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DigitalOcean also have servers in Amsterdam, but they don't fit the OP requirement as they're run by a US-owned corp

Bytemark (http://www.bytemark.co.uk/) offer "legacy" VPS and dedicated servers (been a customer for 10 years now) and they also have a new Cloud offering called BigV (http://bigv.io) which I've started using for stuff - great company, great service, they've recently donated a 16-blade, 57Tb server to the Debian project as well (including hosting) - http://blog.bytemark.co.uk/2013/04/04/a-major-infrastructure...

They really are the mutts-nuts!

Thanks for all your answers, I'm looking to do more "proper" iOS development as time goes on rather than just winging it for one app and never returning :) As suggested by callmeed, I'm going to try and book a week off from my day job as trying to learn something like this in the few hours I have free in evenings isn't going to happen (at least not productively) and I've got a target of what I hope to get done by the end of the week - thanks for your suggestions everyone, and I'll be in touch shortly callmeed :)

I'd hazard a guess at A/B testing for new registrations?

Thanks, I've not had any response from PayPal yet, but checking the sandbox accounts it actually billed this morning (18-Jan-2013) when it had the first bill date of 15-Jan-2013 - I think as long as I know it will bill (albeit a few days after the actual bill date) it'll be fine, thanks!

I'm sure sending parcels to an embassy which has an X-Ray representation that could potentially by the same as a bomb or similar is a really good idea, and isn't any kind of risk at all ...

Great story and good to see success - how scalable is it - from what I read, the early feedback praised you on the quality/depth of questions, which if you move to a more automated way of producing the surveys you'll lose?

I always have the Newest page loaded, it probably gets refreshed every 1-2 hours when I take a break from what I'm working on between 8am and 10pm GMT :)

I think it was featured as an article on the front page, which would have driven a lot of traffic to your site (both from regular "real" visitors, and from scrapers etc.)

The original submission was http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4926541 so you'd see that as the referer

Not sure where you are, here in the UK we have a service called The Samaritans (http://www.samaritans.org/) so not sure if there's a similar service, these people are trained to give you the best help and advice that they can, and someone trained but detached from the specifics may be what's best for you - I've not gone through this myself, but have supported my wife and ex-partners through similar bouts of depression - I'm going to drop you a mail as well.

Assuming you're US, but you might want to give Bytemark or Bifolk here in the UK a go (I've been a Bytemark customer for 10+ years now with a VPS)

I think in the industry I'm in (CRM consultancy) then "job-hopping" can look bad - it was mentioned at my last interview (end of last year) that my CV doesn't look the best for the amount of jobs I've had (9 different jobs in 15 years) however at your age I wouldn't expect it to be negative at all - I had 5 different jobs between the ages of 16 and 20 and it didn't hold me back at all.

When I'm happy in a position, I'll stay till the bitter-end (case in point, the dream-job I had I stayed there for 5 years, until the company went bankrupt) whereas 2 of my jobs have only lasted 6-9 months due to things not being right - things you don't pick up on in the interview or probation period, but you know it's something you can't happily live with.

Everyone has the right to do the best for themselves, and it's not greedy at all to want to have more than £3 a week left over from your bills to actually eat, which I'm assuming means you don't have any money left to socialise or do something just for you (which is important as well)

Also in the UK, have been working in development/consultancy since I was 17 (and now 32) so have been around a bit :)

Personal advice, go for it - there's no harm in applying and interviewing at other positions (I've never quit a job before looking for another, I've always had another job lined up first), if you get an offer you then have a decision to make - when you hand your notice in, depending on the company etc. they may make a counter-offer to keep you - don't depend on them making it (ie make sure you have a concrete offer/signed offer letter before handing your notice in) but you need to decide if there's any counter-offer they can make that will make you happy to stay.

Personally, I've never taken a counter-offer (there's a reason I'm leaving, and an offer made when I say I want to leave isn't going to work out long-term) but if they offer to bring your wage in-line with your colleagues make sure it's in writing, along with anything else you want (ie additional training courses/certifications with a time-frame for that to be actioned in)

And no, your boss can't fire you for looking elsewhere - depending on how comfortable with your boss you are, it might be worth bringing it up before you look ("hey, just to let you know I'm unhappy about x, y and z, is there anything the company can do for me, otherwise I'm unfortunately going to have to look at other options available to me")

Not got anything to contribute aside from this post could quite easily be me ... exactly the same boat, exactly the same feeling ... chin up

I guess in terms of licensing, there's a large initial outlay, and once you reach a certain number of users, the cost-per-user to you drops which means the mailbox cost drops as well.

Maybe it's just me, but it's not clear on a few points I'd want to know: - Is that 10Gb/£19month for a single mailbox, or 10Gb of storage split amongst a number of mailboxes? - Multi-domain support - can I point multiple domains at a single mailbox? - What benefit do you provide over other established names in the space (for example, CobWeb also in the UK can provide a hosted Exchange 2010 mailbox, with ActiveSync/OWA, 25Gb storage per mailbox starting from £5.99 per mailbox per month with no minimum number of mailboxes ie a single mailbox is £5.99/month with their "Small Business Suite")

Yep, I've had an account since not long after it was released, and I've seen some good updates come through since (sub-tasks being one of them) and the free account does fine for what I need (and if I'm ever in the position to need more then I'd be more than happy to pay for it)

Yes, I've had a quick look at Trello and it seems like I'm using Asana in a similar way - large lists are demotivating, this is why I like the sub-tasks way of working ...

Say we want a new feature to handle processing a file and generating metadata from it after upload - in this case we'd have a high-level task of "Generate metadata asynchronously on upload" then within that I can have sub-tasks like "Create Resque job on upload", "Generate metadata in Resque job", "Update model with metadata", "Mail user on completion" - this way the main task list isn't cluttered with too much detail, and when I'm in the actual task the list of things to concentrate on are fairly small (I like to break a task up into 5 or so discrete parts which seems about right to me)

On a side-project I'm working with someone else on at the moment, we're using Asana.

I'm the tech/coding part, whereas he has the domain knowledge, so we have a Workspace setup for the project, then have seperate projects within that - ie, at the moment we have a Front-End project, a Back-End project, a Phase 2 project and a Future project.

If it's a bug or something we want for launch it goes into Front or Back-End, for sometime after launch it's Phase 2 and a nice-to-have goes into Future - tasks get assigned to me when there's an action needed, once done I assign it back and once we're both happy then it's completed - we use the Comments to put notes down regarding ideas for how it should work/look etc. against the tasks.

One thing I like that Asana has recently got is sub-tasks, so you can break a task down into component tasks without cluttering your main Task list up.

Works for us, may not for anyone else though :)

Surely the news is Akami is v6 (which they have been for some months and whitehouse.gov is a CNAME for) ...

Have you looked at FnordMetric - https://github.com/paulasmuth/fnordmetric and if so, why did you discount it as it's one I'm looking at integrating into a new site

Commenting with it too as was unhappy with the HN app I was using - took a minute to work out how to reply though :-)

LastPass

Generate random passwords for every website, auto-fills/logins with a master-password, syncs to damn near every desktop device I have (haven't tried on mobile yet)

Best advice I can offer if the agency who recruited you can't help is to talk to one of the British Consulates in Brazil and look at http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/countries/brazil/?langname...

From what I know (living in the UK and not needing to know about UK visa's) don't try and "game" Immigration - if you get a travel visa with the knowledge you have a job here already, it won't be looked well if it's discovered during your arrival in the UK - if you have a job, apply or ask the agency to sponsor a work visa for you - when it comes to Customs & Immigration, honesty is best

I say carry on - if there's a competitor, there's validation there's a need (assuming the competitor is making money) - focus on what differentiates you from them, and keep at it!

Yes, we have those in the UK called SPECS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPECS_%28speed_camera%29) although these are generally (only in my experience) used temporarily in roadworks etc. which have a temporary lower speed limit.

I believe France did this the low-tech way in the past with toll roads (get a ticket with the time when you enter a toll road, pass it to the booth when you get off, S=D/T and caclulate if you have a speeding fine to pay as well)

I've heard some Spanish traffic lights are quite "smart" for traffic control (these are mainly on highways rather than junctions/pedestrian crossings) where if you travel at or below the speed limit, the lights are green, speed and they go red thereby giving a positive association for not speeding (ie if you don't speed, you and everyone else travelling the same stretch probably get there faster - make everyone stop as you're speeding and most likely people won't be happy)

I think 1 minute is probably about the average wait in off-peak traffic (I'm going to have to start timing how long I sit at lights now) but on my journey I pass through at least 10 sets of traffic lights - waiting for 1min at each of them adds 10mins to my journey (admittedly I don't wait that long or even at all at most of them) but the potential is there

I think in most cases yes, but some I come across the sheer weight of traffic on the roundabout (at peak times mainly) means that no traffic would be able to join (say at a junction immediately prior to a major one which has 99% of traffic on the roundabout passing it and making the traffic waiting, keep waiting)