How can I make this work on Windows? My office laptop runs win7.
Focus.py
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#42Personally I use Chrome Nanny[1] for this sort of thing, but it's a pretty interesting idea. 1: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cljcgchbnolheggdga...
How do you keep yourself from just popping open the settings page and disabling the plugin?
It's not that you are unable to control yourself from visiting these sites. You just do it subconsciously. When you see some sort of warning you are reminded that you really don't want to go there.
Re: Focus.py
#43Nice effort. Having tried RescueTime and more crazy tools last year, I realized it's in the doing. If you enjoy it nothing can distract you. If you really don't enjoy it from inside (i.e. if your ends are not aligned with the going), nothing can help you. It's better to alter your mindset about your work. Spending 3 days on that = lesser distractions for long time.
Your statement is a bit unclear, in particular, this part "I realized it's in the doing." What's in the doing? > It's better to alter your mindset about your work. Elaboration on this would be interesting.
According to temporal motivation theory (TMT), perceived utility of a task diminishes with growing temporal distance to the reward. [0]
The reward of working is usually distant and sometimes low in expectancy, as is the punishment for not working. At the same time, rewards of socializing (as one example) are almost immediately available anytime. The value of working is originally higher—you get paid for that, after all—but its utility after expectancy and time discounts may well be lower. It would rise as potential reward or punishment gets closer, but we will procrastinate until it beats the utility of posting comments on HN.
So, in order to fix that, we would like to reverse the ratio of utilities.
One solution is to artificially restrict access to distracting activities. In terms of TMT, their utility would be lowered because of some effort necessary to overcome the restrictions. However, over time we need less and less effort, and the utility is up again.
Conversely, ideamonk's suggestion—enjoying the process of doing—effectively raises the utility of the task so that distractions can't compete. It might take effort to learn that, but the effects are arguably more pleasant and permanent.
[0] Utility = (Reward Expectancy × Value) ÷ Delay. See Integrating theories of motivation by Steel & König and The Nature of Procrastination by Steel.
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#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your statement is a bit unclear, in particular, this part "I realized it's in the doing." What's in the doing? > It's better to alter your mindset about your work. Elaboration on this would be interesting.
According to temporal motivation theory (TMT), perceived utility of a task diminishes with growing temporal distance to the reward. [0] The reward of working is usually distant and sometimes low in expectancy, as is the punishment for not working. At the same time, rewards of socializing (as one example) are almost immediately available anytime. The value of working is originally higher—you get paid for that, after a…
Fat-finger downvoted you, meant to upvote, sorry. Hope someone can undo.
Re: Focus.py
#45This, like other github themes, has bad CSS that makes the monospaced text come out as serif on Linux. I know the github crew uses Macs but it makes me a little sad to see they don't test on the system that spawned their namesake. :(
The problem comes from this: code { font-family: "Lucida Sans", Monaco, Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, Lucida Console, Terminal; } Which is simply a poorly made rule, regardless of browser and OS. If you don’t have any of the specified fonts, your browser will use its general default font, which is usually either “serif” or “sans-serif”.
I always try to have a simple "..., mono" suffix to my CODE and PRE rules for this reason alone.
For BODY or HTML (whichever contains my global font-family rule) I finish off the list with "..., sans-serif".
I've never had amazing luck w/typography outside of Mac/Win, but like you point out, its poor style to leave everyone else without even a base style to work with.
Re: Focus.py
#46Great idea. Would like to have it precompiled, I don't have Python.
Am not sure where to approach this question from. How come you don't have python? Surely the effort of installing python is less than the effort to precompile this package?
> How come you don't have python?
It's just not installed on OSX and I have no use for Python and I am not familiar with Python.
I could just install it with 'brew install python' but I still prefer a clean and slim command line interface for this application.
EDIT: I understood from reading the thread that for better customizability it's better to have some scripting environment
Re: Focus.py
#47How can I make this work on Windows? My office laptop runs win7.
It certainly doesn't work "out of the box" - looking at the error messages and source code there a are file references to /etc/resolv.conf etc. - which aren't there in Windows.
Might work with a bit hacking about though.
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#48"After you identify the process listening on port 53, run sudo kill -9 with the process id."
-9 as in KILL? I don't do Python, so I cannot comment on the quality of the project. But this FAQ should be changed. People that know how to stop a process don't need a FAQ entry. People that don't know how to do that shouldn't be trained to think that this is a sensible way to stop a program.
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#49Just a heads up for Mac users: changing the /etc/resolv.conf didn't work for me. Changing it in System Preferences -> Network did work.
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#50I once spent a couple of hours writing a bash script that edited my /etc/hosts file (e.g. resolve facebook.com to 127.0.0.1), and then ran that using crontab to allow some breaks during the day.
It was fun, but then I had to go back to work. ;-)