Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by mfukar on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @07:29AM (#12966374)

"- Text me when you arrive"

5 minutes later..

"- I arrived. No assassins encountered."

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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by Ntrails on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @10:02AM (#12967462)

But mum, look, if anything has happened you'll get a bloody phone call. With this system my not texting just primes you to worry more, despite the far higher likelihood that I forgot than that I'm dead.

Literally the best result is that you start worrying I'm not ok a few hours before finding out for certain that I'm not. So let's assume success, and agree that in case of failure you're going to have a very bad day anyway and this doesn't really help mitigate anything at all.

(this does not work)

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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by mfukar on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @03:38PM (#12971250)

It never works.

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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by Ntrails on Thursday November 17, 2016 @04:07AM (#12975732)

Oh, I know. I know. I'll be damned if it's going to stop me trying though...

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