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Ask: What would you do/make if you never had to monetize it?
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#152Online 3D games. There's something incredibly satisfying about crafting a living, breathing world one line of code at a time.
I don't think I could be happy working for a games company (I have a few friends who do, and they confirm what I fear - it sucks all the joy out of it, especially when you have to start from the bottom), and if I worked on it on my own it would likely be too ambitious for me to finish in any reasonable amount of time, so I would never expect to pay the bills that way.
It also wouldn't be "things people want", but just "things I want".
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#153The "free" facebook. - no ads, period - all personal info is held under the watchful eye of a seperate, non-profit org that ensures no personal info is ever shared with third parties - you can delete your own account whenever you want, and you won't get hassled. An actual deletion of your data, too - all source code is open source, and people can contribute whatever features they want
We should talk.
$USERNAME @ brevity dot org.
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#154This article actually gave me the best non-programming related startup idea I've ever had. I wrote a blog entry to answer this question, then realized the idea was so good that I might want to hold on to it. Now I'm unsure whether or not to post.
If you're really going to build it, then keep it. If it's something you want to exist, and you aren't really going to build it, then post it.
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#155I've always wanted to start a taxi service. Nothing really special about that, except I'd let the people drive to their destinations (provided they had a license).
ALL kinds of risks there with insurance and what not, but it's mostly just a crazy out of the box, but a bit too optimistic fantasy.
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#156The "free" facebook. - no ads, period - all personal info is held under the watchful eye of a seperate, non-profit org that ensures no personal info is ever shared with third parties - you can delete your own account whenever you want, and you won't get hassled. An actual deletion of your data, too - all source code is open source, and people can contribute whatever features they want
We should talk. $USERNAME @ brevity dot org.
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
Another solution to this idea is FreeNet, but it doesn't seem to be catching on as well as the creators had wished: http://freenetproject.org/
I talked to some people who wrote code for it a while back, and it's actually a lot more important than us western-free-state-inhabitants might think. Over 50 % of the world has more or less of a dictatorship, and that estimate was not including russia. Dictatorships imply no free press, not even free face to face communication. No knowledge of how the government works. A continuous filter in the back of your head th…
Are you sure about that 50% ?
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#158I would watch movies, eat cheese and drink wine.
You are French and I claim my $5. ;)
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
I talked to some people who wrote code for it a while back, and it's actually a lot more important than us western-free-state-inhabitants might think. Over 50 % of the world has more or less of a dictatorship, and that estimate was not including russia. Dictatorships imply no free press, not even free face to face communication. No knowledge of how the government works. A continuous filter in the back of your head th…
Are you sure about that 50% ?
yep, it surprised me as well. Here is a picture of the world with an indication of freedom: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Democracyindex2.png This picture is a bit more pessimistic than the one I have in my book.
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#160An alternative to hierarchical file systems.
I've been thinking recently about that too. It's inefficient to use a traditional folder/file system, at least for your personal documents (for system and program files I think they're better off the original way.) What about folders that represent tags? I could tag a file (say a picture) with Danny (my name), Vacation, and 2007. The system creates 4 "folders" as we understand them, each one labeled with a tag, and t…
What about this? Put every document in a directory called 'All' or something. Want to tag foo.txt as vacation? 'mkdir vacation && ln All/foo.txt vacation/'