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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
by shmageggy 4y ago
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 know this is premature at this point, but it seems that down the road this may require a lot of horses.
- tux3 4y agoYour solution sounds good, but at which point do I integrate it with my FTP account? I have it mounted locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem
- kator 4y agoUse SCCS it's way more fun!
- Hamuko 4y ago>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-grade horses?
- acoomans 4y agoUnless you can train a horse to become a horse trainer.
- jmmcd 4y agoThe singularity
- icemelt8 4y ago
- Ancapistani 4y ago> 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-grade horses? Well... A horse is a horse - of course, of course - and no one can talk to a horse of course. That is, of course, unless the horse is the famous Mr. Ed.
- sdfhbdf 4y agoMade 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 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
- quickthrower2 4y agoThanks! My Poe’s Law-ometer was as a entangled as that famous cat for a moment.
- lisper 4y agoI'm amazed that you remembered that.
- tdrgabi 4y agoI can't tell if you're kidding, maybe trying to emulate the "dropbox comment". I choose to think you are.
- lifeisstillgood 4y agoThe 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 get those awkward two hoof symbols. All in all it is clear that the Icelandic government must give immigration privileges to unladen African horses immediately to prevent this startup industry going under. Write your Althing member now !
- drKarl 4y agoAnd this is a reference to Monty Python and the Holy Grail:)
- technothrasher 4y agoI believe the appropriate response would have been "a hØrse once bit my sister..."
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- spoils19 4y agoThe 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 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 in his comment?) Several people seem to expect that he would be embarrassed by my comment or regret making it, but it honestly doesn’t bother him at all. I, HN, and even the world have changed a lot in 15 years. Anyway, he's pretty satisfied with where life has taken him. He's certainly not going to sweat someone combing through his post history in a vague attempt to dunk on him.
- omnicognate 4y agoI 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.
- spoils19 4y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29465505 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29465505
- omnicognate 4y agoAaaaaah
- geoduck14 4y agoOh my gosh. There are SOOOO many meta references in this thread. I'm clearly an outsider to the HN world.
- robga 4y agoNeighsayer.
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- erwincoumans 4y agoAlmost 60 million horses ought to be enough for anybody.
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- major505 4y agoFor linux user they should put penguins typing.
- IncRnd 4y agoIt's almost like this was put together as a joke.
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