Progress Report on Yellow Brick Half-Plane

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It’s a lot more complicated than that. Check out:

Mother of Bugs: Two Consecutive Days In The Red

Currently, as I understand it, Beeminder has a patch to fix some problems, and this patch makes it so that the derail condition is something like: IF you were in the red at your last deadline, and IF you will be in the red at the next deadline if no additional data points are entered, THEN derail. This is, of course, a counterintuitive derail condition that will often cause derails when it shouldn’t. Because of this problematic derail condition, numerous other patches were introduced to fix…

Why don't I derail?

I’m doing two “do less” goals (Internet browsing, as measured by Rescuetime, and iPhone usage which I can track on my phone and input manually). Between them, I have gone into the red three times. When I do, beeminder gives me all sorts of scary warnings and, shortly before midnight assures me I’m minutes from derailing. But when midnight rolls around I’m back in the orange again. Despite my $5 pledges I haven’t paid out any money. Perhaps the first derailment is free, but I just had my second d…

Mid-day derailing when yesterday was red

I think I may have found one explanation for the “multiple derailments on the same day” bug. I had assumed that you could only derail at the time of your deadline. But apparently if you were in the red yesterday, the system will derail you if you’re in the red at any time during the day. This causes a problem with any goal that always goes into the red mid-day. One of my goals is always in the red during the day but goes back by my deadline. So if I derailed the previous day I will always dera…