<story><title>Hilary Mason: How to Replace Yourself with a Very Small Shell Script</title><url>http://smarterware.org/6172/hilary-mason-how-to-replace-yourself-with-a-small-shell-script</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>RiderOfGiraffes</author><text>Two months ago: &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1192790&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1192790&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Three months ago: &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1102238&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1102238&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a really cool presentation.  The idea and technique have their flaws, as are pointed out here by several participants, but what bothers me most is that the last two times this was submitted it sank with no up-votes and no comments.  Yet here it as (as I write this) 74 up-votes and 17 comments.&lt;p&gt;How many more brilliant things deserving of our attention do we miss on HN?  Is this really a problem?  Can it be fixed?  Should it be fixed?&lt;p&gt;Hackers Unite!  Don&apos;t let the good stuff escape you!  Find a way to rid yourself of the dross and find the good stuff!</text></comment>
<story><title>Hilary Mason: How to Replace Yourself with a Very Small Shell Script</title><url>http://smarterware.org/6172/hilary-mason-how-to-replace-yourself-with-a-small-shell-script</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mberning</author><text>This might be cool if you are a quasi web-celebrity, but in a business setting it would be downright dangerous. I can&apos;t imagine how terrible I would feel if something completely fell through the cracks OR did not receive an adequate response from me. I also can&apos;t imagine auto-nagging my boss about ANYTHING.&lt;p&gt;I guess the biggest problem I would have using this at work is that it is fundamentally based on the idea that people are contacting me about stupid stuff (generally not true) and that I&apos;m way too busy/important to respond directly to somebody (also generally not true).</text></comment>