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Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by

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Post by ptero »

dwedge wrote: post #88
bboygravity wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't help but think that there must be some arbitrage opportunity there: massive companies hire top notch engineers and all make them waste their time in (commute to/from) offices. What if someone comes along and is like "I'm going to provide the exact same service, but without offices and everybody works from home". That company would have a competitive edge, because: people from the established company would hav…

I think that despite what LinkedIn influencers promote, a lot of people take advantage of wfh to be less focused on work. Not all, maybe not even most, but dealing with this (and not knowing who will fit into which camp) eats into the efficiency saving. Also once the majority of a team is WFH, it's very tempting for management to take this one step further and start supplementing, then replacing, with off shore worke…

> a lot of people take advantage of wfh to be less focused on work

That has been my impression, too, but not for very good teams and often to a fairly small extent.

The bigger issue with WFH is that it requires a management that can write well, do virtually all comms asynchronously and still quickly spot and address both technical and people issues. My 2c.

Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by

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Post by kevdoran »

chihuahua wrote: post #7
Liftyee wrote: post #3

This is a cool project! Reminds me of `hollywood`[1], but specifically geared towards programming. It'll be a useful tool in my arsenal of "things to run to impress non-terminal-users". [1] https://a.hollywood.computer/

HackerTyper is a worthy addition to that arsenal: https://hackertyper.com

the true king of productivity tools, glad someone mentioned this

Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by

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Post by [deleted] »

valzam wrote: post #109
gruturo wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Does the fact that WFH is not a thing mean that in the real world, for most people, coming to the office IS actually more efficient? Or does this just need more time? I'm honestly not sure, but I've sure been tempted to start a competitor to very silly old fashion "you shall come here and sit at a computer where I can see you" type companies. Sadly yes. I was grumbling about finding a solution to a problem and a co…

Ok but don't you have engineering wide slack/teams channels where these discussions can happen? If I think to my self 'man this is really hard to achieve for whatever company specific reason' I don't just stew on it for days by myself.

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Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by

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Post by nuancebydefault »

xlii wrote: post #81
bboygravity wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't help but think that there must be some arbitrage opportunity there: massive companies hire top notch engineers and all make them waste their time in (commute to/from) offices. What if someone comes along and is like "I'm going to provide the exact same service, but without offices and everybody works from home". That company would have a competitive edge, because: people from the established company would hav…

That’s an unpopular opinion but given more than a decade of remote work experience I’d say: yes, people are less efficient in remote environment (on average). The „on average” is key however. I’d say that most of the people don’t understand the cost of remote work until it hits them and simply not all can bear that cost. It’s not like people are unwilling (occasionally you can find slackers) but it’s more often thing…

I work 2 days from home and 2 days in the office. I couldn't bare full WFH for the reasons mentioned. I would get depressed in the end. I couldn't bare full office, for other reasons mentioned. I would get fully stressed out in the end.

Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by

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Post by 4gotunameagain »

jorvi wrote: post #110
xlii wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s an unpopular opinion but given more than a decade of remote work experience I’d say: yes, people are less efficient in remote environment (on average). The „on average” is key however. I’d say that most of the people don’t understand the cost of remote work until it hits them and simply not all can bear that cost. It’s not like people are unwilling (occasionally you can find slackers) but it’s more often thing…

> That’s an unpopular opinion but given more than a decade of remote work experience I’d say: yes, people are less efficient in remote environment (on average). Thankfully that's just an opinion, and the stats bear out the opposite. Regretfully, managers and workers who want to RTO will force us to do so regardless.

In this day and age, you can find stats to support any possible claim you can imagine ;)

Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by

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Post by greenchair »

iammrpayments wrote: post #85
dijit wrote: post #78

Never underestimate the power of colour on a terminal. Back when I was first becoming an adminsys, colour in the terminal was pretty rare. Emoji's certainly didn't exist even as a concept in the west at that point either. However, a senior sysadmin on my team said "when you're writing your management scripts, remember to add colour codes if things are good or if they are not good. Managers freaking love that". He was…

Red means good in a lot of Asian countries, I bought my macbook there and the stock market shows red when it goes up.

mind blown, thanks for sharing.

Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by

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Post by hasbot »

gruturo wrote: post #93
bboygravity wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't help but think that there must be some arbitrage opportunity there: massive companies hire top notch engineers and all make them waste their time in (commute to/from) offices. What if someone comes along and is like "I'm going to provide the exact same service, but without offices and everybody works from home". That company would have a competitive edge, because: people from the established company would hav…

> Does the fact that WFH is not a thing mean that in the real world, for most people, coming to the office IS actually more efficient? Or does this just need more time? I'm honestly not sure, but I've sure been tempted to start a competitor to very silly old fashion "you shall come here and sit at a computer where I can see you" type companies. Sadly yes. I was grumbling about finding a solution to a problem and a co…

But how much did your grumbling disturb other people around you and reduce their efficiency?

Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by

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Post by fasteo »

hakaneskici wrote: post #29
vzaliva wrote: post #5

That reminded me: Back in the early '90s, I wrote an MS-DOS TSR ( Terminate and Stay Resident ) "boss key" program. It would bring up a fake TurboC compilation screen whenever I pressed a key - just in case my boss walked in while I was playing a game. (The tricky part was restoring the graphics state back to normal, but that's another story.) My boss wasn’t stupid. After a few close calls, he started asking why my c…

Creative use case for a TSR :) The classic "fun" TSR use-case was to make an app that installs an interrupt vector to decode mouse hardware "events" directly from the RS232 port before exiting via 0x21h, so that DOS screen would display a pointless "native" mouse cursor that doesn't do anything :) When I say mouse cursor, I mean an ASCII block character with the blink bit on.

Another use of TSR !

I implemented a password protected access to A:

Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by

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Post by izacus »

xlii wrote: post #81
bboygravity wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't help but think that there must be some arbitrage opportunity there: massive companies hire top notch engineers and all make them waste their time in (commute to/from) offices. What if someone comes along and is like "I'm going to provide the exact same service, but without offices and everybody works from home". That company would have a competitive edge, because: people from the established company would hav…

That’s an unpopular opinion but given more than a decade of remote work experience I’d say: yes, people are less efficient in remote environment (on average). The „on average” is key however. I’d say that most of the people don’t understand the cost of remote work until it hits them and simply not all can bear that cost. It’s not like people are unwilling (occasionally you can find slackers) but it’s more often thing…

All this is very true. And to add one more thing that is the most problematic: many many people are horrible at determining if they're a type of person who works well from home or not.
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