Ask HN: Who's having a ton of fun at work and what are you doing?

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Post by trevett » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 4:44 PM UTC

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Post by ffhhj » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 5:07 PM UTC

Crickets. Ok bad joke. I used to enjoy a lot making games and XR apps in Android/iOS/Hololens for small companies. Nowaday I work on automation for one of the large ones, which I find easy and interesting.

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Post by tdubhro1 » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 5:23 PM UTC

Research in finance; job is open ended mandate to find ways to optimise systems, decision processes and alpha signals. Using R mainly, dropping into c++ for some performance stuff. Occasional use of machine learning.

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Post by sydthrowaway » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 5:36 PM UTC

Science.xyz

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Post by cm2012 » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 5:45 PM UTC

I make a lot more money now, but the most fun I ever had at work was busking on the subway with a friend 12 years ago.

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Post by the__alchemist » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 5:47 PM UTC

Fighter WSO. Adventure, comradery, great group of colleagues with a diverse initial background, and shared recent background. My desk job responsibilities are limited, so I usually go home after debrief and do/learn whatever I want, and work on projects. Liberal leave policy. Just hoping I don't end up with a chronic neck/back injury, or die in a crash.

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Post by speedgoose » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 5:48 PM UTC

Engineering in the research world can be fun. You work with the latest cool technologies together with many experts in many various domains.

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Post by numerik_meister » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 5:51 PM UTC

Early on in my career I noticed that the most fun programming seems to be done by people who are not actually trained as computer scientists: mathematicians, physicists, engineers, chemists, astronomers ...etc This sort of numerical computing and simulation stuff is incredibly fun and quite rewarding. You work much more often on core logic and much less often on boring fluff. Of course it is all very subjective and it pays shit. So the answer is: research at a research uni, employed by an applied mechanical engineering lab, but trained as a mathematician.

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Post by fxtentacle » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 5:52 PM UTC

"ghostwriting" AI research. Last year optical flow, early this year 3D recognition, last month segmentation, and now speech recognition. Lots of interesting problems and our customers have the practical applications. I maybe worked a bit too much recently because it's so much fun.

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Post by fxtentacle » Sat, Apr 30, 2022, 5:54 PM UTC

numerik_meister wrote: post #8

Early on in my career I noticed that the most fun programming seems to be done by people who are not actually trained as computer scientists: mathematicians, physicists, engineers, chemists, astronomers ...etc This sort of numerical computing and simulation stuff is incredibly fun and quite rewarding. You work much more often on core logic and much less often on boring fluff. Of course it is all very subjective and i…

Agree, I studied mathematics and molecular biology and the most interesting problems are intersections between that and coding (which I learned by myself as a kid).