tyrbentsen
Ask HN: What are this year's buzzwords?
I don't particularly like the use of buzzwords, but they give a sense of what's living in the corporate world.Which buzzwords should be dropped in a meeting for the other parties to nod profusely?
How I read my Facebook messages over the years
I have a Facebook account but I don't want to install the Facebook or Messenger app. This is how I read my messages over the years:1. First I read them on m.facebook.com.2. Then, some years ago they disabled access to messages on m.facebook.com, so I started reading them on mbasic.facebook.com.3. After some time, loading the inbox now takes 5 seconds where it used to be instant.4. Recently...
Ask HN: How to get an income while working towards an MVP, as solo-entrepreneur?
As a solo developer, I have been working on a simulation tool for embedded systems for the past couple of months. Since it is a considerable technical challenge, there is still some work to do to get to a stage where the tool is practically usable by customers. So that means that it would be hard to sell it at this moment. Moreover, since I'm working solo, improving the website, writing...
Ask HN: How to get a first customer when you only have hobby-level demos?
I developed over the past couple of months a tool for simulating embedded systems. I'm at a point where I could go to potential customers and demonstrate the product, however I do not have any real-world use cases to show them yet, only hobby-level small projects that I created with the tool. How can I get around this chicken and egg problem of finding a first customer to sell to while not...
Re:Show HN: Wasmino = WASM and Arduino – Running Arduino Code in Browser
on Friday January 01, 2021 @07:32AM (#25602814)
I was excited to see this project on HN today. I see a lot of value of Wasmino in that it runs in the browser: it lowers the bar considerably for starters. I remember when I started that the amount of different boards you could buy was overwhelming and being able to try things out before going in the rabbit hole of selecting the right components and boards might definitely helps out some software developers that do not have a strong background in electronics or electrical engineering and make them excited to work in the field of embedded software.
A side project of mine that has become more serious last year is quite similar (https://www.studiotechnix.com/). My tool has the same caveats as Wasmino in that the CPU is modelled as "infinitely fast" and only "time functions" progress time. It is inherent to the method of simulating software coupled to physical models of hardware. Even with these assumptions, simulation can uncover a lot of functional faults / logic reasoning flaws in the embedded application. Testing on real hardware is of course still needed, but iterating on your design in simulation is much faster than on the real hardware. And it provides an easy way towards test automation which is much harder to setup with real hardware.
Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2019)
on Monday April 01, 2019 @05:23PM (#19548409)
Location: Currently Belgium, but relocating to Washington DC
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Staying in Washington DC.
Technologies: C#, Matlab, C, Fortran, F#, Language design, Compilers, Flight Dynamics, Simulation. Hobby: Asp.NET MVC, Angular, Typescript. Embedded Systems, Stm32, Rust.
Résumé/CV: Email for more info. Summary: Aerospace degree. Researcher for 7 years at Fortune 100 company. 4 years experience in Aircraft Flight Dynamics, Real-time simulation, Flight simulators, Virtual Sensing. Last 3 years experience: Phd in Computer Science, topic: Programming language for safety critical systems development.
Email: tyr.bentsen at gmail
Ask HN: Intrapreneur or startup?
Hi,Long time HN reader but first time poster here.I work at a very large corporation, but I've always had the desire to create a startup company.Currently I have a product idea that I strongly believe is valuable and worth to develop further, however it is an idea that requires a large upfront development before a minimum viable product can be released (5-10 persons developing for 2-3 years).I...