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There's got to be more to your working day than loafing around the internet, says tfi049113. How do you fill those long, empty desperate hours?

(, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 12:18)
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video editors are sly...
if you have ever worked with a video editor, you will know the interminably long time it takes for an edit to render... right?

Maybe.. maybe not...

An ex-boyfriend of mine used to make a screenshot of the avid screen at 40% or so rendered, and then load it up on the monitor while he sat and surfed the web on another machine.. or if he was feeling confident no-one would touch the computer take a long lunch.

If anyone came in and asked what he was up to he would simply nod at the monitor, and rolling his eyes say "waiting for the bloody render..."
(, Thu 8 Jan 2009, 18:25, 1 reply)
A similar thing
can be done with "compiling code".

Even better, you can use this "long compiling time" to argue a business case for a faster computer. Or a "faster video card" for video rendering if you've got a clueless boss...
(, Fri 9 Jan 2009, 12:42, closed)

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