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    Potentially going PAYE (short term) - rate breakdown

    Specially in banks, this is exactly the case. There isn't much independent supplier or independent business mindset among many "contractors". You can also see this from the multiple similar posts on this forum. Asking HR to help etc. Being business and self employed means you are exposed to...
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    Anyone done much with NodeJS and open APIs (github, google docs, etc)?

    I guess this is similar for all interpreted, not compiled languages like PHP, Python, JavaScript etc. There are plenty of commercial applications and packages built with these. You can use the obfuscation libraries for JavaScript, there are few.
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    Anyone done much with NodeJS and open APIs (github, google docs, etc)?

    Yes, NodeJS has gained quite a bit of server side development ground during last few years. Its runtime engine v8 has reached quite good performance, and its improvements are supported / maintained by Google. For me personally JavaScript as a language took a bit of time to adopt to, specially...
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    Programming Contracting Jobs: What is the interview/hiring process like?

    if they give you such treatment during the interview, its actually good you didn't get the job :wink
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    Programming Contracting Jobs: What is the interview/hiring process like?

    just started my second contracting gig as dev and did quite few interviews to get the second gig. interviews were definitely different from perm interviews. they are more to the point, usually ~1 hour technical conversation / code review and team culture fit conversation with managers. most...

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