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by dreeves 14y ago
I have a question for the community here. Aaron writes "I ask that the contents of all my hard drives be made publicly available." Should we unmask his secret Beeminder goal? http://beeminder.com/aaronsw (Assuming it's nothing embarrassin
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by dreeves 14y ago
Repeating with typos fixed: Aaron is dead. Wanderers in this crazy world, we have lost a mentor, a wise elder. Hackers for right, we are one down, we have lost one of our own. Nurturers, carers, listeners, feede
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by dreeves 14y ago
This seems like a great excuse to pimp my startup! http://Beeminder.com is a goal-tracking tool where you have to keep all your datapoints on a "yellow brick road" to your goal or we charge you (actual money). It's less perverse than it s
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Why gift giving is horrible (but not as horrible as economists think)(messymatters.com)
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by dreeves 14y ago
Great question! Let's see... EVOC: green, especially with the cute tagline, "learning, period" BREV: green or yellow; slightly shorter than wikipedia GREP: green; perfectly greppable GOOG: green; perfectly googlable PRON: green; perfectly p
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by dreeves 14y ago
Shameless plug of my own take on this: http://messymatters.com/nominology Sam Stokes (Rapportive co-founder) called it his "favourite post on naming things". :) Ooh, and Sam's coworker called it "absolutely brilliant". I might be reachi
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by dreeves 14y ago
Just to clarify, he recently moved from Yahoo Research to Microsoft Research when the former imploded. Same with David Pennock and others. The Yahoo folks in New York mostly switched to MSR (founding MSR-NYC) and the folks in California mos
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by dreeves 14y ago
We (Beeminder) just made a tool to force yourself to spread the writing out over the whole month: http://blog.beeminder.com/nanowrimo Would love to hear what people think of it!
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by dreeves 14y ago
You may not need it anymore but my startup is trying to get people to where you've gotten. In the case of NaNoWriMo, the idea is to force yourself to spread out the writing over the whole month: http://blog.beeminder.com/nanowrimo
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by dreeves 14y ago
Ooh, I also made a thing for NaNoWriMo! Namely, a way to force yourself to spread out the writing over the whole month instead of pulling all-nighters at the end to try to catch back up. http://blog.beeminder.com/nanowrimo
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Beemind Your NaNoWriMo Progress(blog.beeminder.com)
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Top contributors to politicians(opensecrets.org)
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by dreeves 14y ago
You're thinking of nomnomology. :)
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by dreeves 14y ago
Great points! But just to list more counterexamples, from another Hacker News thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3181272 I'm pretty pleased with my own similar essay on this topic, which I called "Nominology": http://messymatter
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Inequality and the world economy: True Progressivism(economist.com)
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A Marc Andreessen blog archive(blog.jedchristiansen.com)
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DayScore: simple tool to graph your productivity(ukoki.com)
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by dreeves 14y ago
Ooh, do you know about Beeminder? Cold turkey is probably fine for sugar but if you want to gradually wean yourself, or if you want to build in some flexibility like averaging at most 2 days of the week where you eat sugar (without pre-spec
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by dreeves 14y ago
With the caveat that I'm not a skateboarder (I inline-skate), I don't think your assessment of the braking is right. As the brakes engage you shift your center of gravity back and you end up with, I reckon, even more stopping power than a b
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by dreeves 14y ago
Yay for S.M.A.R.T. goals! See also http://blog.beeminder.com/smart
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by dreeves 14y ago
Thanks, klochner and jmillikin, for setting us straight on this! We're taking both your suggestions: username is returned along with the token as part of the oauthing, and also you can just use "me" in place of the username for any endpoint
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by dreeves 14y ago
Done! Mashape looks really beautiful! Exploring more now.
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by dreeves 14y ago
Oh, interesting! One thing I like about TagTime as it works now is that it captures things like spacing out or getting interrupted by a coworker or other things that you can't infer from screenshots. But for people who don't like getting in
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by dreeves 14y ago
Ah, the idea of TagTime is to be a happy medium between something like RescueTime (where it automatically infers where your time goes based on what app or web page is in the foreground) and manual logging where you explicitly clock in and o
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by dreeves 14y ago
Danny of Beeminder here! Thanks so much for enthusiasm about our API! We're really excited about the things people are cooking up. Especially related to Hacker News, here's my Beeminder graph of HN use over the last year: http://beeminder.
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by dreeves 14y ago
Ooh, have you tried http://beeminder.com ? It tracks arbitrary data and has had export from day one. We even now have streaming export where you can enter a callback URL and mirror all the data Beeminder gets to your own server in real ti
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by dreeves 14y ago
My startup uses matplotlib and I was quite affected reading the story of John Hunter's last days and hours. (It also got my attention as I happen to have an elevated colon cancer risk.) So a small donation is a no-brainer [and done] but I w
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by dreeves 14y ago
We're working on Android and iOS apps! The Android version is actually far enough along that we don't feel too embarrassed pointing more hardcore folks to it. APK at http://dreev.es/ba
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Danny of Beeminder here. Surprisingly this is the first time I've heard that question. No, no connection. Beeminder actually doesn't have a ToDo list aspect (despite having reminders).
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by dreeves 14y ago
Funny you should ask! We just blogged about that tonight: http://blog.beeminder.com/perverse

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