Was the BSOD screensaver from sysinternals by Mark Russinovich?
I had installed the same and couple of my colleagues sitting around me had done the same.
Our CTO (Robotics simulation software) was visiting and had an early morning meeting. He saw this on all screens and had a minor panic attack fearing a virus outbreak or software bug.
I installed that on a housemate's PC and waited for his reaction in the next couple days... But it never came. And so I forgot about it.
I moved out. It must have been a couple months later (we were and still are good friends), we're out somewhere and the first thing he says to me "did you install a BSOD screensaver on my computer?!?" And I suddenly remembered, realized it had been months and started laughing.
What's hilarious is he never tried pressing anything or moving the mouse.. since, being a developer, he knew that was pointless. He'd sit down, see the BSOD, (often swear,) then just press the hard reset button. In true evil fashion, I think I set it to a long interval, like 2 hours, so it only activated if he walked away but left it running.
I do still feel a bit bad about it. But only a bit. :)
`ditto` will also preserve resource forks, which is occasionally necessary for not breaking apps or installer pkgs. I've had to use it when doing a semi-automated deployment of some zipped-up software to a hundred or so Macs via bash over ARD. `ditto -xkv`
We have a service that uses Go http proxy for implementing a reverse proxy.
Upgrading to Go 1.16 introduced an unexplained performance drop. We suspect it is due to how it flushes when the content length is not known (typical for streaming). In earlier versions of Go, the call to flush was less frequent and in other versions, flush was called on every write. As a team, we sunk a lot of time trying to debug this and finally changed some of the application architecture/logic to circumvent these overheads.
Reminds me of my early days as a rookie people manager. I was asked to estimate a project for a team that I had no idea about their abilities. I was very hesitant to estimate since I had no data to begin with. My manager asked me to throw a number and see if there is a push back!!!
I soon made a decision not to be a manager responsible for guess work based estimation and moved back to an IC role where I estimate effort for work assigned to me.
I am on my 26th year as a programmer. I love the fact that I can imagine and also make it happen.
However, I see a constant push from people around me to focus on creating a pipeline of ideas and let others implement them. Unfortunately, I do not see the same level of enthusiasm I have in implementing some of those ideas - could be due to lack of recognition since it is not their original idea.
Once I retire, I will just go back to where it all started. Come up with an idea followed by implementation. The sheer pleasure of seeing your idea working in a reasonable timeframe is exhilarating!
I had installed the same and couple of my colleagues sitting around me had done the same.
Our CTO (Robotics simulation software) was visiting and had an early morning meeting. He saw this on all screens and had a minor panic attack fearing a virus outbreak or software bug.