well... all my work is scripted... so its ok to spend a little time on HN B-)
Do you read HackerNews all day and never actually do anything?
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#122This happens to me all the time. For a while I stopped visiting HN to make myself feel better. Reading all the comments on this page, I feel people are just proposing hacks that stop you from visiting sites like HN or reddit. I think best hack is to start your own project. Do anything, it could even be reading a book and typing code from the book into your computer. Doing _anything_ will make you feel better about yourself. Remember, it does NOT have to be a product that magically changes the world and brings unicorns to life
Re: Do you read HackerNews all day and never actually do anything?
#123Simple hack: 2 computers, one for work and one for the internet. Different workstations, preferably in different rooms. It's a lot harder to get up off your ass than to hit alt-tab. Harness that laziness to your advantage.
Cheaper hack if you can't afford two computers. Two seats. I don't work when sitting in my bedroom, but when I sit at my living room table I only work.
Cheaper Hack use another browser
Re: Do you read HackerNews all day and never actually do anything?
#124i find that small distractions of 10 minutes at a time are fine, but often we get stuck on a site because we haven't finished reading it fully before we tell ourselves to get back to work. long pages (like these comment threads on HN and other sites) don't seem to help the matter.
someone should make a browser extension that visually blocks out parts of a page while you're supposed to be working. it would slowly reveal (say from top to bottom) parts of it the more time you're away from it and actually working. this way, your "reward" would be a fully rendered page every 10 minutes or so.
Re: Do you read HackerNews all day and never actually do anything?
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cheaper hack if you can't afford two computers. Two seats. I don't work when sitting in my bedroom, but when I sit at my living room table I only work.
Really you can't afford 2 computers? I can build a machine good enough for web-browsing for under $200. You need a monitor, sure, but people are giving away CRTs. I got a 19" 1600x1200@70Hz CRT for free last year. edit This is with all new components in the box; it's even cheaper if you can get "hand-me-down" components, which should be easy for anyone on HN.
I just can't afford more computers space-wise.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use the /etc/hosts block, but defeat myself if I edit it... would you be willing to share the cron job? Much oblidged!
If I understood correctly it should be as simple as having an extra file setup to replace your hosts file say /etc/hosts.override and put all your blocked hosts there along with your regular hosts file. Then you just add a 30 minute cron job to do cp /etc/hosts.override /etc/hosts
This is exactly how you do it. Setting up a cron job to run every 30 minutes can be done like this: crontab -e and put this line in there 0,30 * * * * your_command or like 0/30 * * * * your_command. The second one works for me, I am on a mac.
Make sure the user who runs the job has permission to overwrite the file.
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#128on your profile page fill in these fields
noprocrast: yes
maxvisit: 15
minaway: 180
Re: Do you read HackerNews all day and never actually do anything?
#129I've never been at the stage where I don't do _anything_, but I'm often frustrated that I don't do _enough_. I went through a stage of spending way too much time on Reddit - on the order of 4-5 hours a day. This has been discussed often, but it can be crippling - as soon as you hit the tiniest mental roadblock, you switch your browser to Reddit, next thing you know it's 20 minutes later and not only is your roadblock…
I just have a "startwork" script that uncomments my etc/hosts files. #!/bin/sh bash -c "awk '{sub(/#127/, "127")};{print}' /etc/hosts > /etc/hosts.new; mv /etc/hosts.new /etc/hosts;" And my etc/hosts looks like this: 127.0.0.1 www.onemorelevel.com 127.0.0.1 onemorelevel.com #127.0.0.1 www.hulu.com #127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com #127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com #127.0.0.1 www.youtube.com #127.0.0.1 www.netflix.com #127.0.…
startwork script should be on a cron job which runs every 30 minutes. (details:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1917827)
Re: Do you read HackerNews all day and never actually do anything?
#130There are addictions in this world far worse than HN.
I may have a monkey on my back but at least he is fairly civil and always has something interesting to say.