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Re:Gmail was down by IgorPartola on Friday January 24, 2014 @03:10PM (#7117621)
Go to https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stephenhuey and change noprocrast to yes.
Re:Gmail was down by jetru on Friday January 24, 2014 @03:39PM (#7117826)
You fucking changed my life.
Re:Gmail was down by tlrobinson on Friday January 24, 2014 @04:17PM (#7118114)
Come back in a month and let us know if you still have it enabled.
Re:Gmail was down by wpietri on Friday January 24, 2014 @09:11PM (#7119520)
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/

Re:Gmail was down by gcb0 on Friday January 24, 2014 @05:07PM (#7118452)
i endured 2 weeks
Re:Gmail was down by IgorPartola on Friday January 24, 2014 @03:51PM (#7117918)
I did none of the sort. Whoever invented and implemented this feature did. It's too bad it's hidden in plain site.
Re:Gmail was down by shortstuffsushi on Friday January 24, 2014 @08:03PM (#7119342)
Pun intended?
Re:Gmail was down by IgorPartola on Friday January 24, 2014 @09:04PM (#7119501)
Of course!.. Also what pun?
Re:Gmail was down by dbaupp on Saturday January 25, 2014 @12:01AM (#7119914)
'plain site' rather than 'plain sight', and this is a website. I guess.
Re:Gmail was down by IgorPartola on Saturday January 25, 2014 @12:08AM (#7119934)
Lack of coffee + autocorrect = typo.
Re:Gmail was down by piyush_soni on Friday January 24, 2014 @03:59PM (#7117972)
Ha! I never knew about that as well. Just enabled it :)