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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
I'm amazed that you remembered that.
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The poster seems to be trying to draw a parallel between his comment and an infamous post that he made nearly 15 years ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 ), or maybe just to make him feel bad. I personally don’t think the tones of the two posts are comparable at all. His post has been quoted out of context for the last decade or so, though, so it’s not surprising to me. (Ask yourself, what did “app” mean…
I am profoundly confused by the pronouns in this comment. You, gp and the author of the dropbox comment are all different people, aren't you? Anyway, it's just a joke. I don't think anyone's trying to make anyone feel bad.
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I am profoundly confused by the pronouns in this comment. You, gp and the author of the dropbox comment are all different people, aren't you? Anyway, it's just a joke. I don't think anyone's trying to make anyone feel bad.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29465505
Love this sort of thing. Makes me think about visiting Iceland haha
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-grad…
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I'm amazed that you remembered that.
It might be the most famous Hacker News comment in existence.
Love this sort of thing. Makes me think about visiting Iceland haha
If you can forgive the self-promotion, I wrote a "things I wish I'd known" post about visiting Iceland which might be of interest to anyone planning a trip there: https://blackshaw.substack.com/p/iceland
( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
(X) D̵o̵g̵ ̵a̵n̵d̵ Pony Show
approach to fixing email.