On: Ask HN: What manual processes would you automate i...

[akerro]

No, he thinks he could write a script to fire his CEO, so they don't have to do it every day.

[ythn → akerro]

At my work we just have a Jenkins job that fires the current CEO first thing in the morning

[yev → ythn]

Dude, simple cron job is enough.. 30 8 * * * /fire/ceo/now

[ratsbane → yev]

I'd make it event-driven. /usr/sbin/hire --ceo starts a setTimeout(function() {`/usr/sbin/fire --ceo`}, 'INTERVAL 60 DAY') (And that is a weird bit of pseudocode, indeed.)

[cellularmitosis → ratsbane]

Ridiculous. This is obviously a job for systemd.

[yellowapple → cellularmitosis]

That's what the last CEO said before we fired him.

[noir_lord → ythn]

How about a script that does sentiment analysis on the twitter stream for the company and then automatically fires the CEO?

If it works we could apply it to the US presidency ;).

[user5994461 → noir_lord]

Glassdoor has a rating on the CEO. Could use that.

[superuser2 → user5994461]

The scary part is that a DAO could actually do this.