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you must have spent _hours_ investigating this guy. wow.

unalone 18y ago
They all posted on the thread. I was in a 3-hour lab class, and happened to notice when they all commented after me. After that, it only took about 20 minutes to check their posting times and write this up. The guy was really not subtle about it.
daveambrose 18y ago
Good for unalone though and I agree with his assessment. It's quite impressive to see this level of commitment to HN. Well done.
- kajecounterhack 18y ago
  Impressive to see this level of commitment? Perhaps. But this "level of commitment" can be extraordinarily unhealthy. I enabled the procrastination feature and I find myself hitting "override" every day. sigh
  - unalone 18y ago
    Wait! Procrastination feature? What's this? I try to take things in shifts. Some days I don't check Hacker News at all: I work on writing and design. But I usually don't write unless I'm absolutely in the mood, and so this is a perfect outlet: it's a great place for me to refine my thoughts, and to talk to people that disagree with me about things. It helps me keep an open mind. And once in a while, I read something here that provokes me to write something new. (I wrote one of my current favorite poems after clicking a link on Reddit, for instance.)
    - delano 18y ago
      In your profile, set noprocrast to yes. maxvisit is the number of minutes you can browse HN per session. minaway is the amount of time you'll have to find something else to do.
      - unalone 18y ago
        Oh, wow. That's excellent. I wish every site had something like that.
  - bloch 18y ago
    Why is there even an override options, given that the point of using the feature would be that you have low selfcontrol? Btw no anti-procrastionation software will ever be useful until it prevents you from changing the OS time... HELP!
    - derefr 18y ago
      I'm guessing it's in case you set minaway to 4294967296.
viggity 18y ago
I know the feeling though: "I... can't... go... to... sleep... someone... is... wrong... on... the ... internet"
- tlrobinson 18y ago
  Obligatory xkcd link: http://xkcd.com/386/ http://xkcd.com/386/

They all posted on the thread. I was in a 3-hour lab class, and happened to notice when they all commented after me. After that, it only took about 20 minutes to check their posting times and write this up. The guy was really not subtle about it.

daveambrose 18y ago

Good for unalone though and I agree with his assessment. It's quite impressive to see this level of commitment to HN. Well done.

kajecounterhack 18y ago
Impressive to see this level of commitment? Perhaps. But this "level of commitment" can be extraordinarily unhealthy. I enabled the procrastination feature and I find myself hitting "override" every day. sigh
- unalone 18y ago
  Wait! Procrastination feature? What's this? I try to take things in shifts. Some days I don't check Hacker News at all: I work on writing and design. But I usually don't write unless I'm absolutely in the mood, and so this is a perfect outlet: it's a great place for me to refine my thoughts, and to talk to people that disagree with me about things. It helps me keep an open mind. And once in a while, I read something here that provokes me to write something new. (I wrote one of my current favorite poems after clicking a link on Reddit, for instance.)
  - delano 18y ago
    In your profile, set noprocrast to yes. maxvisit is the number of minutes you can browse HN per session. minaway is the amount of time you'll have to find something else to do.
    - unalone 18y ago
      Oh, wow. That's excellent. I wish every site had something like that.
- bloch 18y ago
  Why is there even an override options, given that the point of using the feature would be that you have low selfcontrol? Btw no anti-procrastionation software will ever be useful until it prevents you from changing the OS time... HELP!
  - derefr 18y ago
    I'm guessing it's in case you set minaway to 4294967296.

viggity 18y ago

I know the feeling though: "I... can't... go... to... sleep... someone... is... wrong... on... the ... internet"

tlrobinson 18y ago
Obligatory xkcd link: http://xkcd.com/386/ http://xkcd.com/386/