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Playing about with a small side project that's spun out of a need to manage our board game nights better. Started as a spreadsheet, moved to notion database, now a web app. Idea is…

I've been banging the explicit encoding / knowledge engineering drum for years - I think now is a good time for many to look at Knowledge Engineering as a growing career option. We…

I also have fond memories of the Ridgeway, and especially the White Horse. As a kid we lived in a village 9 miles or so away (perhaps the same place as your dad?). I used to fly mo…

A comprehensive, precise, and pedantic branch of set theory pertaining to food categorization.

https://www.bentaylor.co.uk Infrequently updated thoughts on photography, logic, open rights, canoe building and many other things.

Ha! Norfolk's a treasure trove of interesting place names. Wymondham also trips outsiders up. I was here for almost 20 years before I learnt that Heighham is pronounced as just "Ha…

Here’s a bit more about the Rainbird platform for those interested… The platform has two main parts: 1. The studio (an area where you can make visual decision-making models in a pr…

Hello, Hacker News community! My name’s Ben Taylor and I’m the CTO of the British SaaS startup Rainbird, which I co-founded in 2013. I’m really excited to share with you Rainbird C…

My kids love microbit - and have been hacking stuff on the platform since they were 7 or 8 years old. They’ve played with raspberry pi too, but Microbit is just so immediate. You w…

This roundabout still gives me shudders after learning to drive (well trying to learn to drive) in Swindon in the 90s.

What a great film! Ilford are a fantastic company, they have managed to successfully ride out the rollercoaster the traditional film market has been through over the last couple of…

As a British company looking to enter the US, is there a preferred mechanism for seconding UK employees to a (currently non-existent) US entity?

I love this - and it's a rPi case too!

We're using docker in part to get round the old 'works on my machine' problem: http://www.rainbird.ai/2014/08/works-machine/

I'm one of the co-founders in this project. Thanks for taking a look at Rainbird. Currently to integrate you'll either need to use our REST api or a Javascript agent - essentially …