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What are your million dollar ideas that you are too lazy to implement?

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Re: What are your million dollar ideas that you are too lazy to implement?

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A free gym membership where you pay $1 for the days you don't show up

I recently heard of GymPact, they seem to be doing something similar.

That's cool, but if everyone works out, they run out of money. I realize that is unlikely, but it is a system just asking to be gamed.

Re: What are your million dollar ideas that you are too lazy to implement?

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Indirect exchange site. You put in what you are willing to give away e.g. a CD and what you are looking for e.g. a coffee mug. The site trawls all the 'swap' sites (like Craig's list) looking for intermediate swaps that will achieve the desired result e.g. you have a CD, Tom has a tennis ball and William has a coffee mug. William wants a tennis ball and Tom wants a CD. The program matches you all up so you give your…

That's like the story about a guy who uptraded a paperclip for a house. Nice.

Exactly! I heard a story about a guy who started off with a pen and ended up with a truck. I don't even know if it's true but it is inspirational. Actually that could be an interesting system in its own right - I have a CD and I want a car - show me the swaps available to make it happen ... though I actually think the major limitations for such a system would be an intractably large search space.

Re: What are your million dollar ideas that you are too lazy to implement?

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Multi-language IDE (Compiler)

//Doubt this is a million dollar idea, but i love to have one ^_^

The idea is simple, as you are coding, you can switch between languages as you please. All languages able to access variables and methods in any other language you have already used. All you have to do is identify what language the sections of code are.

EG:

  public list DataSet = new list();

  public string GetSortedData(list unsorted_data)

  {

    //sorts the data

    //Converts data to string (as delphi dosent have list class... i think.)

  } 

//sory its the only other language i know atm

  ShowMessage('Sorted DataSet: ' + GetSortedData(DataSet));

It might be tricky to do, but damn would i want an IDE that can do that!

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