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UBlock Origin blocks some of the scripts, disable it.
Can you get uBlock origin on the iPhone?
Firefox Focus is an ad blocker for iOS, free.
Also there's 1Blocker.
It is as if you were doing work
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Re: It is as if you were doing work
#92I love the "busywork" aspect of this game. You work like a drone, doing simple tasks with no intelligence whatsoever. This must be what most people working on a desk must feel like (not sure people on HN can relate to this). It's also a reflection on modern gaming in general. If only some games had busywork as part of their gameplay, they'd feel less tiring and more fun.
> This must be what most people working on a desk must feel like
Out of curiosity - as opposed to?
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#93I wonder how many people input (or almost input) their real username and password in the first screen.
I typed my work username twice. Shows how simple social engineering can be.
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#94This just makes me sad that windows stealing focus, grabbing a randomly typed space bar, and submitting themselves before you can even read them is still a thing.
One of my favorite things about OSX is the fact that applications rarely / never are allowed to steal focus.
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Re: It is as if you were doing work
#95I can totally relate to the superficial points. In my work, I can cut my work to half if I do what I think is best and achieve the same end goals. A big proportion of my work goes to useless things, doing what anyone think is right, and I am instructed to try them all. And even worse, I have to report what I did everyday in nice readable way, due to which I sometimes build temporary things that I know I will have to…
In general I'd expect the backlash from an unsatisfactory daily report to be low, there's a lot of opportunity to coach you and it lets your supervisor coach you/steer you if you've developed an inconsistency. It's also an opportunity to get domain specific knowledge of pitfall you might experience integrating with an existing system.
I think that deliberately making a to-be-scrapped system just to generate some work-done for the report is a waste of your time and you'd be better just making the real progress you can within the day and then reporting on how it's going/what (if anything) is stopping you from making progress; in general I don't think that tasks which take more than a day are expected to be complete.
The report is really about making sure that you're not sitting there unable to make any progress for days/weeks/months at a time resulting in an unexpected failure to deliver at the other end.
HTH.
Re: It is as if you were doing work
#96This just makes me sad that windows stealing focus, grabbing a randomly typed space bar, and submitting themselves before you can even read them is still a thing.
One of my favorite things about OSX is the fact that applications rarely / never are allowed to steal focus.
I rarely, if ever, have focus stolen on my windows machines.
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#97If you tried it out and were a little confused, here's a little blog post about the motivation and development of the "game": http://www.pippinbarr.com/words/2017/06/14/narrative-framing... And some more information in form of a "press" release from the github: https://github.com/pippinbarr/itisasifyouweredoingwork/tree/... I found the "game" to be somehow interesting.
Or just click the "About" icon...
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of my favorite things about OSX is the fact that applications rarely / never are allowed to steal focus.
I rarely, if ever, have focus stolen on my windows machines.
For a while I was using the Rocket.Chat desktop client. Sometimes an alert would just flash the taskbar, other times an alert would steal focus. I couldn't work out why only sometimes.
Re: It is as if you were doing work
#99This just makes me sad that windows stealing focus, grabbing a randomly typed space bar, and submitting themselves before you can even read them is still a thing.
One thing that still happens to me on an infrequent but regular basis is clicking on something I didn't intend because something popped up under my cursor. In general, this seems like a hard problem to solve. I want notifications to pop up but I could happen to be doing something in that area of the screen.