Im tired of seeing "yet another ___ app" being thrown around.<p>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'm really bad at parking my car. I'm not interested in getting a machine to park it for me, but a simple and accurate guide/tutorial on how to park might help.<p>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.<p>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<p><pre><code> #!/bin/sh
run-magic-daemon $* "my-program --options"
</code></pre>
which then deals with the arguments to the init script, and deals with starting up and daemonising my-program. It should also deal with redirecting stdout/stderr to a log file, writing a pid file for later usage, etc.<p>I often end up with hundreds of tabs open. Something to close the ones I used least recently might help.<p>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.<p>Hope these provide some inspiration.<p>If you want to talk via email, you can find me at james@incoherency.co.uk
A quick web prototyping tool with no dependencies above what the browser can run (JS/CSS/HTML).<p>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.<p>I looked into Moustache and Hogan but neither of these offered what I'm after and they were pretty difficult to set up.<p>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.
Sociopaths in positions of power. While serial killers get most of the attention, socio-/psycho-paths in positions of power in societies cause huge problems, wars, financial fraud leading to financial collapses etc etc. So the task would be to identify them, quarantine them and then work out how to treat them so they could be safely released back into society. If this is not done, there is an extremely high possibility that one or more of them will be the cause of a human created extinction event such as global thermonuclear conflict.
One of the biggest problems in modern society is that most people are quantitatively illiterate and therefore poorly equipped to solve the problems of modern society.
I'm in a web developer course and I really really need to get my Ruby in good/great shape. It is my first programming language and I am not getting it as quickly as others in the class. I'm not hopeless, but I am not where I want to be.
I was looking at furniture the other day and it's really, really hard to visualize where/how furniture will fit in a given room with just pictures (which can vary based on lens used) and dimensions.