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Could we not move forward without changing the namespace. Serious question.

It's not really a guess. Anyone who worked with power constrained devices would tell you it's because of polling.

If I told you the biggest culprit is component xyz, that would be a guess.

The short answer is polling. There's nothing better at draining a battery than infinite loops waiting for something to happen. I bet Windows have too many of those, remnant from the days where power consumption didn't matter because your PC is plugged into a socket at all times.

The word you are looking for is retention. You have to work on improving it. The basic idea is to get user's email address, twitter handle etc and remind him to come back to your site every now and then. You have to be careful with this though, it's quite easy to be labelled as a spammer if you don't do it right.

The current government is pretty hostile towards immigration. If you are not an EU citizen or married to one, your chances of getting a work visa from the US is slim. There are strict quotas and companies try to use theirs for top candidates.

You could improve your chances by being in the UK. I know a few people who got their jobs through connection they made when studying, despite needing visas.

So, playing the devil's advocate for a bit here, are the agile companies without managers delivering consistently better results than companies with managers?

Companies grasp one thing quite easily and it's their bottom line. Maybe, agile is not delivering better enough to have an impact on the bottom line and all this discussion is, well, moot.

The main work will be to convince others that your version is worth anything.

Toss a coin. VPS offerings are more or less a commodity nowadays. The price difference is ignorable for a person at first world income levels? Linode is a full cup of coffee price more expensive than Ocean over a month. The specs will be exactly equivalent shortly, if not already. Unless you happen to end up on the same machine with an abusive neighbour, you'll be fine.

You'd better post this to the monthly freelancer topic. If every freelancer did this, it can get out of hand pretty quickly.

I had the impression that financial sector was taking a while to catch up with the times. Is the work interesting?

The demand for that type of work is coming from 4 main industries:

1) Household internet giants; i.e Google, Amazon etc

2) Betting/online gaming industry

3) Old Street startups

4) Content delivery; either on device side (set top boxes, consoles etc) or on market side(game, movie, app downloads)

Attending related meetups and handing over a few business cards might do wonders.

It's an arms race.

I see a lot of CVs and the fact is most people exaggerate their skills in their CVs. In turn companies exaggerate their needs in their job descriptions.

Define front end. If you mean designing pixel perfect HTML pages, that market is shrinking quite rapidly. Expect a long time on the bench.

If you mean Backbone/Angular/framework of the day, that one is booming. Uploading your CV to one of the popular job boards will get you over 10 calls a day.

Doesn't this assume that the API will only be used from a module living under a URL?

Most REST apis these days seem to be consumed form client side.

The rule of thumb was if your earnings are over £30K per annum, you set up your own company. Otherwise you stick with an umbrella company.

Finding a good accountant is the first thing you should do if you go by setting up your own company. They know the tricks and pitfalls, and are worth every penny.

But he still wastes your time. There's nothing wrong in walking away from a business if the terms do not suit you. On time payment is just another clause in the contract, I expect it to be honoured.

If the client is consistently behind payments, I leave them at the first opportunity. If I were you I would focus on creating those opportunities.

How much of the German economy is dependent on auto industry? Sure, it's the most visible but it's not the backbone of the economy.

You have to understand the reason why the company is hiring. If they are looking for a specialist, that's because of a pressing need. They probably exhausted their network and now are throwing money at the problem by a job ad.

When hiring a generalist things are more relaxed. If they wait a little bit more someone from their network will pop up. So generalist posts tend to appear on job listings a lot less.

TagCmd - London, UK - Full time. Sorry, no work permits, no remote.

I am looking for JS developers. We are using Backbone, but experience in Angular, Ember, Knockout or even your own client side framework is as good. We are using a bit of node.js for our fixture server, I guess we can transition a person with that kind of experience too. What really matters is that you know your JS.

This is not a startup so no equity, no foosball tables, no free lunches and such...The pay is average for London, too. So what's good about that job? We are running at a marathon pace rather than a sprint. We cleared 2 major milestones last year and no one had worked a minute of overtime. Maybe you are building a business on the side, patio11 style, or maybe you are trying to recover from a failed startup, this job would suit you well. I also try to protect my people from meetings, there are a few guys who like that.

I don't really care for CVs, if you have one send it, otherwise tell me what you did with JavaScript in a paragraph or two. Shoot me an email if interested;address in profile.

UKs house prices are high by design. Germany, another European country, does not have that kind of price levels for property.

It's not the speculators or billionaires, it's the governments.

>Second hand re-hashing of other people's experience is the best.

Didn't you read the bit he talks about selling AR to a hospital?

So you are on your iPad on a train. Your train goes into tunnel, you lose connection. The application still works because your data is saved in PouchDB.

You exit the tunnel, you gain connectivity PouchDB syncs your data to the CouchDB on the server. Other devices can now sync from the server.

So, correct me if I am wrong, you are going to misuse a tourist visa in a country which has questionable police practices. Are you sure this is wise?

The last time I was there, I was not able to make good use of breaks to network. It was simply too crowded and it felt quite random. Could you create something like interest points in the room?

It's not like you are a teenager, both of you have enough experience in adulthood.

I don't know about those type of jobs, but generally such a poor response rate is always a sign of a poor CV. It might be the picture, the way it's written, laid out or the choice words for certain thins. I'd recommend finding someone who does hiring for similar positions and ask him to review her CV.

I heard you guys also like mentioning in your CVs where you went to primary school. Horses for the courses.

Put a picture on your CV in the UK and it directly goes into the bin. No one wants to be liable for discrimination.

Drop the word blackhat from your SEO experience and mention of forum membership as well. You are starting off with a huge red flag.

Remove non-qualifying words as "familiar". You either know html5/css3 or you don't. Same goes for modifying PHP code files. You either know PHP or you don't. Talking about modifying is odd.

I'd consider leaving education section out altogether. It's not your strongest point so no reason to put it on display.