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A few will, the majority won't. The key to not coming off as whiny is not to be whiny :)

As with any Resume/CV issue like this just practice answering the question - a couple of sentences is sufficient, and you'll be fine.

> When the biggest bank in Europe's biggest economy, with annual revenue of about 37 billion euros, is worth about the same as Snapchat -- a messaging app that generated just $59 million of revenue last year -- you know something's wrong.

More on the Snapchat side, than the DB side.

This provides a lot of value for businesses - therefore I'd definitely charge more. I would also consider changing the name to something else - "Thingie" might cause some friction in purchases.

As to setting the price - I'd look at comparables such as Sublime, JetBrains IDEs/Resharper. I'd be looking at charging at least $49 - but I think $79 to > $100 would feel right to me.

As to a long term enterprise pricing plan, I dunno - but I'd definitely be looking at it.

Good luck and well done.

One does not simply go to H&M and buy seven grey t-shirts and a pair of jeans. Oh wait you can :)

Who'd use it? They'll just kill it off in 2 years anyway.

You could be a technologist generalist, but specialise in an industry (or vice versa).

Bare in mind, if you've got expertise in an area that people value, people will pay you handsomely for it.

done :)

It depends on what your strategy is and the specifics of your situation. http://www.contractoruk.com/money/ifas_guide_avoiding_new_di... has a generic guide about the new dividend tax.

IMHO, just get an accountant.

Agree with all of this post.

The only thing I'd expand on is that there is a big difference between permy recruiters and contract recruiters. The best contract recruiters know that they will have roles to fill in 6 months time, so they're going to want to keep you on their 'roster'. The best contractors know that contract recruiter help you make more money.

It's based on his work with child abusers - he's one of the leading academics in the UK on this issue, I don't know what kind of evidence your expecting.

As I understand it yes, that the theory is suggested by academics with appropriate experience. See: http://mentorforensics.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Dr-Joe... for more info.

Having done a small amount of volunteer work with children, I've had some exposure to child protection issues. Often, its a spiral downwards (IIRC its typically called the spiral of abuse), where the person in question erodes mental barriers so that they see the behaviour as normal. I don't accept the "just watching" argument - it is child abuse.

What you must understand is that it normalises the behaviour in that persons mind and then we're onto other barriers to be eroded - i.e. the person moves onto physical acts.

The blasé attitude on this thread is beyond belief.

Checkout techmeetup.co.uk

Another variant is four words: "we had an agreement." This emphasises that you had already agreed to something.

I agree with everything else, it's very unlikely to work out.

I've had a quick read, the argument seems to be that because the driver is needed to fulfil Uber's rides that they become indistinct from Uber as a business itself; so they're employees.

They make some references to Case law for a Yellow taxi case back in 1991. (at least that was my reading!)

If you're freelance/consulting. You could also say; available for booking/project work from September. (Wordsmith away!)

First one is good, I'd avoid the second suggestion.

Maybe true, but the bits he's picking out are kinda wrong IMHO. WPF hasn't changed much since it was first done in the mid 00s, Microsoft didn't put the same improvement into developer productivity for WPF as they have for ASP.NET (Webforms -> ASP.NET MVC, vNext etc). WPF workflow is still painful despite it being around for nearly 10 years and Xaml as a concept being around longer.

The guys on the fizzle show recently opined that you shouldn't use hyphens. From memory, the reasoning was mainly based on the domain being slightly harder to share (try saying your thing with the hyphen in it).

Source (c. 41mins in): http://fizzle.co/sparkline/pick-right-domain-name-11-domain-...

Will it run some version of flash? (and yes I tried gnash to no avail).

I spent the weekend explaining to an 8 and 6 y/o that they can't share and look at other Scratch projects at scratch.mit.edu on the RPi :(

I wouldn't have thought so, because there isn't the same element of unknown information that there is in poker (i.e. I don't know your hand in Poker), but I know the board and if you're just playing random moves, then I can probably use some variation of Scholars mate to end the game early. (some beginners keep playing it until they finally reach a level that their opponents know how to defend against it)

Anyone fancy a game of dejarik? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO6M4ngKRp0

This is conjecture and frankly nonsense. If the time frame was 5 years, would MS really find a reason to delay and to publicly cry out loud? No. The only org being unreasonable is big G.

"Our objective is to significantly reduce the number of people harmed by targeted attacks." (http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/announcing-p...)

They've lost sight of this noble objective with an inflexible policy; who anointed Project Zero guardians of the internet? Why not wait the two days? cui bono?

And they asked for 92 days and Google decided to publish anyway? While I'm not surprised, it doesn't strike me as the most responsible action.

Could you clarify if its 5-10k users concurrent? per month? per day?

> Especially when someone finds a way to automate a solution.

But in our industry, what is been automated away? The only things I can think of are that if you were an expert, you'd be very well placed to leverage that automation.

I think its right not to be a one-trick pony, who isn't continuously learning.

But, being an expert is where its at. Companies will pay a premium for an expert over an enthusiastic amateur, because its less risky.

Can I make a suggestion - try a month at $29 and see what happens? If it doesn't work out change it back.

Maybe in the US (but I think thats debatable). Not certain for the Rest of the World, for example the EU sees regulation as being pro-consumer - it protects the consumer from bad practices from a company.

To me, its clear there is a non-zero risk that both businesses could get squeezed by regulation - the investors are betting that there won't be an impact from regulation or that the cost of following the regulation will be worth it (which you'd expect if you've got the scale to follow through).