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  • F Frank R Haugen

    I'm trying to think good thoughts while doing a little project, and I started to think about what my dream project would be. I would probably not thrive in a 10-person team, on a 50-person project, doing some piece of industrial software for an oil company, so it would have to be somewhat limited in scope. My dream project would be something to help the teacher and students in the classroom, actually use their computers for learning and not just note-taking and cute learning games. (Here in Norway laptops are standard equipment for 8th graders and above; though nobody actually uses a tenth the potential a computer has). What are you guys' dream projects?

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    TheGreatAndPowerfulOz
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    1. Robotics, or 2. robotic assistive exoskeleton, or 3. life-size quad-copter-like motorcycle

    Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun

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      I have many, but this article is one of them: Snapshot Running Processes With SeguroList, Part 1[^] Basically it's a whitelist project which allows you to take a snapshot of the EXEs running on your machine at any time -- it knows every dll loaded to support each exe also. Knowing What Is Different You can save the info as JSON and load it later, thus allowing you to do compares about what has changed since you last took a snapshot.

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      Frank R Haugen
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      Damn, that's a fun one

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      • F Frank R Haugen

        Damn, that's a fun one

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        newton saber
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        Thanks I appreciate it.

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        • F Frank R Haugen

          I'm trying to think good thoughts while doing a little project, and I started to think about what my dream project would be. I would probably not thrive in a 10-person team, on a 50-person project, doing some piece of industrial software for an oil company, so it would have to be somewhat limited in scope. My dream project would be something to help the teacher and students in the classroom, actually use their computers for learning and not just note-taking and cute learning games. (Here in Norway laptops are standard equipment for 8th graders and above; though nobody actually uses a tenth the potential a computer has). What are you guys' dream projects?

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          R Giskard Reventlov
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          Restoring an old car to original condition. Perhaps a Jensen Healey or Interceptor or an older Lotus.

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          • F Frank R Haugen

            I'm trying to think good thoughts while doing a little project, and I started to think about what my dream project would be. I would probably not thrive in a 10-person team, on a 50-person project, doing some piece of industrial software for an oil company, so it would have to be somewhat limited in scope. My dream project would be something to help the teacher and students in the classroom, actually use their computers for learning and not just note-taking and cute learning games. (Here in Norway laptops are standard equipment for 8th graders and above; though nobody actually uses a tenth the potential a computer has). What are you guys' dream projects?

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            Marc Clifton
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            Being able to work full time on Higher Order Programming[^] ;) Marc

            Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project!

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            • F Frank R Haugen

              I'm trying to think good thoughts while doing a little project, and I started to think about what my dream project would be. I would probably not thrive in a 10-person team, on a 50-person project, doing some piece of industrial software for an oil company, so it would have to be somewhat limited in scope. My dream project would be something to help the teacher and students in the classroom, actually use their computers for learning and not just note-taking and cute learning games. (Here in Norway laptops are standard equipment for 8th graders and above; though nobody actually uses a tenth the potential a computer has). What are you guys' dream projects?

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              BillWoodruff
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              My dream project would be a hardware brain interface coupled with software that lets me understand the messages encoded in every "5.5 petabits, or 1 million gigabits, per cubic millimeter" [^] of my own DNA. Of course, a key problem that would have to be solved is how to back-up the illusion of "sanity," and restore it. cheers, Bill

              «I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.

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              • F Frank R Haugen

                I'm trying to think good thoughts while doing a little project, and I started to think about what my dream project would be. I would probably not thrive in a 10-person team, on a 50-person project, doing some piece of industrial software for an oil company, so it would have to be somewhat limited in scope. My dream project would be something to help the teacher and students in the classroom, actually use their computers for learning and not just note-taking and cute learning games. (Here in Norway laptops are standard equipment for 8th graders and above; though nobody actually uses a tenth the potential a computer has). What are you guys' dream projects?

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                To fully document Rachel Riley's erogenous zones.

                Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

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                  To fully document Rachel Riley's erogenous zones.

                  Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

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                  Orlin Georgiev
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                  For Academic Purposes (F.A.P.)

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                  • F Frank R Haugen

                    I'm trying to think good thoughts while doing a little project, and I started to think about what my dream project would be. I would probably not thrive in a 10-person team, on a 50-person project, doing some piece of industrial software for an oil company, so it would have to be somewhat limited in scope. My dream project would be something to help the teacher and students in the classroom, actually use their computers for learning and not just note-taking and cute learning games. (Here in Norway laptops are standard equipment for 8th graders and above; though nobody actually uses a tenth the potential a computer has). What are you guys' dream projects?

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                    Working on a project to document all the visual details of a road so that, once the road is driven once, the program can be used to highlight relevant changes in the road from day to day when it is driven again. Objective: Spot places where soil / pavement has been disturbed, trees have changed configuration, etc. in order to spot potential IED plants that could harm our troops. Some unusual people have this ability as part of their brains, but more average folk could use a head-up display in their vehicles that would allow them to spot an 8" artillery shell in a tree that is rigged to a pressure switch in the road to blow up whoever drives by. Defeating these sorts of IEDs would save a lot of lives, even including indigenous civilians.

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                      My dream project would be a hardware brain interface coupled with software that lets me understand the messages encoded in every "5.5 petabits, or 1 million gigabits, per cubic millimeter" [^] of my own DNA. Of course, a key problem that would have to be solved is how to back-up the illusion of "sanity," and restore it. cheers, Bill

                      «I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center» Kurt Vonnegut.

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                      Gary Wheeler
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                      emacs for the brain, huh Bill? :-D

                      Software Zen: delete this;

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                        Working on a project to document all the visual details of a road so that, once the road is driven once, the program can be used to highlight relevant changes in the road from day to day when it is driven again. Objective: Spot places where soil / pavement has been disturbed, trees have changed configuration, etc. in order to spot potential IED plants that could harm our troops. Some unusual people have this ability as part of their brains, but more average folk could use a head-up display in their vehicles that would allow them to spot an 8" artillery shell in a tree that is rigged to a pressure switch in the road to blow up whoever drives by. Defeating these sorts of IEDs would save a lot of lives, even including indigenous civilians.

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                        Gary Wheeler
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                        Best reply of the lot. Worthy goal, achievable, and serious intent.

                        Software Zen: delete this;

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                        • R Rally2xs

                          Working on a project to document all the visual details of a road so that, once the road is driven once, the program can be used to highlight relevant changes in the road from day to day when it is driven again. Objective: Spot places where soil / pavement has been disturbed, trees have changed configuration, etc. in order to spot potential IED plants that could harm our troops. Some unusual people have this ability as part of their brains, but more average folk could use a head-up display in their vehicles that would allow them to spot an 8" artillery shell in a tree that is rigged to a pressure switch in the road to blow up whoever drives by. Defeating these sorts of IEDs would save a lot of lives, even including indigenous civilians.

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                          User 11653087
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                          Do this!:thumbsup:

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                          • F Frank R Haugen

                            I'm trying to think good thoughts while doing a little project, and I started to think about what my dream project would be. I would probably not thrive in a 10-person team, on a 50-person project, doing some piece of industrial software for an oil company, so it would have to be somewhat limited in scope. My dream project would be something to help the teacher and students in the classroom, actually use their computers for learning and not just note-taking and cute learning games. (Here in Norway laptops are standard equipment for 8th graders and above; though nobody actually uses a tenth the potential a computer has). What are you guys' dream projects?

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                            Kirk 10389821
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                            My Dream project would be to build course work grading system for teachers so that it collects not only the right and wrong answers, but the time spent on certain questions, as well as the association of the problems the students faced, in order to recommend specific focus by the teacher and the students. The ultimate goal being a near total virtualization of most classes so that you are in classes with people who are LITERALLY at your level of learning (think lab, more than class). Then utilize pair-programming lessons to pair-practice and work. To this day, I don't understand why nearly EVERY 2nd grade teacher is still creating a lesson plan for THEIR 2nd grade class. As if that has not been done. Open source, it, add to it, make it public, and allow parents and children alike to delve into it. WikiSyllabus I guess :-) Finally, I would work so that instead of just student teach, in order to get your certificate to teach, you had to improve this body of knowledge. Literally adding to approaches to help kids who are struggling, or approaches to help kids who are soaring soar faster.

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                            • F Frank R Haugen

                              I'm trying to think good thoughts while doing a little project, and I started to think about what my dream project would be. I would probably not thrive in a 10-person team, on a 50-person project, doing some piece of industrial software for an oil company, so it would have to be somewhat limited in scope. My dream project would be something to help the teacher and students in the classroom, actually use their computers for learning and not just note-taking and cute learning games. (Here in Norway laptops are standard equipment for 8th graders and above; though nobody actually uses a tenth the potential a computer has). What are you guys' dream projects?

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                              An invincible drone that would permanently pursue my ex pouring out rash inducing substances on her hea... wait ... am I saying this out loud?

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                                Working on a project to document all the visual details of a road so that, once the road is driven once, the program can be used to highlight relevant changes in the road from day to day when it is driven again. Objective: Spot places where soil / pavement has been disturbed, trees have changed configuration, etc. in order to spot potential IED plants that could harm our troops. Some unusual people have this ability as part of their brains, but more average folk could use a head-up display in their vehicles that would allow them to spot an 8" artillery shell in a tree that is rigged to a pressure switch in the road to blow up whoever drives by. Defeating these sorts of IEDs would save a lot of lives, even including indigenous civilians.

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                                Frank R Haugen
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                                This could have more uses than military, (though that's definitely a valid use). I could see the same kind of algorithm being used to analyze structural fatigue in bridges and other infrastructure, that is resource-intensive to detect by observation. First thing that pops into my head is how a prototype could be made with a Kinect 2 secondly, it's not that unrealistic to do. If you got the chops, you could write up a proposal and apply for funding for something like this. It is the kind of thing grad-students do, or what the guys at "Microsoft Research" do. You sir/ma'am, should tinker with this. It has great potential :-)

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                                  An invincible drone that would permanently pursue my ex pouring out rash inducing substances on her hea... wait ... am I saying this out loud?

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                                  Frank R Haugen
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                                  I think that might be illegal in most countries in the world, but I can sympathize with you :cool:

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                                  • F Frank R Haugen

                                    I'm trying to think good thoughts while doing a little project, and I started to think about what my dream project would be. I would probably not thrive in a 10-person team, on a 50-person project, doing some piece of industrial software for an oil company, so it would have to be somewhat limited in scope. My dream project would be something to help the teacher and students in the classroom, actually use their computers for learning and not just note-taking and cute learning games. (Here in Norway laptops are standard equipment for 8th graders and above; though nobody actually uses a tenth the potential a computer has). What are you guys' dream projects?

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                                    Being a big fan of FORTH, I'd like to work on an object oriented FORTH (OOF). I've created my own variant of Fig-FORTH years ago for the Apple II and was vastly disappointed with the almost FORTH of the HP-48 calculators that was somewhat object oriented (the stack supported different variable types instead of just integers as most FORTHs do). I was convinced FORTH was a superior language years ago when a friend and I put together a system with extreme rapidity that no other language came close to. The ability to unit test down to a single verb (FORTH speak for command/function) without the scaffolding that other languages would have needed meant that when we zippered our code together it all worked first time. The interactive nature of FORTH means there is no Edit-Compile-Execute-Debug cycle. It truly sits in a gray area between interpreter and compiler. I really miss working in it.

                                    Psychosis at 10 Film at 11 Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.

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                                    • F Frank R Haugen

                                      I'm trying to think good thoughts while doing a little project, and I started to think about what my dream project would be. I would probably not thrive in a 10-person team, on a 50-person project, doing some piece of industrial software for an oil company, so it would have to be somewhat limited in scope. My dream project would be something to help the teacher and students in the classroom, actually use their computers for learning and not just note-taking and cute learning games. (Here in Norway laptops are standard equipment for 8th graders and above; though nobody actually uses a tenth the potential a computer has). What are you guys' dream projects?

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                                      Either one of these would be my dream project. 1 - Working as a developer manager for the development portion of a business where things are not going well. I would require the authority to run the development team as I see fit, but helping the developers who work for me to get back on track, improve their skills and knowledge, and straighten our what is wrong with the software, preferably as a team. One example might be software product(s) still all or mostly in VB6, but needs to be in .NET (C# or VB.NET) and designed for desktop/laptop, mobile, web, touch and non-touch,. etc. in order to be competitive in the marketplace. 2 - Assembling my own "Skunkworks" team at a company to design the next generation of existing software, creating prototypes of new software, so the company is meeting marketplace changes. The team would need to understand the market the company works in, business in general, as well as advanced in their skills as developers. Build it, document it, test it with potential users, make changes as necessary, and once in a workable, useful state, turn it over to the regular development team to maintain and extend.

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