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Outhorse Your Email

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Re: Outhorse Your Email

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Post by tux3 »

shmageggy wrote: post #9

I have a few qualms with this app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by streaming from /dev/urandom, mapping to cardinal directions and simulating a random walk on the keyboard. 2. It doesn't actually replace an email autoresponder. Most people I know will put things like their return date in the auto-response. 3. It does not seem very "scalable" or income-generating. I…

Your solution sounds good, but at which point do I integrate it with my FTP account? I have it mounted locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem

Re: Outhorse Your Email

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Post by Hamuko »

shmageggy wrote: post #9

I have a few qualms with this app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by streaming from /dev/urandom, mapping to cardinal directions and simulating a random walk on the keyboard. 2. It doesn't actually replace an email autoresponder. Most people I know will put things like their return date in the auto-response. 3. It does not seem very "scalable" or income-generating. I…

>it seems that down the road this may require a lot of horses.

And you apparently need to train every horse to actually write emails, so it also requires humans to train the horses. How many horses can an Icelandic horse trainer train in a month?

And do we know if all horses can even learn to write emails? What if it requires very smart horses? How many horses are there in Iceland and how many of them are email-grade horses?

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Post by sdfhbdf »

shmageggy wrote: post #9

I have a few qualms with this app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by streaming from /dev/urandom, mapping to cardinal directions and simulating a random walk on the keyboard. 2. It doesn't actually replace an email autoresponder. Most people I know will put things like their return date in the auto-response. 3. It does not seem very "scalable" or income-generating. I…

Made me chuckle.

For those who don’t understand the reference this is satire coming from the comment on the Dropbox Launch post on HN in 2007 [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

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Post by tdrgabi »

shmageggy wrote: post #9

I have a few qualms with this app: 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by streaming from /dev/urandom, mapping to cardinal directions and simulating a random walk on the keyboard. 2. It doesn't actually replace an email autoresponder. Most people I know will put things like their return date in the auto-response. 3. It does not seem very "scalable" or income-generating. I…

I can't tell if you're kidding, maybe trying to emulate the "dropbox comment".

I choose to think you are.

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Post by johnchristopher »

Jeez, I loved working in the tourism industry. One day I'll get back into it :).

It's incredible how visiteiceland/norway/etc have refined and eliminated a lot of cruft in their website while still keeping up the appearance of professionalism and non-corp design. There are a lot subtleties in this website s design.

Re: Outhorse Your Email

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Post by Hamuko »

memorable wrote: post #16
Hamuko wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is the audio beyond fucked or is it just my machine?

It's probably just your machine. Mine seems fine.

I think it may have been a player bug. I heard everything echoed, but after closing the tab and reopening the link, it plays just fine.
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