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Poll: Allow override of noprocrast?
I recently got rid of the override option on noprocrast. Should I put it back?
- pclark 18y agoYou should lose karma if you override it
- brk 18y agoYou do, in a way. Only you lose real-life karma through diminished possibility for success :) The procrast thing always seemed insanely odd to me. It's trivial to override and it seems like a diet plan akin to writing "don't eat me" on all the junk food in your house. Read HN or do not. There is noprocrast.
- davi 18y agoThe procrast thing always seemed insanely odd to me. Agreed. I imagine an ad, seen by a character in a Philip K. Dick novel: "Noprocrast! The best way for current you to impose your will on future you, guaranteed! For the disciplinarian in all of us, at last, a ready and willing subject!"
- mattchew 18y agoFor those of us that need it, it makes all kinds of sense. Figuring out better ways to control future me is an ongoing project of mine. A couple weeks ago I gave my buddy $20, if I get my app out for sale by the end of the month I get it back, if not he spends it.
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- drawkbox 18y agojust get leechblock for ff3...
- niels_olson 18y agothe downside of that is that web developers tend to have several browsers at their fingertips.
- slashcom 18y agoYes. I want noprocrast on while I'm in lab or doing homework, but I want to be able to override when I'm done.
- metaguri 18y agoI like the feature, and the override. Sometimes I pull up the site and it gently reminds me that I've spent a lot of time reading it lately. Other times it's the weekend or I've left my window open for a while (is this how it works?) and I'd like to get back to the site. I've disabled the feature for now since there's no override.
- andrewljohnson 18y agoI can't believe anyone would actually use such a thing. Discipline, people, discipline.
- aaronblohowiak 18y agoThe best way to acquire or extinguish a habit is with consistent, salient feedback. noprocrast is a tool that helps to remind and reinforce the user of their desire to not procrastinate. i think adding a captcha to the noprocrast page would make it more useful as it would require more thought than a simple click-through, which is easily habituated as well.
- niels_olson 18y agomaybe more like google's gmail googles, where you have to solve 5 2-digit math problems in under 60 seconds. but this time, make them really freaking hard. But, no, I'd just as soon not have override at all.
- hs 18y agoand please get rid of retry button too, doesn't refreshing the page serve the same purpose?
- nostrademons 18y agoCould you get rid of the override when following links from the homepage but allow it when direct-linking into a post? I wouldn't care about the override, except that I often have to refer back to previous topics for some technical advice, or end up coming across news.YC from a Google search. It's really frustrating to hit the noprocrast timeout in those cases, particularly since I'm usually doing work at the time.
- mace 18y agoYou can get around procrast in this case by deleting your HN cookie. The next time you visit you would have to login again.
- my 18y agoI just fucked myself with this. Now I have to wait 5 more hours and can't override it. I learned what noprocrast was the hard way.