Coffee Maker
This guy already did this: http://www.businessinsider.com/programmer-automates-his-job-...
Yup, but I'll need to automate my mug too..
Ask HN: What manual processes would you automate in your company?
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#32transcribing real time notes
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#33Security. 90 day passwords, with multiple internal sites & servers each needing unique ones? I don't understand why we don't have automated client certificates and auto-generated ssh keys.
Are you referring to one of these?
https://github.com/Netflix/bless
http://gravitational.com/teleport
We have actually developed such a service for internal usage (could not use any of these three because of compliance requirements), it works very well.
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#34I actually recently mostly automated refund calculations. it's not fully complete, but it's in the verification stage
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#35Cleaning up and organizing data for processing.
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#36Showing up to work.
I'm assuming this is a joke. Otherwise, let me know (and perhaps elaborate on what you mean) and sorry for the downvote.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, he thinks he could write a script to fire his CEO, so they don't have to do it every day.
At my work we just have a Jenkins job that fires the current CEO first thing in the morning
How about a script that does sentiment analysis on the twitter stream for the company and then automatically fires the CEO?
If it works we could apply it to the US presidency ;).
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#38Phone screens, for recruiters and applicants.
Basically I want both sides to be faithfully represented by conversational AI, inclusive of demeanor, domain knowlege, and general aptitude.
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#39A related question, for my own interests... how able do you feel to automate things at work? If you find a tool that can automate a severe pain point, can you bring a vendor in for a demo? Can you get a budget or get a manager to pay for automation tools?
As a founder about to hit the market with an automation tool, I'm very curious about the roadblocks and resistance that engineers perceive about bringing in tools that can save a lot of pain and money.
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#40I work in pharma, and our biggest bottleneck is drafting and executing service agreements and statements of work with new vendors. A system to facilitate this workflow would be amazing (document templates, a queue for requests with weekly status updates, etc.) Of course there is manual work done by Legal that can't be easily automated, but that is just one component of the bottleneck.
We use Apttus for this. It handles the legal aspects as well.