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That's too long winded for me.
Quote: Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Buzkashi, the sport that uses dead goats as the ball, a breakdown - YouTube[^]
Spoiler, there is some mild swearing so lower volume if that's an issue. But you'll miss the great comments if you do.
Although PETA shouldn't be too worried. Looks like the humans take more of a beating than the animals. 
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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We had something similar, where on would use a stick to hit the head of a (live) male chicken.
If you think that's cruel, you don't own a cat.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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...people are constantly and simultaneously asking for help over Team chat.
In the office, most of the people are in the same space with me, so they can see if I'm talking with somebody, and they patiently wait their turn.
An interesting artifact -- queuing when people can see other people are busy, vs. constant interruption as a result of not seeing each other. And nobody pays attention to the "do not disturb", "away", or "in a meeting" icons. What's the use?
I think I see an idea for all these chat apps - they should have a queuing feature so that chats occur with just one person at a time until the conversation is done, and you don't even get to see the other people in the queue until the current conversation is done.
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I look at the current environment as a big beta test for a world where this is much more the norm than the exception. This is a very common scenario in science fiction books and it has now become our reality. Large scale use of these chap apps is in its infancy and I am sure many of these problems have never been encountered or imagined before. I think the chat apps need to work more like a phone with call-waiting type of functionality and a hold option and so on. We now get to watch and experience their evolution first-hand.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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I don't think that "you don't even get to see the other people in the queue until the current conversation is done" is a good option.
Consider if you're trying to mentor a learning-resistant junior about something while someone with a production outage is in the queue.
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Then the app should have a "barge in" button. Bonus: You'll be able to tell who thinks rather highly of themselves, instead of you having to try to figure it out.
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Or who has a question that can be answered in 15 seconds without waiting for the current supplicant to finish.
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Or who has a question that they can answer themselves in 15 seconds but are too lazy, but being "on hold" for an hour, they go and figure it out for themselves. That happens quite a lot nowadays! 
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hmmmm, sounds a bit like CP QA
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So the app needs priorities: Boss is high (officially), marketing is 1 (And tell them it means "first") ... If the new call is higher then you get a notification.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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What the app really needs is a Do Not Disturb setting, since I'm starting to believe that its window doesn't have an "X" in the upper right-hand corner.
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Even in the office people interrupt us without checking if we are busy.
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I've been working at home for over 6 years now, and I love it.
Takes some getting used to at the beginning, but I would not have it any other way now.
We use Microsoft Teams and you can mute people, chat threads, and other channels so that you are not bothered. You can set your status to "Busy" and go about your work. Answer chats/messages at your leisure.
Basically, you have to tell certain people to bugger off....in a nice, professional way. 
I am usually heads down coding for 6-8 hours a day. I answer questions in the morning for 30 mins and at the end of the day for 30 mins.
I only let certain people interrupt me during the work day, all others need to schedule a meeting to speak with me (approx. < 15 mins tops).
modified 3-Apr-20 4:22am.
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Now that I am working at home all the time, why do I have a screen saver lock on my work PC. Is my cat going to compromise the systems ? I saw where someone had put a mouse in a box with a motor to keep the screen saver from engaging -- seems too hard. I also saw an app for the iPhone called Mouse Mover. Does anyone know if this works ? I can't plug an iPhone into a work computer, but Keyboards and Mice are OK.
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I saw that one, but I do not want to plug in any devices like that.
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Wouldn't your biro-cap key press solution work, at least while the OP is away from his desk?
Keep Calm and Carry On
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There was a mouse jiggler app that worked OK. It was free.
A Fine is a Tax for doing something wrong
A Tax is a Fine for doing something good.
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How about you stop playing xBox and just do your work?
Social Media - A platform that makes it easier for the crazies to find each other.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
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Just disable the screensaver?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Exactly. Turning off all the power saver crap is one of the first things I do on a new PC, and I haven't seen a screensaver kick in on its own in years.
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May not be possible on a work PC.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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"Should not". There's a risc on leaving your desk there, which don't exist at home.
I know, I once installed an app that opens the CD-tray when given the command over TCP, and it drove a collegue insane. Whenever he was busy, concentrated, the CD-tray would open without warning.
A co-worker with more malicious intent might have installed a keylogger. So, it's a good thing there are those limitations on the screensaver.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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