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I'm not sure that a brand of chocolate-covered carbohydrates sponsoring sedentary behavior like coding is something that should be celebrated. Hours spent codi

by na85 10y ago

I'm not sure that a brand of chocolate-covered carbohydrates sponsoring sedentary behavior like coding is something that should be celebrated. Hours spent coding should be followed or broken up by physical activity, not sugary treats.

awqrre 10y ago
Something like Pokemon Go but for coding would be nice.
- DonHopkins 10y ago
  You have to walk to single step the program counter, and run to execute your code at full speed. Then you can catch your breath at breakpoints. That would be a lot healthier than a high fructose visual programming language like Pocky.
sithadmin 10y ago
>Hours spent coding should be followed or broken up by physical activity, not sugary treats. Yeah, we should force kids to go run laps around the block every time they complete a few dozen lines, or master a new concept. That'll motivate them to learn!
- na85 10y ago
  Downvoting because we disagree, are we? Instead of being caustic why don't you actually rebut my point? We could/should do more to encourage kids to lead a healthy lifestyle and to balance hours sitting at the computer with sports or working out instead of eating unhealthy junk food. Do you really think a company would run this campaign if they didn't think it would result in more kids buying pockys?
  - TeMPOraL 10y ago
    Please calm dawn. Also, why do you assume 'sithadmin downvoted you? Do you have proof? Last time I checked, HN didn't give away the names of downvoters to downvotees. > Do you really think a company would run this campaign if they didn't think it would result in more kids buying pockys? Well of course they run it to increase sales. That's a problem with advertising in general, not with this particular company or campaign idea. Or am I misunderstanding your criticism here?
    - justinlardinois 10y ago
      As far as I know it's actually not possible to downvote comments that are descendants of your own comments.
TeMPOraL 10y ago
Well, you need to fuel your brain somehow. Salad ain't gonna cut it. ;). > Hours spent coding should be (...) broken up by physical activity Please don't. It's hard enough to find two or three hours of uninterrupted time as an adult. Kids and teenagers can pull off impressive feats of quick learning and skill acquisition in big part because they have long stretches of uninterrupted time. Don't take away the opportunity they have.
- josephmx 10y ago
  It's more important to be healthy than to be a great programmer, we should be encouraging physical activity
  - TeMPOraL 10y ago
    For you, maybe. I understand that fitness is growing to become a new mainstream religion in the West, but not everyone wants to participate in this. That said, I'm not saying one should not have a healthy lifestyle. Sure, encourage more physical activity. But for the love of Great Maker, do not break up the time kids spend on intellectual tasks or hobbies into small chunks. You can do fitness rituals in 15-minutes stretches, but you can't do anything that requires any kind of creativity or focus in that time.
    - kiba 10y ago
      You can do fitness rituals in 15-minutes stretches, but you can't do anything that requires any kind of creativity or focus in that time. I do my programming in chunk of twenty minutes at a time. Complete focus, no distraction.
      - deleted 10y ago
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      - TeMPOraL 10y ago
        If you mean Pomodoros, then it doesn't count - the whole idea of "Pomodoro break" is to be short and spent in such a way as to not really break you out of focus. If you can just sit down at random times and immediately code for 20 minutes with full focus, please tell us your secret. It sounds like a superhuman skill.
liquidise 10y ago
Everyone's a critic, huh. Kids will spend time eating snacks and playing video games, as the past couple few decades have proven. Making those video games intellectual is an improvement. Sometimes the answer doesn't have to be the ideal, it just has to be better than the status quo.
DonHopkins 10y ago
Somebody should develop an free open source high fiber visual programming language based on celery stalks, cucumber slices, carrot sticks, cherry tomatoes, avocado slices, and radishes. That will keep your expressions regular!
- TeMPOraL 10y ago
  Needs to be gluten-free to maintain functional purity.
  - DonHopkins 10y ago
    Here's how you represent eight in Binary Corgi Digits. https://i.imgur.com/KKc8qfU.jpg https://i.imgur.com/KKc8qfU.jpg
mhd 10y ago
Make successful. Now gimme 10.

by na85 10y ago

awqrre 10y ago

Something like Pokemon Go but for coding would be nice.

DonHopkins 10y ago
You have to walk to single step the program counter, and run to execute your code at full speed. Then you can catch your breath at breakpoints. That would be a lot healthier than a high fructose visual programming language like Pocky.

sithadmin 10y ago

>Hours spent coding should be followed or broken up by physical activity, not sugary treats. Yeah, we should force kids to go run laps around the block every time they complete a few dozen lines, or master a new concept. That'll motivate them to learn!

na85 10y ago
Downvoting because we disagree, are we? Instead of being caustic why don't you actually rebut my point? We could/should do more to encourage kids to lead a healthy lifestyle and to balance hours sitting at the computer with sports or working out instead of eating unhealthy junk food. Do you really think a company would run this campaign if they didn't think it would result in more kids buying pockys?
- TeMPOraL 10y ago
  Please calm dawn. Also, why do you assume 'sithadmin downvoted you? Do you have proof? Last time I checked, HN didn't give away the names of downvoters to downvotees. > Do you really think a company would run this campaign if they didn't think it would result in more kids buying pockys? Well of course they run it to increase sales. That's a problem with advertising in general, not with this particular company or campaign idea. Or am I misunderstanding your criticism here?
  - justinlardinois 10y ago
    As far as I know it's actually not possible to downvote comments that are descendants of your own comments.

TeMPOraL 10y ago

Well, you need to fuel your brain somehow. Salad ain't gonna cut it. ;). > Hours spent coding should be (...) broken up by physical activity Please don't. It's hard enough to find two or three hours of uninterrupted time as an adult. Kids and teenagers can pull off impressive feats of quick learning and skill acquisition in big part because they have long stretches of uninterrupted time. Don't take away the opportunity they have.

josephmx 10y ago
It's more important to be healthy than to be a great programmer, we should be encouraging physical activity
- TeMPOraL 10y ago
  For you, maybe. I understand that fitness is growing to become a new mainstream religion in the West, but not everyone wants to participate in this. That said, I'm not saying one should not have a healthy lifestyle. Sure, encourage more physical activity. But for the love of Great Maker, do not break up the time kids spend on intellectual tasks or hobbies into small chunks. You can do fitness rituals in 15-minutes stretches, but you can't do anything that requires any kind of creativity or focus in that time.
  - kiba 10y ago
    You can do fitness rituals in 15-minutes stretches, but you can't do anything that requires any kind of creativity or focus in that time. I do my programming in chunk of twenty minutes at a time. Complete focus, no distraction.
    - deleted 10y ago
      [deleted]
    - TeMPOraL 10y ago
      If you mean Pomodoros, then it doesn't count - the whole idea of "Pomodoro break" is to be short and spent in such a way as to not really break you out of focus. If you can just sit down at random times and immediately code for 20 minutes with full focus, please tell us your secret. It sounds like a superhuman skill.

liquidise 10y ago

Everyone's a critic, huh. Kids will spend time eating snacks and playing video games, as the past couple few decades have proven. Making those video games intellectual is an improvement. Sometimes the answer doesn't have to be the ideal, it just has to be better than the status quo.

DonHopkins 10y ago

Somebody should develop an free open source high fiber visual programming language based on celery stalks, cucumber slices, carrot sticks, cherry tomatoes, avocado slices, and radishes. That will keep your expressions regular!

TeMPOraL 10y ago
Needs to be gluten-free to maintain functional purity.
- DonHopkins 10y ago
  Here's how you represent eight in Binary Corgi Digits. https://i.imgur.com/KKc8qfU.jpg https://i.imgur.com/KKc8qfU.jpg

mhd 10y ago

Make successful. Now gimme 10.