Impossible for the HN crowd: Do nothing for 2 minutes

Post by idoh » Thu, Jan 20, 2011, 6:24 PM UTC

iamwil wrote: post #46

msluyter wrote: post #21

I was just thinking about the fact that much of my work requires me to pause for a short time -- while building my project, or running a query, or launching the huge honkin' java webapp and waiting for 10 billion classes to initialize -- but the pause is too short to make a useful context switch, and too long to simply wait through without getting bored. So typically, I often check e-mail, HN, or whatever, but then e…

Actually, that's one of my biggest problems when it comes to productivity. The REPL (read-eval-print loop) takes too long because the unit tests take too long to run, or the environment takes too long to load. Recently, I took a day to tackle this problem for myself, and I've found that I'm just much more productive when I'm stuck in a quicker REPL loop, rather than when I need to wait and stare out the window--and t…

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Post by coderholic » Thu, Jan 20, 2011, 6:31 PM UTC

NathanKP wrote: post #43

coderholic wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Great! One more thought I had: also track whether the failure was due to the mouse or keyboard. When you have gathered a decent number of results I will be very interested to see a blog post with some nice graphs.

Post by peterwwillis » Thu, Jan 20, 2011, 6:31 PM UTC

pavel_lishin wrote: post #44

1. The birds aren't moving. This is driving me insane. 2. I stopped because I became paranoid that with 0:15 seconds, the website was going to rick-roll me.