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Weekend Hacker connects developers with projects. I don't think all the projects are open source but it might be worth having a look.

http://www.weekendhacker.net/

I have come across a few that might be helpful to you:

http://roundabout.io/

http://hackerjobs.co.uk/ - Run by fellow hacker news members

http://workinstartups.com/

https://elevatedirect.com - For contractors

I am a Kiwi currently living in London(UK). I am more than happy to answer any questions about living/working in New Zealand.

I started out with this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ifdefined....

Then I switched to https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jazzychad....

After awhile I found that it didn't always connected and I would have trouble getting news items or comments. So I switched back to the first app and have been pretty happy with that ever since. I have never used it to post comments but I use it all the time to view comments and it works very well for that.

I thought it did. How do you think they differ?

Taken from Wikipedia: Network neutrality (also net neutrality, Internet neutrality) is a principle that advocates no restrictions by Internet service providers or governments on consumers' access to networks that participate in the internet.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality

What about the Netherlands.

Net Neutrality:

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/255296/dutch_n...

Hindsight is a magical thing. Speaking from personal experience you need to stick with trying to find the job that you are passionate about. I took a job that wasn't ideal over another job offer. The decision came down to the fact that it was in a location (and other personal factors) that all fell in my "comfort zone". The job that I didn't take would have been a much better cultural fit and more in line with my long term goals. I just didn’t have the foresight to see this at that point.

I underestimated the negative effect of taking a job that had a tech stack I wasn't passionate about, would have on me personally and professionally. I did learn a lot of valuable lessons from the job I took and by no means was it a write off. I ended up staying there a few years but can’t help wonder how things would be different if I had taken the other job.

You have the right attitude in not wanting to get an unrelated corporate job just for the sake of having a job. So my advice would be to keep looking and if you need work desperately then settling for a temporary job outside of tech(or in) while you continue your search is better than getting tied into the corporate job you don’t want to be doing. It will be much harder to get out of that job and onto the one you really want.

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I commute on the train everyday in London. Most of the time I will read books, mostly non technical. Recently I have started taking my laptop with me and coding on my side project. When I don't have either a book or laptop with me I will catch up on emails or hacker news on my phone.

JavaScript is a requirement for my work applications. We have a lot of core components that get used in almost all of our projects and they rely heavily of JavaScript and jQuery. I know for certain there is no interest in providing a non JavaScript UI flow for our users as it would require far too much time and money to rework existing frameworks and components.

For my personal projects I had thought about allowing for non JavaScript users. I started making sure that things worked under both scenarios but in the end I figured that if you don't have JavaScript enabled you really aren’t going to get use of the main features of the project. So now I don't bother and can use that time for adding more features rather than a user path for a very small minority.

Addressing is a big issue as people(me) who use Android phones have all their contacts tied to their Google account. I guess upon switching to another email provider I could keep my Gmail account just for my contacts on my phone.

I would be interested in how much this dataset costs to run every month. Anyone able to shed some light on this?

It might be just me but initially I had trouble working out how to hide the comments. It wasn't blatantly obvious to me what would happen when I clicked on the red tab. It might be helpful putting "Show" or "Hide" in the title of the tab?

Thanks for the update. Good to know that truecrypt doesn't run on OpenVZ, I didn't realise that was a short fall of OpenVZ.

Do you have past experiences or reasons to share for your view on never accepting a counter offer?

I am looking at going with IntoVPS as they have a good price range and locations that suit my needs. Their plans are similar to Linode's, and you get a bit more traffic and disk space in comparison.

http://www.intovps.com/

One that I quite like but have not tried yet is: "What is the reason this role is available"

This provides insight into if the role has come out of an expanding workload/new projects or replacing an employee.

If it is to replace an employee you could follow up with "how long were they with you". What you are trying to do is get hints of if there is high staff turnover. You could also add in some more questions about staff retention but this could lead to some uncomfortable situations and might not go down well with the employer, as Stonk has mentioned already.

The other side of this is if they have new projects or increased workloads. This will lead you into discussion about the projects/work and hopefully let you get a better idea on where the role will fit into the company.

Out of interest you mentioned in that blog post that you received a DMCA notice for the video. Who was that notice from?

What country are you wanting to do these checks for?

We integrate with http://www.experian.co.uk for credit checks here in the UK. Not sure if they provide the same sort of service in other countries though.

Edit: seems they do http://www.experian.com/

I could make it there a little after 1730 but as close as possible.

I hope someone takes you up on your offer Colin. If it was somewhere in London I certainly would.

Songkick offers a great solution for concert tracking. I use it all the time. It allows personalised tracking of artists that you like and much more.

http://www.songkick.com/

Like others have stated, I use going to the kitchen as a stretch for my muscles. I find that getting up away from the desk and walking around helps break up the working day. Without these breaks I know that my productivity would drop, especially in the afternoons.

The same goes for working through lunch. I often find myself doing this in order to complete all the work I have on my plate. What I am trying to force myself to do is actually get out of the office and at the very least go for a walk outside. More often than not I am a lot more productive in the afternoons when I take a decent break for lunch. Working straight through lunch is a bad habit to get into.

White boards for collaborative brain storming and planning. Basic I know, but could be helpful.

Thanks for posting a follow up to your dilemma and what exactly you did. I often read about interesting situations people here on hacker news are in but often lack the final result/outcome.

As wgx suggests, it does look like the auto complete shows two Sacha user accounts. I presume this is before you get "those options to choose your authentication method".

Still free here in England(UK). I suspect that it won't be the case for long though.

I use that language/framework to create something. For me I don't retain information from reading a reference manual cover to cover. I need to actively work with the language/framework in combination with the reference manual which helps give it a context. I find this helps me retain and understand the things I am trying to learn.

A fellow hacker news member bullrico has thought about this issue and created quite a cool solution: http://impressar.io

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3518376

I spent too long typing and you got there before me. Great point though.

Something that has not been brought up is what direction are you wanting to pursue. If you are dead set on getting into pen testing then that would add more weight into your decision. If they are both just options for work and you are still trying to sort out where you really want to focus then maybe staying in your current job would be wise.

I would say that it would not hurt to take the phone interview. This doesn't mean you are going to leave your current position. The company could end the process at that point and solve the issue for you. If this is the case, at the very least you gain some more exposure to interviews. If you do get past the phone interview stage and progress to an offer you will have to make the hard decision then. If you did proceed with the phone interview I would take Bigiain's advice and be honest with them. As others have suggested, playing the two companies off each other would not be a good plan since you have already taken the job.