Take a short break in a quiet place • Hacker News Board

Re: Take a short break in a quiet place

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Post by teeray » Tue, Nov 08, 2011, 3:11 PM UTC

mattlong wrote: post #11

Cool idea. I'd use music not associated with a show like Lost. I couldn't relax; was thinking about unanswered Lost questions the whole time...

ah, but I believe it's entirely appropriate. Not to turn this into a Lost discussion, but one of the main themes of the show was redemption. The island was a place where all of the everyday crap was gone and the characters could step back and say, "what the hell am I doing?" I believe that's the intention here as well.

Re: Take a short break in a quiet place

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Post by cannuk » Tue, Nov 08, 2011, 3:52 PM UTC

A good idea. However, the music made me feel as though the title should be "Take a short break in a Tom Hanks movie".

Re: Take a short break in a quiet place

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Post by AznHisoka » Tue, Nov 08, 2011, 5:05 PM UTC

rooshdi wrote: post #42

Whoa...I went to a quiet place and realized there's a potential startup here. Like a LaunchRock for "Do Nothing" sites. Someone take a stab at it before I do.

make it a neural social network where ppl take breaks to meditate together. It'd be an app or a device like Fitbit that measures the frequency or whatever of your energy and takes the aggregate of everyone participating and shows a visualization of it.

Re: Take a short break in a quiet place

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Post by etruong42 » Tue, Nov 08, 2011, 5:31 PM UTC

Sorry. Forcing myself to take a break is just like forcing myself to work. Something to be avoided. I think we are misinterpreting the Taoist concept of "do nothing" which I think inspires a lot of these sentiments that "we should take breaks". "Do nothing" means to do what comes so naturally to us that it feels like "doing nothing". We simply allow our actions to play itself out, just like we allow our body to breathe.

Re: Take a short break in a quiet place

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Post by kellyreid » Tue, Nov 08, 2011, 6:50 PM UTC

now that we're back to normal, share this on all the social media i've just condemned and give me money.

that ruined it for me. but I'm glad he reassured me it wouldn't be a site that meant to scare the shit out of me!

Re: Take a short break in a quiet place

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Post by Timothee » Tue, Nov 08, 2011, 7:14 PM UTC

Too wrote: post #63

iradik wrote: post #30

I thought that was awesome. Discovering this on info-fueled hacker news made it more special. I'd make several changes: #1 Fix the F-11 message. Is this an IE thing? Do a browser detect, and display the right message. #2 Get rid of the share on Twitter links at the end. just tacky. #3 Get rid of the countdown. 30s break is cool, but countdown display speeds time up. Make the countdown hidden. If the user presses spac…

#1 Fix the F-11 message. Is this an IE thing? Do a browser detect, and display the right message. No, it's an IE, Firefox, Chrome and Opera-thing. All browsers use F11 for fullscreen and i don't think there's an api for reading which button they use anyway. :P

There isn't an API for that, but it's super easy to check the current browser/platform and update the text accordingly.

And you don't really need any library: http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/obj_navigator.asp

Re: Take a short break in a quiet place

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Post by mindslight » Tue, Nov 08, 2011, 7:33 PM UTC

icebraining wrote: post #60

This would have more effect on me if I had a Twitter account. Or Facebook. Or Google+. Or if my phone "rang" more than a couple times per day, if that. Or if I had notifications for my email. Seriously, I can't stand those. It's not willpower; it's a physical aversion to being interrupted. Oh, and to relax I like either to kill the lights and listen to some Jazz, or to watch people on the street. Reading stuff isn't…

But what prompted you to cancel all those accounts you were born with? And how can you stand not knowing how each of your acquaintances is currently distracting themselves from their reality? Maybe you have some blogs or twitstreams I could subscribe to that would help me lead a simpler life?

I think the original site says more about the author (and those that find it insightful) than anything else. You're getting possibly multiple 'notifications' per minute and it just now occurs to you that it might be suboptimal? Sigh.

Re: Take a short break in a quiet place

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Post by polshaw » Tue, Nov 08, 2011, 8:20 PM UTC

Skillset wrote: post #65

Meditation breaks are great, as is occasionally disconnecting from the matrix. But I'm not sure clicking through text on a website is the most effective way to accomplish this. I'd say you're better off stretching for a minute or doing some light callisthenics. Perhaps while blasting doom metal.

Amen.

Take a break. By staying at your computer screen, reading a bunch of text and pressing space bar. Then stare at your computer screen for 30 seconds more; you clearly don't do enough of that. PS: Quiet place not actually quiet.

OR you could, you know, go stretch your legs? rest your eyes from staring at a screen? Not be lectured about twitter et al by a website?? Maybe even outside?

Sorry if i'm harsh, but this is the definition of 'solution looking for a problem'.