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Re:ShowHN: I built a piggybank to dripfeed a new MacBook by smurfy on Thursday October 03, 2013 @10:06AM (#6488953)
I think its a really good idea. It would be cool if you could have an on/off switch to make pausing more difficult. For instance, I know that for myself, as soon as I wanted to spend that money I was saving, I would just pause the service. But if I could make it harder to do that (I.E. make it so I have to do several prompts to pause it, answer some math problem or something that would take me more than 5 seconds to open an app and hit pause), I would certainly turn that on for myself.

Just bouncing an idea out.

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Re:ShowHN: I built a piggybank to dripfeed a new MacBook by 27percent on Thursday October 03, 2013 @10:10AM (#6488982)
Good point, I went into building it with total ease of use in mind, maybe I should build a 'protect me from myself' feature into the settings :P
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Re:ShowHN: I built a piggybank to dripfeed a new MacBook by smurfy on Thursday October 03, 2013 @10:13AM (#6489000)
You could set up security questions for yourself. Like you have to input an answer to "Why do I want this MacBook", and, "Why is this MacBook more important than a latte this morning".

Lol

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Re:ShowHN: I built a piggybank to dripfeed a new MacBook by jack-r-abbit on Thursday October 03, 2013 @12:21PM (#6490000)
Take the old Windows approach. "Do you want to pause?" "Are you sure?" "Are you really sure?" "Are you really, really sure?" (repeat this a few dozen times)
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