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rational_ | 7 years ago | on: Turing Tumble – Build Marble-Powered Computers

Someone built a in-browser simulator of Turing Tumble, if you're curious.

https://jessecrossen.github.io/ttsim

rational_ | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: Which daily habit has affected your productivity the most?

Turn off every alert and notification that you can and disable the clock in your menu/task bar. Get in the zone by not letting external things interrupt you all day. Programmers especially need long stretches of uninterrupted time.

Seeing a clock all day brings you out of the present moment - your mind wanders into useless thinking about how many hours until lunch, or until I go home, or even more negatively, "I've been stuck on this problem for x minutes."