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Hey all,
I want to share with the community (free of charge!) a new product idea I had! 
After a chat with a friend about some internet product I was google for, mmm... how shall I put it?
Most useless product invented?
And I found this great one on Amazon! Only $16.95!
The Pet Rock!
Now me think, in this age of cloud and AI this brilliant idea need an update!
Hereby I present you my business idea:
The smart IoT Pet Rock! with cloud Sync Tech inside!
(only $39.99)
  
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I remember the Pet Rock. The only good thing about it was it came with an owners manual that was hilarious, points about how to care for your pet rock, etc. The IoT version should come with an app that enables the owner to check the status of his pet rock and what it is currently doing, etc. 
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Owner manual! Of course!
It's a mission critical item that shall not be forgotten! 
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And, of course the status is always "Your pet rock remains stationary" 
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Gotta have an app to know when it uses the restroom. If you hire a rock-walker gotta have an app to see the route. Maybe an app to rate the nutritional offerings as the rock ages. An entire line of products to rock-proof your house in case it's a feisty rock. An app for rating rock-groomers. And of course you need an app to find the best rock-specialist in your area to ensure your rock stays healthy. By god! You're a genius!
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You made me think.. we need to know, also, if the pet rock mood is more hard rock or rock and roll?! 
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mine idea is create a super mega towel so you don't need to dry yourself for eternity after a shower. I want to create towel which would absorb all the water from your body in 1 second. I don't know why but for me it is so irritating
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beautifuljose wrote: absorb all the water from your body in 1 second.
So, a towel that kills people then?
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lol
absorbing water from the surface of the body
by hair dryer principles
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And you don't think the canned unicorn meat that is frequently sold with pet rocks comes in as a close second? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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How humane they even put holes in the box so it could breath!
I remember when this was a fad, mannnnny moons ago! It was stupid then and it's just as stupid now. Bet they sell a million of them!
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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Pet rocks were actually very useful things.
They were precisely the right tool for the job, if you wanted to knock the stuffing out of a cabbage-patch kid.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Have you ever spent a day trying to fix a problem only to realise it's not actually there?
I have a button which, when clicked, updates a page with the results of a dropdown. The page isn't working. The click handlers aren't being called. I'm getting null ref errors where it's impossible to get them. It's driving me insane.
And then I realised the button never, ever, EVER needs to be pressed. The form never needs updating. The user simply needs to select the dropdown and submit the form itself.
It's amazing how much you can miss by looking so intently at something.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Could be the JavaScript messing with your brain.....
Caveat Emptor.
"Progress doesn't come from early risers – progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things." Lazarus Long
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my similar event was farting about for a few hours getting 2 linux machines to share a directory.
not hard but not having done it for a while I googled "linux file sharing", sure enough got results.
plenty of results, spent a couple of hours setting it up and start moving some files (the latter took most of the time), the files were moving really slow and figured it had to be possible to do it much faster.
of course, when I googled the first results were for the smb sharing coz most people want to share with winduds, what I really needed for linux<->linux was nfs ... corrected that... much much faster.
yeah smb is way slower... coz linux needs to convert it to the inefficient windows smb protocol, send it, and at t'other end unconvert it from smb back to unix form (i.e. the owners, permissions, dates, file sizes, even coz useless windows demands it check for exclusive file access ect).
anyway I blame winduds: coz ms' pathetic implementations of both file system and networking; if they had just gone with the standard like everyone else my time wouldn't have been wasted. (I sympathise with all of the network admins that have to deal with windows servers in real life.)
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lopati: roaming wrote: if they had just gone with the standard like everyone else
How many times do we say that particular lament each day?
cheers
Chris Maunder
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lopati: roaming wrote: if they had just gone with the standard like everyone
They did go by one of the standards like anyone else.
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just because ms invents something and rams it down peoples throats doesn't make it a standard
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That was not my point. My point was, that there is no such thing as a "standard". Everybody starts following standards, and then change them if one point does not suit them.
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From a former coworker: "A good thing about standards is that there are so many of them."
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I learned a long time ago to think of a standard as a yardstick against which implementations can be measured, as opposed to a blueprint for implementation. In a perfect world a standard would be the latter, but that isn't the world we live in.
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(sheepishly raises hand) Yes
It's even worse when you take a few shots at fixing the problem, throwing code solutions at it all day, just to realize the problem wasn't there or was far simpler than expected. You normally realize this after throwing hundreds of lines of code at it and then figure how to kill the problem in just two or three lines. So embarrassing.
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Tunnel vision .
The only difference is that there is no light at the end.
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I once spent a morning debugging a release build and wondering why my breakpoints didn't hit 
Restarted Visual Studio, restarted my computer, cleared caches, etc. etc.
When I found out after lunch I put it on debug and I fixed the problem in five minutes 
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Bet it was Betty with her blocks 
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