Ask HN: Are you working on interesting technical problems?

Is it really possible to sit for that long everyday and not suffer from it. I know I'm probably focusing on the wrong thing but just the idea of being able to code for that long everyday without suffering any physical problems would be reward enough for me.

A good manager would realize that his quality of work was top notch but that he was at times difficult to get along with. He was a perfectionist who held those around him to the same standards, and that often clashed with the business needs and even sometimes other teammates. A business generally isn't concerned with the product being perfect, they're more concerned with it getting to market on time.

So my suggestion to any manager that has an employee like this: Value him for what he is. Put him on MISSION CRITICAL tasks, where you need a rock solid implementation. Let him work for 2 weeks without interruption.

For other tasks that are perhaps not as "critical", throw other team mates at them.

So, how is a person with an interest, at some time, to find the content for that interest? Uh, treat the interest as unique in all the world. Part of the challenge is meaning, how to get the content with the meaning they want?

So I used some pure math prerequisites and derived some new applied math for a solution. No, it's not data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, cluster analysis, regression analysis, principle components analysis, classification, random forests, regression trees, discriminate analysis, neural nets, sigmoid function approximations, categorical data analysis, speech recognition, natural language processing, the semantic graph, etc. I haven't assigned a name to the math.

For users, the work is just an easy to use Web site, with just two main pages, very simple HTML, no cookies, no user IDs, and nearly no JavaScript.

The code is based on Microsoft's .NET with IIS, ASP.NET and a little use of ASP.NET. The total, on-line and off-line, is 100,000 lines of typing with a lot of in-line comments and about 24,000 programming language statements. There is also a lot of documentation external to the code.

I didn't use an "integrated development environment" and, instead, just typed in the code using my favorite text editor KEdit with some dozens of my KEdit macros.

So to me the problem has been interesting and so has the solution. Deep in the code is my new applied math. Also there are some new or tweaked computer science algorithms. As time goes on and I have a significant server farm, there may be more interesting problems with interesting solutions.

So far all the code appears to run as intended. It's my first code for this project and my first Web site, but I tried to write production quality code and not prototype code. And the site is supposed to be a good solution and not just a "minimum viable product". The architecture of the code and the server farm are fairly scalable just by some simple sharding. If this project gets to be a big thing, then scaling might become challenging with some serious changes in the code.

I'm a sole, solo founder and 100% owner.

I intend to announce alpha tests here on HN.

Sometimes I feel this, which is exactly why I have multiple side projects which I can flitter between as and when the wind takes me. Like any subject, I think you need to remind yourself why you chose it and get back to the core of what you enjoy. I've not yet personally experienced burn-out in my job (and hopefully won't), but I can see people who have their work-job as their only interaction with computers and begin to resent it.

Depending on how much excess time you have, you can really float the boat out there. Time is the most valuable asset you have (which is what companies exchange money for), find a split between work, a hobby and socializing.