Of course its written in Rust.
Rustaceans, the over-engineers.
I haven't read the code, and I wonder if there's excessive focus on performance, safety, and modern programming paradigms for a fake productivity app such as this.
Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by
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Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by
#42My rule has always been very simple: If you are goofing off, don't hide it. The worst thing you can do if you work for me is think I am stupid and pretend you are working. I'd rather someone say "My head just isn't in it right now", which is honest and something that happens to all of us. I understand the need to unplug every so often as much as anyone. There are days when my brain just isn't in sync with what I have…
I once had a boss who told me to buy some games on the company dime for those times.
Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by
#43Someone please make one that makes your computer looks like it's locked up for ransomeware, and see your stakeholder's face. Priceless.
A friend of mine who was in charge of finance said to his boss “the bank keeps sending me emails to confirm transactions and change my passwords and even after I click the links and re-enter my password they keep on asking, it’s very annoying.”.
Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Some mouse drivers used an upper ascii range (less used) and rendered 4 “arrow” cursor parts into it over 4 chars over which the cursor ought to be. And then replaced those 4 chars on screen temporarily. As a result you had a fully pixel-perfect cursor in text mode.
That's clever!
Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by
#45This is cool! I once made a project very much like this: https://github.com/svenstaro/genact
Check it out if you like this kind of thing.
Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by
#46In my twenties I played nethack (with the ascii tileset) in a terminal window while working. It only took my boss a couple weeks to catch on.
He was not happy.
Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by
#47I remember working for a small agency in London with a bit of a top-heavy management structure. Many times would my shoulder be subtly gazed over to "check on progress". I ended up using IRSSI to chat with friends, wgets to read my fav blogs, and my twitter stream pouring into what looked like an excel spreadsheet UI . I always got my work done in the first couple hours of the day. I will always resent those managers, and the time spent wasted sitting in office chairs whiling away hours to meet some pointless proxy of worth: time and physical presence.
A worse experience I had previously was a manager who could remote-log-in to my machine at random times to spot-monitor my work. I'd see a little icon pop up in the menubar which would tell me he was there, so I'd make haste to busy myself with the appearance of grokking hard code. May he find a never-peace in purgatory.
Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by
#48Isn’t it just smarter to clear your actual build folder and then rebuild it with a script? Bonus points if you limit resources to it so it takes ages? That way if they ever actually look closely, they’ll see it’s the REAL work you’re supposed to be doing that’s building, and you’ll never get in trouble
If I was a boss and saw someone being busy building Rust all day I would offer a faster computer.
If you were a boss and you were staring at my screen all day, I’d find another job ;).
In all seriousness though, we’re assuming in this case that you’re taking a break, and a stakeholder happens to walk past - hopefully not a constant occurrence.
Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by
#49Someone please make one that makes your computer looks like it's locked up for ransomeware, and see your stakeholder's face. Priceless.
A friend of mine who was in charge of finance said to his boss “the bank keeps sending me emails to confirm transactions and change my passwords and even after I click the links and re-enter my password they keep on asking, it’s very annoying.”.
On that one he should have called police to process cardiac arrest.
Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by
#50That 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.
why was it pointless? it worked in the text guis of the time