Why YOU Need To Be Lazy

By: Jacob Wall

Background• Coded an open source game which grew to

40,000 active players per day with over 1,000 concurrently online.

• Work for a company out of Chicago that specializes in complex IT solutions.

• Build out solutions with our team that scale to the billions per month. Largest client is Sendgrid, the 3rd largest emailer in the world. Sends over 7 billion emails per month.

My work!

Why should you care?

• "I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job.... because, he will find an easy way to do it." - Bill Gates

• "Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer because it teaches you how to think." - Steve Jobs

Have you ever been given a monotonous

task?

Example

• 1,000 websites to classify into safe for brands, unsafe, or unknown.

• On average each website would take 1 minute to do.

• 1 minute (x) 1,000 = 1,000 minutes = ~16.66 hours

Now automate it!• Use basic bash to go through the list of

websites, check the sites content and return the result.

• Able to process with 99.7% accuracy upwards of 500 per hour.

• Scripting (2 hours) + run-time (2 hours) = 4 hours

• Savings of 76% with higher accuracy than a human

wget -q -O- --user-agent=automateit --header "`cat ../cookie.txt`" "https://data.videohub.tv/vha/ajax/getCategorizerResults.html?pageUrl=$DOMAIN_NAME.COM&_=1373862685039" >> music-results.txt

strings music.csv | awk -F "," {'print "echo >> music-results.txt; wget -q -O- --user-agent=automateit --header \"`cat ../cookie.txt`\" \"https://data.videohub.tv/vha/ajax/getCategorizerResults.html?pageUrl="$1"&_=1373862685039\" >> music-results.txt"'}

cat music-results.txt | grep -i clean | awk -F "\"" {'print $4'} | sort >> clean-music.txt

How being lazy helps you!• You can learn to graph your power usage and

cost to find ways to curb your energy usage.

• You can graph your temperature and humidity to understand environmental patterns.

• Your pay goes up! The average salary in Dallas for someone in IT is almost $95,000 per year.

• Your options of employment out of college are endless.

How do you do this though?

#!/bin/sh

curl -sm 1 http://$1/history/minutehistory.csv?MTU=$2 | grep -m 1 / | awk -F "," '{print "POWER:"$3" COST:"$4" VOLTAGE:"$5"\r\n"}'

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