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Yes, that was the the place, I was one of the first engineers in that office but we got up to about 50 full-time devs at the peak before they started getting moved over to Europe f…

I actually worked on the Poseidon engine back when I was at BISim for serious game Virtual Battlespace 2 (VBS2) which was the spin off built for military training. The codebase her…

I’m working on https://assistedlist.com From personal experience finding and researching senior care ends up being a big trap, they lead you into a sales funnel before you can clea…

The nearest current use of detection of particles in the air that I can think of is smoke and carbon-monoxide detectors for safety. Could adoption on these smart versions like Nest…

I would say that there has already been one, Notch and Minecraft. Though he did hire people and step down as dev lead, he was pretty solo and already on the 1 billion dollar trajec…

This is kind of obvious because the internal incentives for employees (who make lots of product decisions) are based on stock being more than half of staff compensation comes via R…

So is it possible we can trace the manufacture of microchip lithography to this? We've been able to minaturize things for some time using light.

Not affiliated at all but just came across and I wish this was built in to windows: https://github.com/File-New-Project/EarTrumpet

I've heard that many of the big tech layoffs where actually just moved / converting them to contracting groups, so they lose the direct head count but kept the developer via the in…

I had similar experience with everything missing that final attention to detail and polish and having to write issues and ask other how they got past certain problems. I ended up s…

Wow glad to see there were other fans of MSPaint, can't believe I built my open source version with wxWidgets 16 years ago https://github.com/murdockq/OpenPaint

I'm guessing this can be the new bot that could play competitively at GeoGuesser. It would be interesting if Google trained a similar model and released it using all the Street Map…

Dice Device is a touch screen puck computer that can naturally fit into many board games allowing use as dice roll or other board game functions and custom apps. Open source and ha…

One of the most important aspects that doesn't seem to be covered here is data retention and ownership. Looking through the settings page I don't see any ways to eject and backup a…

I would say the appeal is for anyone who is longing for a sense of freedom. The themes are about rejecting norms like expectations of others and of society not wanting to live a "n…

I have run into the same situation as you, and it always seems to be bad timing to invest into code generation for projects. I am not affiliated with this project, but I have good …

Any security hardware using this oscillator would be at risk too. I can see the Mission Impossible plot to use it to attack a security systems and IP cameras if they used those chi…

A personal home security system could make better use of this instead of motion sensors in each room.

Vue or React?

I have had good results with https://github.com/maticzav/graphql-shield but I am also keeping an eye on https://github.com/prismagraphql/graphql-middleware as it is written by the …

I have done this in a node app that acts as the intermediate / proxy between your frontend and the prisma service. Infact you can even run it as a serverless endpoint just fine to …