I'm an undergraduate Engineering Student. About 16000 undergrads in my University.
EDIT:
I also know javascript
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#42On the side, I'm building experimental composite frames for quadrotors. If I come up with something usable, I plan on selling them to the quadrotor FPV community. Not really a startup, but hopefully a profitable side business. Most high performance quadrotor frames are made out of carbon fiber. This makes them expensive, brittle, prone to horrible vibrations and not so great for RF interference. I'm basically tooling…
Nice project... I am also an ex-biologist and 4 years ago was working with Sugar Cane genetic engineering and Bioinformatics, it's sad that here in Brazil they pay you s * to research like that and a lot to program in Java. So here I am.
Haha yeah, that's why my dayjob is as a software engineer. I feel your pain
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#43I build internal web applications and services for an insurance company. Not a startup, but not a big company either. We like to play with technology a lot, and since we're a JVM shop we've been sneaking in some Clojure apps. The core products we're working with may be boring, but we keep the job sharp and interesting.
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#44What's wrong with web?
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#45On the side, I'm building experimental composite frames for quadrotors. If I come up with something usable, I plan on selling them to the quadrotor FPV community. Not really a startup, but hopefully a profitable side business. Most high performance quadrotor frames are made out of carbon fiber. This makes them expensive, brittle, prone to horrible vibrations and not so great for RF interference. I'm basically tooling…
Sounds cool. Fellow FPV'er here. I think this hobby will explode in popularity really soon, if that isn't already happening.
Agreed. Components are just getting cheaper and cheaper. The biggest obstacle right now is information and experience, in my opinion. All the good information is locked up in billion-page forum posts. I've considered writing a bunch of in-depth tutorials and info-guides...but just haven't found the time.
Experience...well, you just have to crash a few times because the servo is installed backwards before you really understand =)
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#46Technical translator freelancer here, looking to do a patio11-style consultancy startup sometime in the near future. Maybe not as successfully, but hey, there's gotta be a really long tail there.
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#47undergrad student. I am interested in your average HN-ish stuffs, startups, web, mobile apps, but I mainly code in C#, JS and PHP, still looking for a field to jump into
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#49I'm an electrical engineer, working in wireless communications. Most programming I know is self taught, and I have no professional experience in any kind of software development sans MATLAB.
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#50I'm a game programmer currently working at a small, boutique-like studio. I came from a casual gaming company , and before that from a big, "AAA" (whatever that means) studio. My work is mostly in C++, but increasingly involves middleware that uses Flash or web tech.
I've been part of startups, including a YC one. I'm no stranger to web programming, but I dont think I fit the picture you painted either :)
I'm doing some work on the side that involves web and mobile gaming, as well as some writing.