I had plenty of support I'll the UK, I was pretty directionless before I started focusing on tech, so maybe they were just glad I was going to have a career ;-)

Deno isn't going to get Rust performance, but it does have Go style tooling and standard library!

It's a Brave New World!

@Berkmann18 you've just lucky ;-) you wouldn't believe the madness that happens in some places.

Often it isn't down to individual developers, it's just "how we do things here".

@Berkmann18 you're assuming they don't do shenanigans with DNS or /etc/hosts.

It happens.

Yeah, probation periods can help, but if you can avoid a bad hire, it's better for both the employer and employee, if they quit a job for this one, and it only lasted two weeks, they've got a big problem...

Although, in the UK we're now effectively at will employment for the first two years...

And some bosses are letting people go at that two year point to avoid having to treat employees with respect...

Haha, so you're "damn, all the decent engineers in silicon valley are taken" offshoring rather than "damn, we don't want to pay more than £10/hour" offshoring.

How many hours is that $710?!

Out of interest, where is "local"?

All that and no dice? Damn!
But Bluetooth is 20 years old man, I've not had any trouble with my Sony headphones and Ubuntu on my ThinkPad. Maybe you'll figure it out in the new year :-)

@dakkarant you work all year round? Youch!
Where I'm currently working is kind of open over the holidays, but the majority of people book it off, and we're on a code freeze from mid December until early January, do no major risks while we're at reduced capacity.

There are no guarantees, but it sounds like you have what it takes to adapt, and if you don't make a leap of faith at some point you will never move from the kind of work you're doing now towards more advanced stuff with either OOP, functional programming or done other methodology.

@pionell if you can learn moderately quickly, and they have a reasonable culture, and you do a fair bit in your own time over the first month or two you should be fine, do as much as you can in advance of starting, but really OOP isn't all the hard, unless you're struggling with the fundamental concepts you should be okay.

As long as you make sure your questions are either "I'm having this issue, I've tried this and this, I read these articles but still not sure, what do you suggest?" Or "I'm building this feature, I've got two possible approaches, these are the pros and cons, which would you think will fit best with the project style?" Your team will see that you're a decent developer with some skill gaps, and not a weak developer who will need constant hand holding.

As long as you were honest, they know what they're getting.
Sometimes you just need to be brave and take a risk!
Good luck!

I believe they automatically decide if it should wait for manual review, if it's okay to go out it can potentially be reviewed shortly after going out, in that case they don't want a long window where apps wouldn't get the manual review.
Also, maybe they think you should go home and enjoy the holidays :-P

If it's painless, why would it need to be fast?
Fastest is anything which will destroy the brain, a C4 crown should be *very* fast...
But an environment with neither oxygen or carbon dioxide will kill you pretty quickly, and you'll just fall asleep.

Take.
The.
Money.

@CoffeeNcode if he's a contractor being paid contractor rates, chances are the agreement is between his own company and the agency who is contracting him to do the work for the end client. So employment rules don't apply, it's business to business.

If you can charge 4* your salaried rate and full your time with billable work, its great, if you can't... Maybe don't?

@netikras while it is open source, the policy of only distributing patches to paying users after all these years isn't really eruption the spirit of openness.

@netikras see above.

@netikras just drop java for a proper open source language/framework.
Like C#.net core!

None of that makes them simple, you have a load of knowledge that makes it appear simple.
But ultimately pretty much everything we touch these days is complicated when you consider the amount of prior research and experimentation that went into the things that came before.
Sure, *many* things are orders of magnitude more complicated, but that doesn't make everything that is less complicated automatically simple.

@FrodoSwaggins we've had them since the 1960s, but that doesn't make them simple, just because many things are much more complex doesn't make them simple...
You may be able to build one from parts with instructions, but could you build one without instructions or technical diagrams? How long would if take to figure it out?

Wtf? They have a six hour window when they're not running any buses (generally nothing runs from midnight until 6am on most UK bus routes), but no, they don't want to do overtime (or management was unwilling to pay for it!)
That sucks.

@CozyPlanes why wouldn't it be? Calculators are complicated...

@Redders damn auto correct.
In can be a pain, that should say :-P

LinkedIn has gotten me jobs, it can be a piston, but mostly ignore it while you're happy in a job, then jump on it when you aren't.

@ihatecomputers web Frameworks aren't always for GUI apps, they can be for APIs, with the frontend either static entirely sperate, or something a bit different.

Out of interest, what audit is that?

@irene perhaps poor choice to content ratio? ;-)