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04 Oct 2015, 8:01 pm

1.) I am trying to do something.

2.) I've run into a seemingly insurmountable obstacle in accomplishing it.

3.) I've tried to look around the web for where people have done something similar to get a look at how they do it.

4.) I've found nothing.

5.) I've tried asking around.

6.) No one has responded. I suspect that no one else understands what I'm trying to do, and I feel like I cannot explain it.

So basically I'm trying to do something that no one else has done, that no one else can understand, and that won't work.


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04 Oct 2015, 8:16 pm

Lol, perhaps some specifics would be in place...this is a rather vague post and I'm not sure what you want the responses to be about.



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04 Oct 2015, 8:36 pm

beneficii wrote:
1.) I am trying to do something.

2.) I've run into a seemingly insurmountable obstacle in accomplishing it.

3.) I've tried to look around the web for where people have done something similar to get a look at how they do it.

4.) I've found nothing.

5.) I've tried asking around.

6.) No one has responded. I suspect that no one else understands what I'm trying to do, and I feel like I cannot explain it.

So basically I'm trying to do something that no one else has done, that no one else can understand, and that won't work.


Curiosity elicited.



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04 Oct 2015, 8:41 pm

I typically set it aside for a while and wait until I get an idea on how to get around the obstacle.



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04 Oct 2015, 9:24 pm

This happens to me often. I usually think, "I can't believe nobody has thought of this before me."
I usually have to invent tools to do it.
Given enough thought, I can usually find the right thing. Sometimes it takes weeks.



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05 Oct 2015, 8:32 pm

beneficii wrote:
1.) I am trying to do something.

2.) I've run into a seemingly insurmountable obstacle in accomplishing it.

3.) I've tried to look around the web for where people have done something similar to get a look at how they do it.

4.) I've found nothing.

5.) I've tried asking around.

6.) No one has responded. I suspect that no one else understands what I'm trying to do, and I feel like I cannot explain it.

So basically I'm trying to do something that no one else has done, that no one else can understand, and that won't work.


care to elaborate?

Is this thing yoru tryign to accomplish a computer thing. Or a real life thing.



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14 Oct 2015, 8:45 pm

No one else can be the sixth person to respond to this thread. Hence I have accomplished someone no one else has done and no one will ever do.


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17 Oct 2015, 5:15 am

slave wrote:
beneficii wrote:
1.) I am trying to do something.

2.) I've run into a seemingly insurmountable obstacle in accomplishing it.

3.) I've tried to look around the web for where people have done something similar to get a look at how they do it.

4.) I've found nothing.

5.) I've tried asking around.

6.) No one has responded. I suspect that no one else understands what I'm trying to do, and I feel like I cannot explain it.

So basically I'm trying to do something that no one else has done, that no one else can understand, and that won't work.


Curiosity elicited.


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To gohhhh...where the brave dare not gohhhhh..."



I guess we will never know what it was (this unprecedented thing) that the OP was trying to do.
Oh well... Lol!



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17 Oct 2015, 8:12 pm

beneficii wrote:
1.) I am trying to do something.

2.) I've run into a seemingly insurmountable obstacle in accomplishing it.

3.) I've tried to look around the web for where people have done something similar to get a look at how they do it.

4.) I've found nothing.

5.) I've tried asking around.

6.) No one has responded. I suspect that no one else understands what I'm trying to do, and I feel like I cannot explain it.

So basically I'm trying to do something that no one else has done, that no one else can understand, and that won't work.


are you going to explain or not?



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17 Oct 2015, 8:37 pm

If you can't explain it, can you still script or flowchart it?


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18 Oct 2015, 8:40 am

Maybe its too personal a thing, or something. Not that its too complicated.



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21 Oct 2015, 10:27 am

OP, people were willing to try helping you, but you didn't elaborate on the problem. Nonsensical thread locked.
OP, if you want this thread opened so you can explain the problem, please PM me


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