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Comment by brettcvz | Hacker News Reader

New startup idea: "A single-tap, zero character way to control your life"

Edit: The above should be seen as a bit tongue-in-cheek.

This reminds me of the alien language from Stargate. They had plans to make a whole language, but the vocabulary used in the show actually got smaller and smaller until they just had one word, "Kree!" It's a command that means "do what you're supposed to!" The alien overlords would just yell it at whomever was standing around, like punctuation.

Lampshaded in one of the episodes where O'Neill asks what "kree" actually means, and the reply is that it's something along the lines of "yoo-hoo".

Hey now, there were at least two words. Chapa'ai meant "stargate". I guess "tok'ra" and "jaffa" count too, but I can't even think of any others.

Probably the least developed language of all time.

http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Goa%27uld_language

This depends on your definition of "control." (specifically, the fact that you can only have one of these recipes active.)

Really? Why can you only have one active?

The only trigger for the action is sending a Yo. I supposed you could have more than one recipe active if you don't mind executing all the recipes at the same time. :P

Yes, exactly! :) Why would I only want to turn my lights off, when I could set the temperature and tweet at the same time!

I don't think Rube-Goldberg-Machine-As-A-Service is a big-enough market.

Because you have the first step of all of these recipes is to Yo yourself.

So if you have more than one recipe active time all of the events will happen at once. I.e. if you have the first three recipes all active you will simultaneously: call yourself, turn your lights off, and text your friend when you activate them by Yo-ing yourself.

Which is an impractical way of controlling your life.

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