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Impossible for the HN crowd: Do nothing for 2 minutes
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#92Strangely "Fails" for me every 3 seconds (Chrome stable, Windows Vista, Vimium installed).
Mine does the same (Chrome+WinXP). Makes it incredibly hard to sit through when it's yelling Fail at me every time the counter gets to 1:57 regardless of me not actually doing anything. I only think I could sit through about 30 seconds of it flashing Fail until I left (tempted to debug, but too busy with work). I also briefly wondered if that was the test -- to sit through the buggy countdown clock without trying to troubleshoot why it's broken, if that's the test, I failed.
Re: Impossible for the HN crowd: Do nothing for 2 minutes
#93I 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…
I'm pretty sure I saw this on HN before, but... http://breckyunits.com/when_forced_to_wait_wait
My day job involves running simulations that take days to run. This has, unfortunately, made me into an epic multitasker, and keeping track of all the things I'm doing at any given time taxes my brain.
I don't think the "when forced to wait, wait" strategy would work well for me.
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#94reminds me of zenmoo.. .
your typing detracts from your enlightenment
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#95This would be a lot more difficult if it weren't for the sound and image - it occupied parts of my mind that would go crazy without any stimulation for that long.
I turned the sound off, and noticed that I have several species of birds singing in the background here.
Also the clock on my wall is really loud.
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#96Strangely "Fails" for me every 3 seconds (Chrome stable, Windows Vista, Vimium installed).
Mine does the same (Chrome+WinXP). Makes it incredibly hard to sit through when it's yelling Fail at me every time the counter gets to 1:57 regardless of me not actually doing anything. I only think I could sit through about 30 seconds of it flashing Fail until I left (tempted to debug, but too busy with work). I also briefly wondered if that was the test -- to sit through the buggy countdown clock without trying to…
FYI, if I open the page in Chrome with cursor outside of the screen it counts down to 0, if my mouse is within the screen, it says Fail at about 1:57 continuously.
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#97This used to be impossible for me too. Even on adderall this would have been fairly challenging at times. Recently however my stress level was getting so bad that I started looking for ways to remain calm, even under extreme pressure. Long story short, I came across a book on Amazon called "Zen Meditation and Wisdom for a Better Life: A Gift to Busy People, Regardless of Religion". I'm a skeptic when it comes to "Rel…
I don't see how meditation is connected to religion.
Religions want you to seek answers from them.
Meditation encourages you to seek answers from within.
Re: Impossible for the HN crowd: Do nothing for 2 minutes
#98This used to be impossible for me too. Even on adderall this would have been fairly challenging at times. Recently however my stress level was getting so bad that I started looking for ways to remain calm, even under extreme pressure. Long story short, I came across a book on Amazon called "Zen Meditation and Wisdom for a Better Life: A Gift to Busy People, Regardless of Religion". I'm a skeptic when it comes to "Rel…
Along with the viewpoint of being skeptic about religious stuff, I can most certainly understand. But of all these religions that exist, there must be some sort of truth between them all, considering the many congruencies. One document I have been treading through is this one: http://hermetic.com/crowley/book-4/aba1.html The premise that is argued is a very strong one, being "Is there any truth at all in the claims o…
Perhaps somebody can explain why the downvote...
Meditation, for those that could actually pass the 2:00 timer, is directly relevant as it is all the books referred to by the Amazon link. And I posted an interesting critique and comparison of techniques to possibly use in doing meditation.
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#99This used to be impossible for me too. Even on adderall this would have been fairly challenging at times. Recently however my stress level was getting so bad that I started looking for ways to remain calm, even under extreme pressure. Long story short, I came across a book on Amazon called "Zen Meditation and Wisdom for a Better Life: A Gift to Busy People, Regardless of Religion". I'm a skeptic when it comes to "Rel…
Along with the viewpoint of being skeptic about religious stuff, I can most certainly understand. But of all these religions that exist, there must be some sort of truth between them all, considering the many congruencies. One document I have been treading through is this one: http://hermetic.com/crowley/book-4/aba1.html The premise that is argued is a very strong one, being "Is there any truth at all in the claims o…
You may also be interested in http://www.timecube.com/ or perhaps some beachfront property?
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#1001. 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.
Even worse than rickrolling: it's facebook whoring (Like it! 2755 likes! Register to see what your friends like! Spread the calm! [twitter logo] [facebook logo]) which I find quite jarring.