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Re: Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your industry?

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Post by iamwil »

petermonsson wrote: post #65

1. Electronics/semiconductors 2. Moore's law is loosing stream and complexity is exploding. Turn around times are increasing in everything. This includes runtime for all of our software tools as well as physical processes such as getting chips back from the fab. Vendors are not keeping up. Productivity is suffering. 3. SystemVerilog is not really at the right abstraction level and still has many of the problems that…

I saw in some other thread that every programmer looks at making a better verilog, when having a better understanding of electronics would help them be more productive.

Re: Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your industry?

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Post by iamwil »

pascalxus wrote: post #139

Here's some problems I've personally encountered: 1. Software Engineer 2. It's difficult to get remote debugging and remote syncing working right. We've all been there. It literally takes hours to set up, if you don't have precise instructions. PhpStorm is pretty good, but still takes quite a bit of head scratching to install when your doing remote debugging. 3. Getting an app to run locally usually takes way too muc…

When you say remote, do you mean a remote server? Or do you mean debugging on an iPhone from your dev laptop?

Re: Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your industry?

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Post by xvaier »

return0 wrote: post #84

It's a difficult problem, but food just takes too much of people's time. Something like a personalized service that brings you food according to your own nutritional schedule would be nice.

GoodFood is a Canadian company that does something like this. https://makegoodfood.ca/en/home

Re: Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your industry?

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Post by AlexAMEEE »

omarchowdhury wrote: post #107
AlexAMEEE wrote: post #83

1. Sports betting 2. Oligopoly[0] just a few companies who deliver live results. You would need a ton of cash upfront, to hire people who would watch the games and would press buttons in order to inform you about results so you could parse them and deliver live results which eventually would become a live API. But as you can see, there are people involved in this, who watch all those games, if you can manage to autom…

Seems like something that can be crowdsourced cheaply since so many people are watching the sports shows for free anyway.

They are also betting and why shouldn't they publish results that would let them win even if that's not the correct result ?

One could argue that the masses would always return the correct score but imagine 50 people debating about sports, there are 50 opinions and the truth somewhere in between.

And therefore those people also called 'scouts' must be trained in order to accomplish the job.

Re: Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your industry?

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Post by krupan »

iamwil wrote: post #141
petermonsson wrote: post #65

1. Electronics/semiconductors 2. Moore's law is loosing stream and complexity is exploding. Turn around times are increasing in everything. This includes runtime for all of our software tools as well as physical processes such as getting chips back from the fab. Vendors are not keeping up. Productivity is suffering. 3. SystemVerilog is not really at the right abstraction level and still has many of the problems that…

I saw in some other thread that every programmer looks at making a better verilog, when having a better understanding of electronics would help them be more productive.

That's true, but those who do have a good understanding of electronics still want better tools than Verilog.

Re: Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your industry?

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Post by jpindar »

AlexAMEEE wrote: post #83

1. Sports betting 2. Oligopoly[0] just a few companies who deliver live results. You would need a ton of cash upfront, to hire people who would watch the games and would press buttons in order to inform you about results so you could parse them and deliver live results which eventually would become a live API. But as you can see, there are people involved in this, who watch all those games, if you can manage to autom…

At least some leagues already provide live feeds of scores and important plays. During NFL games I hang out on a certain irc channel and there's a bot that posts them.

Re: Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your industry?

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Post by jpindar »

thedudemabry wrote: post #123
mysterydip wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It seems to me that there could exist a paypal-like system for micropayments. Maybe there already is and I don't know about it? Getting a critical mass would be necessary, a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem. If there was a service that went something like this: - pay a flat fee of $x to deposit any amount up to $y - pay nothing to transfer - pay $x to withdraw up to $y You are incentivized to deposit more to make it…

I agree that it would be neat, but I fear that the reason only big banks and credit card processors have attempted to dabble in this space is because you've just described a bank. Building one of those carries a whole host of regulations, even if the goal is a very simple, limited set of interactions.

It works for Virtual Worlds though. At this very moment I am dancing at a party in InWorldz, and I just tipped the dj with Inworldz dollars that I previously purchased with USD. If she wants to withdraw the money as USD she can.

Re: Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your industry?

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Post by Artlav »

notalaser wrote: post #34
throwaway2016a wrote: post #3

I may be reading between the lines too much and I apologize if I am... But every few months (weeks?) I see a post by a founder-type essentially trying to mine the Hacker News collective brains for startup ideas. It doesn't work that way. The best startups are ones that solve a pain point you yourself have experienced. The idea of a savior who comes in and solving the major problems of an industry they have never work…

> The best startups are ones that solve a pain point you yourself have experienced. Aww, yisss. Case in point, EDA and, in particular, hardware description languages and tools. Every discussion I've had with someone trying to get into this has been so cringe-worthy that I'm actively avoiding now. Every self-professed hardware hacker thinks they have the solution that's going to end all this painful Verilog kerfuffle…

Interesting, i thought the problem was the other way around.

I find Verilog quite intuitive as is, but the tools are rather crude. I.e. until recently Altera's Quartus felt like a hack some students put together in their spare time - missing basic IDE features, interface bugs that get in the way, poor programmer support on Linux and so on.

Re: Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your industry?

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Post by Artlav »

benzor wrote: post #10

I work in the games industry. There are plenty of problems to go around, but I'll pick just one: Discoverability In the "good old days" where 2 people could make a video game, odds are that just shipping something guaranteed you'd make money. But that's no the case anymore now that 1000+ apps come out every day on iOS / Google Play. Of course most of those are crap. But you could be making a great game that caters we…

This is painfully familiar. Even worse for free games that can't be put on Steam, stores and similar places.

20 years ago just having a website and word of mouth was enough to get a players club going.

Re: Ask HN: What are the most important problems in your industry?

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Post by miguelrochefort »

return0 wrote: post #84

It's a difficult problem, but food just takes too much of people's time. Something like a personalized service that brings you food according to your own nutritional schedule would be nice.

- Don't eat for pleasure

- Only drink water

- Eat once a day

- Eat the same thing every day (mostly)

- Prepare all your meals once a week

If you ignore weekly grocery shopping and meal prepping, I spend less than 1 hour a day thinking about food, preparing food and eating food.

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