Ask HN: What are you working on in retirement?

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on in retirement? by firebones on Friday July 01, 2016 @12:56AM (#12013968)

Are you able to share any more specifics? Or at least translate them into a generic enough description of what he was able to do in the basement that it is relatable here?

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on in retirement? by sixQuarks on Friday July 01, 2016 @01:33AM (#12014065)

What he did was very technical. His lab looks like a "mad scientist" lab, but he also built very specific machinery to apply his formula for industrial use/testing.

I guess best analogy would be a senior coder, who was promoted to a managerial position and not allowed to work on code. Upon retirement, he created a one-person app/saas company.

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on in retirement? by pestaa on Friday July 01, 2016 @07:04AM (#12015091)

But a one-person app/saas company is rarely a solution to some of the biggest challenges of an industry.

Can you at least specify the field in which your father innovated?

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on in retirement? by argonaut on Friday July 01, 2016 @07:38AM (#12015231)

Yet a one-person professor research team routinely solves big challenges in certain research fields?

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on in retirement? by firebones on Saturday July 02, 2016 @12:39AM (#12021393)

I momentarily thought this might be a "Breaking Bad" troll...

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on in retirement? by argonaut on Saturday July 02, 2016 @04:30PM (#12023693)

Not trolling. Academics routinely solve huge challenges in research fields. No reason a retired engineer can't solve problems in a niche industry field.

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on in retirement? by sixQuarks on Saturday July 02, 2016 @02:45PM (#12023431)

He's in a small-enough industry where this can happen.

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