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What have you worked on? The healthcare sector can be impactful, but not particularly challenging. I personally find anything working with an assembly language
by mortivore 8y ago
What have you worked on?
The healthcare sector can be impactful, but not particularly challenging. I personally find anything working with an assembly language to be challenging, and I'm sure you could think of something where that would be impactful.
Do you have any hobbies or interests outside of tech that you could apply your skills toward? That would help fulfill the interesting, and satisfying criteria you are looking for.
- that_thing 8y agoWhat I'm working on right now is a project to decode a certain technical book publisher's output of their books. They provide free views of all the chapters of their books with words below a certain length having their letters consistently (but randomly per word) replaced with other letters. Words over a certain length have their letters not replaced but shuffled. Things like punctuation are left unchanged. This is an interesting problem that requires good data structures, good input data (n-gram statistics), can be improved with skills in lexing and parsing. It's just a really neat problem. I don't mind buying the books, but present an interesting challenge and I'm hooked. My job is actually pretty nice. I genuinely like my coworkers and I work remotely. I just get bored and frustrated with the way web dev goes. Don't want to say more than that.