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Re: Productivity Blocker

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Post by tracker1 »

Sebb767 wrote: post #7
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?

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…

Have to admit, the change to Twitter in terms of personality the past few months has been as fun as Twitter around a decade ago... I mean, a lot more snark, memes and generally fun. Not perfect, but definitely more entertaining than when people were getting banned for parody accounts.

Re: Productivity Blocker

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Post by tracker1 »

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

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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.

It varies... I'll often see mention of interesting/useful tools/sites/applications mentioned in more technical discussion. I don't always find these things immediately useful, but often even a year later if I can remember enough to search and find what I was looking for. Sometimes just knowing something exists in extremely useful.

Re: Productivity Blocker

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Post by jasonladuke0311 »

electrondood wrote: post #141
kettleballroll wrote: post #42

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> 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.

HN comments are less sarcastic, cynical, info-free than Reddit comments.

They can be, but not always. For example, any subject even tangentially related to Twitter or Musk summons a spate of low-brow, boilerplate comments.

Re: Productivity Blocker

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Post by teknico »

culanuchachamim wrote: post #128
raspberry1337 wrote: post #114

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I love how it looks that who wrote this got inspired more and more while writing this. He starts with things that you say: Wow, amazing, but totally logical. The he continues with things that you say: Wow, no waaay, Musk is really that crazy? And by the end (the slave/master) you realize it's sarcasm. But hilarious!

And now we cannot read it anymore. Because we must be protected, I guess? :-P

Re: Productivity Blocker

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Post by auggierose »

mattmanser wrote: post #87
auggierose wrote: post #57

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> The greatest trick that javascript ever pulled was to convince the latest generation of programmers that it was fast... By the way, JavaScript IS quite fast. I ported some code from Swift to Typescript recently, and its runtime went down from 15 seconds to 2 seconds. It wasn't a 1-1 port because I improved things, so it is not a fair comparison, but I was very positively surprised.

> It wasn't a 1-1 port because I improved things Hmm, I think we found the reason....

I don't think you did! Doing the same improvements in Swift I wouldn't expect an over seven time speedup. I suspect that the time difference has to do with data structures like hashmaps, which in Swift are defacto immutable, and in JavaScript are not.

Re: Productivity Blocker

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Post by auggierose »

gnrl wrote: post #73
auggierose wrote: post #60

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

And then you feel it's not a waste of time to write a comment on an article you took 3sec to understand and skip?

No, as I just wanted to share my anti-procrastination tool. I also like chatting with HNers (some more than others)!
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