I work as a software engineer
Primary side project: http://meteorweekly.com
Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?
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#42I am a data scientist. I am working on two side projects.
The first project is a cloud based power/sample size calculator as a competitor to PASS.
The second project is a statistical distribution visualization website with API to generate random values.
Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?
#43Great question. I'm excited to see the other responses. I'm a visiting scientist at a nuclear physics institute, but my degree was in mechanical engineering. Currently working on creating highly charged isotopes to be used for cancer research. Last year I built a single seat off-roading buggy with some friends, which was a really rewarding, and fun project. Current side project is learning to work with some RPI's to…
Do you have a picture of the buggy you built? Spending a lot of time in front of a computer makes me want to build physical things. I have no experience welding, and I'm always impressed with what people can build out of metal.
Certainly do!
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I did about half of the welding on the buggy and I actually learned how to weld while we were building it. YouTube videos were enormously helpful and welding is really fun.
Technically this was for my university, but we raised funds for it without their help and built it not out of requirement, but out of interest.
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#44Backend engineer at Sherpany (https://sherpany.com) and my side project is called numbers.today (https://numbers.today), a quantified-self platform.
Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you have a picture of the buggy you built? Spending a lot of time in front of a computer makes me want to build physical things. I have no experience welding, and I'm always impressed with what people can build out of metal.
Certainly do! http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LTl1dfiFXXo/U4etdcKdRTI/AAAAAAAAAx... http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--6qOASg5xts/U4exjAZ4TEI/AAAAAAAAAx... http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-4c8DArPQnO4/U4etHJaRrmI/AAAAAAAAAx... I did about half of the welding on the buggy and I actually learned how to weld while we were building it. YouTube videos were enormously helpful and welding is really fun. Technically this was for my university, b…
That looks fun, and it looks like a test of your confidence in your own skills!
Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?
#46Working solo for http://elmalabarista.com (iOS, Web apps: obj-c, python, html+js+css, .net, sql backends (severals) all at the same time!) and providing consulting, for 9 years now!
My side project is build a kind of alternative to MS Acces + Excel + Terminal, or a resurrection of a data centric development environment like Visual FoxPro was. Yep, this sound brutally complex. That is way I'm doing this slowly, and think very hard in what to do, how and why.
Building a relational language first (ie: Exploring how better could be instead of stick to just use python or F#... also fun).
Most likely this will end as a custom DSL + also use python/f# just because reinvent everything is impossible with just me a few resources ;)
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#47I build software for legal and compliance in the financial industry. On the side I am working on a mobile food site that takes a different approach on finding food to try at restaurants near by.
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#48I'm a product manager. Side project is building a genome data ingestion pipeline with my dad. We're both really passionate about giving people a faster and cheaper solution to processing genome data. Current project is to allow researchers to send fully sequenced genomes to our server, align the sequenced genome to a referenced genome, then store the data in a performant way that can be queried against. Right now, it…
Out of curiosity, what genome assembler are you using for your project? (I'm having to build a genome assembly pipeline with a reference assembly as well for a bioinformatics class I'm auditing at a local college, not a professional in this field either). The papers I am reading and trying to replicate uses SMALT.
Assuming you're referring to the alignment side of things. We use a variation the Bowtie2 algorithm that allows us to align multiple genomes at once to the same reference genome.
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#49Software engineer, and my side projects involve helping people learn things interactively:
RegexOne: http://regexone.com
SQLBolt: http://sqlbolt.com
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#50Intern! I split my time between school (business) and work (digital marketing agency).
My side project is a Windows 10 Smart Mirror. Its got voice commands, drag and drop UI, lots of cool stuff. Its open source too! http://innate.cc
Its very interesting reading these responses..