Intuitively, what it means to derail on a Beeminder goal is that you’re in still in the red when your deadline hits. (In bright-red-staircase world you’d derail at the exact instant you cross the bright red line.) There’s more background on this in a years-old forum thread and I wanted to think through a proposal from @zzq and try putting it in my own words. Status quo: A Beeminder goal is deemed to be derailed if yesterday’s datapoint is in the red. Advantages of that definition: It...| Beeminder Forum - Latest posts
A magic spell is an incantation that, just by being incanted, makes something happen in the physical world. You say “avada kedavra” and someone dies — that sort of thing. Did you know that’s a literal real thing in programming and it’s called a magic string? We use them in Beeminderland occasionally....| blog.beeminder.com
