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your mention of lawyers reminds me of the Kia Motors outside counsel technology audit[1]. Many lawyers waste ridiculous amounts of time doing busywork. In my da

your mention of lawyers reminds me of the Kia Motors outside counsel technology audit[1]. Many lawyers waste ridiculous amounts of time doing busywork. In my day job, I spend many hours visiting customers and spend much of that time adding automation for them, simple bash scripts that allow them to do things much more quickly. Yesterday, I taught someone the rename command[2]. Previously, they had been spending an doing it manually with the mv command. I am constantly reminded about the amount of low-hanging fruit there is out there for automation that is currently handled extremely manually, sometimes by some very well-paid people. [1] http://www.law.com/jsp/lawtechnologynews/PubArticleLTN.jsp?id=1202585496232 http://www.law.com/jsp/lawtechnologynews/PubArticleLTN.jsp?i... [2] http://linux.die.net/man/1/rename http://linux.die.net/man/1/rename

rfnslyr 13y ago
A few of my friends who are aspiring lawyers are terribly depressed because of their current work. They honestly thought they were going to walk straight into 100,000k/year jobs. Now they're pushing paperwork all day for a third of that salary :\
dfc 13y ago
Try this rename script if you really want to profit: http://plasmasturm.org/code/rename/ http://plasmasturm.org/code/rename/ The -z flag is phenomenal. The only thing I wish it had was a -R for recursive.
antitrust 13y ago
> I am constantly reminded about the amount of low-hanging fruit there is out there for automation that is currently handled extremely manually, sometimes by some very well-paid people. On the other hand, they have job security that way. I've seen the same thing, and encountered huge amounts of pushback from the same people. If I automate, they no longer have 80 hours of work to do every week. How are they gonna get promoted then? By being competent or something? That, like, never happens.

rfnslyr 13y ago

A few of my friends who are aspiring lawyers are terribly depressed because of their current work. They honestly thought they were going to walk straight into 100,000k/year jobs. Now they're pushing paperwork all day for a third of that salary :\

dfc 13y ago

Try this rename script if you really want to profit: http://plasmasturm.org/code/rename/ http://plasmasturm.org/code/rename/ The -z flag is phenomenal. The only thing I wish it had was a -R for recursive.

antitrust 13y ago

> I am constantly reminded about the amount of low-hanging fruit there is out there for automation that is currently handled extremely manually, sometimes by some very well-paid people. On the other hand, they have job security that way. I've seen the same thing, and encountered huge amounts of pushback from the same people. If I automate, they no longer have 80 hours of work to do every week. How are they gonna get promoted then? By being competent or something? That, like, never happens.