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Re: New Feature: get kicked off News.YC on demand

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Post by tlrobinson » Thu, Nov 08, 2007, 4:06 AM UTC

My psych major friend is working on a theory that procrastinators have naturally low levels of endorphins, so they subconsciously use the stress of procrastination to raise those levels.

I thought that was a pretty fascinating theory.

Re: New Feature: get kicked off News.YC on demand

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Post by rokhayakebe » Thu, Nov 08, 2007, 4:12 AM UTC

dood wrote: post #27

rokhayakebe wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is it that every time you state your opinion (even in a respectful manner) someone has to down mod .

Probably because opinions without explanations aren't very interesting.

Oops. You forgot to explain why. Use your own remede

Re: New Feature: get kicked off News.YC on demand

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Post by jadams » Thu, Nov 08, 2007, 4:54 AM UTC

removes news.ycombinator.com from marketing plan

Re: New Feature: get kicked off News.YC on demand

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Nov 08, 2007, 4:58 AM UTC

aston wrote: post #17

pg wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For italics use stars, for indentation use indentation.

Can someone post how to show a star in a post?

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Re: New Feature: get kicked off News.YC on demand

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Post by Alex3917 » Thu, Nov 08, 2007, 4:59 AM UTC

nanijoe wrote: post #12

This has to be the first time in the history of the internet that a website makes provision for you not to waste your time on that same website. Good job guys!!

If you Google for "self-exclusion tools" there is a standard that most of the mainstream gambling sites implement. I did a quick search on ProQuest and JSTOR, but I couldn't find any information about their efficacy.

Re: New Feature: get kicked off News.YC on demand

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Post by dcurtis » Thu, Nov 08, 2007, 5:38 AM UTC

dood wrote: post #26

dcurtis wrote: post #22

This is probably the least user friendly feature implementation I have ever seen. Why not call it something better than "noprocrast?" If I didn't read that news post, I would be completely confused as to what it does or what the other two values do. It's a cool idea/feature, just implemented very, very badly.

Just having a little link to the news post next to the noprocrast dropdown would pretty much clear this up.

That doesn't really solve the usability problem, it just cures the symptom.

Re: New Feature: get kicked off News.YC on demand

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Post by prakash » Thu, Nov 08, 2007, 6:41 AM UTC

awesome!!

Re: New Feature: get kicked off News.YC on demand

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Post by cstejerean » Thu, Nov 08, 2007, 8:00 AM UTC

plinkplonk wrote: post #24

How did you think of this one? did someone ask for it? I like it!

I don't know if anyone asked for it but I started a thread a little while ago about how news.YC was damaging my productivity and several other folks seemed to agree so I'm wondering if this is in any way related. I think it was done more to help the folks accepted into YC procrastinate less and work more.

Re: New Feature: get kicked off News.YC on demand

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Post by davidw » Thu, Nov 08, 2007, 8:40 AM UTC

tlrobinson wrote: post #29

kcl wrote: post #8

Can someone post how to do italics and code indentation?

Does it use Markdown? I guess there's one way to find out... emphasis strong This is an H1 ============= This is an H2 ------------- ### This is an H3 ###### [Y Combinator]( http://www.ycombinator.com )

It's a feature request:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27783

Re: New Feature: get kicked off News.YC on demand

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Post by ralph » Thu, Nov 08, 2007, 11:21 AM UTC

pg wrote: post #19

aston wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can someone post how to show a star in a post?

Unfortunately there's not currently any way. (Though you can use all you want * * * in code.)

In the past, * was a star, obtained by entering `&#42;'.