Am I the only one who guessed what this was going to be about when I saw the questions?
See Your Folks
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#12I am not sure I appreciate this kind of thing but it is interesting nevertheless. My folks have lived 4.5 years beyond the expected life expectancy for my country! By the way, the app needs to handle this case gracefully: I am a foreigner in the US so I see my folks less than once a year. I tried putting in 1/3 but looks like the lowest number it can handle is 1.
> I tried putting in 1/3 but looks like the lowest number it can handle is 1.
It also fails to handle the case where your parents don't live together and therefore you see them at different intervals, or are already dead. But obviously this is a throwaway thing and doesn't really merit overthinking.
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#13I wouldn't share this with anyone. Ugh. Now I need to move back across the country...
I did not expect to have my spirit crushed on HN this morning. Need to call my parents.
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#14Great hackathon project :) This is the kind of thing tech can easily do that is much better than social mobile video for dogs.
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#15Am I the only one who guessed what this was going to be about when I saw the questions?
No, I bailed out when I got to the third question. I appreciate the intention behind this though.
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#16I'm depressed I have to see them that many more times....
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#17Damn, my dad had a stroke on Saturday night. Thankfully he got very prompt and first class medical treatment (Thanks NHS. Socialised medicine FTW) so the damage is fortunately very limited. I'm actually on my way to the hospital to see him now.
This is a great reminder to pick up the phone and tell your folks or anyone that matters to you that you love them. Everyone reading this should do that now if they can. You never know when it will be too late and you don't want those regrets.
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#18Is this open source? Maybe someone should fork and change to something with a different thematic:
"Where do your in-laws live?"
"On average how many times do you see your in-laws a year?"
/jk
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#19Feels bad man.
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#20This erroneously uses the life expectancy at birth rather than the life expectancy at - a common mistake.
If my parents are 80, I don't expect them to die in 1 year just because life expectancy at birth is 81. I expect them to live about another 8 years.
Use a table like http://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html