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Sounds a little boring, but it's fun to consider design decisions that were made in the past and how to improve upon them. My first job out of school, and I've learned mountains about working with large legacy codebases in an environment with hundreds of systems.
What's wrong with web?
Previously I have worked on 'AAA' games and database/financial software.
I do find all the web stuff provides background noise rather than value for me on HN - however I do believe most readers live in the web world, so for them the articles I get value from are probably noise.
I'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.
FWIW, from my profile: I'm a PhD in Pure Maths (Combinatorics and Graph Theory) from the University of Cambridge. My BSc(Hons) was in Pure maths from Monash University, Australia. I work in industry as a director of Innovation and Research, helping to create equipment that does the maritime equivalent of Air-Traffic Control. Basically, we provide kit to help people stop 30,000 tonne oil tankers from crashing into nuc…
Hum... interesting I do the same thing but with rail roads and only software (Desktop software) we use other people sensors and GPSs( thanks God our problem is 2D, yours is a lot harder) The Company software is planning the train routes so 15k tons trains filled with gas don't crash into another 15k tons train filled with iron ore in the middle of a city. It's not a startup but we are only 30 people and half are admi…
> ... our problem is 2D,
> yours is a lot harder
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…
The problem with quadrotors are that they're effectively 4 tubes on CF bolted together. A single module system with proper dampening would probably be perfect.
For example go ride a really cheap carbon fiber bicycle where they just stick carbon fabric into a mold and then go ride one of the really high end ones where a lot of engineering has gone into the layup and construction.