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This is a part of normal human behavior. People often do corrupt things, as they seem beneficial to them. I wouldn't get angry/emotional about it. People often don't care that much about you, unless it benefits them.

Acceptance is important. We all have a human mind with an ego vulnerable to corruption. We think we are the solution to the problem, but we often aren't.

Nobody really likes Skype and Facebook anymore, but I guess short-term it boosted their numbers. Most applications send annoying notifications. The application owners will rationalize and say anything to look good and imply they are trying to improve society. It's just a rigged game, stop engaging emotionally.

Contract work has been under attack by IR35, fortunately this has been postponed by a year.

These are uncertain times. A lot of contractors have moved back to permie and competition is high.

You can try to obtain a 6 or 12 month contract if you have a decent stack of emergency cash (e.g. £25k) lying around.

I wouldn't overanalyze it. Try to see your options out there.

If you can get 3 contract offers in 1 month, then obviously you're still fine. If you can get 1 contract offer after trying for 3 months, I'd consider not taking it.

Analyze and feel the market, so you can form your opinion instead of just going based on stories that other people produce. Some people can't find a low-paying job in the best of times. Some people will have plenty of opportunities in the worst of times.

Haha yes, I think even presidents and CEOs are basically just trying to make the most of it. They just can't admit it, because of their reputation. People love to believe in a strong man that knows it all.

Yes, this is the ego. It's not about the information or the knowledge, but about being right and your opinion.

I'm sure we're all guilty of this sometimes, but it still makes comment sections a bit useless sometimes, because it's not discussing the subject itself.

This is why I love upcoming new technologies that everybody hates, they still have to proof themselves by using rational logic and there isn't much arrogance/ego surround it yet.

It's not good to think too much about yourself and how things reflect to groups of people and yourself, a lot of projection.

Anyway, iPhone rules! Android sucks. Happy Easter.

PS: I teach languages and a lot of people get stuck with looking bad. The ego is your enemy. Most good language learners just practice a lot and don't worry too much about looking bad.

All players having to give the bank money and all spoils going to the top player, doesn't sound like a fair game at all.

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I think human rational thinking is completely f*cked. We are just not capable of thinking very logically/rationally.

I think all the more reason to meditate, be mindful and adopt philosophies that are not always rational, but good instead.

Also, the truth is often very complex or very dark, so thinking is only going to bring incorrect simplified (black/white) conclusions or negativity/resentment.

There was a forever hosting provider for a one-time fee in Holland.

They were very popular until they went out of business.

They weren't cheap either! I think €99 or even €199, but don't remember well. It was around 8 years ago.

I am worried that this tax is partially based on jealousy and envy. I'm not so sure we should create a very complex tax system to specifically target companies and industries we feel deserve to pay more. Eventually this will end up a very complex tax system where nobody feels they are treated fairly.

If tax avoidance is legal, is it really tax avoidance? We've had leftist and rightist governments for 30 years saying they want to close tax loop holes, but they seem to be unable to create a system that works and successfully makes large corporations pay tax on profits.

I agree that it's messed up that Facebook and Apple make all their profits on tax havens, but I'm concerned that we are a bit too narcissistic by believing we can create a complex tax system that will solve this.

Humans have a dark side and seem completely unaware that their believes are driven by self-interest, envy and hate rather than making systems that work.

It still wouldn't upload my 1TB in back-ups in an entire month. Amazon Drive back-up completed in 3 days.

Their pricing is amazing, but saving money on a back-up solution that doesn't seem as good as the other cloud storage providers is a dangerous game.

Keep morale of the team high.

Nothing worse than feeling to be on a failing project with lots of pressure to make unrealistic deadlines.

I never had a contracting job that requires me to stay late, just 8 hours a day. I would have billed 1/4th more day if I had to stay 2 more hours.

I've never seen this either.

I do sometimes charge half days or 3/4th days if I have to leave work a few hours early.

This is simply not true and just something permies make up.

In London us DevOps consultants make only £60k yearly, but £500 daily as consultants (contractors), which is twice as much after taxes.

It seems in the United States salaries for permanent employees are higher, but that contractors don't get paid double.

There is no shame in leaving after only 2 months, if you're really not enjoying. I've just left a job where I had to do nothing, the last months of the year was horrible. After many months of free time, I really had no idea what to do, days were boring and long.

I would start interviewing as soon as possible. Don't worry about blowing the interview at Amazon, you can try again in 2 years. You'd do well to read the interview questions at glassdoor.com, they often ask the same questions (I interviewed there), but don't think that you should postpone it and spend the time learning. Just apply again in a year, it's not like you are a very capable learner when you're burned out.

It seems today almost nobody will be working, but the majority of people will be out of office on Friday too.

My dream is living in a Latin American country (I learned Spanish) and do freelance work online for western salaries, e.g. $60 hourly. I maybe would get bored of it after 6 months, but with a European passport, you can always easily go back to Europe. I recently moved to the UK by the way, but just doing a full-time job.

This happens to 13.000 people for me! I kid you not, I wish I made a screenshot, but it said that on the browser, I also tried the "close the browser" thing. It was not my intention at all to invite people to Linkedin, just to invite like 30-40 people that I know well and were also using Linkedin.

Although I never received follow-up on this. Maybe everybody rejected my request and ignored the e-mails, or the invitations/e-mails were never sent.

I felt really bad when I saw that I just sent an invitation to 13.000 people... including ex-girlfriends, connections so long ago, I checked my e-mail box for the next 2-3 hours, but FORTUNATELY nothing came up.

It's awesome! But I don't see how you can have high-productivity by using a laptop keyboard.