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Ask HN: Glad the override feature is gone?

13 pointsprojectileboy12 comments

At first I was vexed that the noprocrast "override" feature was taken away, but since Hacker News has become my main tool for procrastination, I must grudgingly admit I'm happy it's gone. Anyone else?

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Nope, I waited my requisite time and then turned the no-procast option off. So now it doesn't matter at all.

I'm actually not too happy pg did this without some sort of warning. Last time I checked, he wasn't my mother. At any rate problem solved now.

Why would you use a antiprocrastionation feature with a giant loophole? The override made the feature useless. Now it works and I am going to use it.

PG correcting this flaw has absolutely nothing to do with him "being your mother".

"Hey aaron, what do you think of this comment on HN?" Sorry, I can't read it until tomorrow =/

I used it as a guilt trip, not as an effective tool.

I am fine with it being gone, though I must say I was finally starting to exercise self control myself. Maybe he can add an option for "allow over-ride".

No, I was quite annoyed. I only turned it on to help remind me when I might be wasting time, not prevent me from reading HN. Without an override, that feature is useless to me.

If you only need a reminder just set minaway to 1.

Nope. I don't use noprocrast, but I imagine that the set of people who do are heavily skewed towards the more senior members of the HN community -- so removing the override and keeping them locked out is likely to have the effect of lowering the tone of discourse here.

What's the logic here? Aren't senior individuals more able to self-regulate?

I started using noprocrast again now that it is gone. I'm glad it's gone.

Could I suggest an alternative to the maxtime/minaway method?

I was thinking have a set time when you know you are at work, (e.g. 9-5, Monday to Friday (or Saturday you poor soul)) and just have it disabled between that time. Perhaps even have an 'allowance period' that gives you X minutes per day for your break usage.

What happens when you turn it on an you spend too much time on the site? Doesn't load? And isn't the other loophole simple logging out?

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