A better way to meet co-founders. Almost like a dating website but instead of going on a date you work on an Open Source project together with someone who would be a good match.
GitHub?
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#42A practical, robust method for separating essential complexity from accidental complexity in software engineering. Trevor Blackwell has written about something like this: http://tlb.org/busywork.html
It fascinates me that Trevor Blackwell has AdSense on his essays.
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#43Getting rid of undesirable mails (spam, personal harassment,...)
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#44Making Scholar articles open to public access.
Google scholar returned references are mainly to journal articles requiring a fee. This is useless. Science should be a collaborative work like wikipedia but with referees (not the narrowed minded one).
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#45Digital receipts - I hardly need to carry cash anymore, pretty much everywhere I shop takes chip-n-pin cards so I use my debit card to pay for most things.
However, what you end up with is silly bits of paper that I end up carrying round in my wallet or stuffed into folders at work or at home.
Why can't my payment card contain an identifier that allows the bank to send me a digitally signed receipt - I could get notification by SMS or email that this is in place before I leave the shop.
There is a lot of crypto tech that could be thrown at this problem and it would end up more convenient and better.
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#46Lowering the barrier to share data and information between my different telecommunication tools (phone, PC @work, PC@home, lap tops, internet caffe, ...).
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#47A better way to meet co-founders. Almost like a dating website but instead of going on a date you work on an Open Source project together with someone who would be a good match.
fsav and I built http://www.clusterify.com/ last year to target this very problem.
Unfortunately, neither of us is working on it anymore, and the site is no longer very active. But the code for the site is open-source, so feel free to launch your own clusterify and build a community around it!
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#48A better, no hassles international payment gateway
(I know Paypal exists, but I am not their fan)
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#49A better way to communicate between cars -- honking a horn seems kind of stone age at this point.
This is interesting, what sort of thing did you have in mind?
I think a horn is more about communicating between drivers, not cars, and seems like an good solution for this.. In the "hey, im here!" sense, rather than "hey, fuck you buddy!". It provides an alert and rough location that doesn't require much processing by the driver.
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#50A better way to communicate between cars -- honking a horn seems kind of stone age at this point.
Enabling abuse probably isn't wise while driving a car.