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Re: Outhorse Your Email

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Post by quickthrower2 »

sdfhbdf wrote: post #13
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

Thanks! My Poe’s Law-ometer was as a entangled as that famous cat for a moment.

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Post by chronolitus »

Typical. Here we are trying to outsource our work to foreign horses. It's all fun and games until the wheel stops spinning and we realize there are no typing jobs left for honest American horses, leaving our own ponies penniless.

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Post by icemelt8 »

Hamuko wrote: post #12
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-grad…

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Post by robga »

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…

Neighsayer.

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Post by drKarl »

lifeisstillgood wrote: post #23
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…

The scalability depends on the typing speed of the horse, which of course is limited by how much they are carrying. An unladen horse can clearly type faster than one weighed down with for example coconuts, and we must not forget the span between the shift key and the number row. This is a very large keyboard for native Icelandic horses, and while the European breed might make the span, the African variety can easily…

And this is a reference to Monty Python and the Holy Grail:)

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Post by manholio »

I would go for the same idea, but with cats in a shelter. Every time an email arrives, a treat is delivered to the cat horde and the resulting commotion is filmed and a linked delivered to the sender, with a caption like: "We want MOAR!!" etc.

With a few hundred dollars on hardware you can generate thousand of hours of quality video content, much more entertaining than a random keyboard press.

No offense, but horses are clearly less, shall we say, intellectually gifted to handle the subtleties of digital social interaction in the cat age. Horses are plain boring, yesteryear's thing, wouldn't want one in the apartment of my owner.

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