Now I'm depressed because someone I liked on the island just died. Damned LOST music.
Came to post this. I was all ready for a nice quiet moment, and then that damn music and NOT PENNY'S BOAT and now I'm super depressed.
Take a short break in a quiet place
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Re: Take a short break in a quiet place
#62This sort of thing is so pedantic, almost insulting to my intelligence. Do i really need a website to remind me how to get off the internet from some random hacker news guy with too much time on his hands? He's almost countering his own message here. This is not a quite place. It's still the internet. I have to click my space bar to get to a new line teaching me about going to a 'quiet place'. Why is this even being clicked up on HN? And then i have to tweet it too? It's a joke right?!
Re: Take a short break in a quiet place
#63I thought that was awesome. Discovering this on info-fueled hacker news made it more special. I'd make several changes: #1 Fix the F-11 message. Is this an IE thing? Do a browser detect, and display the right message. #2 Get rid of the share on Twitter links at the end. just tacky. #3 Get rid of the countdown. 30s break is cool, but countdown display speeds time up. Make the countdown hidden. If the user presses spac…
#1 Fix the F-11 message. Is this an IE thing? Do a browser detect, and display the right message.
No, it's an IE, Firefox, Chrome and Opera-thing. All browsers use F11 for fullscreen and i don't think there's an api for reading which button they use anyway. :P
Re: Take a short break in a quiet place
#64It ruined it at the end by asking me to share it on Twitter.
Don't you know how much of your life is wasted looking at twitter and google+ etc?
.. wait 30 seconds...
Here's my twitter and Google+ Follow and Share!!
Re: Take a short break in a quiet place
#65Meditation breaks are great, as is occasionally disconnecting from the matrix. But I'm not sure clicking through text on a website is the most effective way to accomplish this.
I'd say you're better off stretching for a minute or doing some light callisthenics. Perhaps while blasting doom metal.
Re: Take a short break in a quiet place
#66GAh! Information overload! Pop "ambient" music, animations, and shit to read; WTF kind of quiet place is this?! If you really want to take a break to reflect, go sit on a park bench outside with a pen and paper.
Re: Take a short break in a quiet place
#67I have my phone on all the time, regardless of if I am on vacation or not. When I take a vacation and I have spare time, I work - sometimes billable, sometimes not. Vacation for me doesn't equate to switch off the laptop. I spend a lot of time glued to my laptop. When I am not at my laptop, I browse and read mails on my phone. I generally reply to the mails as soon as I get them. I like it this way - this is a worthy…
The tone is likely a reaction to the pressure that has been placed for so long on people to work more. Forget the amount of pressure bosses place on their people to work more. Colleagues, friends, and relatives all do the same. When they don't see you working a lot, they project an idea that you're lazy.
At least that has been my observation of the general mindset at least over the last 30 years.
Re: Take a short break in a quiet place
#68I thought that was awesome. Discovering this on info-fueled hacker news made it more special. I'd make several changes: #1 Fix the F-11 message. Is this an IE thing? Do a browser detect, and display the right message. #2 Get rid of the share on Twitter links at the end. just tacky. #3 Get rid of the countdown. 30s break is cool, but countdown display speeds time up. Make the countdown hidden. If the user presses spac…
#1 Fix the F-11 message. Is this an IE thing? Do a browser detect, and display the right message. No, it's an IE, Firefox, Chrome and Opera-thing. All browsers use F11 for fullscreen and i don't think there's an api for reading which button they use anyway. :P
Not on OS X. I'm sure I've seen a tiny js library on github that does browser sniffing and gives you the relevant keyboard shortcut. Can't find it now.
Re: Take a short break in a quiet place
#69It ruined it at the end by asking me to share it on Twitter.
...after a long, long series of annoying platitudes. I stopped at the "welcome to the quiet place" and thought for a while (half an hour). Then when I came back, it wanted to moralize at me! I gave up, didn't see the end.
Re: Take a short break in a quiet place
#70I thought that was awesome. Discovering this on info-fueled hacker news made it more special. I'd make several changes: #1 Fix the F-11 message. Is this an IE thing? Do a browser detect, and display the right message. #2 Get rid of the share on Twitter links at the end. just tacky. #3 Get rid of the countdown. 30s break is cool, but countdown display speeds time up. Make the countdown hidden. If the user presses spac…
And what a hacker-news response that was! Like when my wife tells me her problems, and I try to fix them instead of just listening. Its an Engineer thing I guess.