james_in_the_uk

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by james_in_the_uk 5y ago
I am a fellow lawyer and I have known Neil for a long time now. He is very highly qualified and impressive in action. I think you'd be in safe hands.
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by james_in_the_uk 5y ago
At the type of firms charging those rates, fixing Word's many formatting glitches is usually done by non-fee earning staff.
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by james_in_the_uk 5y ago
Probably not, actually. Why? They are not developers, they're artists. They will learn and use the tools available to them. If even a fraction of the effort that developers put into improving their own tools actually went into improvin
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by james_in_the_uk 5y ago
Word's built in compare feature works fine these days, in my experience. It handles changes/moves pretty well now too. Assuming your employer has a recent version of Word, not an ancient one because that's what works with all
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by james_in_the_uk 5y ago
Here are some good UK sites to consider including: The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/tone/recipes BBC Good Food: https://www.bbcgoodfood.com Jamie Oliver: https://www.jamieoliver.com Del
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by james_in_the_uk 5y ago
Looks good once the 404 issue is fixed. Perhaps for a future release you could tag / filter sources by country? A big problem for me in recipe search is avoiding localisation issues (e.g. Having to do all the conversions from cups; rem
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by james_in_the_uk 5y ago
J.S. Mill in action. As an aside: You’ll enjoy learning law and being in IT. You’ll see a lot of parallels between the jurisprudence of centuries ago and the current state of tech. A lot of the same type of issues thrown up every time socie
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by james_in_the_uk 5y ago
I think that’s a little unfair. As an idea FB genuinely revolutionised person to person communications, not all for the worse. Remember what it was like before to stay connected with family and friends remotely. Swapping email addresses, po
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by james_in_the_uk 5y ago
It’s not an apples to apples comparison it’s a mangoes to mongos one :)
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by james_in_the_uk 5y ago
I agree with your point, but (pedant mode on) a cease and desist would be more likely in the first instance. You’d only sue first in an exceptional case.
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by james_in_the_uk 5y ago
15 stone for us Brits
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by james_in_the_uk 5y ago
Well I don't mean to be condescending but please let me say: Don't be afraid to put a value on your knowledge and ability to bring together experience across different domains. People who can create efficient process, and develop
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by james_in_the_uk 5y ago
Yes, fair observation. The hacker mentality is a good way to describe it. I think AI will keep us very busy over the next decade. There are a lot of individual issues of a legal nature where AI creates some non-trivial challenges (equality
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by james_in_the_uk 5y ago
What's the state of the restaurant management software scene? Any scope for an open source restaurant management system? Could be a good side-hustle. Edit: Just googled and found TastyIgniter. https://github.com/tastyi
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by james_in_the_uk 5y ago
I see what you are saying, but I think that there's a contradiction in your argument. The fact that /much of/ (i.e. not all) software engineering is plumbing and project management implies that there's still a nucleus w
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by james_in_the_uk 5y ago
Lawyer here. I specialise in tech deals and the burgeoning tech regulatory sphere. (Think AI regulation, cryptocurrency, etc.) HN is a great way to keep my finger on the pulse. I try to contribute to legal threads where I can, but /so
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by james_in_the_uk 5y ago
Interesting factual analysis. I think the original piece was written as parody of Google, though, rather than as a criticism of At&t per se
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by james_in_the_uk 5y ago
In banking, any dislcosure of info hitherto not public is a /potential/ new attack vector for fraudsters. Surprising that they did it this way
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by james_in_the_uk 5y ago
If you don't need to worry about updates or litigation, just reverse engineer the date check and crack it.
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by james_in_the_uk 5y ago
It wasn't out of the blue. This complaint has been ongoing for a long time. Regulators have been vocal about these concerns for a while. Discussion of these issues,such as how the ad industry is at odds with privacy activists and incre
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by james_in_the_uk 5y ago
Privacy is a fundamental right in the EU. Data protection law is not consumer protection law, and thf. "consumer harm" is the wrong lens. I don't read French and so haven't read the complaint, but I am a data lawyer, so
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by james_in_the_uk 5y ago
Dublin usually works well from a regulatory perspective.
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by james_in_the_uk 5y ago
Straight up negligence.
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by james_in_the_uk 5y ago
At first glance it looks like this wouldn't be usable if you are EU/UK based or have website visitors from the EU/UK. The privacy notice and t&cs do not appear to be GDPR compliant. A shame, as it looks quite nice.
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Webinar – Patents for Computer Inventions(scl.org)
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by james_in_the_uk 5y ago
Where's the illustrated children's book? Rabbits vs otters. :)
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by james_in_the_uk 5y ago
Phone reviews all seem to be written by the same demographic though. And they all seem to breathlessly buy into the mfr's press releases. I make no comment on the underlying issue, but the article comes across as sour grapes.
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by james_in_the_uk 5y ago
I find the M5StickC is good for this
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by james_in_the_uk 6y ago
Can you change some of the tools you use? It may not be quite as cool to use Office rather than G Suite but much easier to work offline with them. (Appreciate it may be limited by employer requirements). Also consider a decent external LTE&
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by james_in_the_uk 7y ago
> I need to print something once a month at best. I can use FedEx or other to print but it can be a PITA. I was hoping there are others here on HN that are in a similar situation. I'm looking for a printer that will do fine with inf

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