# Your startup idea is stupid and I can't implement it for you **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 18, 2017, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-startup-idea-is-stupid-and-i-cant-implement-it-for-you/782489 "2017-03-18T16:54:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-startup-idea-is-stupid-and-i-cant-implement-it-for-you/782489/61 "2017-03-28T04:03:51Z")
I sell my soul daily. I admire one who still has one. ☹ Just last week I dreamt about a friend from 20 years ago. We stayed friends. My dreams suck. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-startup-idea-is-stupid-and-i-cant-implement-it-for-you/782489/62 "2017-03-28T04:04:22Z")
> [@Mijin](#): > > Apart from the red flag of him approaching me to implement the thing single-handedly, the rest checks out… I’m always looking for ways to let friends down easy. I might use this: “The fact that you came to _me_ with this idea should be a red flag to you, and make you suspect it’s clearly not well thought-out yet…” ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-startup-idea-is-stupid-and-i-cant-implement-it-for-you/782489/63 "2017-03-28T04:19:40Z")
And, FTR, I (wife) had an idea for a “jukebox musical.” Aside from that I had befriended the lyricist for some of the songs. I hedged around my idea, asking for permission, but admitting that I, a noted flake, was unlikely to follow through. He was cool with it. I did nothing with it, partially because it’s aged out of its market. My latest show is more flexible, eternally adaptable. Honest to God, with this tripe the book is the easy part. You’re setting up generic songs. I do conversations, and daughters inputted the correct generational plot twists. ---
**Author:** ![Beren\_Erchamion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/90ced4/32.png) [@Beren\_Erchamion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beren_Erchamion)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-startup-idea-is-stupid-and-i-cant-implement-it-for-you/782489/64 "2017-03-28T05:07:16Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > My friends consider me the goto guy when it comes to writing good computer programs. A lot of people would say that that’s harmful. ---
**Author:** ![Mijin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mijin/32/9369_2.png) [@Mijin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mijin)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-startup-idea-is-stupid-and-i-cant-implement-it-for-you/782489/65 "2017-03-28T06:55:31Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > And GOTO exists in most assembly languages, where it wasn’t Dijkstra’d out. A perfectly cromulent command. :mad: Yep and goto has stuck around in high-level languages too for a reason. I tried to use a goto just 5 or so years ago. I was working on some exception-handling code and there was an exciting moment (as exciting as things get for software developers) realizing the most elegant solution involved a goto: I’d hit upon one of those special-cases that goto still exists for. It was much simpler, easier to read and understand, and much less error-prone, than the alternative. Sadly I didn’t get my wish. My peer reviewer wouldn’t have it. “Look, you just can’t use a goto, OK?” ☹ ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-startup-idea-is-stupid-and-i-cant-implement-it-for-you/782489/66 "2017-03-28T12:53:54Z")
Philistine. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-startup-idea-is-stupid-and-i-cant-implement-it-for-you/782489/67 "2017-03-28T13:01:39Z")
That Flavor-Ade is thirty years old. Time for an elegant update, not some stupid rule. The first time I saw COBOL I realized it was all comments. Worse ways for a language to be, but that’s another thread. ---
**Author:** ![Pantastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@Pantastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pantastic)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-startup-idea-is-stupid-and-i-cant-implement-it-for-you/782489/68 "2017-03-28T13:46:01Z")
> [@dropzone](#): > > Really? I cannot believe it took more than ten minutes to create the in-game art of Rogue, a personal fave. People who want to create ASCII games generally understand enough about the process of making a game that they don’t have a ‘stupid startup idea’ conversation asking someone else to do the work 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Pantastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3bc359/32.png) [@Pantastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pantastic)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2017, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-startup-idea-is-stupid-and-i-cant-implement-it-for-you/782489/69 "2017-03-28T16:45:58Z")
Actually dropzone, the graphics for Rogue were over twenty years in the making! So, HA! > [@](#): > > Work on the ASCII standard began on October 6, 1960, with the first meeting of the American Standards Association’s (ASA) (now the American National Standards Institute or ANSI) X3.2 subcommittee. The first edition of the standard was published in 1963,[3][4] underwent a major revision during 1967,[5][6] and experienced its most recent update during 1986.[7] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-startup-idea-is-stupid-and-i-cant-implement-it-for-you/782489.md?page=3)