they didn't have to turn around to look at the light. And for Halloween we all wore red sweatshirts and red t-shirts to troll the guy.
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That's a delightful story! Made me chuckle