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I think he was not wearing the glasses and thought we were in the soapbox  
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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Ah, the wool-coloured glasses. I see.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I really want to make something.I'm bored, I have not touched any code for 6 months and as a bonus, it looks good to employers to have side projects (supposedly) The problem is, I can't find and commit to an idea. I want to make something practical. Sure, I could make a clone of something or make yet another boring todo list, but what's the point. Employers aren't going to care that you built a clone of (insert something here) that has 0 active users and just sits in a Github repo. I've also tried the whole "make something you would use" and wind up finding out someone has already done it and better than I could do it.
i cri evry tiem
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James_Parsons wrote: I've also tried the whole "make something you would use" and wind up finding out someone has already done it and better than I could do it.
If people would stop trying because somebody else already did it better, then the PC market would have never existed and we'd be working from the Workbench on an Amiga computer.
I'm still missing a decent crossplatform SQL editor that supports all the DataProviders from .NET. So, if you're bored.. 
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Of course the people who advanced the PC market had the connections, money, marketing to do so.
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James_Parsons wrote: Of course the people who advanced the PC market had the connections, money, marketing to do so.
Ehr.. that is not exactly what happened. The OS became the standard thanks to software-piracy.
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There is a book by Livingston about the early PC industry. I lived through it all CP/M, DOS, Windows.
None of those guys had anything but brains and the gall to think they had something great. So they found contacts.
You'll find Marketing is ever elusive to us Dev types. We just don't understand it.
Money you can always use as an excuse.
Get on one of the freelance programming sites. Since you don't care about monetary concerns do those tasks.
If you want exposure, join an open source project that tickles your fancy. There are over a million of them out there and they need the help.
As far as "its been done before". The cell market was already done when Steve Jobs flipped it on its head. Also he flipped the music industry on its head with the dollar a song model. They all made massive money from this new scheme.
Good Luck.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: we'd be working from the Workbench on an Amiga computer
It was good in it's day 
Eddy Vluggen wrote: a decent crossplatform SQL editor
Have you tried DataGrip from JetBrains?
Ah, I see you have the machine that goes ping. This is my favorite. You see we lease it back from the company we sold it to and that way it comes under the monthly current budget and not the capital account.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Brent Jenkins wrote: Have you tried DataGrip from JetBrains?
The word "JetBrains" means I am not even going to Google it 
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Care to explain why? I'm generally very happy with JetBrains products. I use ReSharper on a daily basis for 8 years now, and I also often use IntelliJ, Data Grip, PHP Storm and PyCharm. In a previous company, we used YouTrack.
And with the exception of YouTrack (it still needs to mature a bit), everything else is awesome.
I'm very curious to know with which of their product were you so disappointed that you avoid them just by hearing the company name.
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I... really liked the Amiga.
I would be strangely fine with this.
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mBuchwald wrote: I... really liked the Amiga
A multitasking windowed OS in half a megabyte. There is nothing not to like
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: A multitasking windowed OS in half a megabyte. There is nothing not to like
No MMU. That's the only thing I didn't like about developing on mine. Every wild pointer meant you had to reboot. Kinda lengthened the edit-compile-test cycle
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Guru Meditations, so much better than a BSOD
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Absolutely. And utterly hilarious when one day the local cable company was broadcasting a GURU meditation number for a few hours Made me wonder what the non-initiates thought was going on.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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It was a sad day when towards the end of life of the Amiga, they changed that text. :C
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Write something that interests you. Games, graphics, sound. Whatever it is that holds you interested.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Quote: someone has already done it and better than I could do it
If that's true, maybe you should hang up your keyboard.
On the other hand, it's not about the destination, it's about the journey.
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Decide on a project that interests you, even if there isn't necessarily a 'need' for it by others.
Two projects I plan to complete are:
First, a .NET based clone of a game I wrote back in high school on a Commodore PET - the game was, by nature of the platform, keyboard based. Now, I have other input options - mouse based with button to click instead of keyboard commands; better graphic options, possibly even sound (but, considering me, I doubt it)
Second: a platform to track dependencies - forward and backwards from a starting point; that means I need to have an input mechanism, a search mechanism and a reporting mechanism. I've toyed with the idea of having a graphical representation of the output and being able to limit (or not) the number of predecessor and successors to an item.
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You've got to look forward, to the future.
Make a power-governor for lightsabres.
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Well, according to the story line in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, he will need to harvest some Kyber Crystals if he is going to do lightsaber work. Don't know if we have any on this planet. 
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That's hardware. Leave that for the mechanical engineers to screw up.
The software's worth making a start on now, though.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Pick one:
ByteStruck[^]
Beta is 90% complete, just need to finish the matching algorithms.
FlowSharp[^] and FlowSharpCode[^]
I'm doing some really cool things with FlowSharpCode (which is now actually merged into FlowSharp) and of course there's a large TODO list (see Issues section) in FlowSharp itself.
Projourn (sorry, no public link), a project journaling web app (much like a blog, but also different.) Some initial work has been done, including REST services and a WinForm client to play around with prototyping.
Marc
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Wow, that ByteStuck site looks like the type of site I was looking for a few days ago
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James_Parsons wrote: that ByteStuck site looks like the type of site I was looking for a few days ago
Exactly. Hence the reason for creating it.
Marc
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