Get-shit-done - Easy way to stop distractions • Hacker News Board

Re: Get-shit-done - Easy way to stop distractions

#51

Post by m0wfo » Wed, May 04, 2011, 4:58 PM UTC

This will obviously leave me continuously trying to access hacker news while preventing me from doing so. My continued attempts will block all other operations [i.e. work] hence creating a race condition.

Far preferable is the event-driven technique whereby I make a cursory attempt at doing some real stuff until the HN bot tweets something of fleeting interest, at which point I defer said real stuff to a background thread to be completed in an asynchronous fashion.

Re: Get-shit-done - Easy way to stop distractions

#52

Post by tgandrews » Wed, May 04, 2011, 5:04 PM UTC

adnam wrote: post #34

I once wrote a similar script which was configurable and it installed as a service. It would periodically scan /etc/hosts to check I wasn't cheating. $ sudo /etc/inid.d/procrastination-ctl start OK. $ sudo /etc/inid.d/procrastination-ctl stop You need to wait 59 minutes before you can stop. Managed to waste a whole day on that one.

> Managed to waste a whole day on that one

I love the irony.

Re: Get-shit-done - Easy way to stop distractions

#53

Post by yeag123 » Wed, May 04, 2011, 5:32 PM UTC

A Chrome extension that I use pretty regularly for this sort of thing is Stay Focused: http://goo.gl/gHWFQ

Re: Get-shit-done - Easy way to stop distractions

#54

Post by sriram_sun » Wed, May 04, 2011, 5:58 PM UTC

I'd call it git-er-done

Re: Get-shit-done - Easy way to stop distractions

#55

Post by lani » Wed, May 04, 2011, 6:27 PM UTC

tgandrews wrote: post #52

adnam wrote: post #34

I once wrote a similar script which was configurable and it installed as a service. It would periodically scan /etc/hosts to check I wasn't cheating. $ sudo /etc/inid.d/procrastination-ctl start OK. $ sudo /etc/inid.d/procrastination-ctl stop You need to wait 59 minutes before you can stop. Managed to waste a whole day on that one.

> Managed to waste a whole day on that one I love the irony.

that's just investment....

Re: Get-shit-done - Easy way to stop distractions

#56

Post by lani » Wed, May 04, 2011, 6:28 PM UTC

oh no !! i checked the list of sites being blocked, now have more of them to check up on ....

Re: Get-shit-done - Easy way to stop distractions

#57

Post by rbarooah » Wed, May 04, 2011, 6:32 PM UTC

Safari users might like http://www.mindfulbrowsing.com

Re: Get-shit-done - Easy way to stop distractions

#58

Post by yblokhin » Wed, May 04, 2011, 6:48 PM UTC

tgandrews wrote: post #52

adnam wrote: post #34

I once wrote a similar script which was configurable and it installed as a service. It would periodically scan /etc/hosts to check I wasn't cheating. $ sudo /etc/inid.d/procrastination-ctl start OK. $ sudo /etc/inid.d/procrastination-ctl stop You need to wait 59 minutes before you can stop. Managed to waste a whole day on that one.

> Managed to waste a whole day on that one I love the irony.

yep, pure gold of a punchline

Re: Get-shit-done - Easy way to stop distractions

#59

Post by idonthack » Wed, May 04, 2011, 6:50 PM UTC

Is this really worthy of HN frontpage? Seriously, who among us couldn't write something similar in 5 minutes or less?

Re: Get-shit-done - Easy way to stop distractions

#60

Post by dananjaya86 » Wed, May 04, 2011, 7:24 PM UTC

A crude implementation of Get-shit-done in Python. https://github.com/dananjayavr/get-shit-done