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this might be a joke, but this is a serious problem i have as well. i want to create something, but i don't know what to do.. there is nothing i need that is not already done, or at least thats why i think.

I have like 20 drafts of things I'll never work on because of lack of time but that I think are pretty good ideas. Fraom games to programming tools including network tools, educational applications, etc...

What are your areas of expertise and interest?

Re: I'll Accept Anything – Accepting every pull request submitted

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this might be a joke, but this is a serious problem i have as well. i want to create something, but i don't know what to do.. there is nothing i need that is not already done, or at least thats why i think.

Do you know what I found out over the last few days? There's no simple tool that you can use to download the actual content of your website, you know, for migrating it to a new CMS or whatever. Unbelievable. Something that will just run a text extraction through `wget -r` and save it all. Boilerpipe does the extraction nicely, but nobody has turned it into a simple tool.

You just have to have a job and try to get stuff done for a while and this kind of thing comes up. Just wait and watch.

Re: I'll Accept Anything – Accepting every pull request submitted

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Someone has already submitted a pull request changing the readme so that it says he'll accept nothing. However, I think this can be rejected under the "don't be a dick" rule.

change the project name to nomic while you're at it and declare victory!

Re: I'll Accept Anything – Accepting every pull request submitted

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this might be a joke, but this is a serious problem i have as well. i want to create something, but i don't know what to do.. there is nothing i need that is not already done, or at least thats why i think.

Here are some of my super secret ideas that will help you take over the world. If you use any of these ideas you agree to remember me when you get rich (you don't actually have to give me any money, just drink champagne and think happy thoughts about me) - Group purchasing for work - what if you wanted to break the cost of a Foosball table up over a group of people. It's cheap if you have enough people involved. - Ap…

The finding app sounds like something i could use!

Re: I'll Accept Anything – Accepting every pull request submitted

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post #11
post #3

this might be a joke, but this is a serious problem i have as well. i want to create something, but i don't know what to do.. there is nothing i need that is not already done, or at least thats why i think.

I have like 20 drafts of things I'll never work on because of lack of time but that I think are pretty good ideas. Fraom games to programming tools including network tools, educational applications, etc... What are your areas of expertise and interest?

Web Programmer using Microsoft Stack. i do my hobby projects using Racket (mostly PLT stuff)

Re: I'll Accept Anything – Accepting every pull request submitted

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this might be a joke, but this is a serious problem i have as well. i want to create something, but i don't know what to do.. there is nothing i need that is not already done, or at least thats why i think.

I have a bit of the opposite problem - I have too many things I could be doing, and not nearly enough energy to do anything beyond the one project I'm working on.

I'll tell you how I got there: every time I'd get annoyed, or see someone else get annoyed, I made an effort to imagine what would it take to make the problem go away. Once I achieve a decisive imaginary victory by any means, I start walking back from there to the realm of possibilities - can I make it cheaper or quicker? Without Superman's help? Without magic non-existing material? It becomes a habit after a while, and you start seeing opportunities everywhere. I'm not talking about necessarily software, any case when a person is annoyed will do as a training exercise; you'll be surprised.

I imagine it can also make a fun game, if you have friends who are up for it.

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