This needs more data layers! Heart rate, movement, blood sugar, EEG etc :-)
I have some hardware I would happily donate to the next maniac week!
Time-lapse video of Bethany's maniac week of coding
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's a lot of post production work. :) I'd be embarrassed someone might see I clicked through a TMZ link or something.
You probably wouldn't want to even click the TMZ link in the first place when you knew you were making the video, since the post-production is so onerous. It's like a precommitment that you're not going to get distracted. In fact, when I did my maniac week, I precommitted to not doing any post-processing, and it helped me focus a lot. I would think, "hmm, I wonder what the strongest dog is!" but then realize I couldn…
I've thought about doing this as a general productivity tactic to force myself to do less shit I don't want to be doing.
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#23Cool! I need to try this someday (week). And the video is just pure madness. You might want to add a small warning, though - I'm not an expert nor an epileptic, but the video does look seizure inducing to me.
Plug: Maybe you could try a tiny chrome plugin I wrote:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dont-you-have-anyt...
It's a simple site blocker I made after doing the same /etc/hosts routine a couple of times.
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#24Can we look at the 67 commits and review them?
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#25Cool! I need to try this someday (week). And the video is just pure madness. You might want to add a small warning, though - I'm not an expert nor an epileptic, but the video does look seizure inducing to me. Plug: Maybe you could try a tiny chrome plugin I wrote: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dont-you-have-anyt... It's a simple site blocker I made after doing the same /etc/hosts routine a couple of times…
Eep, anyone know whether a seizure trigger warning might be prudent? It doesn't seem that frenetic to me, but I'm not an expert either. Now I'm really curious if youtube could algorithmically detect that.
PS: Thanks for the pointer to the chrome plugin! You can also do that very well with RescueTime's FocusTime feature, which they happened to just blog about today: http://blog.rescuetime.com/2014/06/19/getting-the-most-out-o...
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#26I'm so terribly jealous of people able to read small fonts. Now that I can finally afford large screen monitors my eyes are so messed up that I need to set the font to 'huge' in order to be able to read (and that's with glasses, 2.5).
What a super way to promote beeminder.com, and a very nice idea for a project.
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#27I'm so terribly jealous of people able to read small fonts. Now that I can finally afford large screen monitors my eyes are so messed up that I need to set the font to 'huge' in order to be able to read (and that's with glasses, 2.5). What a super way to promote beeminder.com, and a very nice idea for a project.
Thank you!! My eyes are not great -- it was a 30" monitor.
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#28I'm so terribly jealous of people able to read small fonts. Now that I can finally afford large screen monitors my eyes are so messed up that I need to set the font to 'huge' in order to be able to read (and that's with glasses, 2.5). What a super way to promote beeminder.com, and a very nice idea for a project.
Thank you!! My eyes are not great -- it was a 30" monitor.
30" here too, I'm sort of ashamed to tell you the point size of my fonts, but it works out to 141x42, screen about 2' away. I sent out a tweet about your project, hope it will get you some signups.
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#29I think I would like to try this. Seeing it done twice has really got me interested in this. I think the key is that you're held accountable for how you spend your time due to the screenshots.
Reminds me of how a guy hired someone to slap him when he got off topic while working:http://hackthesystem.com/blog/why-i-hired-a-girl-on-craigsli...
I don't have a Mac, so I guess I'll have to build the screenshot/webcam stuff myself this weekend.
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#30Congrats Bethany! I am a long time Beeminder user. You guys work hard. I think your tool is amazing, although, I have my ups and downs with it. :) Very proud of you! Keep it up! I owe you a long email with thoughtful feedback.