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Re: Ask HN: Any other readers Not working in a web-based start-up?

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Post by niels » Tue, Dec 18, 2012, 1:21 PM UTC

polyfractal wrote: post #28

On 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.

Re: Ask HN: Any other readers Not working in a web-based start-up?

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Post by philip1209 » Tue, Dec 18, 2012, 1:21 PM UTC

I'm an engineering and physics student. Did some of my first Javascript last week helping with the Numbers.js project I saw on here . . .

Re: Ask HN: Any other readers Not working in a web-based start-up?

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Post by ericcholis » Tue, Dec 18, 2012, 1:22 PM UTC

I guess it's a technicality, but I work for an e-commerce company that has it's roots in brick and mortar stores. We actually run four B&M stores and a fifth outlet-style location. We were the first in our industry to have an e-commerce site, before "start-up" was even a term.

Our shop runs a wide range of technologies. I work mostly with Python, Javascript, CSS (Sass/Compass), HTML, PHP, MongoDB, and various SQL systems.

Re: Ask HN: Any other readers Not working in a web-based start-up?

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Post by Pitarou » Tue, Dec 18, 2012, 1:23 PM UTC

I'm an English teacher in Japan. I only started reading Hacker News because one of my private students -- an IT guy who needs to improve his English to keep up with the cutting edge -- got me interested.

I'm a computer nerd at heart, but that's not where life has taken me so far. Maybe one day I'll end up like snugglethorpe, or maybe I'll go back to my home country and do something like what MalphasWats is doing, but currently my day job involves teaching rooms full of surly Japanese teenagers how to use the passive voice.

But I do know Javascript. And JQuery. And Haskell. And C+++. And....

Re: Ask HN: Any other readers Not working in a web-based start-up?

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Post by bobdvb » Tue, Dec 18, 2012, 1:23 PM UTC

I work at the European offices of a major Asian electronics company. Little web or start-up about my work. The skew on web start-ups on HN is just buzz, I don't click on half the links.

Re: Ask HN: Any other readers Not working in a web-based start-up?

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Post by pionar » Tue, Dec 18, 2012, 1:23 PM UTC

I'm a developer working on enterprise-level software that's been around 18 years. Talk about legacy code! It's gone from a C++ Windows Desktop/Server app, to ASP, to C#/ASP.NET, to now a SAAS C#/ASP.NET/WCF system.

Re: Ask HN: Any other readers Not working in a web-based start-up?

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Post by cfontes » Tue, Dec 18, 2012, 1:24 PM UTC

polyfractal wrote: post #28

On 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.

Re: Ask HN: Any other readers Not working in a web-based start-up?

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Post by msutherl » Tue, Dec 18, 2012, 1:24 PM UTC

jfb wrote: post #19

Video -- HLS on a variety of platforms. I did do he YC thing, and before that wrote a bunch of software for Apple. Started out as a general Unix dogsbody for the Departments of High Energy Physics and Anthropology at my alma mater lo these 20 years ago.

Your blog is fun. We need more elder perspective around.

Re: Ask HN: Any other readers Not working in a web-based start-up?

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Post by philip1209 » Tue, Dec 18, 2012, 1:24 PM UTC

theorique wrote: post #16

Finance - C, Python, bash, R. I do a little javascript for our home brew monitoring tools and screens, but that's for in-house only. We're not building a product out of them - the "product" is trading faster and smarter than other people.

I'm off to take the final exam for my first-ever finance class [1]. It's an upper-level undergraduate engineering course taught by a mathematician. Possibly some of the most difficult math I have done!

[1] Based on this book: http://www.amazon.com/Probability-Theory-Finance-Mathematica...

Re: Ask HN: Any other readers Not working in a web-based start-up?

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Post by pavlov » Tue, Dec 18, 2012, 1:25 PM UTC

I make desktop content creation software (mostly video stuff), and have been doing my dinky startup thing with that for about 7 years now.

Right now I'm trying to finish a web multimedia design app called Radi: http://radiapp.com

It's at version 0.9.6, so that means it's 96% done, right? :D