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Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?

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Re: Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?

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Post by TheSmoke »

I visited San Francisco in June 2013 and worked at an office for a month. I had a habit of browsing HN and Twitter during the working hours and from the work computer. I was also very productive. Always got things done. Days go by and I observe people working. I realized that many people would spend time on social media only when they were having lunch and were extremely productive the rest of the day. I thought to myself “If I am working then what these people are doing and if they are working then what is it that I am doing?”

I seriously questioned myself and made a decision. No more social media on the work computer and during the working hours. Ever since then I am only reading HN and Twitter when I am on my phone when I am on a break. I haven’t even realized HN was down.

Re: Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?

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Post by NickRandom »

I had to resort to unabated onanism during the outage. I am now 30 pounds lighter and when I walk it sounds like two dried beans rattling round in an empty coffee can.

P.S. This is one of those comments where I debated 'should I or shouldn't I post it' so probably not a good idea to do so but meh, what the heck. Dan & co did a sterling job and it sounds like the CEO of M5 gained some useful insight so every cloud has a silver lining etc

Re: Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?

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Post by _fat_santa »

joshstrange wrote: post #36

Opened reddit, got disappointed, opened new tab, typed "n", hit enter, and then my brain caught up with muscle memory and I got more disappointed. I watched a lot of progress bars and actually watched the CLI output for things building.

Open the browser and type out "news.", sigh when you see the prefill for "ycombinator.com" and have to change it to "google.com".

Re: Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?

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Post by ezekg »

dieselgate wrote: post #237
ezekg wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to feel really bad about this until I learned a lot of other programmers do the same thing. Work hard and fast for a little while when you’re motivated, relax a lot when you’re not.

And hope you’re more motivated than not?

Yeah, more or less. I have to find ways to kickstart motivation. Probably why I like owning my own business. xD

Re: Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?

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Post by fuzzfactor »

Slipped under my radar.

How long was it?

Is there any post-mortem?

>Where'd you go?

Depends on how long it was out.

>What'd you find?

Now I find if you spend too much time away from the internet, you'll never keep up with what's happening in the real world.

Or something like that.

Re: Ask HN: What'd you do while HN was down?

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Post by zelphirkalt »

chocolatemario wrote: post #232
CSMastermind wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh super interesting! This goes onto the reading list.

the old monotonically growing reading list. I must figure out a way to organize mine better

Easy! Make another list of things, which are _excellent_ reads.
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