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Balboos wrote:
"Good Fortune is when Preparation Meets Opportunity"
Touché!
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Develop DOS, start a small company called Microsoft and become the richest man on earth and never work again.
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Hehe, good idea 
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i got your point, but i think they didn't develop DOS, just refactored some CP/M clone or something like that
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They bought an refactored QDOS:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/86-DOS[^]
86-DOS was an operating system developed and marketed by Seattle Computer Products for its Intel 8086-based computer kit. [...] The system was purchased by Microsoft and developed further as PC-DOS and MS-DOS.
This statement is false.
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Not very original, some guy Bill has done this before.
It is however a proven concept 
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What is the point of travelling back in time and be original and run the risk of failure. You take a proven concept with you and implement it before the original guy comes up with the idea, so that you may reap the benefits. You sound like the type of person, that will travel back in time to play the lottery without taking the winning numbers with you and then wonder why you didn't win, sounds pretty daft to me.
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But do it right this time: more like OpenVMS, less like a garage project.
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Don't even bother with the work...just invest in early-80's MS stock, and then come back...
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Race car driver! And not those ones that go on stupid oval tracks. I want to turn both left AND right.
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But not be allowed to block? Pfft.
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Blocking? Heck, I'd rather do rally racing where it isn't necessarily wheel to wheel and its just me and my co-driver going against nature and time.
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firegryphon wrote: Race car driver!
Yeah, contrary to software development race conditions can be quite good there 
modified 12-Sep-18 21:01pm.
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And I get to go outside more and see the sun occasionally. I kinda miss the scary ball of fire in the sky.
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I'm an introverted, self-depricating, geeky, nerd. Where else could I make a living?
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Stand-up comedy? Or maybe you don't drink enough?
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Oooooh! WAY TOO MUCH WORK! LOL.
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Engineering? 
SwITCh?!
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I don't know if I'm smart enough for that. I almost remember Calculus ;D
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And maybe even after that.
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I'm with Nemanja 
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Same here, Think i will code even after if my code bot ever gets off the ground (preferably before so people can pay me for work I'm not doing  )
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I certainly hope to continue coding - although retiring sounds like a fine end alternative to dieing.
Last job got outsourced to cheaper country. I don't plan to move, so I may have problems coding if this trend (moving jobs to cheap labor) continues...
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Yeah, it's too much fun. To me, it's like asking a wizard to give up magic. Why would they? 
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