> It is a cash bar, so please bring sufficient money with you as there is no nearby cash machine.
Are guests expected to purchase their own alcohol at their wedding?
How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding
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Re: How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding
#52I didn't go as far as using automated messages with my guests, but
- organised everything, from guests attendance to guests in tables location, in a huge Gsheets with my wife and a few close relatives.
- did a mobile game for Android and iPhone that was a quiz about me and my wife to be with over 200 questions, that still, 2 years later, people still play at and try to get higher in the leaderboard.
- programmed a Raspberry Pi that showed a slideshow of over 500 pictures of us with our guests since like forever. These pictures were also printed and hanged around the venue for them to find them and take them home.
I also did 10 programmes in 10 different programming languages that printed the food menu (to be used as per table printed menus), but my wife wisely thought it wasn't a good idea.
Re: How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding
#53>invites are not environmentally friendly As opposed to the sustainability of dozens of people traveling from near and far.
Easy small wins are better than no wins. The goal should be improvement not perfection.
>Easy small wins are better than no wins. The goal should be improvement not perfection.
Easy small wins of that kind are feel-good gestures that get detrimental to actual change.
The goal should be making a difference, not token improvements.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
The same kinds of people who admonish you for taking an elevator because it's bad for the environment, even when your legs are sore from cycling to work.
I guess it's a kind of armchair environmentalism: it's easy to "go green" by switching to canvas bags (which _does_ help, a little), but then not make large, more sacrificial changes that would _actually_ benefit the environment. I don't know. It's tough, though, because to a large extent we're forced into lifestyles that are bad for the environment. You can't just decide to stop using the electricity produced by the…
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Re: How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
The same kinds of people who admonish you for taking an elevator because it's bad for the environment, even when your legs are sore from cycling to work.
I guess it's a kind of armchair environmentalism: it's easy to "go green" by switching to canvas bags (which _does_ help, a little), but then not make large, more sacrificial changes that would _actually_ benefit the environment. I don't know. It's tough, though, because to a large extent we're forced into lifestyles that are bad for the environment. You can't just decide to stop using the electricity produced by the…
This -- a lot of the environmentalist movement is more about signaling that you care about the environment (turn the lights off, use one sheet of toilet paper) than actually investing the time or energy into figuring out the most cost-effective changes to make (stop flying as much).
This is true about almost all human groups/movements though, and I'm not sure that environmentalists are more guilty than average.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Easy small wins are better than no wins. The goal should be improvement not perfection.
The goal should also be sparking discussion. If a few guests starting having the same thoughts that are going on here, that would be a win.
Yes if everybody shared his post the environment would be so much better. Kind of how Facebook "Likes" on sappy posts help the third world.
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#57See? This is the future liberals want... (note: this is a joking reference to a meme. https://www.buzzfeed.com/juliareinstein/this-is-the-future-l... Feel free to down-vote but at least realize what it is).
Please don't.
We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14102195 and marked it off-topic.
Re: How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding
#58>invites are not environmentally friendly As opposed to the sustainability of dozens of people traveling from near and far.
This article is a sick hack for how to invite people to your wedding without paper invitations, not about environmentalism. Missing forest for trees etc.
Well, you missed the part where he points smugly to those particular trees.
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#59For the whole pipeline, you should also connect: Tinder + your calendar app + Opentable to automate the dating process. The output of that can be the input of this.
nice dating pipeline. Although, I'm interested of designs for later stages - around kids. Any suggestions?
There are just some things in life that you should not automate.
Re: How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding
#60>invites are not environmentally friendly As opposed to the sustainability of dozens of people traveling from near and far.
Easy small wins are better than no wins. The goal should be improvement not perfection.
False dichotomy. The claim is that spending more time on easy wins means you're less likely to spend time on big wins.
The goal should be to maximize the impact of the changes you make.