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Re: 1001 Things To Hack Before You Die

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In the spirit of the topic... 0001: Learn a functional language well enough to write something of some complexity 0010: Create a product with 100+ users 0011: Sell 100+ products (doesn't have to be the same as 0010) 0100: Get married! 0101: Learn either vim or emacs 0110: Learn Mandarin 0111: Become an expert at something tech *and* something non-tech 1000: Contribute to an OSS project 1001: edit: learned binary. tha…

1000: Learn binary!

Re: 1001 Things To Hack Before You Die

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Notable things I'm proud to have achieved/hacked/made, in no particular order of importance:

- Built a HAM radio-vacuum tubes were involved.

- Developed a useful library of JavaScript tools

- Developed my own MVC web framework

- Collaborated on the design of, developed and launched custom child-still tweaking that one for performance

- Started a successful business

- Be a part of a popular Open Source project

- Wired a house

- Participated in the saving of a few lives

Re: 1001 Things To Hack Before You Die

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In the spirit of the topic... 0001: Learn a functional language well enough to write something of some complexity 0010: Create a product with 100+ users 0011: Sell 100+ products (doesn't have to be the same as 0010) 0100: Get married! 0101: Learn either vim or emacs 0110: Learn Mandarin 0111: Become an expert at something tech *and* something non-tech 1000: Contribute to an OSS project 1001: edit: learned binary. tha…

0001: Does F# count?

0010: Done that. the last project I openly released to the outside world now has at least that many users (6x that in downloads): http://dl.qj.net/psp/homebrew-applications/ebootr-v15.html

0011: Nope.

0100: Ditto.

0101: I use gvim and Nano. Sue me.

0110: Did that in high school. 我贏得了比賽

0111: Working on it.

1001: I run a few (ebooter, and my first work on Git: http://github.com/indrora/creed )

Re: 1001 Things To Hack Before You Die

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My top ten list (I just thought it up now, so this is not my final list):

1. Making my own uC architecture and write it in HDL.

2. Make a lisp machine

3. Hacking a game for a old game console (not an emulator, you have to actually get it working on the physical machine).

4. Experiment with different types of OS on uControllers.

5. Hacking to gather a home automation system.

6. Implement a whole web server in the uController from scratch (means you have to make your own protocol stack and such things).

7. Make a widely used C library.

8. Get my long standing dream of localized electronics kit store to launch.

9. Get a patent on something new

10. Make a super computer cluster from home PC's

I know lot of these are very hard but hey I am just 19 and have a whole life ahead.

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