Impossible for the HN crowd: Do nothing for 2 minutes

Post by jdavid » Thu, Jan 20, 2011, 5:55 PM UTC

NathanKP wrote: post #26

Out of determination I succeeded, even though by my calculations doing nothing for two minutes cost me $1.60 that I could have made writing code. Of course, I stopped the clock anyway when I clicked on the HN popup notification. Edit: Just looked at the code. The programmer missed a great chance to gather some data. I would have tracked the fail events using Google Analytics so I could see how many fails on average p…

Post by karanbhangui » Thu, Jan 20, 2011, 6:00 PM UTC

Post by cromulent » Thu, Jan 20, 2011, 6:06 PM UTC

abstractbill wrote: post #28

I passed, but it was very hard because I got no waves and so was immediately tempted to view source and find out why not, and also because I kept looking at the horizon of the photo and wondering if it was just me or if it was very slightly tilted down to the right. For extra difficulty, you should throw in more and more things like the above to make ocd people squirm ;)

Post by drhodes » Thu, Jan 20, 2011, 6:07 PM UTC

Post by necolas » Thu, Jan 20, 2011, 6:09 PM UTC

Vivtek wrote: post #12

Failed for unknown reasons three times in a row. Thinking it was noise on my mouse scrollwheel, I took the batteries out of it. I'm gratified to learn this was unintentional. This said, the site is really, really making me think about moving back to Puerto Rico.