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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've worked as a backend or mobile app developer for 10 years. This type of programming is very monotonous and I'm looking to move into a more exciting and challenging subfield. I have a BS in Computer Science and my…

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'm a big fan of static site generators (Hugo, Jekyll, Gatsby, etc.) and the move towards Headless CMS's. However one problem I have found is that WP has by far the most amount of decent looking themes. Is there a…

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…

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'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?

I'm building a new site on AWS using EC2 and S3. Do you guys use EC2 to host your DB or use the RDS? I haven't heard a lot of people using RDS (yet).

I expect the site-traffic will be fairly high, decent amount of db writes, medium amount of reads (most pages will end up cached). I have experience in SQL but not in setting up the infrastructure to build scalable SQL…