It's true. I write enterprise .NET for health care and energy companies :). But you get to write some cool things. The last three things I built were A syst

It's true. I write enterprise .NET for health care and energy companies :). But you get to write some cool things. The last three things I built were A system that takes sensor data from wells across the world, runs them through a physics engine, and displays those results to users across the world in real time. A web app that lets users easily write complex queries to retrieve cancer tissue information across multiple departments in a large research institution. An app to upgrade an entire codebase using a compiler to figure out the semantic meaning of different code snippets and transform them to the new version. So it's not all boring :). And I haven't met a mediocre dev who was familiar with Hacker News. Honestly I've thought about replacing my tech interviews with one question "Have you heard of Hacker News?"