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by dreeves 12y ago
If you're curious about other stuff we use at Beeminder: http://blog.beeminder.com/weusethat
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by dreeves 12y ago
Let's say 5pm Friday to 9am Monday?
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by dreeves 12y ago
Yes, this was all inspired by Nick Winter's epic 120-hour workweek, which he posted a time-lapse video of. Here's a direct link to his video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0qlr22cF14 And while I'm at it, d
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by dreeves 12y ago
Ok, this is too epic to keep putting off! I'm hereby precommitting to a maniac weekend starting tomorrow! I'll reply here with a link to the time-lapse on Monday...
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by dreeves 12y ago
This doesn't seem like much of a milestone to me. If Ray Kurzweil wins this bet against Mitch Kapor, that will be a milestone: http://longbets.org/1/
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by dreeves 12y ago
I too am frustrated by the current selection of Quantified Self gadgets. My wishlist of features for a step counter: 1. Self-charging. The Misfit Shine gets close by using a watch battery that lasts months. 2. Self-syncing. 3. API, of cours
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by dreeves 13y ago
Our rebuttal to the anti-charity idea: http://blog.beeminder.com/anticharity (In short: it's socially inefficient!)
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by dreeves 13y ago
Huge thank you to everyone pointing out Beeminder (I'm a cofounder). Here are all the other such apps we know of: http://blog.beeminder.com/competitors
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Michael Lewis says the market's rigged (High-Frequency Trading)(theguardian.com)
1 points by dreeves 13y ago|0 comments
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by dreeves 13y ago
Great responses to some of the objections! I can add that we do indeed let the kids perceive it as bidding for putting them to bed ("Mommy wins!" etc). On the other hand, we're usually quite honest with them about our prefe
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by dreeves 13y ago
Indeed, that's the Joint Purchase Auction we talk about here: http://messymatters.com/autonomy
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by dreeves 13y ago
Thanks so much for the awesome discussion here, everyone! Here's another example as told by us to the reporter, that didn't make the cut: ("D" is me and "B" is Bethany, my spouse/cofounder) Another funny a
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by dreeves 13y ago
You have no idea how hard you just nailed it. :) Exhibit B: Beeminder itself, which is an almost hilariously elaborate way for us to force our lazy asses to actually get shit done.
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by dreeves 13y ago
You're making us feel like marketing geniuses. :) The reporter is actually a Beeminder user, which is how he knew about me and Bethany and our craziness, and he was happy to agree to our stipulation that the article link to Beeminder.
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by dreeves 13y ago
Here's the full story on that, as told by me and Bethany to the reporter: BETHANY: > Here's another example of real-world yootling: I worked late at the office yesterday and once all our beemergencies were dispatched, we had an
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by dreeves 13y ago
Well... It's more like this: https://xkcd.com/1319/ I might have to concede that the whole thing is untenable unless you actually enjoy geeking out about the game theory and mechanism design and whatnot.
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by dreeves 13y ago
Not if you're game theorists! :) But I don't actually understand that objection. Seems analogous to taking Walt Whitman's side in this exchange: http://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/whitman.html
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by dreeves 13y ago
So good to hear testimonials like that; thank you! As for supporting non-USD currencies, I see Stripe just made that super easy, so we'll probably do it at some point. Thanks for the feedback; nitpickery very much solicited!
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by dreeves 13y ago
Great feedback, thank you! We definitely hear that often and will probably eventually cave and add a charity option. In the meantime, here are our thoughts on combating cheating: http://blog.beeminder.com/cheating
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by dreeves 13y ago
Happy to answer such questions! (I'll ask Bethany to chime in later as well.) I guess at our age (lots of future earning ahead of us, etc) $80k doesn't seem like a big deal. We could actually wipe that debt out immediately by an a
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by dreeves 13y ago
Here was my answer to a similar question on LessWrong: Bethany and I philosophically bite the bullet on this, which is basically ... the wealthy person gets their way all the time and the poor person gets what's to them a lot of money
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by dreeves 13y ago
See also this super nerdy discussion of these nutjobs [1] on LessWrong: http://lesswrong.com/lw/jje/decision_auctions_aka_how_to_fai... [1] Yes, that's actually me and my spouse (also cofounder of http:&#x2F
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The Couple That Pays Each Other to Put Kids to Bed(nbcnews.com)
78 points by dreeves 13y ago|92 comments
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by dreeves 13y ago
Beeminder cofounder here. We're super excited about this integration. Here's our own blog post announcing it as well: http://blog.beeminder.com/codeschool
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Track Your Code School Goals with Beeminder(blog.codeschool.com)
5 points by dreeves 13y ago|2 comments
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by dreeves 13y ago
:) Too funny! Just wanted to explicitly comment in case someone who's just skimming this doesn't realize you're joking. (And I see that the mangled link that was pointing at a version of the page with a dialog box was fixed.
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by dreeves 13y ago
[Eep, I used a bookmarklet to submit this to Hacker News and didn't notice that it submitted it with "?action=upvote" in the query string (how I first reached the page because I clicked the upvote link when I got the blog pos
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by dreeves 13y ago
Love this so much, and it's absolutely persuasive. My startup -- http://beeminder.com -- has been on board conceptually for a while and the only thing holding us back, for now, is the initial work required (as Nick puts it
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Why You Should Open-Source Your Startup(blog.codecombat.com)
80 points by dreeves 13y ago|34 comments
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by dreeves 13y ago
Here's a similar todo-list app that actually charges you money if you don't finish the tasks in time (it integrates with Beeminder, my startup): https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gtbee/id779525180?mt=8

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