So cool to see this on top of HN.<p>Pankaj took my VSCode for Remote OK and modded it for cricket scores. Great work and it even still says index.php, hah.<p>If you'd like to see the original from a few weeks ago: <a href="https://remoteok.io/vscode" rel="nofollow">https://remoteok.io/vscode</a>
@dang seeing as this is a derivative of <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28472170" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28472170</a> but the credit isn't very clear, could you give the original Show HN another repost perhaps?<p>Seems a shame that the author of the majority of this work (pieterhg) didn't get a lot of credit here or the same level of interest in their original Show HN.
I wouldn't assume ill-intent, or even that the company sucks.<p>This might be just a fun joke. At my previous job we had a company-wide shared folder with some stealth Excel games [1], my boss loved them.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/6-iconic-games-recreated-microsoft-excel/" rel="nofollow">https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/6-iconic-games-recreated-micro...</a>
I had written TSR (Terminated and Stay Residendt) MS DOS "Boss key" program which when activated shows TurboC screen with compilation going on and compiled lines number counter changing. Used it when I played games during my internship in early nienties.
Nice work! Reminds me of the old days of the 'Boss Key' in most games of the 80's. +1 on the suggestion to actually make this a VSCode extension so you can have it running in a tab in your actual workspace and check it from time to time.
I was always fascinated by these kind of things and I always wondered why they are necessary, as I had never had a job in the past 15 years where you couldn’t open a sports page once in a while. Or better said, where someone would expect you sit 6-8-10 hours in front of the computer and churn code without interruption. Or go outside and check the scores on your phone
Reminds me of the PhD Comics "Emergency button" (<a href="http://phdcomics.com/" rel="nofollow">http://phdcomics.com/</a>, bottom right) redirecting to a fake journal article and a similar tool for Tinder redirecting to a spreadsheet.<p>In the case of PhD Comics is clearly an inside joke (I guess). For other tools I find it a clearly desired yet not the most honest feature.
This made me laugh, nice one.<p>Reminds of all the old apps/games that had boss key/buttons -- I wonder if there's a gallery of a bunch of them somewhere? Creative 'fake' docs and spreadsheets etc kinda funny
A file named "index.js", when you open it, the tab says "index.php", and the file contains HTML code.<p>A comedy at it's finest.
Made me laugh, but also made me think of all those bad experiences I had working with teams from Indian / Pakistan... I can definitely imagine those guys watching cricket instead of pushing new code.
Just goes to show the difference in work cultures. Here in the UK I could quite happily have the match up on another monitor, nobody would bat (pun unintended) and eyelash. I'm not sure I could do that with a game that requires more oversight though, test cricket, especially, is slow to watch. Fun though!
If your job prevents your from taking your mind off temporarily off of a task, then this is nothing short of abuse.<p>I cannot focus on the task for more than 10-20 minutes, then I take few minutes break, sometimes more. If I couldn't do that, I wouldn't get any work done because quickly my brain would sort of shut down.<p>I've been through this many times - manager would get me to a meeting room and say "people complain that you are browsing the internet rather than working". I'd say "do I deliver on time?" the answer would be "yes". That would be the end of it. I would also say he or she should talk with those who reported this, whether snooping on other workers is a good use of their time.<p>Nonetheless nice project! I remember doing similar thing to browse Reddit ages ago ;-)
Reminds me of the Boss Screen in the famous German PC game 'Moorhuhnjagd' where pressing [B] would pause the game and show a fake Word document.
I was hoping the cricket score was a pleasant musical soundtrack of live crickets chirping, to listen to while you code.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKmRkS1os7k" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKmRkS1os7k</a>
For those not too familiar with cricket - matches can go on for days and a summary of the score can be a couple of numbers.<p>Browsing the score might mean a glance at those numbers every fifteen minutes or so - probably about the same impact on productivity as checking the time.
You all might like CyberCoderOnline, a multiplayer game which runs in a browser and looks like vscode (though it also has another mode that is slightly more graphical). It would be cooler if was an actual vscode extention, though.<p><a href="https://cybercodeonline.com/" rel="nofollow">https://cybercodeonline.com/</a>
I think this is hilarious. And let's be honest here. Getting a score feed like this is much less distracting that launching a browser and visiting some site and somehow ending up on Facehook.
I think it would it be easier to make a repository with a file that just auto updates with the scores? You could use it in any editor, and you wouldn't need a facade.
This adds an item on my long list of fun little projects I unfortunately never start: a general purpose information consumption tool disguised as VS Code (with an extra feature to look like the IDE used at the firm in question)<p>From tennis or football games to text adventures, there would be so many great options to give the mind a quick break from work.
Back in the days I remember the manual (or help file or something) for some submarine simulator game containing an "emergency key" that brought up a spreadsheet screenshot.<p>Can't remember the name though, but it was on a Mac in the 90ies sometime so before Mac OS X.
Bro, It is amazing but I would suggest you to look for another job. In my office in Bangalore, we watch on TV and screen in cafeteria leaving the work aside although some meetings have to be attended.
yeah, but why do you want to hide that you browser this cricket stuff in the first place? Does someone constantly watch what's going on on your screen?
Separately, I used to keep an ssh session to one of my servers open with lynx running, so I could browse HN and have it still look like work to a non-dev
I learned alt-space-n for minimizing a window, which can be done discreetly without any obvious mouse motion. That and a rear view mirror on my monitor.
Modern problems require modern solutions. I hope your boss isn't on HN. If my team wanted to check the scores it wouldn't bother me - I hired people not robots.
I can't imagine working at a company that micro-manages like this. I have a style where i Code at like 500% effort for short bursts, then relax/browse web stuff for up to an hour.