Not counting down using Opera (Linux, 11.00 build 1156), that said, very nice timeout this(Using Chromium).
works fine in 11.01 1164.
Impossible for the HN crowd: Do nothing for 2 minutes
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Re: Impossible for the HN crowd: Do nothing for 2 minutes
#42I could only do this after writing some enterprise Java code.
Re: Impossible for the HN crowd: Do nothing for 2 minutes
#43Out 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…
Great idea, thanks. I'll add it. At the moment we're looking at the average time on site stats.
Great! One more thought I had: also track whether the failure was due to the mouse or keyboard. When you have gathered a decent number of results I will be very interested to see a blog post with some nice graphs.
Re: Impossible for the HN crowd: Do nothing for 2 minutes
#441. The birds aren't moving. This is driving me insane.
2. I stopped because I became paranoid that with 0:15 seconds, the website was going to rick-roll me.
Re: Impossible for the HN crowd: Do nothing for 2 minutes
#45For added difficulty, try thinking nothing for two minutes. For experienced meditators, this shouldn't be hard, but for the rest of us it's a real challenge.
Re: Impossible for the HN crowd: Do nothing for 2 minutes
#46I was just thinking about the fact that much of my work requires me to pause for a short time -- while building my project, or running a query, or launching the huge honkin' java webapp and waiting for 10 billion classes to initialize -- but the pause is too short to make a useful context switch, and too long to simply wait through without getting bored. So typically, I often check e-mail, HN, or whatever, but then e…
Actually, that's one of my biggest problems when it comes to productivity. The REPL (read-eval-print loop) takes too long because the unit tests take too long to run, or the environment takes too long to load.
Recently, I took a day to tackle this problem for myself, and I've found that I'm just much more productive when I'm stuck in a quicker REPL loop, rather than when I need to wait and stare out the window--and then I get distracted.
Re: Impossible for the HN crowd: Do nothing for 2 minutes
#47thx for the feedback guys, i'm particularly liking the tracking of fails in GA (cc coderholic!)
Re: Impossible for the HN crowd: Do nothing for 2 minutes
#48I'll sit on this page.. while I write code in 3 different SSH terms, run wireshark, listen to DI.fm, use firebug, while talking to a person in a neighboring cube.
Re: Impossible for the HN crowd: Do nothing for 2 minutes
#49At the end there's a link to an Amazon page with related book titles, but unfortunately the page is down. Lots of missed affiliate revenue.
Re: Impossible for the HN crowd: Do nothing for 2 minutes
#50I'm going to need a reason "why" I should do this.