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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…
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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
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.
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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either that or the Putnam comment of cperciva's. [0] [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35083
I've looked through some of those comments, and I don't understand what is going on. Can you help, please?
Colin was a Putnam fellow (top 5 scorers) in 1999.
All in all, it was a pretty funny exchange at the time and quickly stopped the argument. Don’t assume that the person you’re talking with here is an idiot. It really demonstrates how HN users are varied with significant expertise in many areas.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lowell_Putnam_Mathem...
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…
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I'm amazed that you remembered that.
It might be the most famous Hacker News comment in existence.
> No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.
(https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...)
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either that or the Putnam comment of cperciva's. [0] [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35083
Jeez, that guy was full of himself though. Looks like 14 years later he isn't the roaring startup success story he predicted.