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Why not preemptively shoot the exchange server in the head?
because you need to justify the purchase of your enterprise version of ifttt
I've been using ifttt to: * Scour Craigslist for an apartment in San Francisco * Put indeed.com job searches for "UI Design San Francisco" into Evernote * Monitor airline fares for the cheapest time to buy a one-way ticket from BOS to SFO * Text me when the temperature in zip code 94103 rises above 68 to remind myself to get out and enjoy my new city. THANKS IFTTT! I couldn't have done it without you!
FYI adioso.com (YC W09) does airline price notifications :)
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Get over it! They're not disrespecting or hurting anyone. They're not affecting the quality of their product. This is purely a style thing. Calling unconventional behavior "unprofessional" is a cop-out! P.S. - I still upvoted you because I see where you're coming from, and "s//" is always funny to me for some reason.
Thanks for the upvote, but I do see profanity in a professional setting as disrespectful, because there are people who take offense to profanity (that is the point of profanity, right, to offend or to indicate intense anger?) I realize of course in this instance it wasn't meant to offend, but that doesn't mean it's not offensive. I'd consider the site equally unprofessional if they used the words "retarded" or "Jew"…
Nice accessible intro, but it'd be nicer if there was a summary of supported "this"s and "that"s - I am generally reluctant to sign up for services unless I know pretty well what's in it for me. How about a table of supported events and actions, or at least a number of different examples?
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Get over it! They're not disrespecting or hurting anyone. They're not affecting the quality of their product. This is purely a style thing. Calling unconventional behavior "unprofessional" is a cop-out! P.S. - I still upvoted you because I see where you're coming from, and "s//" is always funny to me for some reason.
Thanks for the upvote, but I do see profanity in a professional setting as disrespectful, because there are people who take offense to profanity (that is the point of profanity, right, to offend or to indicate intense anger?) I realize of course in this instance it wasn't meant to offend, but that doesn't mean it's not offensive. I'd consider the site equally unprofessional if they used the words "retarded" or "Jew"…
On the other hand, "fuck", "shit" et al. exist in a bit of a vacuum. "What the fuck" is not offensive to fucks, because (hopefully) very few people identify as "fucks".
So, the vector of offense for "Jew" is different from the vector of offense for "fuck". I'm offended when people use racial slurs. But when someone simply swears, I don't see a reason to be offended. It may affect my opinion of them; for example, I am less likely to respect someone for being articulate if they can't express themselves without swearing every couple of words. But getting offended implies some degree of emotional investment in the words or concepts themselves, which I don't really see the basis for.
To put it another way: I feel like any reasonable, compassionate person can't help but be offended to some degree by slurs; and they should be, because slurs are probably not such a great thing. Conversely, I think that we are taught to be offended by swears, and it's within reach of the average person to disconnect their emotional response from them.
I've been using ifttt to: * Scour Craigslist for an apartment in San Francisco * Put indeed.com job searches for "UI Design San Francisco" into Evernote * Monitor airline fares for the cheapest time to buy a one-way ticket from BOS to SFO * Text me when the temperature in zip code 94103 rises above 68 to remind myself to get out and enjoy my new city. THANKS IFTTT! I couldn't have done it without you!
For tracking changes in flight costs, you should probably check out http://adioso.com (YC-funded).
Nice accessible intro, but it'd be nicer if there was a summary of supported "this"s and "that"s - I am generally reluctant to sign up for services unless I know pretty well what's in it for me. How about a table of supported events and actions, or at least a number of different examples?
If you go to http://ifttt.com/channels you can see them all. I agree it should be more accessible without having to log in though.
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s/Heh/unprofessional/ The URL is unprofessional, and so are the identifiers in the source code. Protip to the devs: Dropping profanities doesn't make you look cool, it makes you look like a 19-year-old trying to impress his friends.
Get over it! They're not disrespecting or hurting anyone. They're not affecting the quality of their product. This is purely a style thing. Calling unconventional behavior "unprofessional" is a cop-out! P.S. - I still upvoted you because I see where you're coming from, and "s//" is always funny to me for some reason.