What is your dream project?
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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.
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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.
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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.
Well not so much an app as an os, a bunch of apps and hardware. May as well call it a wishlist: - Code a port of linux aimed at designers and developers. - With a fully functional Adobe Creative Suite 4 app running in it. - Create an affordable high res touch-screen graphics tablet like wacoms new tablet but cheaper. - A Home automation suite of software.
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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 think I'd like to create an elaborate application which sits on a users machine, and insults them occasionally. It's not something that would cost millions to create, or take a particularly long time to build, but who cares... I'd then take the money and dissappear... In reality though, I've worked in too many places with chronically poor data and IT systems. I'd like to build a good one for somebody. A complete, reliable and easy to use, company wide package. I'm yet to actually find somewhere that has this, and I'd love for somebody to ask me to do one. Not really very exciting, but it's something that I would really enjoy doing. (I suppose it's just me wantin to prove a point) :-D
oooo, the Jedi's will feel this one....
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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 build a computational knowledge engine that would logically prove to executives how and why everything they say is stupid. It would have the unique feature of being able to break down the complicated $6 words like "specifications" into a form that they can actually pretend to understand. This would save programmers hundreds of millions of man-hours around the world.
I have nothing against VB or .NET; all Turing-complete languages are respectable. It just seems that some languages attract one echelon of programmers, and other languages attract an entirely different echelon of programmers. :P
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Marc Clifton wrote:
Actually, I really wouldn't do anything in software. I've pretty much decided that making software applications sucks.
Wow, one of CP's old-timers feels the same way I do. Only, I realised it FAR earlier in my life/career than you do.
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Vikram A Punathambekar wrote:
Only, I realised it FAR earlier in my life/career than you do.
I realized it, I just wouldn't admit it. Marc
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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.
If it's for a one man team (i mean only me) then sorry but i'm not that stupid to accept such a proposal. Finance means you have to give back in return and the more you get the more (quantity OR quality) you have to output. If i can hire a team then sorry again but there is no such thing as a dream project, only dream TEAM. If i can sum the best in the field, i can do whatever ... Not to be offensive cause i really like the hypothesis of your question but the problem is not money. It was never really about money. It's about time. Give me 24h a day without having to work for food/rent/gas/water/power/ccard (not that i have one), ... etc (for me and my family) and i'll work not only on my dream project, which currently i don't know what it is, but i might also take yours as well ... :-p
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I'd build a computational knowledge engine that would logically prove to executives how and why everything they say is stupid. It would have the unique feature of being able to break down the complicated $6 words like "specifications" into a form that they can actually pretend to understand. This would save programmers hundreds of millions of man-hours around the world.
I have nothing against VB or .NET; all Turing-complete languages are respectable. It just seems that some languages attract one echelon of programmers, and other languages attract an entirely different echelon of programmers. :P
hmmm. That would be very handy... If you need a hand with that.... ;P
oooo, the Jedi's will feel this one....
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I think I'd like to create an elaborate application which sits on a users machine, and insults them occasionally. It's not something that would cost millions to create, or take a particularly long time to build, but who cares... I'd then take the money and dissappear... In reality though, I've worked in too many places with chronically poor data and IT systems. I'd like to build a good one for somebody. A complete, reliable and easy to use, company wide package. I'm yet to actually find somewhere that has this, and I'd love for somebody to ask me to do one. Not really very exciting, but it's something that I would really enjoy doing. (I suppose it's just me wantin to prove a point) :-D
oooo, the Jedi's will feel this one....
I'm lucky enough to actually work on this very same project on my construction company. Sometime though, i do feel like it's gonna go for nothing because it requires diciplined people to work it. Building something like that in theory is nice but practical problems kick in immediatelly making it extremmely hard to make it flexible, easy and fast enough to cope in a full blown production (hell) line of a mid class company such the one (and million others) i'm working in.
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I'm lucky enough to actually work on this very same project on my construction company. Sometime though, i do feel like it's gonna go for nothing because it requires diciplined people to work it. Building something like that in theory is nice but practical problems kick in immediatelly making it extremmely hard to make it flexible, easy and fast enough to cope in a full blown production (hell) line of a mid class company such the one (and million others) i'm working in.
Do you mean the app for insulting people or the global everything app? ;P At least it's a good project for you to do. I'm currently reduced to writing MI tools and simple 'Helper' apps in my company. Why is it that some companies have decent developers in house, but yet they would rather pay an outsider £000k's for a half baked solutions that don't really cut the mustard? (not that I'm frustrated or anything) :~ I may turn freelance...
oooo, the Jedi's will feel this one....
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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.
Richard Andrew x64 wrote:
It has to be something you've always wanted to work on but never had the time or resources.
Hmmmm, if it's TRULY your dream project, you should MAKE time and resources happen for it. My dream project is... http://pianocheater.com/[^]
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There's an advertiser on CP that already sells that. They call it "IncrediBuild".
Interesting. I'll check that out.
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There's an advertiser on CP that already sells that. They call it "IncrediBuild".
Ah, works for C++ only. There's my in! It "works" for C#, but it doesn't actually distrubute the builds across multiple machines. Thus, there isn't any gain, it would seem.
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I can't tell you what my dream project would be - it would clearly violate the kid sister rule!
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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.
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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.
mmmm, a combination of "Business Artificail Intelligence" and "Self Learning" software... Hangon, thats what I'm busy with... And I'm getting paid to do it... Have I died and gone to heaven???
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Do you mean the app for insulting people or the global everything app? ;P At least it's a good project for you to do. I'm currently reduced to writing MI tools and simple 'Helper' apps in my company. Why is it that some companies have decent developers in house, but yet they would rather pay an outsider £000k's for a half baked solutions that don't really cut the mustard? (not that I'm frustrated or anything) :~ I may turn freelance...
oooo, the Jedi's will feel this one....
Of course, i'm talking about the insulting thing app :laugh: Seriously, Bosses are very prone to smart sale pitches. They get dazzled hearing about the "What that new system can do !!" so very selected few ask the "How it is done?" and none asks the "Who will do it?". As for your question, it's simply a matter of trust. They don't trust you but they trust the company that has more developers, is making a living out of their product, have technical support and finally the "If they sell this software for this long and others buy it, it must be good" mentality. The truth is that successful salesman put to work a mix of both character as well as technical knowledge. IT personnel usually is far behind the company front lines (production) and cannot see the actual problems. It takes a lot of time to realize and understand how inapropriate information handling/storage/flow evolves to real life production problems and difficulties. I'm a programmer in vb.net, web programmer & sort of designer, CAD expert, BIM expert, Electronics & Robotics expert, Automation engineer, CNC proffesional, ... etc. It takes a lot a patience and a bit of acting to get your boss to assign you to such a monumental task of defining how his entire factory will handle information. If you play it right, he'll be the one asking for it and your gonna be the sceptical one (usually it's the other way around). PS: Helper apps are good but applications that simply patch up other problems may very well be the reason why your boss doesn't get the hint. If he has the "if it works don't fix it" way of thinking, putting your finger on the hole doesn't help you or him. It's good to know that a patch in the form of a help application usually adds an extra level of process in the line and that consumes time which is the greatest and the most limited resource of all.:thumbsdown: :(
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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.
Developing a kick ass game.
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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.
