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Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by cjfont » Tue, Mar 08, 2016, 11:13 AM UTC

Pyxl101 wrote: post #16

> what are the side projects you are doing currently. This question is about having insight about what people are doing. I find it interesting that you ask primarily about side projects rather than just projects. Why are side projects more OK to discuss (or more interesting) than projects? I think it is sometimes a bad habit to follow the impulse to pursue an idea as only a side project. Whether you're a line employe…

In many cases, side projects have absolutely nothing to do with one's mainstream work, so trying to have them gain traction at a company is moot. For instance, if I work for the government doing IT services, why should they sponsor my idea of creating a mobile game app?

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by cruppstahl » Tue, Mar 08, 2016, 11:18 AM UTC

zerr wrote: post #35

cruppstahl wrote: post #10

Engineering team lead. My side project is an embedded key/value database: http://upscaledb.com

Nice. Any resources/books recommendation for those who are interested in coding similar project? e.g. ACID implementation, etc... Btw, how is it going with sales?

I like the VLDB papers, and papers of similar conferences. But most of upscaledb's architecture is auto-didactic.

edit: this is a good book: http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/fntdb07-architecture.pdf

I hope my sales improve as soon as I learn to do marketing ;)

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by cruppstahl » Tue, Mar 08, 2016, 11:19 AM UTC

darfs wrote: post #25

cruppstahl wrote: post #10

Engineering team lead. My side project is an embedded key/value database: http://upscaledb.com

Off-Topic: By the way: http://imgur.com/KrLQ9a3 What is the first line :? Visited with a Lenny 2, Wiko.

thanks :) Will try to figure out how to fix this.

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by obvio171 » Tue, Mar 08, 2016, 11:28 AM UTC

Programmer in Campinas, Brazil, on a work pause recovering from RSI-related problems.

As personal research I'm slowly working on a 8-thimble predictive wireless keyboard and coming up with plans for a solar-peltier atmospheric water generator.

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by _smaugh » Tue, Mar 08, 2016, 11:35 AM UTC

Front-end developer, in Melbourne Australia

Put together an ecommerce website in two days and a photo of my dog, https://www.americanyarns.com.au incredibly rewarding and pays the rent Also 3 or 4 projects related to helping high schoolers to find their first dev jobs

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by armatimel » Tue, Mar 08, 2016, 11:58 AM UTC

Day job: full stack software dev.

Side project:

A blog: http://trainerminds.com/

The engine of the blog is this one: https://github.com/spf13/hugo

It's a static blog engine, it's like jekyll.

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by armatimel » Tue, Mar 08, 2016, 11:59 AM UTC

Day job: full stack software dev.

Side project:

A blog: http://trainerminds.com/

The engine of the blog is this one: https://github.com/spf13/hugo

It's a static blog engine, it's like jekyll.

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by azrealus » Tue, Mar 08, 2016, 11:59 AM UTC

I'm a full stack developer from Ithaca NY doing contracting work via http://ququplay.com In my spare time I'm working on a scrabble like mobile game targeting Polish market called Literaki https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ququplay.l...

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by obvio171 » Tue, Mar 08, 2016, 11:59 AM UTC

bojo wrote: post #32

Work as a contractor doing infrastructure/backend work. Wrote a Riak Go driver before Basho decided to roll their own: https://github.com/riaken/riaken-core Writing a realtime programmable mech combat simulator in Haskell, the client in Unity3d, the first SDK in JavaScript: https://armoredbits.com

Big fan of what you are doing with Armored Bits! Keep it up :)

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by knwr » Tue, Mar 08, 2016, 12:01 PM UTC

I'm currently working as a clerk in a government department. On the side, I'm taking courses on Udacity to make the jump back to the other side. (I'm a CS grad.)