bsoule

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by bsoule 12y ago
I'm terribly old-fashioned and use vim for development. My monolithic window is iTerm2 which allows for split panes. It is pretty nice with my laptop screen below for reference material.
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by bsoule 12y ago
Maniac on building maniac tools! I guess it's kind of Catch-22 isn't it :P
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by bsoule 12y ago
Thank you!! My eyes are not great -- it was a 30" monitor.
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by bsoule 12y ago
It's iTerm2: http://www.iterm2.com/#/section/home
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by bsoule 12y ago
I'm pretty sure that's Strunk and White approved,yo.
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by bsoule 12y ago
I ended up spending an embarrassing amount of time on the post processing because I didn't spend enough time on setup ahead of time :) I used https://github.com/nwinter/telepath-logger to take screenshots. I meant
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by bsoule 12y ago
This was a ton of fun and I'd love to do it, or a modified shorter version of it again. It's hard to shut down the rest of my life for an entire week, but maybe a long weekend. Or I could do a week where the computer is taking scr
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Time-lapse video of Bethany's maniac week of coding(blog.beeminder.com)
96 points by bsoule 12y ago|36 comments
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by bsoule 13y ago
I think you can still commit to one change per day, whether or not you deploy them in batches. It'd be exciting to see the growing list of stuff to look forward to, rather than wait in a void of information. Better for the team buildin
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by bsoule 13y ago
Even if you personally don't need the commitment device because you never get discouraged and always do what you say you will do, I'm pretty sure that the signaling value of this to users is immense. Startups die a lot and it is s
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by bsoule 13y ago
But there's a slider! Slightly more seriously: for us, the premium plans are directed more to the hardcore users who are already committed and love the service, so more choice is maybe less daunting?
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by bsoule 13y ago
You actually have to have entered data on Beeminder in the last month to be considered active. If you haven't, we suppress the charge. So we just do that check every time before charging. Simply logging in isn't enough. And thanks everyone
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by bsoule 13y ago
Also, we just implemented this slightly over a month ago, so no numbers yet on how it is working out.
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by bsoule 14y ago
Http://Beeminder.com takes it a step further and takes your lunch money too if you give up...
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by bsoule 14y ago
We've got an integration with Rescuetime as well so that you can mind productive or unproductive time. If weaseling on commits is an issue you could also just increase the number of commits you're committing to. Arms race between current yo
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by bsoule 14y ago
I'm the Bee in Beeminder. I think that beeminding your github account is going to be amazing for hackers/founders -- a way to force yourself to always be making forward momentum. We've been tracking how much code we write for over a year no
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by bsoule 14y ago
by popular demand: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/50476194/bee_push_01.mov
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by bsoule 14y ago
Ooh! One use we didn't describe in the post is TallyBee -- I added Beeminder integration to a super simple android tally app (it increments a counter every time you touch the screen). Put it on the floor, do pushups. Your nose increments th
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by bsoule 14y ago
nerd attempt at social skills. you don't maximize toothpaste usage with friends!
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by bsoule 14y ago
you use the "makeitso" button under the graph to change your rate.
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by bsoule 14y ago
Gmail is a bit inconsistent about that by default: it shows you the number of individual unread messages, and then the total number of threads , so you can't use subtraction to get an accurate read count. GmailZero gives the number of fu
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by bsoule 14y ago
The problem with leaving things in my inbox is that if I don't deal with it immediately, it quickly disappears in the stream of incoming stuff. So in theory I could "just develop the discipline" to deal with important / worthy items at the
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by bsoule 14y ago
Paul Graham has written a couple things related to the subject of akrasia, namely the acceleration of addictiveness: http://www.paulgraham.com/addiction.html and disconnecting distraction: http://www.paulgraham.com/distraction.html
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Beeminder: Enforced Goal Tracking (quantified self with teeth)(kk.org)
7 points by bsoule 15y ago|0 comments
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by bsoule 15y ago
This is similar to how stores of the same type cluster together. But the sushi analogy may not map to web services, because with sushi you might explicitly seek variety. With a web service of this sort, you get drawn in. They have your cont
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by bsoule 15y ago
Link: http://beeminder.com For more on the background philosophy, check out our inaugural blog post, "How to do what you want: Akrasia and self-binding": http://blog.beeminder.com/akrasia
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by bsoule 15y ago
I think that's kind of the point of the article: When you can afford the worst case, there really isn't any value in certainty.
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by bsoule 15y ago
There's a huge difference between insurance and buying stuff from a store -- at a store I buy things when I have a higher utility for the item than the cost to the manufacturer to produce and sell it to me. Insurance is a zero-sum game. Act
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by bsoule 15y ago
In summary: Instead of trying to decide if a piece of paper is important enough to warrant keeping, just toss it in a box. By the time the box fills up time has decided that question for the bottom half of the stack.