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Hacker Typer: How To Look Insanely Busy In A Coffee Shop (2011)

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Re: Hacker Typer: How To Look Insanely Busy In A Coffee Shop (2011)

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Post by ja27 »

I once wrote a quick Java program that recorded our project's build output (about 5 minute's worth at the time) and captured the time between each line of the output. Then it could play back the build output at the same pace. I could run that in a loop in a shell window and I could nap for an hour while it looked like I was waiting on a build to finish.

We joked about having a screensaver that looked like code being written and played realistic keystroke sounds like you were typing.

Re: Hacker Typer: How To Look Insanely Busy In A Coffee Shop (2011)

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Post by phaer »

ja27 wrote: post #3

I once wrote a quick Java program that recorded our project's build output (about 5 minute's worth at the time) and captured the time between each line of the output. Then it could play back the build output at the same pace. I could run that in a loop in a shell window and I could nap for an hour while it looked like I was waiting on a build to finish. We joked about having a screensaver that looked like code being…

Then you just need a keyboard with pulls the right buttons down while you are napping with your hands on said keyboard.
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