Honestly . Doug has usually been a voice of reason , he ' s a libertarian , but a real one , not these Nationalistic American libertarians . And I honestly think his stance on infiltrating the police force with leftists is a fantastic idea . They do it to us , and it works pretty well . <| sep |> These refs are fucking saving the Vikings drive <| sep |> What would have happened if the cop died while trying to arrest you ? <| sep |> I finished my Ruby Codecademy on 1122015 , and started my webcrawler project on 1132016 . That would be me mistyping my notes from my diary ! Whoops , it ' s only been 3 weeks . Do note though that I saved up quite a bit of cash , and get Financial Aid from College due to a mixture of high grade marks and low family status . So , except for a bit of school , I can work on this 10 hours a day . And for the most part , I do . The purpose of my webcrawler is to help law firms gather information about a particular subset of possible websites . While that can sound like a big idea , it ' s really just a bunch little projects I ' ve identified 18 all put together into one . The idea is to gather information and . pdfs of the website to help these firms and owners make decisions about whether or not to sue these domains for their illegal activities . I worked at one of these law firms as a paralegal for a bit of time , and for my last six months there I decided to plan out the features I needed my webcrawler to do , while also looking through the websites at their code , seeing patterns and whatnot . The planning took about 4 months , with the last two months were me just double checking everything , asking the lawyers way too many questions , and ensuring that I couldn ' t screw up choosing Ruby as the language to learn . As far as helping you come up with a project ? Well a lot of people like to automate simple tasks . If you work in an office , think about a task you do everyday . I mean , that ' s essentially what my web crawler is , me automating my previous job . Other than that , I can personally recommend learning some online money stuff . Things like making a website that people visit . You ' ll get money when they complete a survey or just look at the webpage due to advertising . Once you know the basics in that industry , there ' s a lot you can automate . A resource I liked a lot when I was bored in High School and didn ' t have a job was simply reading all the forums posts at , and even doing some of them . Made some beer money that way . Now that I know how to program , I can conceive of quite a few programs that would help me in that industry , even though I ' m currently leaving it .