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Thanks so much for commenting - I think you are right, it should be goal based, but the reason I have mentioned times in the article is because it is hard to say to a family member - oh I can do that after I finish x, when they have no idea what x is or how long it could take.

Thanks so much for commenting 6-5 would be too long for me but kudos that you can do it! :-D

Hi Chris,

Thanks so much for sharing, this is really great stuff. I like the idea of not getting caught up in email too soon in the day :-)

Hi Joshua, thanks so much for your comment.

I like the idea of bite-size deliverables and I make sure to try and communicate to the point of almost over communication.

Hey anon! Thanks so much for writing this.

I love that research - I think I had heard of it or something similar before, certainly something I should take on board.

My hope is that a 2 hour time frame should focus me to work on one task, and if the task is bigger than can be completed in two hours, it probably needs to be split up anyway.

This comment is a huge inspiration, cheers!

Hey Martin, cheers for taking the time to write your thoughts.

Right now I am certainly finding the work more than engaging in fact I kind of have to force myself to stop working in the evenings at the moment!

The converted chapel sounds pretty cool, do you have any pictures or links? (Just being nosy!)

I have always considered my work as one big hobby that I am lucky enough to get paid for.

I love your last line, this is certainly something I want to look out for, and you are right, my fiancee will certainly give me plenty of signals!!

Hey Andrew, thanks so much for commenting.

I actually agree with what you are saying, which may seem at odds to what I have written, but the idea of big breaks in my day was essentially so that I could have this 'useful' time to myself throughout the day.

This is something I am going to be tweaking and changing with time so I am really glad for your input, thanks!

Hi there, thanks for the comment.

I love the idea about working out my own natural rhythm, this is certainly something I want to experiment and tweak over time.

Hey Jonathan, thanks so much for taking the time to comment!

Setting a routine certainly makes sense, I just hope I can stick to it!

Hi Ricardo!

Thanks so much for taking the time to comment.

Very interesting about working Sundays, I guess the reason why I had included Sunday was because I normally spend at least a few hours coding at the weekend so it wouldn't be a big transition for me.

Thanks for the comment!

I have worked 10-16 hour days before and I can say for myself anyway plenty of time during those days is not as productive as it should be - I don't think many people could be productive for that length of time with any regularity.

Have you tried this yourself? Would be interested to hear if this works well for some folk!

Thanks so much for the comment Paul, this isn't something I have experienced yet but I had a feeling that it might be an issue so I have already researched co-working spaces I could invest in should this become an issue.

Thanks for the comment!

I never want to leave the learning phase, it is way too much fun! :-)

I am the author of the blog post, would genuinely love to hear any thoughts or feedback :-)

If you are posting this as a quick hack for remembering stored but forgotten passwords then excellent.

If this is more about browser security, that is expected behavior.

http://examtime.com - it is cool because it is helping people (100,000 so far) study and pass exams.

I have been using this for a short while and wrote them thoughts down:

http://tosbourn.com/2013/10/development/review-whitehat-avia...

Obligatory link to http://howoldistheinter.net/

Just wanted to chime in with my 2 pennies to say I agree 100% with this article.

My feeling is that if social interaction is core enough that it needs to appear on every single page of your site (or at least on core, highly trafficked pages) then the common way of doing this sucks on two levels;

1) Depending on other websites to load content? Madness.

2) Depending on JavaScript to execute core functionality? Pointless.

I have solidified my thoughts better here: http://tosbourn.com/2013/01/development/replacing-social-med...

I have also written up how you can get the functionality without the JS in this github repo https://github.com/tosbourn/nojs-socialshare

I made a porn site.

The bold part of the article was the crux of it;

>> "This extremely efficient mechanism for finding out the exact answer to your question is creating a generation of very efficient, but perhaps not entirely well rounded developers who can churn out code very quickly but perhaps don’t understand the code as well as they should."

It has now been updated with Joel's comment :-)

The post has been updated with Jeff Atwood's opinion, essentially saying it is an old debate and suggestions that good programmers will seek to know more.

I just opened the page up in code inspector and deleted an element, am I going to jail?

I am going to go with: no.

Don't worry guys, crisis averted:

#id { background: blue ! important;}

A very fair point, but surely Task Driven Development is more about how you write something, not about the workflow around it.

That is very true, to be honest my post was food for thought more than a call to action.

I would imagine the amount of commits might actually shrink, because there is more focus to each commit.

You might not know what it is going to be, but you should know what it will do.