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Re:Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated? by mandeepj on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @07:29PM (#15454465)
Congrats. It is for sure a life changing hack.

Not sure why you choose to do diff? You could have just searched the dom for the existence of 'Apply' button? Am i missing something?

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Re:Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated? by t1o5 on Thursday October 12, 2017 @12:49AM (#15455741)
Frankly, I didn't think much. Just wrote this script in an impulse of a moment when I missed a slot. During that time, I didn't think about how it was done, but the end result. Sure diff would have triggered false positives, luckily didn't get any.
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Re:Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated? by worldsayshi on Thursday October 12, 2017 @03:40AM (#15456312)
Perhaps you didn't know how the button was supposed to look like? Seems like it's better to get false positives than to miss it.
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