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SolubleSnake
5y ago
Systems Engineer here! I studied computer science at one of the best U.K. universities but I currently work at a multinational engineering group in a team of chemical, mechanical and electrical engineers and I much prefer this kind of thing
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SolubleSnake
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My dad was chairman of the Royal Navy surf association so basically surfed since I could walk and used to go to all the RN surf comps with the marines and all the navy guys and fleet air arm and stuff and thought I was so cool. Surfing has
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SolubleSnake
5y ago
This rings true for me too (Also UK dev). I once worked for half a year at a company that was this bizarre. For example, we had several people come in - and leave - within a day. As soon as they saw how we were working they just left. I kin
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SolubleSnake
5y ago
I am really surprised this isn't already more of a 'thing'. When I did my postgrad research project, back in 2016, I was using LoRaWAN and thought it was so obviously going to be huge in e.g. AgriTech. Surprised not that much
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SolubleSnake
7y ago
I think the educated elites predilection for 'high' culture will stop this. There'll be a sort of Waldenesque rebellion against it. Agreed that it's horrifying though!
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SolubleSnake
7y ago
1. Almost all property in every major city owned by Chinese funds. 2. Student loan bomb explodes and universities close. 3. Renewable energy generation becomes the new 'Software Development' for people trying to get rich out of in
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SolubleSnake
8y ago
What I learned (Just realised I forgot this) is it's basically impossible to start a company with people you've not met before (we were basically put together like boy bands). Also, choose one thing and do it well. Also, have some
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SolubleSnake
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We were on an incubator where the staff were insistent that all the start-ups be 'high-growth' rather than work towards simply surviving, as an initial goal. This meant the projects were pushed to being ambitious to the point of f
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Did you work part-time during the early days of your startup?
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SolubleSnake
9y ago
https://github.com/DTOcean An open source tool to help engineers install renewable energy equipment offshore. Wind, wave, tide (one day!) etc
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SolubleSnake
9y ago
DTOcean is an interesting piece of open source software, to help engineers install renewable energy equipment offshore (wave, wind, tide). https://github.com/DTOcean