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by majc2 13y ago
SO Question asker here - funny how advice from 6 years ago looks really odd now! Just as a bit of context, the state of the art was BluePrint and YUI. Oh how far we've come.
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by majc2 13y ago
Me too - contact info in profile.
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by majc2 13y ago
In the UK, I check clients out on duedil.com - that way I can get a sense of their financial strength.
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by majc2 13y ago
Yeah, of course you can do it and no you don't need to lower your expectations - £1000 is easily doable for nearly any city/conurbation. If you need money now (which your post implies), get yourself onto Jobserve and start chasing
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by majc2 13y ago
It'd be awesome if it was ScottGu down the line - but think its unlikely.
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by majc2 13y ago
Interesting - I'm working in this area too; more on the consumption of transit feeds - have noticed in the UK at least that there are a ton of T&Cs thrown around these feeds, do you think you have any issues repackaging like this?
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by majc2 13y ago
I don't have a problem with it - in the past, at least some (if not all) are coming directly from Etsy ( http://www.etsy.com/hacker-grants ). They want to attract more women into their business because they see benefits
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by majc2 13y ago
Broadsheet/quality press - fairly balanced in journalism. Editorially, while its more nuanced than left and right, this will give you a general idea of political leanings. Guardian is leftish, Telegraph is rightish, New Statesman is le
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by majc2 13y ago
I think demand for development skills is going to continue to increase. While there does seem to be an increased popularity, there is still a number of people who exit the profession either due to burn-out or retirement. Anecdotally, in the
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by majc2 13y ago
I'm not an actuary - but I've worked on valuation software for actuaries. I think one key problem around insuring these risks is that it'd be difficult to price and value. To price/value you need to understand the cashfl
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by majc2 13y ago
When I used to work in banking - they had high quality equipment from Tandberg (now Cisco) - and it was genuinely as good as watching SD TV. Nothing beats face-to-face, but proper kit gives decent results.
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by majc2 13y ago
Sounds great - but would I be right to assume that Spanish is the working language in the tech community?
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by majc2 13y ago
Also, if you don't have that much external expenditure; then you can sign up for the flat rate scheme, which for tech essentially gives your income a boost of 4% for free.
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by majc2 13y ago
The problem with the lower effort is that it doesn't really help you the way you're pricing your offering as you're effectively selling time. I understand its the easiest thing to price, but if you price on another metric tha
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by majc2 13y ago
Possibly in your jurisdiction - which is why you've got to do your homework and get proper professional advice. It's pretty much standard practice in the UK contracting/consulting market; it's been legislated against und
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by majc2 13y ago
Why am I expected to give up my email address?
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by majc2 13y ago
Really interesting, but a building != an incubator. Access to capital/investors is key and its unclear from the article if this is something they've got a plan to address.
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by majc2 13y ago
According to http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/video-websites YouTube gets 450,000,000 uniques against NetFlix who get 55,000,000. I'd argue there different markets and the key comparable would be dailymotion at 27
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by majc2 13y ago
Also, be careful with your ears!
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by majc2 13y ago
Big fan of movie and game soundtracks for coding. Regular rotation at the moment consists of Man of Steel, Batman Trilogy, Inception, Mass Effect 3, Skylander Giants and a lot of classical music esp the planets or anything else from civ 4!
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by majc2 13y ago
I use the Napoleon Hill method of having a definite chief aim - Bruce Lee is probably one of the most famous users of it. http://imgur.com/r/GetMotivated/CvaN5QB The method boils down to writing something down to
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by majc2 13y ago
I might be misunderstanding, but are you implying there is something wrong with that pattern? To me, it's a founders choice, and in my book there is nothing wrong with changing from the original disruptive idea - and selling something
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by majc2 13y ago
Got to agree, umbrellas are a waste of money. Freeagent is really good (one or two small annoyances, but nothing that matters). They have a list of partner accountants who are freeagent friendly; I went for a local accountant who is a one p
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by majc2 14y ago
A real mutiny would be rejecting the product owner!
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by majc2 14y ago
Absolutely; just to expand on the point - 3D secure is now prevenalant, if you just check for enrolment with 3D Secure - as a vendor you're generally no longer liable to chargebacks (there are a few edge cases around pre-paid and commercial
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by majc2 14y ago
I'm surprised about the emphasis too. In terms of ideas, I used to work in a large corporate on the technology side - now work for a software company, so YMMV with these: One of the first projects I worked on involved re-writing an entire a
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by majc2 14y ago
I guess the key is how often are we just handed a spec and asked to code it up. In my roles, I've never worked like that, I've nearly always had some impact on design - but hey, that's just my experiences. I would agree with your original p
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by majc2 14y ago
Find it interesting that Veber are portrayed as the victim, in this piece from the Register here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/19/python_versus_veber_... Would expect better reporting and questioning from El Reg.
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by majc2 14y ago
Absolutely right. Furthermore, regarding the claim that Gates has sidestepped the politics of polio eradication is also incorrect - Gates has been in the UK talking about this to the UK media this week. "This plan says that if the world sup
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by majc2 14y ago
IIRC its an EU directive (ePrivacy), which each member state has to implement. Hopefully, everyone will see sense with directive.

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