Impossible for the HN crowd: Do nothing for 2 minutes

Post by paraschopra » Thu, Jan 20, 2011, 6:32 PM UTC

coderholic wrote: post #32

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…

Great idea, thanks. I'll add it. At the moment we're looking at the average time on site stats.

Post by coderholic » Thu, Jan 20, 2011, 6:32 PM UTC

martinkallstrom wrote: post #16

Succeeds easily on ipad. No sound though..

Post by thisisblurry » Thu, Jan 20, 2011, 6:34 PM UTC

Post by mebassett » Thu, Jan 20, 2011, 6:39 PM UTC

msluyter wrote: post #21

I 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…

Post by jcromartie » Thu, Jan 20, 2011, 6:42 PM UTC