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Impossible for the HN crowd: Do nothing for 2 minutes

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Re: Impossible for the HN crowd: Do nothing for 2 minutes

#31

Out of determination I succeeded, even though by my calculations doing nothing for two minutes cost me $1.60 that I could have made writing code. Of course, I stopped the clock anyway when I clicked on the HN popup notification. Edit: Just looked at the code. The programmer missed a great chance to gather some data. I would have tracked the fail events using Google Analytics so I could see how many fails on average p…

You could actually make the 'Fail' event hierarchical 'Fail.1', 'Fail.2', 'Success.3'

to track how many fails were required before success

Re: Impossible for the HN crowd: Do nothing for 2 minutes

#32

Out of determination I succeeded, even though by my calculations doing nothing for two minutes cost me $1.60 that I could have made writing code. Of course, I stopped the clock anyway when I clicked on the HN popup notification. Edit: Just looked at the code. The programmer missed a great chance to gather some data. I would have tracked the fail events using Google Analytics so I could see how many fails on average p…

Great idea, thanks. I'll add it. At the moment we're looking at the average time on site stats.

Re: Impossible for the HN crowd: Do nothing for 2 minutes

#35

I passed, but it was very hard because I got no waves and so was immediately tempted to view source and find out why not, and also because I kept looking at the horizon of the photo and wondering if it was just me or if it was very slightly tilted down to the right. For extra difficulty, you should throw in more and more things like the above to make ocd people squirm ;)

THat's all I could think about - the horizon not being level. I found myself visualising the iPhoto correction tool overlaid on the photo.

Re: Impossible for the HN crowd: Do nothing for 2 minutes

#39
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Failed for unknown reasons three times in a row. Thinking it was noise on my mouse scrollwheel, I took the batteries out of it. I'm gratified to learn this was unintentional. This said, the site is really, really making me think about moving back to Puerto Rico.

Nice idea; made me realise how few "do nothing" breaks I take in a day...0. I'd probably like to use it throughout the day if the problems in Chrome were ironed out.

Failed for me every time before I even did anything (Chrome, Vista). When I changed tab, and then came back without mousing into the viewport, the FAIL message didn't appear...but neither did the clock count down.

Works in Firefox 3.6 though.

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