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Not even making a joke, I literally just had one of my most productive before i go to work mornings in a while. I went to HN, saw the error... said "darn", the

by swalsh 13y ago

Not even making a joke, I literally just had one of my most productive before i go to work mornings in a while. I went to HN, saw the error... said "darn", then went and finished a document i've been putting off. so ummm... thanks to whoever is responsible for the DDoS

neals 13y ago
Was just wondering why everybody here was actually doing something.
Vivtek 13y ago
Uptick in the tech sector today, eh?
- ben336 13y ago
  It was canceled out by Stack Overflow and Bitbucket also being down this morning.
andyhmltn 13y ago
I have to admit, the usual hour binge of the frontpage this morning was a LOT more productive
__voidcast__ 13y ago
Haha...I feel you man, I've been trying to complete this course on Coursera & only today did I actually complete a full week of it after seeing HN was down !!!
- miaumiau 13y ago
  We should setup some iptables script to block it except at lunch time :)
hugofirth 13y ago
I Can testify to the effectiveness of this. I had been putting off reading a growing pile of papers. I might try building a chrome extension which embeds my todo list above the HN header - guilt myself into productivity haha.
- emhart 13y ago
  Hah! That's not a bad idea actually. Maybe extend it a bit so that it will only show you X# of posts until an item is checked off the todo. Get them all checked off and you can see everything on the front page again? Personally, I can ignore a checkbox, but I have a very hard time lying to one.
melling 13y ago
Yep, for some reason people keep making the same mistakes with their time. I always try to keep in mind Donald Knuth's "Getting to the bottom of things attitude" to help me when I need to focus. http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/07/15/getting-to-the-bottom-of-things/ http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/07/15/getting-to-the-bott...
gedrap 13y ago
You should turn the noprocast option on in the settings!
goshx 13y ago
Man, I even had breakfast before coming to work!
segmondy 13y ago
If HN is such a distraction, activate the noprocrast option in your preferences.
- bolder88 13y ago
  It's still too easy to get around that. There's no way to get around "The site is down / ddos'ed"
mathattack 13y ago
I was thinking similar. :-) Productive mornings everywhere!
pacemkr 13y ago
My most precious productivity tip: # Productivity 127.0.0.1 mail.google.com 127.0.0.1 gmail.com 127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com 127.0.0.1 www.bbc.co.uk 127.0.0.1 netflix.com 127.0.0.1 www.youtube.com 127.0.0.1 boingboing.net 127.0.0.1 xkcd.com ... I've been doing this for a while. I didn't make an app to customize this list. Nor am I going to spend the next twenty minutes explaining why it works for me. It works for me. =)
- praveer13 13y ago
  no reddit? You're lucky. Don't go there.
  - tankbot 13y ago
    They probably left reddit out of the list since it's kind of a dirty word on HN. :)
    - Diamons 13y ago
      Wait, why? Isn't Reddit funded by HN?
- eitland 13y ago
  Esp effective if you are doing web development on local machine. Oops, I just started to work.
  - aespinoza 13y ago
    That is so funny, but it is true...specially for web devs. (Myself included)
  - antsar 13y ago
    Or on a remote machine, just set it to that IP (assuming your project is the default/only vhost). Now that I mention it, I think I'll try that.
- kunai 13y ago
gioele 13y ago
> When you go offline, that equation changes. You have to be active. Since you can’t input, you output. If you don’t do something, nothing happens. > So turn AirPort off. Or go to a coffeeshop without wifi. Resist the siren song of being connected (for a couple of hours at least) and watch your productivity skyrocket. http://37signals.com/svn/posts/80-get-off http://37signals.com/svn/posts/80-get-off
hgezim 13y ago
It seems that you really could use something like http://www.HNdigest.com http://www.HNdigest.com (it sends you a daily email with the top posts). (BTW, I run it :))

by swalsh 13y ago

neals 13y ago

Was just wondering why everybody here was actually doing something.

Vivtek 13y ago

Uptick in the tech sector today, eh?

ben336 13y ago
It was canceled out by Stack Overflow and Bitbucket also being down this morning.

andyhmltn 13y ago

I have to admit, the usual hour binge of the frontpage this morning was a LOT more productive

__voidcast__ 13y ago

Haha...I feel you man, I've been trying to complete this course on Coursera & only today did I actually complete a full week of it after seeing HN was down !!!

miaumiau 13y ago
We should setup some iptables script to block it except at lunch time :)

hugofirth 13y ago

I Can testify to the effectiveness of this. I had been putting off reading a growing pile of papers. I might try building a chrome extension which embeds my todo list above the HN header - guilt myself into productivity haha.

emhart 13y ago
Hah! That's not a bad idea actually. Maybe extend it a bit so that it will only show you X# of posts until an item is checked off the todo. Get them all checked off and you can see everything on the front page again? Personally, I can ignore a checkbox, but I have a very hard time lying to one.

melling 13y ago

Yep, for some reason people keep making the same mistakes with their time. I always try to keep in mind Donald Knuth's "Getting to the bottom of things attitude" to help me when I need to focus. http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/07/15/getting-to-the-bottom-of-things/ http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/07/15/getting-to-the-bott...

gedrap 13y ago

You should turn the noprocast option on in the settings!

goshx 13y ago

Man, I even had breakfast before coming to work!

segmondy 13y ago

If HN is such a distraction, activate the noprocrast option in your preferences.

bolder88 13y ago
It's still too easy to get around that. There's no way to get around "The site is down / ddos'ed"

mathattack 13y ago

I was thinking similar. :-) Productive mornings everywhere!

pacemkr 13y ago

My most precious productivity tip: # Productivity 127.0.0.1 mail.google.com 127.0.0.1 gmail.com 127.0.0.1 news.ycombinator.com 127.0.0.1 www.bbc.co.uk 127.0.0.1 netflix.com 127.0.0.1 www.youtube.com 127.0.0.1 boingboing.net 127.0.0.1 xkcd.com ... I've been doing this for a while. I didn't make an app to customize this list. Nor am I going to spend the next twenty minutes explaining why it works for me. It works for me. =)

praveer13 13y ago
no reddit? You're lucky. Don't go there.
- tankbot 13y ago
  They probably left reddit out of the list since it's kind of a dirty word on HN. :)
  - Diamons 13y ago
    Wait, why? Isn't Reddit funded by HN?
eitland 13y ago
Esp effective if you are doing web development on local machine. Oops, I just started to work.
- aespinoza 13y ago
  That is so funny, but it is true...specially for web devs. (Myself included)
- antsar 13y ago
  Or on a remote machine, just set it to that IP (assuming your project is the default/only vhost). Now that I mention it, I think I'll try that.
kunai 13y ago

gioele 13y ago

> When you go offline, that equation changes. You have to be active. Since you can’t input, you output. If you don’t do something, nothing happens. > So turn AirPort off. Or go to a coffeeshop without wifi. Resist the siren song of being connected (for a couple of hours at least) and watch your productivity skyrocket. http://37signals.com/svn/posts/80-get-off http://37signals.com/svn/posts/80-get-off

hgezim 13y ago

It seems that you really could use something like http://www.HNdigest.com http://www.HNdigest.com (it sends you a daily email with the top posts). (BTW, I run it :))