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Ya, but can you do it better for cheaper?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Write an app that solves a problem YOU have or makes YOUR life/work easier. If you like it and find it useful, others may as well. That's the place to start.
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Well that's the trick. What problem hasn't been solved that an already publicly available app couldn't solve?
There are THOUSANDS of apps that solve all manner of "problems'.. but what would catch someone's attention these days?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Make a parser app... 
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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Make a lexical parser app...
I, for one, like Roman Numerals.
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An app that gives you random ideas for a new app? 
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Sounds very much like the US Patent office deciding everything that was useful, had already been invented. 
I do agree that finding an application that hadn't been done already and was useful is difficult.
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Bob Nadler wrote: Write an app that solves a problem YOU have
So you're saying that, because his problem is that he doesn't know what app to write, he should swot up on recursion?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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How about an app that overloads the phone's transmitter, to make it send out an EMP that disables nearby phones, thereby forcing people to stop playing candy crush and start paying %$&#ing attention?
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Lol
An app that sends out an EMP pulse
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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Kevin Marois wrote: EMP pulse
Ooh!
An automated ATM machine error! I haven't seen one of those in a while. Must be because of global warming.
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App which scrambles restaurant "elevator" music or TV forcing minimum wage earners to turn it off without me asking?
With option to "change channels" when seasonal music / videos are played - WAY ahead of season?
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Plan on a "series", like Star Wars or Harry Potter.
Activision didn't get rich with "one" game.
Small, interesting bites. (The average person uses, what, 10% of Word?)
Instead of one, wunderbar app, you'll probably do better selling it off in 10 pieces. Of course, then comes the "Omnibus" edition, etc.
(BTW, thanks to all that have been buying mine!)
P.S. The world could probably use a "virus" / body temperature detector about now.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
modified 25-Jan-20 11:49am.
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Kevin Marois wrote: Let's make the next great app and retire
Building the app is the easy (or at least the relatively easier) part of the bigger picture. The challenge is in finding the first solution to a business problem that's costing companies millions (or billions). Since you have the experience and skills to build a software product, I recommend seeking a dev/architect position in an early stage company that has (or is close to having) stage 1 funding. The rewards (both professional and monetary) can be significant. I strongly recommend not trying to find solutions to business problems - you won't have time to do any development if you're busy doing that.
Just my 2¢.
/ravi
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1. stop looking on CP for easy answers.
2. stop looking.
2a. stop muttering mantras like "just do it."
2b. ignore what other people say.
3. spend a month with no internet, observing, and writing down, what your friends and co-workers do with net/technology. spend another month with people who do not use net/technology.
4. take a week-long vacation.
5. be prepared for the "answer," to both what and how, appearing suddenly, and seeming as obvious as ...
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
modified 26-Jan-20 12:40pm.
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Any existing app - that is written / designed poorly - is a candidate. Take a look at any of the available productivity apps in the app store and see which one is horse crap, and is a kind of project you'd enjoy working on.
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I need an app that reads my shopping list and alerts me when I close to it in the mega-store.
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I'd like to see an app that can make sound visible. It might not be a mobile app though.
Think along the lines of night vision goggles making infrared visible, but using sound waves and their frequencies instead.
Does anything like that already exist?
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I've been hammering all day on trying to get NFA->DFA via powerset construction to work with large ranges introduced by unicode characters.
Before I thought it was impossible, then I found some libraries that did it.
This is good, because DFA is the fastest possible way to lex text
I FINALLY DID IT. I think. None of the sample projects I found were much help. All they did was demonstrate that it was possible.
In the end I had to figure it out on my own.
I've been coming at this wrong for over a year.
One day (today), I just sat down and came at it right.
Funny how that works.
Reminds me of when I played Ninja Gaiden sigma and I got so frustrated with a boss battle i put the game down for 6 months.
One day I went to show a friend how tough it was, so i put the game on and fought the boss, beat him the first time after not playing for half a year.
This feels like that.
Edit: My hubby's reaction when I showed him my resulting DFA graph - I was super excited. He's like "it looks like a monkey" - in his defense, it did.
Real programmers use butterflies
modified 24-Jan-20 19:23pm.
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So we have to ignore everything you've posted, over the last 12 months?
Okidoki, if you say so.
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And it's not what I expected. No spoilers, but I think it could be very interesting: unlike "Canon" Star Trek in most ways. I think I like it.
Anyone else? And please - no spoilers for those who haven't watched it yet!
And only a week to wait for episode two ... I'm not used to this old-style "TV Schedule" viewing any more. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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yeah, it looks interesting. It definitely has a different feel than other Star Trek properties...
#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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Patrick Stewart is a pleasure to watch, and I was surprised to discover he's also one of the Executive Producers. But as he has admitted, I think "Picard" will be a hard sell. I'm not exactly taken by the plot so far, and the previews for the next episode left me less than inspired.
So, given my "meh" reaction, I think I'll wait until the full season has transpired so I don't have to drum up the motivation every week and I can get more of a feeling of continuity by watching 2 or 3 episodes at a time.
I hope they have put something together that at least captivates me like FireFly or Dark Matter did, and I would be truly impressed if they can attain the quality and nuance that I experienced with the first two seasons of ST Discovery.
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Marc Clifton wrote: I would be truly impressed if they can attain the quality and nuance that I experienced with the first two seasons of ST Discovery
Tastes can certainly differ.
The two female leads killed discovery for me; they were both dreadful characters -- and Fred/Jimmy/Albert/whatever-her-name-was was awfully acted (my guess is that she took the direction "look confident" to mean "act like an arrogant b@st@rd").
Also, I don't recall seeing many loving relationships featured prominently in ST (in fact, I can't think of any at all -- Spock's folks hardly qualify). How woke of them to give pride of place to a passionate gay relationship in every episode of discovery.
I didn't even bother watching most of the second season.
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