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   by dreeves 7y ago

   It's true! http://blog.beeminder.com/autocancel
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   by dreeves 7y ago

   Irony Of The Day: I realized a critical problem in the post about bug reports. We originally listed the three pieces of a Proper Bug Report as "what you did", "what you expected", and "what you saw" but that mi
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   How You Talk Yourself Out of Reporting a Bug(blog.beeminder.com)

   18 points by dreeves 7y ago|3 comments
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   by dreeves 7y ago

   I believe the definitions you get by googling "define $WORD" are especially horrible. In fact I have a whole diatribe about this... http://doc.dreev.es/dicked As a teaser, here are some of the google definitions I
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   Tracking My Personal Reliability(blog.beeminder.com)

   1 points by dreeves 7y ago|0 comments
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   by dreeves 8y ago

   Beeminder taking this to characteristic extremes: https://blog.beeminder.com/waisted
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   by dreeves 8y ago

   Ha! Can we use that footnote in our marketing copy? :)
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   by dreeves 8y ago

   This looks beautiful! Here's a related tool my friends made: http://partifi.org
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   by dreeves 8y ago

   Even more relevant: The Beeminder Android app has a tally counter built in. :) (I use it mainly to count pushups by putting my phone on the floor and touching my nose to the phone with each pushup.)
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    by dreeves 8y ago

    Ha, thanks for saying that. My mother had the same reaction and I assumed she was just being obtuse but now that a commenter on Hacker News has said it I'm going to assume there's genuine ambiguity there and add a little prescript
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    by dreeves 8y ago

    Highly relevant: https://blog.beeminder.com/bites/ (about tracking bites of food and committing to a max number per day)
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    by dreeves 8y ago

    disapprobatory throat-clearing noises http://forum.beeminder.com/t/natrium/4122
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    by dreeves 8y ago

    On Twitter they just said it was a power outage in Newark: https://twitter.com/linode/status/1019731939501096961
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    by dreeves 8y ago

    I hear that. But followup question! What do you think of commitment devices (like Beeminder!) for imposing discipline on oneself?
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    by dreeves 8y ago

    2633 User-Visible Improvements and counting! We've averaged exactly 1 per day for over 7 years. :) We also tweet them all to http://twitter.com/beemuvi
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    by dreeves 9y ago

    Thanks for the plug! In theory being poor just makes Beeminder all the more effective. :) You can cap the amount at risk at $5 and have it be plenty motivating to stay on track. Actually the first derailment is $0 so if you're extra po
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    by dreeves 9y ago

    Thanks for the awesome Beeminder plug! Anxious to hear if it continues to work for months and years. There's a great discussion of Gretchen Rubin's Four Tendencies in the Beeminder forum: http://forum.beeminder.com&#x2F
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    by dreeves 9y ago

    Ooh, I hadn't known about that one! Here's a similar one whose founder I can vouch for: https://bossasaservice.life/
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    by dreeves 9y ago

    At risk of meta-overload, our startup wouldn't exist but for doing this! http://messymatters.com/uvi/
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    by dreeves 9y ago

    Ah, yes, my assumption is that you can derive the same amount of motivation with a non-evil beneficiary by just jacking up the amount at risk. Like donating $1 to the KKK is extremely aversive but you're equally motivated to avoid givi
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    by dreeves 9y ago

    You know how the customers who pay the least are the most work? Well this idea creates customers who literally pay a negative amount. My sense from the erstwhile GymPact -- https://blog.beeminder.com/gympact/ -- is tha
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    by dreeves 9y ago

    Good points, but I don't think we need assumptions that strong. For example, if democrats donate to the republican party as an anti-charity and republicans donate an equal total to the democratic party, then probably democrats and repu
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    by dreeves 9y ago

    Here are all the other similar such apps we know of: http://blog.beeminder.com/competitors
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    by dreeves 9y ago

    Our (Beeminder's) counterargument: https://blog.beeminder.com/anticharity/ Excerpt: Take my thoughts on this with a huge grain of salt, given my conflict of interest, but I really dislike commitment devices that d
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    by dreeves 9y ago

    It's because of our gmailzero.com integration where you can mind your Gmail inbox. But, yes, it's super dumb that we don't separate out those permissions and are freaking people out by asking for them just to sign up... Thank
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    by dreeves 9y ago

    Woo-hoo! Thanks for the Beeminder plug!
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    by dreeves 9y ago

    Hi Kyle! I'm a fan of Aaron Swartz's timeless advice to avoid news altogether: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews If you can't help yourself and want to find out about a big news event, check Wiki
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    by dreeves 9y ago

    Correct. We have them listed in the graveyard section. (Thanks for pointing out that it looked like a dead link. I shall edit the post more carefully to make that clearer!)
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    by dreeves 9y ago

    This seems like a good excuse to plug Beeminder but I'll try to be at least slightly less self-promotional and point to our collection of all our competitors who offer commitment device apps of various kinds: http://blog.bee
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    by dreeves 9y ago

    I'm a cofounder of the startup being torn to shreds in this piece and delighted to answer questions!