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Poetry, real danger, and ASP.NET
2 points by difc 4429 days ago
I'm a working ASP.NET Developer. I have the usual background in databases, Javascript, 3-tier architecture, AJAX, and so on. But what I want is an applied career working with graphs, networks, morphisms, and functors, where JSON falls away and transitive closure comes into play. I want to use Eigenvectors to tell what's important in data regardless of the data itself. I want to code with self-organizing semantic analysis tools (Microsoft Roslyn) and shortest-path algorithms. I want to model web services and complex systems using force-directed graphs (D3) that are rearranged on the fly to rewire the system. I want to compute system reliability not with Monkeys but with adjacency matrices.

I want bijective and injective, bipartite and clique, functors and connectedness and small world effects.

I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.

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You could try to find work with your local metro transit provider. Intel, AMD, ARM, or anyone doing Ads. Are you able to work for a startup? You may find the complexity you desire in the mastery of having no time to do any one thing completely.
Thanks for the excellent suggestions. My local transit agency doesn't have a reputation for complexity, but I'll do some research.

Yes, a startup would certainly offer the complexity I'm after. I'm not pursuing insurmountable complexity in its own right. I feel we should be doing programming at a vastly higher level of abstraction.

Maybe I ought to shift to Haskell development, or spin higher level of abstraction into a venture of its own. Thanks again.