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I attack it pretty much the same regardless of language or project. Generally, I start with the product, see how it works, find the 3-4 most common workflows and get a handle on th…

GPT + Grok (sometimes Claude) for writing docs, policies, requirements, client responses etc. Grok is often times more concise/direct, which helps me as I tend to be verbose. I alw…

I don't feel like you have given enough information for anyone to answer without making many assumptions. My take (and hence assumptions) is you want to build a product where other…

I have two different ones in the system right now (around 14 cameras total). Amcrest and SV3C are the brands and both are available on Amazon pretty cheap. I have a mix of 5MP and …

My security system is pretty basic but super reliable and isolated/safe overall. I use BlueIris for the NVR software (it is cheap) and I buy various cheap IP cameras that support O…

Out of ~20 engineers, we have about 4 that have unrestricted access to production. A couple more have read only I believe to one of the databases. I also have direct knowledge of a…

I have worked in a number of hardware based startups, still do, and most have been product led or at least try to be. There isn't a one size fits all answer for what I think you ar…

Nope, I've actually had it opened for multiple days and just walked away and come back and it has been fine. I've had a few occasions where I restart it cause of something, but not…

Unless you two had discussed it in some prior conversation, it is a red flag IMO and I'd be cautious with this person in any capacity. Doing this without having a chat about it, is…

Technically competent is a big grey zone IMO. For example, I am sure Musk knows the details, limitations and technical aspects of the welding that takes place at SpaceX, but my gue…

Building is easy, naming is hard. In this case though, you're overthinking it. Pick one and move forward. Attributes is super common to use in these scenarios. Properties is also c…

tl;dr; I think both C and C++ be around a long time. Just look at COBOL. I learned C in the 80's and C++ in the late 80's/early 90's. I have heard every few years since probably 19…

My 2 cents, don't aim for full stack from the start. Decent full stack engineers take many many years to become truly full stack, and even then they'll still have an area of specia…

Totally agree, it was different in 2001 and 2008/2009 as inflation wasn't a major factor, now inflation is essentially acting like an additional tax. So if people lose 8-10% for a …

I was never laid off but I and had to lay some people off during the dot com bust, yet during the 2008 downturn my teams all grew in size (just a little slower than the prior years…

React is neither good nor bad, it is just another framework. Usually developers are keen to rewrite things in their current flavor where they are comfortable. You need to be detail…

Yea, there is no reason they should be asking you to take PTO then, IMO. It all kind of becomes moot if you go and either get dismissed or are only there for 2-3 days since you'd b…

From when I was a founder and ran into this, I was advised from my attorney in a simple phrase, pay them. tldr; make sure you work at least a few hours that week and that generally…

Depends on how big the company is and how well it is lead. Generally on my teams those who do their work and contribute to making the team, company and product more successful get …

I have a different solution. I was lucky early in my career where I got to work on a few projects that were distributed not for scale but for super high reliability. I studied what…

I don't have any concern over having to use the internet to reference things or find samples that save time. In the 90's I had a large book collection that I used for learning and …

Cool, sounds like congrats are in order first as you had a qualifying event you are rolling over. Given that, I'd double down on the accountant (attorney not very important IMO in …

I know you are probably trying to do this without hiring an attorney/accountant, but please go talk to at least an accountant and pay for a few hours of their time. There are ways …

There are some orgs that a degree is required and your friend is right, though most I find are more experience focused. In my experience, the orgs that work like your friend descri…

In general job hopping is much less an issue than it used to be. That said staying less than a year at multiple jobs, unless they were clearly a temporary consulting gig is definit…