Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by leggomylibro 3143 days ago
Cool - it'd be fun to wear one of these on your sleeve, and glare meaningfully at it when people start droning on about nothing in a meeting or whatever.

Although, it'd also be some embarrassing morbid irony if you run into an accident somewhere.

4 comments

Ooh, I got an even better idea - have it cut a few extra seconds whenever you eat a bunch of unhealthy food, and add a few when you take the stairs instead of the elevator or whatever.

Hook it up to a blood pressure/heart rate/glucose monitor to automate a lot of that...ha, talk about a product that nobody would buy!

I essentially have something like this on my laptop (Chrome new tab) and it was awkward having to explain to the interviewer who saw that on my screen what it was counting down for.
...did you get the job?
Lol no but actually I think I did pretty well on his portion of the interview FWIW. Just set an awkward initial tone that I had to dissipate with some small talk before the actual programming interview.
> Cool - it'd be fun to wear one of these on your sleeve...

... with your time remaining written in big green digits?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Time

A little preachy (and on the nose as far as the haves/have-nots narrative) but overall not a bad movie.