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Re:Leveraging Sidekiq for Higher Throughput on Friday October 13, 2017 @04:38AM (#15464024)
I'm pretty new to writing technical posts, so any feedback on the content/style is more than welcome!
Re:Ask HN: What do you use to align your daily todos with your long te... on Monday March 13, 2017 @12:41PM (#13859465)
This looks pretty much what I'm after. Do you offer any sort of data export?
Re:Parliament must vote on whether government can start Brexit process on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @05:18AM (#13470157)
Let's be honest, Labour stopped being a proper opposition a good while ago.
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2016) on Thursday September 01, 2016 @11:29AM (#12406031)
SEEKING WORK

Remote Ruby Engineer looking to take on some extra contract work.

I mainy work in Ruby (with Rails) and have experience with Javascript (with Ember)

My current rate is £40 per hour and I would be looking to take on short/medium term projects. I can work to tight deadlines for projects that need completed quickly.

Contact me at: mark(at)prov.works

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2016) on Thursday February 04, 2016 @09:15AM (#11033992)
Location: Glasgow, Scotland

Remote: Yes or In House

Willing to relocate: For the right role.

Technologies: Ruby/Rails, JS (Ember), Golang (Learning)

Résumé/CV: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mqi35vclrbuff2c/cv_markprovan.pdf?...

Email: [email protected]

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2016) on Friday January 01, 2016 @02:10PM (#10822905)
Nice to see a local company(I can almost see your office from my house!) on here using a newer language!
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (September 2014) on Monday September 01, 2014 @11:18AM (#8253248)
SEEKING WORK - Remote

Location: Scotland

Currently working with Golang, Rails and Ember (using Ember CLI)

Contact me markgprovan (at) gmail.com for a chat :)

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2014) on Thursday May 01, 2014 @11:37AM (#7680409)
SEEKING WORK - Freelance Ruby, Rails & JS Developer

I have 3 years experience working with large Rails apps and 2 years experience using Ember.js

Contact me at markgprovan[at]gmail.com

Ask HN: What should I look at to broaden my programming knowledge?

Posted by markprovan on Thursday September 26, 2013 @07:38AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm currently studying towards my Honours degree in Software Engineering. My course is basically a CS degree with a mandatory 12 month placement.<p>I currently develop in Ruby, JS and Java and I'm looking to broaden my knowledge (languages, techniques and concepts).<p>What books/languages would you say were important in shaping your career/made you a better engineer?

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Re:Free private Github repos for students and edu people on Friday May 24, 2013 @04:57AM (#5761874)
Brilliant, I use Github to contribute to open source, but have had my private repos on Bitbucket. It's great to move over to the one platform :) Thanks Github!
Re:O’Reilly Media Has Lost Its Soul on Tuesday March 12, 2013 @01:03PM (#5363134)
Exactly, they were named to point out that they "both possessed integrity and practical minds."

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