One could argue that you were just being productive and doing your work.

If only HN would go down at the same time so we really could get a ton of work done!

Go to https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stephenhuey and change noprocrast to yes.

You fucking changed my life.

Come back in a month and let us know if you still have it enabled.

I've had it on for at least a year. 1 hour on, 2 hours off. It usefully slows me down when I get into a "someone is wrong on the Internet" mood.

I also highly recommend Leechblock [1] for Firefox. On my work machine, I have it set to give me an N second delay when visiting a long list of fun sites. As I watch the N seconds tick down, that's enough time for me to ask myself, "Do I really need to look at Facebook now?" Interestingly, N appears to be somewhat variable depending on circumstance. 10 seconds is enough normally, but when I'm not getting enough exercise or am dealing with work I don't want to do, N goes higher.

I also am currently loving Kanban Flow [2]. It's a Kanban board that has a built-in Pomodoro timer. (Briefly, the Pomodoro method involves working in 30-minute blocks with a mandatory 5-minute break. At the end it asks you if you've been focused; if you are, you get credit for the time.

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/leechblock/ [2] http://kanbanflow.com/

i endured 2 weeks

I did none of the sort. Whoever invented and implemented this feature did. It's too bad it's hidden in plain site.

Pun intended?

Of course!.. Also what pun?

'plain site' rather than 'plain sight', and this is a website. I guess.

Lack of coffee + autocorrect = typo.

Ha! I never knew about that as well. Just enabled it :)

For the arguments sake, it could also be the other way around if their work mainly involved answering emails.

Note: When I was writing this comment and probably unintentionally DDOSing the Gmail servers together with who knows how many people by pressing F5, it came back to life.