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		wcummings on Aug 28, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How I built a Slack bot to help me find an apartme... I feel like all these newfangled slack/whatever bots fall into two categories: stuff that used to be or would otherwise be a (toy) IRC bot, and what basically amount to annoying phone support menus, in text form. Not impressed.

dev1n on Aug 28, 2016 [–]

Hammers are that impressive when you already have a rock that can do the job just as well.

Yet people still prefer hammers over rocks..

wcummings on Aug 28, 2016 | [–]

All this proves is that people still prefer to reduce support costs at the expense of consumers.

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