Aussie Tech Gold Rush

Re:Aussie Tech Gold Rush by jacques_chester on Thursday November 03, 2011 @01:56AM (#3190507)

These guys:

http://www.solveitsoftware.com/

They do stuff with all the cool toys. Fuzzy logic, neural nets, evolutionary algorithms ...

They have a competition for students (edit: actually it looks like anyone can enter) at the moment. First prize is ostensibly $5,000 but what they're really looking for is potential employees.

http://www.solveitsoftware.com/competition.jsp

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Re:Aussie Tech Gold Rush by nl on Thursday November 03, 2011 @02:25AM (#3190570)

Yep, I guessed it must be them.

They aren't exactly a startup though - been around quite a while I think.

I was with these guys for a while, who played in an adjacent space: http://www.intelligentsoftware.com.au/

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Re:Aussie Tech Gold Rush by pm on Thursday November 03, 2011 @03:52AM (#3190749)

Adelaide is too small. Worked at Tomorrow Studios with Dom (Intelligent Software) and took Matthew's (Solve IT) Innovate SA course (which is superb btw).

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Re:Aussie Tech Gold Rush by nl on Thursday November 03, 2011 @05:00AM (#3190899)

I worked with Dom from late 2010 to mid 2011 (at Tomorrow Studio too).

I'm thinking of all the people who's names I knew at Tomorrow Studio for anyone who was "pm" (if you had your name on your info I might know if I knew you.. :))

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Re:Aussie Tech Gold Rush by pm on Thursday November 03, 2011 @05:03AM (#3190907)

Paul from No Prisoners. I think I might've talked to you about Lua scripting at some point, since I think that's what you might've been doing.

We were the iPhone peeps.

EDIT: Wait, we moved out at the end of July 2010, so I must be thinking of the other programmer who was there. Don't remember his name now.

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Re:Aussie Tech Gold Rush by nopassrecover on Thursday November 03, 2011 @07:06AM (#3191178)

God HN has grown - few Adelaide users on here now.

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Re:Aussie Tech Gold Rush by jacques_chester on Thursday November 03, 2011 @07:50AM (#3191300)

How do you guys cope with being in Adelaide? I have a sister stranded there, her husband works for some mob doing Moodle work.

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Re:Aussie Tech Gold Rush by nl on Thursday November 03, 2011 @07:56AM (#3191322)

How do you guys cope with being in Adelaide?

OMG that never gets old!!!! Adelaide is Adelaide. It isn't Sydney or Melbourne, but it's not a rural backwater either - quite a lot of interesting stuff happens here.

her husband works for some mob doing Moodle work

Netspot?

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Re:Aussie Tech Gold Rush by jacques_chester on Thursday November 03, 2011 @08:15AM (#3191374)

I think so. Not sure. This officially makes me a terrible brother in law.

As for Adelaide. You guys seem to have more funeral homes than churches. Surely that's a sign.

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Re:Aussie Tech Gold Rush by nopassrecover on Thursday November 03, 2011 @10:19AM (#3191828)

Melbourne does feel a whole lot more .. enthusiastic shall we say? Still Adelaide has its perks if you have the right networks, and generally a decent salary/cost balance for what that's worth. Happy to grab a drink with any HN'ers that are in/stop by Adelaide btw.

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