This is hilarious, at work sometimes I need to catch up on some friend through irc and use weechat so as not to draw any attention, most non devs simply ignore anything terminal related. I even tend to use the hn-text cli for hacker news just to not give anyone a reason to think I’m slacking.
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
#62This 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/
Thanks for this. It's really trippy.
Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by
#63Amazing! Finally, the design of Rust is being used not only for interviews but also for bureaucratic reports, which is what it was designed for. Now, the bureaucracy within the team has improved and the bosses will be very pleased. A very useful tool. I had an experience where a team of Rust juniors did whatever they wanted in a separate chat and the CTO, PM and I (Lead) had no idea what was going on. This tool would…
Ain't perfect it's only 99.9% rust according to github.
Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by
#64Wouldn't work on my boss. She would get very curious and ask me to explain to her what it was.
Just say it's in rust, it usually wades off nosy people. If not, you have virtually unlimited feed of things to talk about how cool it is etc. - they'll quickly learn when they hear it, they should move along.
Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by
#65Amazing! Finally, the design of Rust is being used not only for interviews but also for bureaucratic reports, which is what it was designed for. Now, the bureaucracy within the team has improved and the bosses will be very pleased. A very useful tool. I had an experience where a team of Rust juniors did whatever they wanted in a separate chat and the CTO, PM and I (Lead) had no idea what was going on. This tool would…
Ain't perfect it's only 99.9% rust according to github.
won’t be perfect until issue #1 is resolved
Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by
#66I had this literally happen to me a couple of months ago.
Slacking off while waiting for some performance tests to run (Shoutout to Locust.io!) with my big 27" screen full of terminals for each runner, server logs etc.
...And then on my laptop screen I honestly was just slacking off and reading Reddit.
'VP Of Technology' comes over "I dont know what you are doing, but it's the most impressive thing I've seen in a while".
...Yes sir!
Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by
#67I 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…
The Lynx browser came in handy for these sort of situations in the past for me too
Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by
#68Does it work as well for remote workers?
Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by
#69I 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…
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 have a reason to work for WFH company instead, WFH company would have significantly less expenses (more profits/budgets).
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.
Re: Generate impressive-looking terminal output, look busy when stakeholders walk by
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Anxiety wouldn't allow me to go for a break without locking my workstation first.