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Re: Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

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Post by Cyphase »

A_Person wrote: post #170

Ok, I'll bite! About 20 years ago I inherited enough money to retire on for the rest of my life. But the only evidence of those assets was, a dot matrix printout that anyone could have done in five minutes. So over the next few weeks, I created accounts in the various share registries and online banking websites, and manually cross-checked the printed list against those accounts. All was good, but I wanted to do that…

> If anyone would like to re-write all that code for Chrome or whatever - for free...

For free? I thought you inherited enough money to retire on for the rest of your life. Share the wealth. :)

Re: Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

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Post by 13of40 »

YaxelPerez wrote: post #119

I used Tasker to make my phone vibrate in Morse code. Now I don't have to take it out of my pocket to read a notification.

You should make it so you can reply by bouncing your leg up and down. (Then go have an Edward Thorp weekend in Vegas of course.)

Re: Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

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Post by kirillseva »

dest wrote: post #166
amelius wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I see two options here. Yes, or perhaps a combination of techniques. E.g. shared database to train an ML system to detect ads. Of course, the downside is that the ad industry will then tweak the ads until they pass the ML test. > I wouldn't try to productise an app that takes away the main source of income for the radio stations. I wouldn't think of it as taking away a source of income, but rather as forcing them t…

Do you have an idea how could such a database of copyrighted material be shared? (Asking for a friend...)

Blockchain!

Re: Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

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Post by tylerpachal »

hajrice wrote: post #211

I automated my Investment Portfolio. My investment thesis is to buy high-growth tech company stocks with an upcoming earnings call in the next 90 days. I have a script that scrapes Yahoo finance and tells me which stocks to buy. Surprisingly it's worked well, and I've gotten a return of 44% last year

Do you automate the selling as well?

Re: Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

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Post by A_Person »

Cyphase wrote: post #221
A_Person wrote: post #170

Ok, I'll bite! About 20 years ago I inherited enough money to retire on for the rest of my life. But the only evidence of those assets was, a dot matrix printout that anyone could have done in five minutes. So over the next few weeks, I created accounts in the various share registries and online banking websites, and manually cross-checked the printed list against those accounts. All was good, but I wanted to do that…

> If anyone would like to re-write all that code for Chrome or whatever - for free... For free? I thought you inherited enough money to retire on for the rest of your life. Share the wealth. :)

Well put :-) I was actually taking a subtle dig at folk who say, "just ditch IE, how hard can it be?" If you have an enormous corporate or personal application, the answer could be: "impossibly hard", unless a good fairy appears from the sky and rewrites it for free!

Re: Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

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Post by marketgod »

jscholes wrote: post #202
YaxelPerez wrote: post #119

I used Tasker to make my phone vibrate in Morse code. Now I don't have to take it out of my pocket to read a notification.

> Now I don't have to take it out of my pocket to read a notification. Definitely going to look into this. I'm a blind screen reader user and, when I had a phone with physical buttons, I could have it in my pocket connected to an external braille device or pair of headphones. I could easily carry on conversations, browse the web, ask for help, all sorts of things without taking it out of my pocket, and nobody had to…

The AirPods might be a temporary help if you have iOS. You can plug them into your ear when needed and send a command. Probably not the most ideal but Siri seems to be getting better.

Re: Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

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Post by A_Person »

jacobush wrote: post #213
A_Person wrote: post #170

Ok, I'll bite! About 20 years ago I inherited enough money to retire on for the rest of my life. But the only evidence of those assets was, a dot matrix printout that anyone could have done in five minutes. So over the next few weeks, I created accounts in the various share registries and online banking websites, and manually cross-checked the printed list against those accounts. All was good, but I wanted to do that…

No problem. I will need your bank and website passwords... :-D

I've no idea what they are! They're all random strings within the integrated password manager that I wrote as part of the package!

Re: Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

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Post by massaman_yams »

hajrice wrote: post #211

I automated my Investment Portfolio. My investment thesis is to buy high-growth tech company stocks with an upcoming earnings call in the next 90 days. I have a script that scrapes Yahoo finance and tells me which stocks to buy. Surprisingly it's worked well, and I've gotten a return of 44% last year

With earnings of publicly traded companies in the US reported quarterly by law, how is this distinct from the list of all high-growth tech company stocks?
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