Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?

Re:Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in yo... by slg on Monday June 25, 2018 @02:25AM (#17390298)

Your comment reminds me of my favorite Douglas Adams quote:

"I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand."

Sometimes it simply isn't about net time saved.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in yo... by cstrat on Monday June 25, 2018 @02:34AM (#17390344)

oh man that is hilarious. I am so on that wavelength :)

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Re:Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in yo... by copperx on Monday June 25, 2018 @06:14PM (#17396291)

Don't read his blog though, or you'll be tremendously disappointed.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in yo... by neilsimp1 on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @10:38AM (#17400896)

Are you confusing him with Scott Adams?

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Re:Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in yo... by copperx on Tuesday June 26, 2018 @04:59PM (#17403942)

I did. Shame on me. I was just quickly skimming the comments.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in yo... by roryisok on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @02:29AM (#17406157)

You might still be disappointed at the lack of updates :*(

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