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Programming Motivation

Name: Anonymous 2013-06-30 15:17

Hey /prog/

I haven't programmed much at all in a while, and I'm feeling down. I want to get back in the mood for programming.

Do you guys have any motivational videos/speeches/articles related to programming? I'd love some of that

Name: Anonymous 2013-06-30 15:25

Name: Anonymous 2013-06-30 15:42

>>2
C / C++
Still passionately throwing C and Sepples into one pot.

Name: Anonymous 2013-06-30 15:47

>>1
Like all things, you need to find inspiration and then follow it. What do you want to make? A video game? A database engine? A p2p protocol? A compiler, or a new programming language?

Name: Anonymous 2013-06-30 15:55

Read SICP.
Watch SICP.

Name: Anonymous 2013-06-30 15:57

>>4
How about a paycheck?

Name: Anonymous 2013-06-30 16:37

>>6
Dance, codemonkey, dance!

Programming is a tool to get shit done.  Find a reason to get shit done, then use computers to do that.  Never work for someone else when your computer skills make you master.

$$$$$$$$

Name: Anonymous 2013-06-30 16:58

>>4
Dude, I don't know what I want to make.
I used to program a lot, doing anything I felt like. I made a couple tiny games, partially wrote an emulator, and implemented various algorithms. I just want to start programming again, I'm open to working on anything at all.

>>5
I haven't watched the lectures, will do.

>>2
That's a great resource, but I really don't like Zed Shaw.

Name: Anonymous 2013-06-30 18:25

>>7
Programming and computers aren't just ``tools'' you stupid technophile transhumanist.

Name: Anonymous 2013-06-30 21:06

>>7
Right. Going to a BBS and asking anonymous losers to tell you what to program is so much better than letting the market decide and making something that will actually contribute to your quality of life. I get as much enjoyment doing real work as I do from my hobby projects. Sometimes I even work on my hobby projects at work. Then when I need a break, I can afford a romantic evening with a cute 3D pig. If living under mom's roof is freedom, then I'm happy to be a slave.

Name: Anonymous 2013-06-30 22:58

Somebody post inspirational talks pls

Name: Anonymous 2013-07-01 0:23

>>10
oh fuck why are jackasses with money so conservative and sexist

Name: Anonymous 2013-07-01 1:32

>>9
:-)

>>10
You misunderstood.  I've actually been a codemonkey who earned a steady paycheck (a nice one, too), and I found the coding-on-deadline environment to be needlessly stressful and unrewarding. 

if your main motivation is a paycheck, you will seriously dislike your job and eventually programming.  The monkey loses his will to dance...


here's something to code, OP:
make a program that clicks on ads.  I need it to Google search, navigate to the target web page among the listings, then act like a genuine visitor that clicks on my ads.  The IP address needs to be unique every time and traffic to the site needs to steadily increase so that it does not look suspicious to Google.

If you take this on, you will have a useful program that can be used for fun or profit.  You'll also program in several different programming languages (the portable command and control server will run Linux and have Python).

Name: Anonymous 2013-07-01 1:58

>>13
How much money could I make off of this?

Name: Anonymous 2013-07-01 7:28

>>14
3 cents and Google's eternal unforgiving scorn.

Name: Anonymous 2013-07-01 11:36

Name: Anonymous 2013-07-01 20:13

>>14
don't listen to >>15.  First off, you would never use this in conjunction with your own Google AdSense account.  However, if you find lucrative niche markets (plastic surgery, engineering products/services), you can make a decent side income if you do it right. 

There's very little money in PPC or affiliate marketing, but a shitload of incompetent marketing departments that still believe.  They're all about numbers, so all you need to do is make traffic look legit.  Do a basic SEO overhaul on their site, then bring on the expected results in phase 2. 

If you could make a program that could accomplish what I listed in >>13, you could build a career off of it.  SEO is smoke and mirrors to most people, and they'll believe you're legit unless you give them reason otherwise.

"Greg has been a great asset to our organization.  Our site traffic jumped 50% within the first two months, and we're "

Utilizing proxies, open wi-fi, and the Tor network can help anonymize your page requests, and the Backtrack linux distro has a bunch of tools that you could experiment with to get your feet wet with.

Spending your working life behind a monitor coding bullshit for dumbfuck America is a waste.  Drop your bullshit morality and work to set yourself free from the grind...

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Name: Anonymous 2013-07-02 3:40

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Name: Anonymous 2013-07-02 3:41

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Name: Anonymous 2013-07-02 3:42

>>17
Steps for early retirement

1. Acquire a botnet.
2. Write program described in >>17
3. Sell your ``services'' to a few companies.
4. Write a AI that solves human language and can pose as yourself. Have it act as your ``sales drone'', contacting companies, negotiating prices, and ultimately serving the companies with the traffic service. Automate deposits of funds.
5. Live off bank account the AI feeds for you..

Name: Anonymous 2013-07-02 3:49

If said AI could manage all this and itself completely by itself, this would mean the AI is way to powerful. It would push us a vast distance toward technolo/g/ical singularity.

Name: Anonymous 2013-07-03 11:35

>>30
That's a bit difficult man

Name: Anonymous 2013-07-03 11:59

check'em

Name: Anonymous 2013-07-03 20:56

>>33
you are a hueg fagget

Name: Anonymous 2013-07-03 21:02

>>31
the sin/g/ularity already happened here LOL ;)

Name: Anonymous 2013-07-04 16:00

>>35
go away

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