What is your dream project?
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A carpenter dreams of creating a beautiful house. An astronomer dreams of discovering an earth-like planet. A physicist dreams of creating the unified field theory. You have no dream programming project?
The astronomer and physicist may never achieve the goal no matter how much money is thrown at him. What they seek may not exist. The carpenter might be able to achieve the goal, even if he builds it for someone else. The carpenter may also choose to build a small version (a dog house or play house perhaps) with the time and resources he has. That's what I do; when I get an idea, I develop it as far as I can. I may conceive of features I don't have time to implement or hurdles I'd have to overcome to create a marketable product, but I do what I can. I have several such working/rough products. I generally don't subscribe to the "What I can conceive and believe I can achieve" school of thought, but I have found that's it's pretty much true for software. You say you dream of writing reverse engineering tools; are you working on that? Have you gotten at least a quick prototype of just one part working? If not, get going on it, there all sorts of benefits in the effort. Bear in mind that the dog house may be a good tool for the carpenter to use to sell his idea to a venture capitalist.
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Painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel a nice shade of magnolia.
Mmmmmmmmffffffffffffffffrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrtttttttttttthhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! :omg: :omg: :omg:
You can't turn lead into gold, unless you've built yourself a nuclear plant.
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Developing the next disruptive programming language (and libraries). (Of course, we are talking about technical dream project there!)
You can't turn lead into gold, unless you've built yourself a nuclear plant.
Aren't disrupters banned by the Kittimer Accords? (Or whatever.)
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I can't tell you what my dream project would be - it would clearly violate the kid sister rule!
I don't have ADHD, I have ADOS... Attention Deficit oooh SHINY!! Booger Mobile (n) - A bright green 1964 Ford Falcon - our entry into the Camp Quality esCarpade!! Do something wonderful - make a donation to Camp Quality today!!
Same as Lawrence from Office Space? :laugh: ;P :laugh:
// Steve McLenithan
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Aren't disrupters banned by the Kittimer Accords? (Or whatever.)
:) Actually working on some space vehicle software must be quite nice.
You can't turn lead into gold, unless you've built yourself a nuclear plant.
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The astronomer and physicist may never achieve the goal no matter how much money is thrown at him. What they seek may not exist. The carpenter might be able to achieve the goal, even if he builds it for someone else. The carpenter may also choose to build a small version (a dog house or play house perhaps) with the time and resources he has. That's what I do; when I get an idea, I develop it as far as I can. I may conceive of features I don't have time to implement or hurdles I'd have to overcome to create a marketable product, but I do what I can. I have several such working/rough products. I generally don't subscribe to the "What I can conceive and believe I can achieve" school of thought, but I have found that's it's pretty much true for software. You say you dream of writing reverse engineering tools; are you working on that? Have you gotten at least a quick prototype of just one part working? If not, get going on it, there all sorts of benefits in the effort. Bear in mind that the dog house may be a good tool for the carpenter to use to sell his idea to a venture capitalist.
Your answer is clearly not in the spirit of what was asked. I didn't ask, "What is your best lecture for setting and achieving realistic goals?"
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Your answer is clearly not in the spirit of what was asked. I didn't ask, "What is your best lecture for setting and achieving realistic goals?"
You started it. :rolleyes:
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Painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel a nice shade of magnolia.
This was just so off-the-wall and obscure, it made me laugh out loud. Awesome. Just freak'in awesome. :-D
:..::. Douglas H. Troy ::..
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If someone suddenly offered to finance you a couple of million dollars for you to create your dream application, what would that project be? It has to be something you've always wanted to work on but never had the time or resources. For me, I think it would be the ultimate suite of reverse engineering tools.
Do I have to pay the money back?
Gary Kirkham Forever Forgiven and Alive in the Spirit The men said to them, "Why do you seek the living One among the dead? He is not here, but He has risen." Me blog, You read
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If someone suddenly offered to finance you a couple of million dollars for you to create your dream application, what would that project be? It has to be something you've always wanted to work on but never had the time or resources. For me, I think it would be the ultimate suite of reverse engineering tools.
I would build a software that migrates the content from one content management system to another, seamlessly. [Edit] Just realized I'm the only one who answered your question honestly. ;P
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Do I have to pay the money back?
Gary Kirkham Forever Forgiven and Alive in the Spirit The men said to them, "Why do you seek the living One among the dead? He is not here, but He has risen." Me blog, You read
The money is not the point. I'm just asking what you would like to work on if you didn't have to worry about doing it to support yourself.
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I would build a software that migrates the content from one content management system to another, seamlessly. [Edit] Just realized I'm the only one who answered your question honestly. ;P
Pravarakhya wrote:
[Edit] Just realized I'm the only one who answered your question honestly.
Absolutely! Thank you!
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I can't tell you what my dream project would be - it would clearly violate the kid sister rule!
I don't have ADHD, I have ADOS... Attention Deficit oooh SHINY!! Booger Mobile (n) - A bright green 1964 Ford Falcon - our entry into the Camp Quality esCarpade!! Do something wonderful - make a donation to Camp Quality today!!
ADOS lol That's a good one
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I would build a software that migrates the content from one content management system to another, seamlessly. [Edit] Just realized I'm the only one who answered your question honestly. ;P
Well, get right on that. There's no time like now. Chop chop!
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If someone suddenly offered to finance you a couple of million dollars for you to create your dream application, what would that project be? It has to be something you've always wanted to work on but never had the time or resources. For me, I think it would be the ultimate suite of reverse engineering tools.
Porting VBScript to .NET. Come on - you know you want it.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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But you neglected to mention what that dream application would be! That was the point of the question.
Richard, you are just fishing for ideas, think up your own.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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Porting VBScript to .NET. Come on - you know you want it.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Wear gloves next time you feed the hamsters, you're about to lose some flesh, you know they read these right!
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH
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If someone suddenly offered to finance you a couple of million dollars for you to create your dream application, what would that project be? It has to be something you've always wanted to work on but never had the time or resources. For me, I think it would be the ultimate suite of reverse engineering tools.
I'd like to make the next generation OS that would be a blend of Second Life with Linux. My avatar in my house on my desktop. I can walk into my hard drive and check out files hanging on the walls, maybe fly up and grab one to edit. Imagine going into your memory in a 3D room to see whats in that memory location. Of course I could have company over from people who have the same OS. We can chat or whatever like in Second Life. Maybe even build something. You can also login to Second Life or any of the Opensim public grids. The entire operating system is built from the ground up just for this for maximum speed. I can't even imagine how far this could go. With build capabilities like Second Life and actually even more because it's an OS the Shell and Desktop would just be crazy and endless.
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Well, get right on that. There's no time like now. Chop chop!
PIEBALDconsult wrote:
Well, get right on that. There's no time like now
Sure, as soon as I get my million dollars.. :-\
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I'd like to make the next generation OS that would be a blend of Second Life with Linux. My avatar in my house on my desktop. I can walk into my hard drive and check out files hanging on the walls, maybe fly up and grab one to edit. Imagine going into your memory in a 3D room to see whats in that memory location. Of course I could have company over from people who have the same OS. We can chat or whatever like in Second Life. Maybe even build something. You can also login to Second Life or any of the Opensim public grids. The entire operating system is built from the ground up just for this for maximum speed. I can't even imagine how far this could go. With build capabilities like Second Life and actually even more because it's an OS the Shell and Desktop would just be crazy and endless.
That reminds me of Tron.
