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I'm out of my depth in more than one way here. How about rigging a bite switch to the ubikey (either directly or via something like a raspberry pi / beagle bone). That's assuming t…

He's in the UK. We have health covered. He would have to have liability insurance tho, but it's not expensive (£300/year)

Exactly. Freelancing has a lot more control, but less money, and you bid on jobs like an agency would. Contracting is basically a full time job, but you own the company, can claim …

I think a lot of people, especially @jangosteve, mistake freelancing for contracting. I've been in London for 6 years, I've contracted for 5 of those (architect position at the BBC…

I'm calling BS on this, being a contractor. I spend around 10 mins a week invoicing. Nearly no time "marketing myself". I DO spending a bit of time saying "no, I have a contract" t…

If you live in London and do software for a salary, you better LOVE what you are doing and where you are doing it, 'cos you aint doing it for the money. You might want to also ask …

Well, THIS is going to bring on the haters. (keep in mind, microsoft haters, that microsoft is currently a HUGE proponent of node.js - a lot of the Azure Mobile Services and the li…

Yup, thats exactly what Monotouch does. It's something like: C# -> IL -> Mono AOT* -> ARM binary -> xcode/LLVM -> normal iOS binary * AOT = ahead of time compiler - like JIT, but..…

C# can "go native" right now. NGEN precompiles the IL into native code if you use the normal framework. Mono AOT compiles (and links) code into various architectures, but MonoTouch…

Mostly a discussion topic, tho with a workable flow (assuming I didn't miss anything stupid).

I've got a little rebuttal to this here: http://www.fastchicken.co.nz/2012/05/11/so-many-straw-men-so... You have a good point, but mostly, I think it's a strawman argument.

I've released the source to one of my real-life iPhone apps, done in MonoTouch. The code is a little old (I've not done a lot to it in nearly 12 months), but it's working and real.…