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I'm approaching completion of a Socket.io-based client for a popular game with no good existing digital options. I'm trying to learn what to expect for hosting costs on Heroku, Digital Ocean, or other alternatives for a…

I'm just wondering if there's anywhere to go from here other than slow incremental salary improvements in the same position over the next 30 years. Is there any way to make more money and maintain the work-life balance…

I'm finding it very difficult to find the right desk for me. Amazon is not proving helpful, nor IKEA or Etsy or Wayfair or Overstock or google in general. I need new ideas!

I've been looking to create a server-authoritative multiplayer browser game, and as a primarily frontend dev I have been having a TON of trouble finding a good option to build the backend with. Nakama's…

I have a project in mind that would take a few months to build properly, but I would like to throw together a fake-door test to validate it before I put that kind of effort into it. Has anyone done this? How did you…

Trying to browse the web on mobile is just a hostile experience. I have to close 2-4 popups before I can see any webpage. It feels like the early 2000s all over again and I don't know of any initiatives to move us…

The torrent-hosting site thepiratebay is constantly changing TLDs. Right now it's thepiratebay10.org, but its previous URL at thepiratebay.rocks still redirects to the new one. How can it be that the .rocks url needed…

I'm a front-end dev at a well known US company and I keep finding other devs using every possible trick they can to make their code "re-usable" and "robust" when in fact it's impossible to read, difficult to modify,…

I have only ever hired from Upwork (formerly Elance/Ondesk), but they seem to have a very limited palette of offerings. If you need someone who is a skilled C coder for instance (which is what I need), they don't really…

I'm building a desktop app for developers which I plan to license and sell at a freemium model, with restricted feature set for free. I almost feel bad doing this, like I'm following in WinZip's shoes, and I expect a…

I don’t want to stop following the news for fear of not knowing what’s going on, but I’m finding that reading the daily news leads my thoughts into a dark place of dwelling on all the miseries I’m powerless to fix. How…

I'll start, I have a few. In each case I'm unsure whether it's viable. I'm afraid to waste my time. --CS lessons for high schoolers with a remote teacher. a high school would enroll in the program and the students would…

If it asks me to label all street signs, the common understanding is that I'm labeling data for their ML algorithms. But if they're counting on me to label it, then how does it already know if I miss a tile? It seems to…

I've noticed that we talk constantly about how messed up software engineer interviewing is, and there's many services (from hired.com to triplebyte to many others) trying to "fix" it. My friends who are hardware and…

I'm interested to learn about how the internals of hashing functions are designed. To me, in my cryptographic ignorance, merely using modulo operation is sufficient for making something irreversible. But clearly there…

I'm a decent (but not senior) developer but I don't really like writing code all day every day, and I would much prefer to be handling operational and people issues. Anyone have any advice on how to move over? I'm only…

I am always astonished to see that Oracle is the third largest software maker by revenue after Microsoft and Google. The thing is, I don't recall ever seeing Oracle databases mentioned in a job post. I only ever see…

It's an indie mystery/logical deduction game available on steam that's just amazing. The premise is this: the year is 1807 and the lost trade ship the Obra Dinn has come drifting back into harbor in London, its entire…

I was on the phone with a engineering recruiter from one of the tech giants, and they kind of indirectly belittled my work experience with a comment along the lines of "we consider back-end work to be more serious than…

I've spoken to a couple recruiters today who say it's uncommon for companies to reimburse applicants for travel, even if they have to get a flight from another state. It's always been my personal policy that if they…

I just wonder if it will become the language of choice for things like game development and embedded applications in the future, and I wonder if people are already starting to use it for these purposes, and I wonder why…

All day I've been struggling with this: if I use a secret management system like Vault or Keywhiz or AWS KMS, I still have to store the credentials for that system in plaintext. So then I feel like I haven't…

For me it's so unresponsive that I'm at a loss for words how google put this into production. I have a modern, new computer and modern, urban internet good enough for streaming 1080p on Twitch without interruption, but…