I applaud the amount of effort that went in to being this lazy.
Daytripper
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#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reading this written on a screen stresses me out a little bit. Just knowing that you likely typed those letters on your keyboard...
why? the data is easily recoverable. # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev now that's more like it.
dd's destruction is gated by the device's write performance and so data may be recoverable if the operation is interrupted.
For those of us with SSDs that transparently leverage AES encryption, the following generates a new keypair and marks all cells as empty instantly nuking it (and restoring the device's write performance to factory-fresh):
# hdparm --user-master u --security-set-pass p /dev/sdX; hdparm --user-master u --security-erase-enhanced p /dev/sdX
Re: Daytripper
#153The best kind of "screwing around" is screwing around in plain sight. Once, I had a fresh grad in my team and I had to get him up to speed. I noticed he was taking more than the usual time to do basic tasks, yet whenever I passed by his desk, he had three terminals open and had c++ code here and there and compilation errors on another window. Two months later, he would move to a different company. Turns out that he w…
> Two months later, he would move to a different company. Turns out that he was just practicing his programming skills People sometimes challenge Google's interviewing process as being unnecessarily stringent. What I can say about it is that you won't find BS like this happening at Google.
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Re: Daytripper
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
The tool this thread is about is designed with the expressed goal of changing your screen when your boss walks in.
It's a tool designed to run a command when it detects motion from its sensor. It's a clever little doodad and I'd guess most of the positive attention it's getting has nothing to do with "lying to your employer". My personal opinion is that you've taken something far too literally about the text on the landing page and missed the point of it all.
I feel like its possible that you did not watch the video on the site.
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#155The best kind of "screwing around" is screwing around in plain sight. Once, I had a fresh grad in my team and I had to get him up to speed. I noticed he was taking more than the usual time to do basic tasks, yet whenever I passed by his desk, he had three terminals open and had c++ code here and there and compilation errors on another window. Two months later, he would move to a different company. Turns out that he w…
See also: converting your current Kindle read to plain text and pasting it into your ide or email editor... We need more "plain sight slacking" tips to be on the lookout for, so we can stay vigilant.
Or, realize how much work you actually need the worker to do, and stop insisting on 40+ hour work weeks. Pay them for the work they are doing, not their hours. That's what salary positions are SUPPOSED to exist for. If they complete their tasks quickly, then let them go home.
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#156If you are able to slack off at work like this, is there something that you would rather be doing with your time? I am not judging. I've worked at places where I spent 75% of my day slacking off because the management and bureaucracy was terrible. After months of doing that, I started hating the job. I can only check facebook/reddit/pick your poison, for so long before I want to throw my computer out a window out of…
Why do nothing, when you could instead get a second (remote) job and then make 200% salary by doing your second job during your first job's working hours?
True story. When I was an overnight computer operator, the guy working the other nights had a second job working in a package shipping warehouse. He’d come in, fire off a bunch of jobs, go to his second job, return at lunch time, fire off the next batch of jobs, and then be back before any of the rest of the office came in for the day to catch up on the rest.
He got caught because the timing didn’t quite work out and he was always behind in the morning. They checked cameras because of it and he admitted it when confronted.
I remember thinking a simple batch script could have done that job but I was smart enough not to write it. I hadn’t thought of writing it and then just getting a second job...
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
To not embarrass everybody else who are also doing it, not least your boss.
Why would it be embarrassing to state "I currently have nothing to do right now, is there anything available I can help with." if you cannot figure out anything productive you could be doing on your own. Are people's managers actually saying to them, "Yes, there is nothing you can do right now, just sit in your seat and do nothing until I come get you"? I've never had that experience, and is why I'm asking about it.
Because being "the guy who's always looking for stuff to do" translates into "first guy laid off".
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#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm curious, what do you feel is the difference? Are you saying that you frequently lie to people you work with and that you feel that is acceptable? Or are you talking about having extra free time where you don't actually have any additional work?
>Then go home? Otherwise you are just lying to your employer and perpetuating a false pretense that their employees are being productive for a full day. I am remote half the time. I'm not lying to anyone about anything. The measure of what I accomplish is our ticketing / planning system and the pull requests I put up to complete the various work tickets. There is no reason to go home when I have a ten minute task I n…
What's he's really talking about is exempt vs non-exempt employees. (The exemption being from paying 1.5x for work past 40 hours a week). Most but not all salaried positions are exempt, and all hourly positions are non-exempt.
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
And Beatles song.
Double A side with We Can Work it Out. Immediately preceded and followed depending on territory by stuff like Yesterday, Nowhere Man, Paperback Writer etc. Extraordinary. On reflection they probably would have had no need for a device like this...
Thanks for this comment. It reminds me that somehow, I discovered some of those before sitting down with Rubber Soul or Revolver.
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#160Why is there a receiver, instead of running an app on the receiving system to listen for bluetooth/http/etc messages?
Usb dongle as keyboard send keys and I think he's using a nrf24l01+ for wireless comms