ruairidhwm

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   by ruairidhwm 7y ago

   https://ruairidh.dev - general coding and my first image recognition project.
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   by ruairidhwm 7y ago

   I'm remote and live in Glasgow, Scotland. My partner is tied down with their location so I don't travel as much as I might otherwise, but I like it here and we have already lived abroad so it works out pretty well.
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   by ruairidhwm 7y ago

   When I worked as a lawyer, one of my tasks as a junior was to check the court lists every day against the spreadsheet of clients we had who were involved in litigation. If their name appeared then I had to send an email to the relevant lawy
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   by ruairidhwm 7y ago

   A platform which handles listings and bookings. I work primarily on the backend and haven't really felt any discomfort in terms of complexity. It just gives a lot of flexibility in how we work with the data that we have and what we can
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   by ruairidhwm 7y ago

   I'm using it at work to develop an API and I'd say that it's been a great experience. I find that it fits well with our use case. I find it works well for when we need to collect information from several places at once which
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   by ruairidhwm 7y ago

   I typically write about things I'm learning about as a way to solidify my own knowledge. That or I write about something I wish I had known recently.
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   by ruairidhwm 8y ago

   MySQL also offers this natively which allows for speed improvements compared to calculating it yourself in a script: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/spatial-convenience-...
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   Ask HN: Linux vs. Mac for Developer

   23 points by ruairidhwm 8y ago|17 comments
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   by ruairidhwm 8y ago

   Isn't this similar to the post on Automating OSINT - http://www.automatingosint.com/blog/2017/07/osint-website-co... ? Think the above has been mentioned on BellingCat too.
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    by ruairidhwm 8y ago

    Thanks for posting this, I can't wait to give it a listen!
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    Show HN: How to Recognize a Knife in an Image with Machine Learning(hackernoon.com)

    1 points by ruairidhwm 8y ago|1 comments
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    by ruairidhwm 8y ago

    Based between Edinburgh and Glasgow. My email is in my profile and happy to have a chat any time.
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    by ruairidhwm 8y ago

    Yeah - I was involved in helping a large company purchase one of these tools and it was a nightmare. The software was poorly made, and of course every corporation does things differently. Part of the problem is that legal teams don't u
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    by ruairidhwm 8y ago

    I did a legal tech startup a while back, and now I'm looking for another opportunity :)
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    by ruairidhwm 8y ago

    I've been wanting to build a legal IDE for ages, it makes no sense that lawyers are stuck using Microsoft Word with lots of bolt-on plugins rather than a VSCode / Sublime equivalent.
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    by ruairidhwm 8y ago

    I've seen quite a few of these and whilst I love the idea, they usually have a ton of problems in them. As tptacek pointed out - there is no chance that this document would survive first contact with a sophisticated party and any quali
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    by ruairidhwm 8y ago

    I use Clean Blog ( https://github.com/BlackrockDigital/startbootstrap-clean-blo... ) on mine ( https://ruairidhwm.github.io )
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    by ruairidhwm 8y ago

    Ex-lawyer, I've been coding since I was a teenager but then started freelancing after leaving law. Got picked up by one of my clients and have been working as a full-time dev ever since. For the actual CS bits, I've been teaching
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    by ruairidhwm 8y ago

    As a self-taught software engineer, I'm trying to improve my CS knowledge and wrote this article as a way for me to improve. Any feedback would be really helpful.
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    Big O for Beginners(hackernoon.com)

    6 points by ruairidhwm 8y ago|1 comments
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    by ruairidhwm 8y ago

    Done!
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    OOP vs. Functional Programming (2014)(blog.cleancoder.com)

    48 points by ruairidhwm 8y ago|42 comments
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    by ruairidhwm 8y ago

    Maybe check out Kaggle for their competitions and also tutorials?
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    by ruairidhwm 8y ago

    Primitive Social - Lubbock, TX | REMOTE Primitive Social is a rapidly growing digital marketing agency that focuses on software development, web design and development, sales enablement, inbound marketing, and social media marketing. We are
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    by ruairidhwm 8y ago

    Likewise in Barcelona in a touristy area. Crazy noisy. With the summer just starting, I'm anticipating a few sleepless nights!
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    by ruairidhwm 8y ago

    Another big win for Edinburgh's tech scene :)
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    by ruairidhwm 8y ago

    Really? That's super annoying!
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    by ruairidhwm 8y ago

    In Europe we have Spotahome which i've used a few times and found to be excellent.
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    by ruairidhwm 9y ago

    https://stripe.com - It's beautiful but conveys all the information that you need quickly. It also has excellent copy. https://canny.io - Very crisp design and it conveys the use case really well. https:/&
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    by ruairidhwm 9y ago

    Primitive Social - Lubbock, TX | REMOTE Primitive Social is a rapidly growing digital marketing agency that focuses on software development, web design and development, sales enablement, inbound marketing, and social media marketing. We are