How do I commit myself to side-projects?
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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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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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Absolutely. And utterly hilarious when one day the local cable company was broadcasting a GURU meditation number for a few hours :laugh: 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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Of course the people who advanced the PC market had the connections, money, marketing to do so.
i cri evry tiem
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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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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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
How about helping a project like NTP or such that could use the development work and does not have much of a budget. (nwtime.org). Digging in on a successful project and making it better is a great idea, and can show the much more important skill of being able to get up to speed on a project, and being useful... Just thinking outside the sphere :-)
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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
You don't have to create your own project, there are plenty that could use some help: Up For Grabs[^]
'Howard
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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
You your side projects don't necessarily have to achieve an end product to be a useful exercise. I often start side projects to explore coding styles, patterns and architecture and new technologies. Because my side projects are in my own time and under my complete control, and I have the freedom to pursue any avenue without fear of cocking up an existing code base or missing a deadline. This is how I've explored the fusion between MVC, Razor and Angular. Or how I might practically implement an event source pattern. The actual projects are disposable, but I've learnt enough in the sandbox of a side project to be able to apply the concepts I've learnt on a professional project. Occasionally a useful application comes out of the side of this activity. If I'm really lucky, one day I'll stumble onto a saleable product.
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