I'm looking forward to releasing documentation, creating proper release versions and fixing some various bugs for my open source project Quiet Modem. I'm also hoping to blog a bunch about how it works. Hard to believe I started working on it over 2 years ago.
Ask HN: What do you look forward to doing in 2018?
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#32I'm starting a new job. Full-time remote, so I'm very excited (even ordered a Herman Miller, so my back is equally excited)! I'll also be working in Elixir + React, so both two technologies I'm very interested in. I typically assign myself two large projects a year to delve deep into to topics I'm ignorant in, so I'm going to attempt to build two low-level networking services. One is a TOR router and the other is a u…
How did you get your remote job?
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#33Cooking, cleaning, meditating, and generally making sure my life and home are peaceful and promote baseline happiness.
Taking time to study some beautiful theory that is also applicable to my interests in programming: category theory, logic, and proof systems.
Continuing my daily work with fun technologies like Nix, Haskell, Ethereum, Racket, and so on.
Going away for a work retreat with some remote colleagues.
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#34Getting a job. 6 months of interviewing and nothing. I'm starting to feel like I've been blackballed.
Same boat. Nearly 3 months now. You are not alone :)
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#35When planning how to utilize my time, I sometimes think in terms of these three categories: make, learn, fun. So:
Make: finish a side project I'm working on. After that, start a new project with a completion time of, say, about four months with the hope that some will become successful or provide unexpected indirect value such as getting to know interesting people etc.
Learn: continually learn stuff so that I cover roughly undergraduate understanding of all of the major branches of science: physics, biology, economics, chemistry, etc. For fun and because it's rewarding and useful to understand the fundamentals of a wide range of fields. Useful because when there's some specialized area of interest, understanding the fundamentals makes it possible to learn about it relatively quickly.
Fun: travel more, maybe try LSD :)
Other than that, get a significant raise and/or start looking for a much better paying job. The job market in my country is extremely favourable for employees right now, so I'm basically wasting a big opportunity out of fear of change. Also, slack less in work (that's the reason I haven't asked for a raise yet).
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#36Doing more recreational math.
Love this one. I picked up euclid's elements over the summer and it has been awesome to just pick up a proof when I have minimal down time. great way to redirect my mind.
Re: Ask HN: What do you look forward to doing in 2018?
#37Getting a job. 6 months of interviewing and nothing. I'm starting to feel like I've been blackballed.
What are you interviewing for?
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#38In 2018 i will learn how to program & write transactions for bitcoin.
I’ve also been learning about crypto currencies lately. One thing I found helpful was implementing the popular proof of work algorithms.
I did a sha256 python implementation , it was quite fun.
Re: Ask HN: What do you look forward to doing in 2018?
#39Finding a job. I'm in that awkward stage between "finishing uni" and "finding a job" and I'm starting to get (overly?) anxious about it.
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#40I'm switching jobs to a similarly-paying, but less demanding role with no commute (vs 3 total hours daily right now).
At the same time, I'm establishing a business entity on the side. The goal for this entity is to use my extra time and focus my learning in a way that generates income. I initially plan to do part-time consulting and I have a client lined up, but long term my goal is to develop a stable income working on open source software in areas where I'm interested.
If I am shrewd and lucky this will become my primary source of income.