What are the biggest problems you face? If you're not facing anything significant, what are the largest problems you see the world facing?
I am a member of my university's programming team, but I never have the motivation to practice. I am aware that practice is what is needed, but when I get time for programming I always spend it on other projects, rather than contest practice. I don't know how to solve this.
Init scripts are a right hassle. You could provide (or write a guide explaining, if one already exists) a tool so that you can turn any program that runs as a main loop into a daemon, with an init script. And with as few dependencies as possible. For example, I could just put a shell script in /etc/init.d/my-program that has
#!/bin/sh
run-magic-daemon $* "my-program --options"
I often end up with hundreds of tabs open. Something to close the ones I used least recently might help.
Buying domains is really annoying. Why can't I just type the domain and click "buy" without the registrar trying to sell me other services, or the same name on other TLDs, etc? Just a simple domain registrar for human beings (or a decent guide to the pros and cons of existing domain registrars) would be very helpful. If you end up starting a registrar, it may be easiest to do it as a reseller rather than ponying up the ICANN fees.
Hope these provide some inspiration.
If you want to talk via email, you can find me at james@incoherency.co.uk
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Gamify parking practice with Google Glass or other augmented reality, score based on distance from other cars, smoothness of execution i.e. lose points for stopping, number of times you change direction on the steering wheel etc.
I'm stuck using HAML and Bootstrap to throw quick mock-ups together. It's great and works fine but I have to load a pre-processor app (like PrePros or Koala) and HAML can't include elements into templates like header like headers/footers I have to copy/paste into every new template I'm putting together.
I looked into Moustache and Hogan but neither of these offered what I'm after and they were pretty difficult to set up.
I think the Mixture app will solve this when released but I've had issues getting the beta to properly run and it looks pretty bulky for what I need.
- Depression