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Re: Productivity Blocker

#101

Post by Terretta »

jonas-w wrote: post #70
Sebb767 wrote: post #5

I'm somewhat disappointed that there is no Firefox version. However, given that the author most likely uses his extension, I can see what might have happened.

I always thought firefox and chrome share a standard where you could build one extension and use them on both platforms?

Here's a discussion of doing that for V2:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/Web...

To your point, the Orion webkit-based browser for MacOS supports both:

https://browser.kagi.com/

AFAIK, the only webkit browser to do so.

Re: Productivity Blocker

#102

Post by asddubs »

kettleballroll wrote: post #42
Sebb767 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably "productive" distractions, since you can do them a lot more before feeling bad and going back to work. Especially if you can silently get into the "fun" territory. I've actually had this with HN in the last days; I've ditched Reddit for HN because it contained a lot more worthwile content and valuable discussions [0], but with the Twitter shitshow I've come to enjoy a lot of snarky, unproductive discussions…

> I've ditched Reddit for HN because it contained a lot more worthwile content I found that at least for myself, this was just a lie I kept telling myself. HN contains almost zero actionable content, and I've not been an epsilon better off for reading it. I come to see it as infotainment.

there's been a few times where I read something that I was really glad I found out about through here, and probably wouldn't have found out otherwise. But yeah, easily >99% of it is just passing time

Re: Productivity Blocker

#103

Post by Waterluvian »

In a bout of blasphemy, I’d like to be slightly productive and learn something:

The page header renders the “Y” in “Productivity” on a new line because mobile. Is there a reliable CSS method to say, “pick whatever font size fills the parent width without wrapping”?

Re: Productivity Blocker

#104

Post by mrzool »

samwillis wrote: post #64
INTPenis wrote: post #52

We used to do this in the firewall at my first job. Every weekend the founder of the company would get drunk and login to servers and mess things up. So every weekend it was my job as the junior to go into our FreeBSD firewall and uncomment or update an ipfw line that blocked his IP-address.

I assume you are really talking about your current job at Twitter...

Bold of you to assume Elon Musk would be able to use ssh.

Re: Productivity Blocker

#105

Post by kramerger »

samwillis wrote: post #64
INTPenis wrote: post #52

We used to do this in the firewall at my first job. Every weekend the founder of the company would get drunk and login to servers and mess things up. So every weekend it was my job as the junior to go into our FreeBSD firewall and uncomment or update an ipfw line that blocked his IP-address.

I assume you are really talking about your current job at Twitter...

I know you are joking but Tesla had an entire team devoted to making sure Elon does not fuck up important things.

I believe it is well documented that critical personnel were hidden when he was visiting the factories to avoid getting them rage-fired

Re: Productivity Blocker

#106

Post by dubcanada »

Waterluvian wrote: post #103

In a bout of blasphemy, I’d like to be slightly productive and learn something: The page header renders the “Y” in “Productivity” on a new line because mobile. Is there a reliable CSS method to say, “pick whatever font size fills the parent width without wrapping”?

Assuming the container is some percentage of the viewport you can use viewport units. Otherwise no you need JS sadly. Or a SVG.

Re: Productivity Blocker

#107

Post by vidarh »

glotchimo wrote: post #2

Something like this might actually be useful for the all-too-common productive procrastination breaks. Stuck on a hard problem? Better clean my desk. Waiting for a build? Better clean my files. Lacking momentum? Better check LinkedIn (it’s professional so it’s okay). I wonder which type of “break” kills more productivity, “fun” distraction or “productive” distraction. Anyone else?

Whenever I feel too tired to focus on something "productive" is when I clean the house, because most of my productive work involves thinking and most of the tidying/cleaning is a set of repetitive tasks that I can do on "autopilot" and so ironically I find it easier to carry them out when I'm too tired to get caught up thinking about software projects.

But the tricky part is remembering to nudge myself into starting tidying etc..

Re: Productivity Blocker

#108

Post by [deleted] »

rjh29 wrote: post #80
kettleballroll wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I've ditched Reddit for HN because it contained a lot more worthwile content I found that at least for myself, this was just a lie I kept telling myself. HN contains almost zero actionable content, and I've not been an epsilon better off for reading it. I come to see it as infotainment.

Some HNers believe the site is superior to Reddit, if you compare it to the smaller and high quality subs, there isn't any difference.

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Re: Productivity Blocker

#109

Post by KomoD »

auggierose wrote: post #60
nunodonato wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which means you didn't actually understand what it was about, which was the point of the comment ;)

I don't disagree. Understanding things takes time, and most things are not worth understanding them.

Spent more time writing these pointless comments
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