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I similarly spent a few years working in this space (TfL, digitising their data and website etc). It always struck me just how nuts the weekly meetings between different station op…

The key differentiator here is the storage requirements (2-8c ‘normal refrigerator’). That’s much more accessible to developing / low GDP countries as opposed the cumbersome and ex…

I've been contracting for 8 years now. I'd recommend CWjobs / ContractRecruit and PurelyIT - just search and refine based on location / skills / required rate.

Jaron Lainer - Who Owns the Future is a great read on the topic of owning and monetising ones data.

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-da...

The book ‘Sapiens’ by Yuval Harari talks exactly to this point. A really excellent read.

I’ve worked on this in London recently, presenting my working concept (and months of data in tableau by location behind it) at a few events. The industry is a few years off it, par…

I'd classify it into three groups for the UK... Perm - Mid level benefits + Pay (maybe options in a startup) Contractor - Individual with their own Ltd company, pays less tax and m…

Totally agree with you here. The contracting market in the UK (particularly London) is much more lucrative than relative permanent roles, even when their benefits are taken into ac…

I've been using Momondo recently, which has all of these tools and a much better UX. This just feels like a re skin of the ITA site and a bit of a poor effort at that.

I was in Belize a few years ago and think I had Lobster for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day, so cheap!

It's on the way. The beta was about for 9mths or so

From the comments I'm trying to work out who you are, struggling tho!

This seems a rather odd article, there are many useful sites (particularly in London) that enable you to search for properties in a much smarter way these days, check out the tools…

I'd second the UX suggestion, it's always the role that is difficult to fill in teams and only going to grow in demand.

It should be great!. I'm not overly concerned, we had our own riots and disruptions prior to the Olympics in 2012 here but when it got to the point of the event common sense prevai…

UK, Contractor. A 4 week long trip every 6months or so, though the last trip was 10 weeks. 3 to 4 weekend city breaks per year, most usually geared around a sporting event, festiva…

I've been doing the same for the last 3 years, albeit not on the same scale. I contract every 6 months and then take a month or so off until like you I find my brain starting to fe…

In the last year I've taken about 10 weeks vacation, travelled all across the States, Hawaiian Islands, Fijian Islands (Yasawa's), Australia, Sweden and Snowboarding twice. Contrac…

I hadn't heard of Vayable before but will definitely consider some of the tours I've discovered for the month in Brazil at the World Cup now.

I couldn't work out on your site if these are Perm roles or Contract, specifically the Tech PM one?

I think professionalism bores down to basic communication skills, be punctual, responsive and considerate. I've recently hired 2 "developers" from the freelancer HN thread to find …

I find lists like this and Sivers.org/book very useful for finding new reading material, some good ones I've read this year (in no particular order); Who owns the future - Jaron La…