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by dreeves 1y ago
Encouraging update on the status page: "The issue is related to heating/cooling complications in the data center due to a power outage . The power outage has been fixed and we are working quickly to bring our services back online.
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by dreeves 1y ago
More assurance that it's not just us: https://downdetector.com/status/linode/ "Mal de muchos, consuela de tontos."
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by dreeves 1y ago
Some signs of life from some of our servers now. Still no word from Linode.
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by dreeves 1y ago
Is this hard downtime for anyone else? We're not sure what they mean by "emerging service issue" and they haven't replied to our support ticket yet.
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by dreeves 1y ago
My counterargument: https://agifriday.substack.com/p/jevons Short version: Jevons's paradox means that the more coding you automate away for developers (like with compilers in the past), the more in-demand those d
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by dreeves 3y ago
That's our (Beeminder's) esteemed, if now somewhat moribund, competitor, StickK. See https://blog.beeminder.com/anticharity for our argument against anti-charities like that.
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by dreeves 3y ago
Hi! Beeminder cofounder here. We do have a charity option but only in our most expensive premium plan. My own feeling is that a commitment contract with a charity as a beneficiary is less effective because what kind of jerk is motivated to
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by dreeves 3y ago
Congrats on the launch! I think this is powerful and handles the use cases you've listed better than Beeminder can currently. So that's exciting for us -- we love worthy competitors! Speaking of which, here's a list of all su
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by dreeves 3y ago
Beeminder cofounder here! Thanks for the plug! So much to say here but maybe I'll start with a pointer to our philosophy on anti-charities: https://blog.beeminder.com/anticharity/ (short version: we hate them).
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by dreeves 4y ago
Ah, this continues to be good feedback. Thanks for continuing to hash it out with me! I see I made it sound like there were a lot of moving parts in my argument for why our incentives aren't so perverse. I don't think that's
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by dreeves 4y ago
Hi! Beeminder cofounder here! I'm pretty excited to see all the positive comments but of course I've homed in on this negative one first. I think Beeminder is incentivized to make you fail at your goals the same way eBay sellers a
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by dreeves 4y ago
Thanks for the plug! See also https://blog.beeminder.com/competitors
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by dreeves 4y ago
Scott Aaronson adds the following in the comment on his blog post in response to a question about this: > the NDA is about OpenAI’s intellectual property, e.g. aspects of their models that give them a competitive advantage, which I don’t
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by dreeves 5y ago
> In my opinion these automated solutions seldom work in the long run Beeminder cofounder here. Can I hear more about why you think this? There are definitely people for whom Beeminder doesn't work at all but you sound like you&#x
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by dreeves 5y ago
Oh! Beeminder's not actually affiliated with TaskRatchet. We're just friends with the creator of it and have promoted it a lot and have an autodata integration with it, etc. See https://blog.beeminder.com/taskratch
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by dreeves 5y ago
I'm not sure if it ends up too in-the-weeds but we had a fun debate with one of our Beeminder-but-on-the-blockchain competitors recently: https://forum.beeminder.com/t/decentralization-debate-beemin... Very short
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by dreeves 5y ago
Here's our counterargument, or at least why Beeminder prefers punishment: https://blog.beeminder.com/contrapositive/ Relevant bit: This sounds good but we’re not into it. I mean, first, we do have plenty of positi
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by dreeves 5y ago
Happy to answer such questions! By disputes I believe @hackandtrip means customers disputing charges with their credit card company. Aka chargebacks. Beeminder gets zero credit card disputes because we give people a chance to contest their
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by dreeves 5y ago
Definitely don't be discouraged by the existence of StickK! They technically already have the referee feature (that being your key distinction from Beeminder, which has a much less powerful version of that feature) but everything else
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by dreeves 5y ago
Good point! I mean, I don't know if I'd say that makes lifetime plans themselves a dark pattern. It's demonstrating a lot of faith in the company to buy one. Hopefully Beeminder is proving itself worthy of that faith!
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by dreeves 6y ago
We don't feel awkward about it! We're leaning into it hard. See https://blog.beeminder.com/focus and https://blog.beeminder.com/defail But it's definitely not for everyone! If your reaction t
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by dreeves 6y ago
Good questions; I don't have good answers! Various people have taken a stab at it, suffered 90%-done syndrome, and, yeah. As for myself, I have 70 ttc pings (52.5 hours of work) pretty much exclusively on project management type stuff,
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by dreeves 6y ago
To clarify, by "subsume the janky Perl version" I did not mean touching any Perl code!
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by dreeves 6y ago
Nice work! I have no idea if this could fit into your roadmap (and this is probably the kind of feature request you should absolutely say no to) but my partner and I made a thing called TagTime that does time-tracking via random sampling (p
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by dreeves 6y ago
Thanks for this recommendation! If it has a commitment device aspect to it, I'll add it to our list of competitors at http://blog.beeminder.com/competitors
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by dreeves 6y ago
I think there are a million tricks and my top meta-trick would be to ask that question in the Beeminder forum. Just asking it will get you engaged with the community there and serve as additional motivation to stay on the wagon. Analytics-w
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by dreeves 6y ago
First question: did you know that with Beeminder you can schedule arbitrary breaks in your commitment/graph? They do have to be scheduled with a week of lead time. (Of course you can also take the hit and get, by default, a week of res
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by dreeves 6y ago
I can rattle off half a dozen things to stop someone from doing that! 1. It ruins the Quantified Self aspect. You don't want to falsify your data. 2. You've set up an autodata goal and there isn't any (easy) way to cheat. You
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by dreeves 6y ago
You should check out the Beeminder community: http://forum.beeminder.com -- I think it will quickly convince you that we're a Very Serious Tool For Self-Improvement.
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by dreeves 6y ago
Good observation! Yes, you need a simple, graphable metric that's a good proxy for the underlying goal you care about. We've written about that a bit at http://blog.beeminder.com/whattomind Beeminder encourages yo

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