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Don’t you agree? Lots of cars are overspeeding and we can’t tell because our eyes are so bad at detecting speed. If anyone can measure the speed of cars maybe it increases awareness and people would start asking…

Is there a blog post somewhere about how many developer work different popular products? For example, how many devs work on: - Canva - Gmail - Trello etc.

I’d like to make a website like startpage.com. In their FAQ they say they have some agreement with Google. Does anyone know how I can get a similar agreement? Gooogle Custom Search has some limits, like 10K calls per…

Imagine a team of software developers that its main responsiblity is fixing bugs. Whereas other teams who develope features and shape the architecture. Would it make sense to have such a team? Have you ever seen such a…

I've been wondering how many frontend developers are working to build the UI of Linkedin, Airbnb, Gmail and so on?

I'm making a job board for devs who care about the environment. Do you know any software companies whose products reduce CO2?

Have you come across an open source project, specially a modern web app, that it seemed really well written and well maintained?

I spent three days on emailing and calling Amazon UK, to be able to get into my account. I have 2 phone numbers registered in the account, and none of them recieved the text messages that had the security code! Amazon…

Problem: choosing a team chat that most people are happy with, for 400 people, mostly developers. I know it's not easy. But please let me know about different ways that you have seen it done. P.S. :…

I knew this game from years ago, we played it at a company event recently and everyone had tons of fun. I published the game under creative commons. However I'm worried if this could be taken as offensive, or just not…

I'm trying to find out what can go wrong while hiring​ a developer. What might cause that? Lack of technical skills? Or attitude problems?

I put a command line tool on npm recently. Usually, it gets a few downloads per day, but as soon as I push a new release suddenly it gets about 200-300 downloads. Are there any bots downloading each release? I'm just…

I'm leaving a company where the nicest sysadmin works. I'm thinking of giving him a tshirt as gift for all the time he helped me. Any ideas? His qualities are being humble, friendly, and he knows too much about linux…

I'm kind of ashamed by asking this. But it has been on my mind for a long time. While writing code in c-style languages, many times I find myself lost among mismatching braces! For example look at this: (function(){ //…

I have a couple of website that provide services, or information for free. I have no intention of making money out of them. But is it OK to add a banner and ask visitors to donate to some charities on my behalf? Has…

I'm making a list of things that annoy web developers: https://github.com/omidfi/how-to-annoy-a-web-developer Please help!

Web development gets annoying sometimes, by our colleagues, employers, browsee makers or whatnot. I started this project to list whatever can annoy us web developers, hoping we can work together to find ways to ease the…