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I like the separate computer concept. Is there a way to make that more practical for people who are developing websites on their primary computer? I'd like to b
by tonystubblebine 18y ago
I like the separate computer concept. Is there a way to make that more practical for people who are developing websites on their primary computer? I'd like to be able to get at the websites I own and the core documentation at least. I feel like you could co-opt some of these child-safe browsing tools to only let you on to the sites that were necessary for work. Maybe this could be the next step for rescuetime--only let me on to sites that I said were productive.
- umjames 18y agoAlso what if you use Google to find answers to your coding-related questions? That could take you to any random website.
- nsrivast 18y agoI think restricting to Google and Wikipedia (or sites directly accessed through Google or Wikipedia) would cover 99% of my productive use of the internet.
- hhm 18y agoThis is an interesting business idea: a search engine that is free of distractions, for coders.
- umjames 18y agoAren't Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood working on something like that with stackoverflow.com? I'm not saying there can be only one though.
- tomjen 18y agoYou could have the work computer get a filtered internet connection through the "internet computer" similar to the way some companies filter the internet.
- byrneseyeview 18y agoView cache.
- mechanical_fish 18y agoOne wonders how hard it would be to hack up a tool that enforced a time limit on sites that were flagged (by you, in Rescuetime) as time-wasters. You know, after 15 minutes on slashdot.org the hosts file gets rewritten to automatically rickroll all requests to slashdot. I'm not sure if RescueTime has a public API, but I think it already has the triggers and warnings and feeds that you would need to drive this.
- lupin_sansei 18y agoThere's already a good Firefox extension for just this: Leechblock