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Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? by ethbro on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @03:48PM (#21327807)
If anyone in this thread wants to talk RPA, I'm happy to talk your ear off.

At this point, I've been doing it for... about 7 years?

It's been an interesting ride.

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Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? by hugs on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @08:54PM (#21330033)
Would love to know more. How is RPA different than Selenium?
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Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? by virgilp on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @11:52PM (#21330899)
Kinda how Dropbox is different than rsync (imperfect analogy, but still pretty good I'd say)
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Re:Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on? by ethbro on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @11:32PM (#21330797)
See reply to your other comment.

Tl;dr - different target user & no corporate sponsor seriously incentivized to improve legacy compatibility

Would love to get the Selenium viewpoint though! Have always been curious, and I'm not as well versed in that side of the house.

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