I spent a summer working remotely for a startup building golang web applications, it was quite fun. Sadly, I had to give it up due to school (highschool). Now it's summer again and I'm doing freelance work with my own company (mostly making simple web pages for small businesses).

(04-06-2016, 04:35 AM)jaagr Wrote: Software Developer/Engineer working in the stock market domain with main focus on service operability. Most code written in Erlang, Scala and Java. I love it but I see a future where
I branch out and start something new.

That sounds really interesting, I'd love to get into the "stock market domain" once I'm out of college, particularly high frequency trading. I assume you're pretty well versed in the actor model of programming, have you seen <a href="http://www.ponylang.org/">Pony</a>? It's still very new, but already much faster than all the languages you mentioned. I'm excited to see it grow and curious on your opinion on it with your job experience.

(04-06-2016, 10:06 AM)mpr Wrote: I'm two months into an internship at an astrophysical research center. I work for a guy who is designing the active optics system for a large telescope. Active optics is the system that moves the mirrors of the telescope around in real time to account for disturbances in the atmosphere. It's been a lot to learn but super cool so far. I've worked on geometric simulations and ray tracing, which suits me because I prefer a good deal of math in my work. Been using python, C, and CUDA C++.

Wow, what an awesome gig. Are you guys doing some machine learning stuff? I'd assume that'd require some pretty serious computing power.

(14-09-2015, 08:32 PM)ashen Wrote: It's interesting the diversity of users we have here, honestly. Anything from highschoolers to sysadmins to Wendy's workers.

I'm still a highschooler, myself. This is my senior year though so I'm going to have to start working to help support the family next year because the good ol' government is taking away our tax money this upcoming summer because of god knows what.

Fun times all around. I'd like to work at a company that supports Open Source software, if possible, but those seem to be few and far between. I think an absolute requirement for a job for me, though, would be that I was able to independently work on my own projects without the company being able to claim ownership, since I've heard that's a thing that some companies will do.

Glad to see a fellow highschooler around here, and yes the diversity is an aspect I've come to love about this place.

As for your job search, I personally just had a few projects on my github to show I could code well and applied to very small startups (1-3 people), and offered my services for pretty cheap (double minimum wage) and had a few offers within two weeks or so of doing that. Most small startups are run by people like us who love the open source movement and are glad to help an aspiring programmer out (as long as you have a good foundation). I wish you the best of luck!