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I need some high quality aluminum or ceramic enclosures built for a wearable consumer hardware prototype. I know of Catcher in Taiwan but that's it. The manufacturers I've been able to find in the US all make terrible…

What are the technical innovations that enabled them to do this? In general how would you build this type of system in 2020?

We have awesome tools for modeling real 3D models (Solidworks, Autodesk, Onshape, etc.) that do FAR more sophisticated things than your average 2D web page. You can design an entire working engine inside of one tool…

I am starting to hire a few positions for my company. Up until now I have always hired contract workers and because of this my relationship with "employees" has always been "You deliver X for $". Now I am trying to hire…

I have a startup working on a new platform/marketplace that, if successful, could grow to a very heavy traffic site. I have contacts within AMZN, MSFT, etc. but they are all developers and likely don't know anything…

I'm starting a new project using AWS Appsync as the backbone. I'm wondering if using the Serverless framework to manage this deployment makes the most sense. Pros: * AWS config done using yaml files that can then be…

I can make 400k as a FAANG engineer working as a senior swe building cloud apps, APIs, frontends, business logic blah blah. I have zero interest in continuing with this line of work. Options: 1.) Pivot job…

I'm thinking about interviewing with them and I'm wondering what your thoughts are on their future?

I've worked for a number of tech companies (Goog, FB, etc.) and seemingly the majority of the work is braindead CRUD, frontend, or API development hosted on (AWS, GCP, etc). However there are people out there building…

I'm looking to move to Charleston from Seattle. I currently work as a consultant but I have 10 yoe from the FANG. I'm tired of consulting and I'm tired of Seattle and I'd like to go to Charleston if possible. Any places…

I have been looking into LoRaWAN for a low cost waterproof asset tracker I am looking at building. AFAIK, the primary benefits of LoraWAN over say LTE-M or cellular are: no connectivity costs and potentially lower power…

Eventually I would like to get my Masters in Robotics. After a decade of building apps and infrastructure I'm pretty bored of it. I am thinking that doing embedded programming for a robotics company might be a good…

I'm trying to figure out whether Apple has relaxed its restrictions around running other browsers or whether Chrome, Firefox, etc. are still just wrappers around WebKit? I'd like to build my own Chromium based browser.

Suppose I am building a robotic lawnmower and I plan to train the AI using a simulated physical environment. I would like it to shut off automatically if a child runs in front of it, or a car drives in front of it, or…

Context: 32 y/o programmer, never really liked professional software engineering, loved CS in school though. FAANG I didn't really have a lot of forethought into my career and now I'm at an impasse. The only move I can…

I have 10 years of FAANG experience (Senior SWE). I'm looking to move closer to my family and my current team isn't very remote friendly so I'm looking for a change. What should I be looking for?

I have CS and Applied math degrees and ten years of software development experience (Google, Amazon...). I'd like to migrate towards companies such as Calico, Human Longevity Inc, etc, yet many require PhDs in Comp…

I'm building a responsive web application, and I want to use Zurb Foundation to manage the CSS grid and provide some default widgets. Given that this is a single page web application I would like to use something like…

I'm building a site that needs to communicate bidirectionally with both an iPhone client as well as a browser client. Previously I've used RabbitMQ to do Comet style stuff. Ideally I'd like to use WebSockets, but as far…

I own a website that has 2M page views a month on 275k uniques. Right now my monthly revenue is ~$8000 USD, of which half comes from ads. To be honest the website looks like it came out of 1999 and I haven't…

I'm thinking about taking an extended vacation (2-3 months) to somewhere tropical while I build out v1.0 of a new product. Which cities have facilities conducive to doing such a thing? Hopefully with a decent developer…

I'm looking for examples of fun, sexy, clean landing pages. Personally I really like getbuckyballs.com. What are your favorites?

I am running on Heroku and I'm just doing due diligence to figure out what makes the most sense for me. As an aside, anybody have a preference between the two having used both?