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I feel like I completely lost that spontaneity and simple mindset. Every project which I take up has become an attempt to make money. I tell myself, “Oh wow, that’s a cool app idea, I should build it. But wait….how am I going to monetize it. Is it worth it?” Sound familiar?
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Sean Ewington wrote: But wait….how am I going to monetize it. Is it worth it?
The real question should be, "What will I learn from doing this?"
I've been writing code as a hobby for over 40 years, and have rarely - if ever - asked myself, "How am I going to monetize this?"
Given today's rapid-fire feature updates, I ALWAYS ask myself, "Is it worth learning this?"
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010 ----- You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010 ----- When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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No, but I'm not focussed on money.
If you want your app to be a commercial succes, then the question is legitimate.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Facial recognition systems don't want you to stop and think about them. This is what happens when someone does. "You see, the brain itself feels no pain if that concerns you, Clarice."
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I firmly believe that the best way to truly learn a technology is to build something with it, so I decided to take a deep dive and build a web application with all of these technologies together. 53 min read, FYI.
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Amazon will close its domestic e-commerce marketplace business in China, effective from July 18. The company will keep running other business sections in China, including Amazon Web Services, Kindle e-books, and cross-border operations. And the panda helps itself to another victory bamboo.
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Car API startup Smartcar claims that its competitor Otonomo copy-and-pasted Smartcar’s API documentation, allegedly plagiarizing it extensively to the point of including the original’s typos and randomly generated strings of code. They say copying typos is the highest form of flattery.
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Once upon a time; in the time of paper maps, cartographers would intentionally add "features" to their maps to prove copyright infringement.
Director of Transmogrification Services
Shinobi of Query Language
Master of Yoda Conditional
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The European Parliament voted last week to interconnect a series of border-control, migration, and law enforcement systems into a gigantic, biometrics-tracking, searchable database of EU and non-EU citizens. EU knows when you've been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake.
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How is this going to work with GDPR?
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They'll just apply the Golden Rule. The govts have all the gold, so they get to make the rules however they like.
If you don't like it, they'll just brand you a terrorist and revoke your citizenship.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Sounds like they have not watched Battlestar Galactica(the noughties version), connect the networks and it'll end in tears.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Two of the Google employees who helped organize last November’s walkout say they have faced retaliation for their role in the protest. Google denies the claims
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The NCSC's first 'UK cyber survey' published alongside global password risk list My password is "OneTwoThreeFourFiveSixSevenEightNineTenEleven" and then my heart burns because I didn't write the twelve.
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The only shock to me on this list was that superman and batman were listed under "Fictional characters".
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Just add "!2" so it's super secure
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They revealed more passwords than Facebook
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Microsoft Research has introduced a new open source programming language called Bosque that aspires to be simple and easy to understand by embracing algebraic operations and shunning techniques that create complexity. Here's that regularized programming you wanted. Bish, bash, er, Bosque.
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Well at least that article explains what Bosque's designer was trying to do, if still not at a level that I can actually see how it's doing stuff differently than other languages.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Was "Giant Waste of Time" already taken?
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Mozilla this week announced a project called WASI (WebAssembly System Interface) to standardize how WebAssembly code interacts with operating systems. One binary to rule them all.
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Based on reviewing evidence from numerous large software projects using C and C++, I think we need to be migrating our industry to memory safe by default languages (such as Rust and Swift). Perhaps we cannot be saved.
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Sean Ewington wrote: Perhaps we cannot be saved. Or we don't want
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Funny. In order to work, Rush and Swift have to do that "memory unsafe" stuff for us.
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Rossi Lorathio Adams II could face two decades in prison. A jury found him guilty Thursday of hiring the intruder to break into the house in Cedar Rapids in 2017 to force the transfer of an internet domain at gunpoint "Dagnabbit, I said the .COM, not the .NET!"
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