I know we're supposed to be focused on the end-result, but I'm really just in awe of the code. Everything is so incredibly well documented, tested, and structured. I already see a few things I want to borrow... will definitely be coming back to this project for ideas.
I second this. I recently made a simple command line tool for my coworkers using several of the same libraries used here, but this is so much cleaner and better organized than what I threw together. Definitely will be reviewing this codebase for inspiration when I get a chance to refactor.
I just installed this because the autocomplete looked cool in the screenshots and wanted to check it out live. I wish we could have this in fish shell.
What? Like they look at your session while your logged in? Ha Ha fuck that shit. When do they have time to hand out hall passes?
No my boss doesn't have a remote desktop client. The default install blocks the port inbound. If you need IT help you walk your ass down to IT. If your boss needs to see what you are doing, HR and Legal talk it over then take your laptop and send you home then send the machine to a real forensic examiner who will preserve chain of custody and not miss anything.
Boss snooping is just bad for everyone. If you're not getting your work done that should be all the evidence she needs to help or fire you.
That's a real rosy outlook you have there. Here's the real scenario: Boss walks to your cube with or without HR/Legal/Security/IT personnel and says "We need to look at your computer for a moment. Step aside."
Unless you're doing anything illegal enough to get the feds or local government on you, they're going to take a look right there.
What do you mean? I don't want to work for someone who micro manages to that level. ie checking if you're on hacker news. I've walked out of jobs on my first day because their computer use policy was so petty I didn't want to deal with it. I've quit jobs because I was asked to put facebook firewall rules in and such. Not my problem and I don't want to work for you if that's the deal (I don't even have a facebook). I've also left/refused to give packet/connection logs by employee (all employees) to people. It's lazy management and the number of daily connections to facebook doesn't really have any bearing on who get's what done. You're welcome to do that if you like but I won't help. It's just lazy, if people aren't doing what they should be then bring it up with them not me.
> Boss walks to your cube with or without HR/Legal/Security/IT personnel and says "We need to look at your computer for a moment. Step aside."
Sure, but that's much closer to the scenario that I mentioned where it's an event not just passive eves-dropping. Not every company has a big legal/hr team to do that shit but that kind of thing generally takes a real reason, and it's a lot more conspicuous than just firing up a vnc client to check on you.
>Unless you're doing anything illegal enough to get the feds or local government on you, they're going to take a look right there.
Unless it's illegal, which includes the nda and basic employment contract, they shouldn't dig through your laptop anyway.
Where do you work that someone has the time to actively monitor user sessions to see what they are up to? Sounds like daycare.
Ive been using http://hckrnews.com since it's launch long ago. If I go on vacation, and come back, simply filter for top 10, or, if I have loads of time look top 50%. It's great!
this is why I'm a big fan of the command line browser lynx. This is a bit of an improvement over my usual lynx https://news.ycombinator.com (aliased to lynxhn), but not sure it's worth it to add a one-off when my current tool is so flexible. I frequently use lynx to browse not only HN but also reddit, wikipedia and even do google searches.
I have recently written a 'modern' Gopher client and server for Windows. They are going through final testing at the moment, before I release them out into the world:
I really like the user interface for this (color-coding and auto-complete are nice). I'm also trying out w3m.. which seems a bit more usable thank I found `links` previously.
Wow, this is actually very useable. It's actually super nice that it automatically uses my default editor for writing into textareas. Yay, using vim to comment on HN.
EDIT: For anyone else that wants to try this, it seems you need to open it with `w3m -cookie news.ycombinator.com` to be able to stay logged-in.
