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The dependency injection thing is really a non issue. Just use something like ng-min before you minify and you are set. Just for the price of another entry in your grunt.js file.

It might be that they are running on a shoestring budget and don't have the resources to maintain a high availability web service yet.

Trade unions make sense when the employer has disproportionate power over its employees. That's typically shallow employment markets with a single dominating employer.

Dev market in most places are efficient enough; so no I wouldn't.

As soon as you realise you won't. This will give your customer a bit of leeway in managing expectations, preparing alternatives or what have you.

I suspect no amount of networking would protect against moving away from the centres of industry.

Given the alternative is being stuck in a boring job, or low pay, or unemployment, what is so difficult in shooting an email asking if they know anyone hiring? What would your reaction be if you got such an email from an ex-colleague?

I am finding a bit difficult to understand the "I am not good at networking" angle. Assuming a job change every 3 years, and 2 people to vouch for you at each, one would have a 10 people "marketing team" after 15 years. I am not talking about schmoozing with higher ups here; just impressing peers with the quality of work.

Am I missing something?

Lawyers and doctors are not too different.The premise is true for most of white collar jobs, if not all.

You might be creating the impression of not being sharp enough. It's probably true that you will never need to reverse a linked list in real life but it is not particularly difficult either.

It is just a fancier fizz buzz test.

I know. I wouldn't call it a "replacement" if it's not behaviour compatible with the native function.

Not a replacement really; doesn't mimic the function signature, is not blocking as the alert etc etc

There's very little that can go wrong in an electric vehicle. The only thing which can go terribly wrong is the battery pack; any damage there would mean a write off anyway.

Sorry, I was wrong at the first time it's not actually the minifier that deals with injection. It's a preprocessor called ng-min. You can use any minifier after that. It's been a while since I touched my grunt file. I stand corrected.

Apologies if this comes across as unsolicited advice; but if you really struggle with this, your software dev fundamentals are weak. Before learning frameworks, you should focus on concepts like decoupling, single responsibility, etc...

There are angular specific minifiers dealing just fine with #3. It's more of a toolchain problem.

For #5 the real deal is the provider and everything else is syntactic sugar on top of it. Once you have a very large application you start to appreciate the distinction. The naming of concepts is awful though; could have been much more clearer.

So how do you suggest they tell someone is really an entrepreneur? Genuine question.

£200k is not a very huge amount of money by London standards. Maybe fully loaded cost of 2 senior developers for a year, if you get creative making it stretch.

Any threshold below that would effectively be a open doors situation.

I would try to cross sell on the bad PDFs. Ask the user if conversion went well; if they say so, direct them to Fiverr with an affiliate link.

I have a work sample test with questions at increasing difficulties. They don't do any better than a junior dev.

After having interviewed over a hundred candidates I can now tell in the first minutes of the meeting. They generally apply for a role they never have done before, are overdressed for the occasion and talk flawlessly with confidence.

10 * 1 year people don't specialize in anything. They just repeat the first year experience 10 times.

I suspect most 10+ years experience guys are actually 10 * 1 year experience guys. When you have someone like that in front of you in an interview, it is quite difficult to look past the fact that the person has no respect to his job.

> prevent people from entering into an honest trade to the advantage of their families and customers

...and to detriment of the rest of the population. Most of London is still based on its medieval city plan(ie no plan exists) and the carrying capacity of the roads are particularly lower compared to similarly sized cities. Controlling the number vehicles which do abrupt stops is a good idea.

If you want to do this for customer validation, don't bother, the market for this already exists. Sometime ago, there was a post here about a startup making a killing selling software which sells reservations for restaurants and bars.

If you believe you can execute it, go for it.

Cultures as I stated in my initial post. British publicans get baffled when you tip them, Arabic businessmen bring costs to negotiations, Americans are good at service...All cultural.

Being one of them, I believe I have enough anecdotes that I can call them data.

Yes, it wouldn't work with western cultures. Things like rent of the shop, mouths to feed, etc get used a lot in bazaars. I reckon it's a form of appeal to fairness.

I am from a Middle Eastern country originally and was trying to help out by making sure that things are not getting lost in translation.

Is the person you are trying to negotiate with non-western by any chance? Bringing in the costs to the discussion is quite a common negotiation tactic for some cultures. I've seen Indians, Arabs and a few other Middle Eastern cultures doing that.

"Halve the offer and start negotiating under that number" is quite a common approach to transactions involving rarely traded items. Your counter party is signalling you that he never dealt with a software developer before. You are a rarely traded item to him and he's trying to twist your arm.

Working with people who don't know about software and appreciate the effort that goes into it is never a good idea.

Well, Germany never invaded Turkey. If anything, they were way too cosy during WW2.

If you take your geographical advice from football federations; Australia is in Asia.

Still, it helps.