Discussion Forum > No-dismissal speculation
Wild guesses will get you nowhere!
August 29, 2011 at 18:41 |
Mark Forster
Mark Forster
Every time Mark invents a system, there's speculation about maybe this or that or the other innovation on previous systems. No one has ever successfully guessed, except for DWM where Mark left an abundance of clues on its workings. Then Mark reveals the system and it turns out to have a unique innovation not apparent in any previous systems.
Every time.
Every time.
August 29, 2011 at 21:56 |
Alan Baljeu
Alan Baljeu
Guessing is fun and entertaining :D
August 30, 2011 at 2:30 |
Erik
Erik
I'd like to buy a vowel, please.
August 30, 2011 at 8:11 |
Rainer
Rainer
You better buy a towel! Mark will destroy the earth in order to make way for his new system ;-)
September 1, 2011 at 23:59 |
Christian G.
Christian G.
<<You better buy a towel! Mark will destroy the earth ...>>
Don't panic!
Don't panic!
September 2, 2011 at 2:07 |
Bernie
Bernie
<< Don't panic! >>
I'm pressing the red button ...
http://davidseah.com/blog/2005/02/dont-panic/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game_nolan.shtml
;-}
Unfortunately it only gets me a hhguide.xml failed error
:-(
I'm pressing the red button ...
http://davidseah.com/blog/2005/02/dont-panic/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game_nolan.shtml
;-}
Unfortunately it only gets me a hhguide.xml failed error
:-(
September 2, 2011 at 11:41 |
sabre23t
sabre23t
You make me feel like Ford Perfect!
:-)
:-)
September 2, 2011 at 15:19 |
Rainer
Rainer
<<Unfortunately it only gets me a hhguide.xml failed error>>
Dang! Me too, even in Firefox.
Dang! Me too, even in Firefox.
September 2, 2011 at 16:39 |
Bernie
Bernie
That would be par for the course with the Guide. Refer to the above advisory message. ;-)
September 2, 2011 at 18:31 |
Alan Baljeu
Alan Baljeu
... not dismissing this off topic tangent yet ;-) ...
Googling found me http://pot.home.xs4all.nl/infocom/hgg.html albeit lacking the promised full illustrations of the non-working flash version.
Googling found me http://pot.home.xs4all.nl/infocom/hgg.html albeit lacking the promised full illustrations of the non-working flash version.
September 4, 2011 at 2:21 |
sabre23t
sabre23t





My first guess is that there is some sort of limit to the number of tasks or pages, beyond which the oldest undone task(s) must be crossed off and either reentered or deleted (forever). This would not be "dismissal" as Mark has defined it previously, where one would highlight the undone tasks on the page and then consider reentering them after a period of reflection. Of course, if one simply reenters everything, the number of tasks will not change, but presumably some of the old stuff would simply be deleted.
My second guess is similar but more radical: perhaps there is a rule that, after a certain number of page visits (N-1), every undone task must be done on the Nth visit to that page. This would be like the old C2 rule in SF. Of course, deciding not to do a task (i.e. delete it) is a valid action, so there is still an escape hatch here.
Please post your guesses, until Mark reveals the answer.