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I wandered off and built an IDE

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Post by girvo »

eagsalazar2 wrote: post #197
jason_slack wrote: post #42

“You might be surprised to learn that in a developer’s life, there aren’t all that many chances to impress girls with your coding skills.” Ha ha. When my wife and I were new she asked to use my laptop and was surprised that it “had no icons”. (No window system). So I started to show her how to avoid using a GUI. 12 years later she uses a terminal about half of her time as a stock administrator.

My wife is the only non-dev, family or friend, male or female, who I ever convinced to switch to Linux from Windows/Mac and who actually loved it and stuck with it despite me being a major Linux evangelist for about 10 years. Coincidence? (Although sadly I've now caved and use Mac and she's on a Chromebook. Fucking kids have ruined us!)

One of my ex-girlfriends switched to Ubuntu on my suggestion. Hilariously, the guy she cheated on me with and left me for bonded with her over it originally!

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Post by sgc »

brianpgordon wrote: post #216
sgc wrote: post #185

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even when they build spec houses (sometimes crap), they are paid first / at milestones by a bank or investor group. They don't hesitate to take on the job because they are confident in their capacities, which is my main point.

Building a house is very different from building a product. For example, timeline estimates for building a house can be reasonably ascertained; not so for software. It's the distinction between building something you've built before and architecting a new bridge or building. The latter is a creative effort with lots of variables that are extraordinarily hard to pin down into estimates that would be acceptable in spec…

It's fine to move the analogy, but the point remains the same: The more confident you are in your own capacities, the easier it is to bid on a project. And to be confident in your capacities without it being simple hubris, you need to do difficult things that demonstrate to yourself what you are capable of accomplishing.

Re: I wandered off and built an IDE

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Post by dng88 »

Good works. And appreciate all those comments about solving other people’s need. As said someone has been a great IT guy even though he was laughed at by bill gate that he do not know programming. He and his firm now is trying to solve problem which in many cases many do not even know that they have. Even though not everyone like this close ecology but ...

Pain point sells.

Re: I wandered off and built an IDE

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Post by dng88 »

mdpye wrote: post #219
brianpgordon wrote: post #216

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Building a house is very different from building a product. For example, timeline estimates for building a house can be reasonably ascertained; not so for software. It's the distinction between building something you've built before and architecting a new bridge or building. The latter is a creative effort with lots of variables that are extraordinarily hard to pin down into estimates that would be acceptable in spec…

So, your spec house is the yet-another-crud-webapp, where the spec is clear and the tech mature... Engineers do those too, but they aren't so much entrepreneurs as jobbing contractors or agencies

Stange about this house idea. In many cases like this ide I guess it may work. But in many cases we want to build something that is more like a movie. A dream.

Most of us in the “soft”ware precisely not like hardware (like house or even computer as hardware). Even it hardware I bet most of us are working on the firmware at most but the manufacturing part.

Somethings we cannot see. Something we have to feel a way trough.

Imagine the x-windows, mac and windows’s gui part.

That is hard part.

Even network is hard. But not as concrete as house.

Movie and dream. Please. And spec is hard to fix.

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Post by HeavyStorm »

Maybe of note: I've always dreamed of building stuff in excel with c#. And I craved something that let me use linq inside excel.

I'm a consultant working for corporations and excel is part of my life. Your plug-in has a market. In fact, I'll advertise it inside my company - if I like it, of course.

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Post by antonkm »

anakic wrote: post #248
antonkm wrote: post #223

I've spent the last month (yes - month) writing a custom CLI to run on CSV for a customer which have data scattered in a bunch of Excel files. This seem a bit too good to be true.

Only one way to find out:) If you need help setting it up, let me know, I'd be glad to help if I can

Yes, thank you. I see that my comment might be interpreted as sceptical. It looks great.
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