I would write an app which offers the best places to visit in any city or town according to my preferences and likes&dislikes indicated.
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#22I would create a DB engine that runs on FPGA, it will translate SQL store procedures to HDL and run the query on FPGA. It might be stupid, but I am not a better programmer to know!
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#23A Bitcoin trading bot that makes me a tonne of money
I wrote one of these, and it was incredibly successful!
disregarding transaction fees of course, otherwise it was horrible :)
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#24Distributed blockchain democracy
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#25Distributed blockchain democracy
Excellent, I'm right with you. But, ahhh, I'm afraid that's more of a software problem than just a program problem.
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#26A daemon app that saves my slack messages to gmail or even local text files, so I can find older messages. I know this is not difficult, but wish I had some bandwidth to work on this...
A fetchmail cronjob will probably get you pretty far. I use this to backup my mail.
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#27Some kind of procedurally generated fantasy world, designed around generating stories.
this sounds really cool. some of my favorite games are essentially sandboxes (mount & blade, pirates), and I like the idea of taking the sandbox and building in non-trivial, non-artificial non-deterministic stories.
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#29I doubt any engineer considers himself not good enough to write any app/program and is sitting without building it. I feel many people have the ability to dive and explore and build things once they get a problem to solve. many of us don't realize the problems itself because they are busy working on something else. Also, you only realize the problems when you are actively involved into it. As an example, I have no idea if there is big problem that could be solved in say Finance industry. Identifying problem is a big hurdle. Also, many engineers are sitting in echo chamber where they don't get to know about relevant problems which they can solve.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Excellent, I'm right with you. But, ahhh, I'm afraid that's more of a software problem than just a program problem.
You mean lack of computer connectivity for every eligible citizen? or...?
Oh, that's certainly gunna be part of it. And overall too, the human interfacing part of the program's program. The new laws, if necessary. Support from lawyers and communities. Etc etc etc...
Personally I think a blockchain based voting system doesn't beat some easier analog systems. It's pretty, but impractical in the current system. I think...