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bdc
Your life will be made much easier when the Singularity arrives.
STHayden
I get an Internal Server Error. This is all very meta.
dmoney
And there was an error in handling the error!

"Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."

nswanberg
Poor guy. I bet he's already getting emails about this but an Android dev out there would do well to help him out by sending some flowers to his wife, help him with his code, and write a blog post about it.
rcavezza
"My wife does not appreciate the automation of the expression of love."
ColinWright
Because I'm lazy, and figure some of you are too ...

    Normally, I leave coding to developers.  However ...

    Playing around in the middle of the night last night when
    I couldn’t sleep, as my first app, I was writing the ultimate
    Droid Valentines Day App.

    The app was to run during Valentines day and with random time
    intervals, send texts from an array to my wife such as "I love
    you", "Thought I forgot Valentines, day didn’t you?", *etc.*

    Lesson in App development

    In my attempt to write an app & automate my life, I thought
    I would share some things I learned:

    1 Test, and then DAMN IT test some more. Especially, if
      you are writing code in the middle of the night.
    2 You really should put a min wait before looping again –
      random to me is different than random to a computer.
    3 You should put a max time wait before looping again –
      random to me is different than random to a computer.
    4 You should learn the difference between seconds and
      milliseconds <<– !important
    5 In this case, once a variable from an array is used,
      you should eliminate it from being used again.

    If you don’t get 1-5 right, it is possible for your app
    to send 75 texts in less than 5 minutes in the middle of
    the night.

    My wife does not appreciate the automation of the expression of love.
alexpatton
A new lesson learned: the power of hacker news! The traffic took an entire server down.

Never underestimate the power of making fun of yourself and shining a light on your mistakes!