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When reading stuff like this I wonder, how do the Windows folks manage to do the same? A browser disguised as Visual Studio? doubledesktop.exe? I'm so thankful

by xr09 12y ago

When reading stuff like this I wonder, how do the Windows folks manage to do the same? A browser disguised as Visual Studio? doubledesktop.exe? I'm so thankful for my *nix with all these little toys.

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igl 12y ago
Visual Studio has a browser ;)
pdkl95 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key These days, the Boss Key is probably mapped to the "minimize" keyboard shortcut. //well, at least that how they used to do such things; a new solution may be needed in the "open plan" offices that have been trendy
AimHere 12y ago
When I was stuck in a meaningless office job with too much time, I took to learning myself a perl (that was used for some login scripting so there was an interpreter lying about) using notepad to edit, and the windows cmd.exe to execute the scripts. One other (more senior) employee did get curious and asked me what I was up to, but I did have a script that was actually useful to get part of my job done, so I just showed that off. Then I went back to teaching Perl to play scrabble!
stephengillie 12y ago
Yes, VS and SSMS open do help. I keep RDCMan open on my 2nd screen, always connected to an administrative RDP server in the production domain, usually with Perfmon pulling occasional counts of IIS users and connections from our clusters. Sometimes I'll have ADUC or DNS or DFS or WSUS or SSMS up instead. Half of my monitoring tools and error logs, and all of my ticket systems, use web interfaces. So do Sharepoint and parts of TFS and Office365. I use Chrome and keep a dozen tabs pinned, most of which are work-related. HN and Imgur are among those. And then there's the spattering of Office applications (Outlook, Word, Excel), and Lync and other chat clients, and Notepad++ and Snip tool and Fiddler and Putty and other utilities... It's not hard to hide anything at all.
wolf550e 12y ago
http://pcottle.github.io/MSOutlookit/ http://pcottle.github.io/MSOutlookit/
spinlock 12y ago
there was a site called readingatwork.com (I think) where classic novels were formatted as powerpoint presentations. I think that's what windows people do.
TorKlingberg 12y ago
http://codereddit.com/ http://codereddit.com/ Reddit that looks like source code. For opening in Visual Studio's built-in browser. I am not a Windows dev.
- pavel_lishin 12y ago
  Wow, the load-comments-inline functionality is beautiful. In fact, the whole thing actually looks better than some of the subreddit styles.
- sdgsdgsdg 12y ago
  You have changed my life, thank you.
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maxmem 12y ago
I work from home.
pbhjpbhj 12y ago
Well there's this - http://mashable.com/2011/07/03/hardlyworkin-excel-facebook/ http://mashable.com/2011/07/03/hardlyworkin-excel-facebook/ - that makes Twitter/Facebook look like an MS Excel sheet. Seem to remember a more generic version of that from way-back-when but can't find it.

by xr09 12y ago

When reading stuff like this I wonder, how do the Windows folks manage to do the same? A browser disguised as Visual Studio? doubledesktop.exe? I'm so thankful for my *nix with all these little toys.

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igl 12y ago

Visual Studio has a browser ;)

pdkl95 12y ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key These days, the Boss Key is probably mapped to the "minimize" keyboard shortcut. //well, at least that how they used to do such things; a new solution may be needed in the "open plan" offices that have been trendy

AimHere 12y ago

When I was stuck in a meaningless office job with too much time, I took to learning myself a perl (that was used for some login scripting so there was an interpreter lying about) using notepad to edit, and the windows cmd.exe to execute the scripts. One other (more senior) employee did get curious and asked me what I was up to, but I did have a script that was actually useful to get part of my job done, so I just showed that off. Then I went back to teaching Perl to play scrabble!

stephengillie 12y ago

Yes, VS and SSMS open do help. I keep RDCMan open on my 2nd screen, always connected to an administrative RDP server in the production domain, usually with Perfmon pulling occasional counts of IIS users and connections from our clusters. Sometimes I'll have ADUC or DNS or DFS or WSUS or SSMS up instead. Half of my monitoring tools and error logs, and all of my ticket systems, use web interfaces. So do Sharepoint and parts of TFS and Office365. I use Chrome and keep a dozen tabs pinned, most of which are work-related. HN and Imgur are among those. And then there's the spattering of Office applications (Outlook, Word, Excel), and Lync and other chat clients, and Notepad++ and Snip tool and Fiddler and Putty and other utilities... It's not hard to hide anything at all.

wolf550e 12y ago

http://pcottle.github.io/MSOutlookit/ http://pcottle.github.io/MSOutlookit/

spinlock 12y ago

there was a site called readingatwork.com (I think) where classic novels were formatted as powerpoint presentations. I think that's what windows people do.

TorKlingberg 12y ago

http://codereddit.com/ http://codereddit.com/ Reddit that looks like source code. For opening in Visual Studio's built-in browser. I am not a Windows dev.

pavel_lishin 12y ago
Wow, the load-comments-inline functionality is beautiful. In fact, the whole thing actually looks better than some of the subreddit styles.
sdgsdgsdg 12y ago
You have changed my life, thank you.
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maxmem 12y ago

I work from home.

pbhjpbhj 12y ago

Well there's this - http://mashable.com/2011/07/03/hardlyworkin-excel-facebook/ http://mashable.com/2011/07/03/hardlyworkin-excel-facebook/ - that makes Twitter/Facebook look like an MS Excel sheet. Seem to remember a more generic version of that from way-back-when but can't find it.