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Only, that's not how it would be bought. People would buy their porn phone online, just like they buy they porn, and their hookers, and their erotica from Amazon. Nobody (almost) w…

Questions for people with nothing to hide: 1. Have you ever had an abortion? 2. Have you ever cheated on your husband / wife? 3. Are you currently looking for a new job? 4. Have yo…

>One other thing to take note of is depending on your relationship with the client, it may take a while to get paid... That's a freelancer, not a contractor. Different ball game en…

Sorry, but I don't agree with that at all. You're propagating the myth that contracters are supposed to be shit hot developers, the 1%, and that's simply not true. While it might b…

No offense, but you seem to be answering the question as an American worker, not a UK worker. Contracting is VERY different in both countries. If the OP is asking about contracting…

>and not being able to find next gig for a couple of month In London? Sure, you could be laid off anytime, but if you can't land a new contract in two weeks then there's something …

What would figures for another European city tell us about London? Rates for programmers in Dublin are about 20% higher than London, but that says nothing about the London figures …

Contract wages are considerably higher, especially in London. In some cases, twice as high. If you have a little fire in your belly, and don't mind living with some uncertainty and…

Sorry, but no. I've been in discussions recently with a French company whose development team is based in Dublin (Ireland for the geo-illiterate). Most of the tech staff in Dublin …

It's only clearly Bootstrap to people who have heard of Bootstrap. 99.999% of your visitors will never have heard of Bootstrap, will never have heard the word 'framework.'

It's not tax avoidance either. It would only be tax avoidance if they moved from one EU country to another one that had a lower corporate tax rate. This is their first European off…

>You can ship all the code you want, but even if it's lots of mediocre code, it's still mediocre. The code might be mediocre, but that doesn't mean that the product is mediocre. Pr…

>There are traits of a good programmer that are immediately evident to any experienced programmer. Replace the word 'programmer' with 'coder' and you might have a point. Whenever I…

>but people on the train are, for the overwhelming majority, uninteresting or annoying And they're usually the same people every day, if you catch the same train.

Who cares? More to the point, who will care? Facebook will fall eventually. In the 10 or 20 years from now that you talk about, Facebook will be a distant memory. Does anyone care …

My dishwasher was broken for months - never got around to fixing it - and the reality was, it didn't take noticeably longer to clean up after a meal or after a day's meals. Might b…

You don't have to be 'connected'. I've got a smart phone, and I use it mainly as a phone. The part I love about it is the great big dial pad. Remove all the apps that revolve aroun…

I run blogs on the websites of two businesses I'm associated with. In both cases the intent is not to start a conversation, but to pull in traffic and visitors from Google. Comment…

I rarely read comments here anymore, preferring to stick to reading the article linked to - for the same reason that I never venture into the comment section on the Guardian's once…

You say that in a light hearted and amusing manner, but if real, honest-to-god libraries, lending books at no cost to anyone, didn't already exist, and someone tried to start one t…

>The vast majority of those who experiment never become addicted. But for those who do, it is very costly, and fatal frequently enough that it is not worth the risk Are you talking…

They said 'type' not 'print.' He could use a manual typewriter.

I once tried searching for my friend John Smith on Facebook, and there he was, right at the top. Good thing westerners have such distinctive names.