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Month: February 2018

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    RT @ValaAfshar: Advice I needed when I was young:

    1 read more
    2 write more
    3 networking is about giving
    4 practice public speaking
    5 learn…

    “Hey, do you work at Zendesk?! I love them!” Good marketing, @JeffreyTheobald. 😉❤️ @Zendesk https://t.co/bPCUa5qXvB

    @parisba ESTJ. (😜 to @The_McJones)

    @The_McJones @parisba That’s the approach I should’ve taken during the whole “ZOMG A TESLA IN SPACE” nonsense the other day. Will remember that next time. 🙂

    @The_McJones @parisba Publicity stunts = good. Littering as advertisement = bad.

    @The_McJones And it wouldn’t be as depressing as being told your personality marks you at out as one of “nature’s administrators.” 😐

    @The_McJones A lot of unpaid emotional labour, in my experience.

    @evanderkoogh @_zouhir runs the PWA group here – maybe knows some sources?

    @hitsthings @i386 Yes, but also THE WORST. I think it’s polite to try to pronounce people’s names the way they do.

    RT @aussielunix: Live in Sydney/Melbourne ? Do this free course ! The jobs have started to appear on LinkedIn in the last 2 months. Get in…

    @NatDudley I bought one today with sugar gliders all over it. In related news, we’re both awesome.

    RT @lynnlangit: 8th grader, Moti, live coding an @Android app in @Java for parent night
    https://t.co/OoWtQlGD37 https://t.co/Q7nHvuNbhK

    @thisismywww Would be nice if there were any source other than SpaceX themselves. But if true, I will retract part of my objection. I still think it’s space litter and a crummy commercial.

    FFS. Another woman I know just got propositioned through a tech group on @Meetup. GUYS – IT’S NOT A DATING SITE.

    @charis The organisers for @DDDPerth gave each speaker their own clicker! It was very thoughtful and appreciated. 🙂

    @charis There was a sponsor at @voxxedsingapore last year who gave out fidget spinners. Very popular, but probably annoying as everyone kept playing with them all day. 😂

    RT @jevakallio: At a bank trying to prove my address:
    CLERK: “We have a discrepancy here… Your name here is Jani Eväkallio but this proof…

    RT @AlexRoy144: REMINDER: @NASA sent a car into space in 1969.

    Then it landed. On the moon.

    Then it drove around. On the moon.

    #JustSayi…

    @twasink @thisismywww Yes, a gazillion people have pointed that out to me. I still think it was tacky, self-aggrandising, and overly commercial. YMMV.

    @corduroy @tjbyte @Meetup @3Easy @johnallsopp If it were me, I’d be all for it. Was reluctant in this case as it was a colleague and I don’t want to expose her to potential abuse.

    @JamesTechRec @Meetup I dunno. I suspect these guys know exactly what they’re doing.

    RT @mootpointer: @web_goddess @Meetup Seriously. It puts my rage at recruiters using it as a job board in perspective.

    Let me me clear: PR…

    @cathjones0 @Meetup LOL. Talk about setting yourself a challenge, mate. 😂 What an idiot.

    Another day, another “What’s it like at @canva?” request from a prospective job switcher. I get like one a fortnight. Eventually I’m gonna call in a referral bonus, @cliffobrecht @crankymate @themaninblue! 😜

    @rjchatfield @Atlassian BREAK A LEG!!

    RT @yow_conf: Melbourne, you KNOW our year-end conf sells out, so please! Get your tickets early.

    #yow18 Registration is already open: ht…

    @saberkite GO GO GO GRYFFINDOR!

    @saberkite https://t.co/L65JD2QJKw

    @glasnt Is that the one with the abominable snowman??

    @saberkite I’m too competitive. 😂

    @saberkite I tried to get @i386 to join me on a team for a HP trivia event here but I didn’t register us in time. The world will never know how awesome the Holyhead Harpies would’ve been!

    This is a fantastic event. Have you been thinking about mentoring? You should sign up. You don’t need to be an expert to teach someone who’s never coded. I ❤️ @NodeGirlsSydney. https://t.co/UHpjj6gEi8

    @frankarr That’s gorgeous! Congrats!

    @annie_parker @sallyannw I’ll admit to irrational curiosity too. 😂

    Spending my Friday night DMing with a tipsy @MichelePlayfair as we plot ways to support some of our younger sisters in tech… 😍

    @MichelePlayfair What, you that gif saved? You found it awfully fast! 😂

    @gilmae Same debate here. I’ve got it on w-g and RDF, but now I’m toying with whether to bother on https://t.co/d8LFjszP5y. 😐

    @gilmae He never reads Twitter anymore. 😂

    Somewhere @jedws is overcome by a mysterious happy feeling… https://t.co/vhB5qzeg11

    @jonoabroad @jedws I know, right?! I’m an FP monster now.

    @LJKenward @MichelePlayfair Were your ears burning? 😉

    RT @JanelleCShane: I trained a neural network to generate new candy heart messages – some more successful than others. https://t.co/tPZyGV3…

    BRB, have to embroider STANK LOVE on a pillow for @the_snook. ❤️😂 https://t.co/cWIwC7z0Jz

    SCALA! WOO! LET’S DO THIS!! @WWCSyd @QuantiumAU https://t.co/RQuRbWYyfS

    Kicking things off! @QuantiumAU’s own @ButenkoMe welcoming everybody. @WWCSyd https://t.co/W4Lm3ccUHd

    Ground rule: if you raise your hand to ask a question, the mentor will first ask you if you googled it. Teaching everyone what it’s like to be a real developer! 😂

    Incredibly honoured to be listed with such amazing folks! ❤️ Thank you… https://t.co/V4JDnZgLU0

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    @TheRealBnut Its more the expense. $200 every six weeks when dudes my age wear their grey with pride. This is the year I say screw it. 😉

    Let me tell you about the customer at the knitting shop who called me “Krissy.” NOBODY CALLS ME KRISSY. 🤬 https://t.co/7unL4MQEhe

    @rosepowell Yeah! I’ve put my membership on hold right edit to upcoming travel. But it’s very good for the price

    RT @yow_conf: Last year, we offered #DiversityScholarships to #yow17 for the first time.
    Now we are expanding them to #YOWData and #YLJ18.…

    RT @alexbertanades: Last week one of my art teachers suggested I ‘dial down the feminism.’ Today I showed him my newest piece: https://t.co…

    @JennaGuillaume Were you carrying a jug of Lonely Girl Margarita Mix for One?

    RT @anne_theriault: Take the lady doritos. Take all the doritos and make them feminine-coded. Take them like we took the names Ashley and S…

    @misswired I think it’s because they have trouble coming up with names. @the_snook has used streets of Chippendale a few times in his brew titles. 🙂

    Big crowd as the inaugural Sydney Big Data: Engineers and Scientists meet up kicks off! @preactaau @preactaau @CampaignMonitor https://t.co/Aj3BDsicIB

    First talk is @SimonAubury talking about how @IAGAust builds data pipelines with Kafka Streaming. (HONK IF YOU ❤️ DATA PIPELINES!) 😂 @preactaau https://t.co/rrDwfHNEz6

    Real world data pipeline example from @SimonAubury. Hey, I spy the KSQL rocket there! (I heard @matt_howlett talk about that last month. Very exciting new project from @confluentinc!) @preactaau @IAGAust https://t.co/L6lUJ2wQiI

    For most companies, the data is less important than what it SIGNIFIES. That’s why KSQL is so cool – you can detect events in real time and do stuff with it! 🚀 @SimonAubury @IAGAust @preactaau https://t.co/wNNnt6n10T

    Second speaker is Raúl Beristáin from @VocusComm offering a counterpoint to the last talk – SQL on Hadoop using Impala. @preactaau https://t.co/vzel93OD6M

    “You may have heard the phrase ‘data lake.’ We were just talking about that. Everybody hates that.” 😂 @VocusComm @preactaau https://t.co/7vWyKFH94U

    Different business needs result in different data solutions. Sometimes your data doesn’t need to change (event logs, etc) so you don’t need support for transactions. @VocusComm @preactaau https://t.co/17G8fdFyIQ

    @duyenho Rooftop pool at the Old Clare? 👌

    @cprieto You should submit it as a talk for @YOWLambdaJam and come visit us Down Under. 😉

    RT @martinkrafft: Yeah, uh, we call that pollution, @elonmusk. You should be ashamed, not ventrilating. #FalconHeavy https://t.co/BVA2CAL1qk

    Final talk is by noted Scala fanboy and @CampaignMonitor’s own Binzi Cao talking about building a rules engine with Spark SQL. @preactaau https://t.co/D0H4gU5PkS

    @_SamCross My legs are still sore. 😐

    Spark SQL makes normalising timestamps from disparate data sources very easy. Okay, that’s cool. @CampaignMonitor @preactaau https://t.co/mTRROlClMV

    @rmoff @SimonAubury He’s sitting beside me. I’ll ask him in the next break. 🙂

    @Asher_Wolf I just met a young woman at a meeting who did speaker training that my company @yow_conf organised last year. She had to give a big preso afterwards at work and NAILED IT. She got a promotion. Her name is Hanieh and I’m so proud we could help her. ❤️ https://t.co/GOBiSArrv5

    @rmoff @SimonAubury Unfortunately no slides as they have to be vetted by corporate overlords. 😕

    @MsGenGeorge @JessicaCGlenn @Telstra Well done!!

    @aurynn @NatDudley Those are all good points I don’t disagree with. Just adding through that I regularly invite people to submit to our events, but that’s just because if I don’t, afterwards I hear “I didn’t know the CFP was open!”

    @aurynn @NatDudley So I email loads of folks I think might be interested to let them know – not because of any token minority status or anything like that. I just don’t want anybody to miss out!

    @aurynn @NatDudley I know a few different folks who are working on solutions for that. Hopefully one of them sticks.

    @i386 Only topped in annoyance by the Kiwi who called me, I shit you not, “KRUSS.”

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    RT @anildash: Sending a Tesla to Mars is a wonderful milestone on the path to launching Peter Thiel into the sun.

    This was the deep-fried ice cream I had yesterday. It was very good. https://t.co/tTG26C155m

    @darthted @dp_lewis Not sure of context, but – ouch.

    @thisismywww Right, but shooting our crap into space just for the heck of it is kinda different. Would you support if it was Taco Bell sending chalupas or Gina Reinhardt sending rocks?

    @thisismywww I’m aware. I also believe that, you know, useful scientific experiments could have also made up that payload rather than an overgrown Matchbox car.

    Whoooo! First three speakers for @yow_conf data have been announced. @arburbank is coming back to Oz to speak (YAY!) along with @deanwampler and @cargomoose. 🎉 https://t.co/9b7M3C8n5Q https://t.co/bvwgUirNBl

    I’m got a meeting in Barangaroo so I arrived an hour early and I’ve been working from an outdoor cafe. It’s nice. Kinda weird though – everything is so shiny. Feels like Caprica before the Cylons hit it.

    @eleanorkh What’d you get??

    @eleanorkh Whoa, really?! I might have to pop in and see if mine has it!

    @eleanorkh I’m a sucker for a good red. Now if I could just find a mascara that actually stayed on my eyelashes!

    Mine is “Good Stuff”! Sometimes can also be used as evidence for a raise or promotion. 🙂 https://t.co/ZyX8bDvPP0

    @damncabbage I can’t make it tonight – but could you mention the open CFP for @YOWLambdaJam??

    @i386 @michaelneale @Apple Straight to the pool room? 😉

    @damncabbage @YOWLambdaJam @joshprice I’ll email you both!!

    @michaelneale @i386 @Apple I just asked Google Home that question. She’s replied, “Heaps of serenity!” 😂😂😂👏

    @michaelneale @i386 @Apple And then I asked Siri. No, Apple. Just no.

    @fbz 😂 Words to live by.

    @JessRudder I get that. I still think *something* useful would have been better than wasting the expense and effort to send useless junk to float through the universe forever.

    RT @JessRudder: @web_goddess 100% agree. Imagine how inspiring it could have been to school children all over the world if they got to send…

    @LoopdiLou @JessRudder LOL. Depressing but true!

    @ajainvivek @reactsydney My husband worked there about 5 years ago! All quite different now, I expect. 🙂

    You know, the last time I tweeted awesome crochet, @RoseRed_Shoes made it for me… 🤔 https://t.co/bxazu2JKpL

    I made a new dress! It’s got LITTLE PINK DINOSAURS all over it!! 🦖🦕❤️ (Petey Cat approves.) Pattern: Tiramisu from Cake Patterns https://t.co/TPFGpfwMyT https://t.co/t9fUhrC64g

    AND POCKETS, OF COURSE!!

    RT @SarcasticRover: Holy shit, my nerds… The #FalconHeavy can be BOTH an awesome achievement AND a shitty dick-swing. It’s okay to feel two…

    @stringy That was from Spotlight. 😂

    @mmastertheone Oh thanks!

    Blog post: I Rode a Share Bike So You Don’t Have To. Oh yes, I really did. (SPOILER: IT SUCKED.) https://t.co/ggJjDpqFiQ 🚲😡 https://t.co/dDLA3sz8rJ

    Honestly, if Elon wants to send some share bikes into the sun, I’m all for that. 🙂

    RT @j_s_n_d: Always store in UTC https://t.co/U60Cj7gXzW

    @RoseRed_Shoes But you’re the BEST AT IT, Jane! 😜

    @stibbons Ew!

    @RoseRed_Shoes JANE. https://t.co/x16V3L41oZ

    @stringy There’s one good Spotlight in Sydney, and I find something nice there everytime I go. The rest suck.

    @RoseRed_Shoes I went with 45C for front bodice based on measurements and 40 elsewhere. Front ended up a bit baggy; had to take in side seams 1/2″ from sleeve to pocket. Next time will use the 40C.

    @RoseRed_Shoes Also, the top of the waistband hit way too low. (It’s supposed to be at or above bust with expectation skirt weight will pull it down.) Had to unpick and lop off 1.5″ of both back and two fronts. I guess I’m short-waisted?

    @RoseRed_Shoes Instructions aren’t too bad. I think there were a couple things that I would have found confusing as a newbie but I figured out

    @RoseRed_Shoes My machine doesn’t have the lightning bolt stitch but it does do triple stitch (2 fwds, 1 back). Worked great, very stretchy. But slow going, and a real pain to unpick. Also used loads of thread – three bobbins!!

    @pj_Leward @corduroy Interesting. So Mobike have some with gears and some without? Regardless, the seat was still way too low for me.

    @ratkins @carlfish 😉

    @the_nathanjones Worse. A big chunk of metal doesn’t turn the whole thing into a goddamn commercial. If intelligent life finds our litter out there, they’re going to (rightly) think we’re assholes.

    RT @JennaGuillaume: This is great. “Have we just sent the equivalent of a dick pic into space?” https://t.co/brk8ecNcYY

    RT @daveaglick: Tried to make rocket ship pancakes for the kids in honor of #falconheavy. Presented without comment. https://t.co/7lmGKb0alO

    @mmastertheone You’re welcome! (My legs are still sore.)

    @TheRealBnut I’ve been slowly moving away from it, tbh. Tired of the upkeep!

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    Current mood:

    I made a new dress! It’s got LITTLE PINK DINOSAURS all over it!! 🦖🦕❤️ (Petey Cat approves.)

    Pattern: Tiramisu from Cake Patterns

    Oh yes, I really did. (SPOILER: IT SUCKED.) 🚲😡

    I Rode a Share Bike So You Don’t Have To

  • I Rode a Share Bike So You Don’t Have To

    I’ve done my fair share of griping about the stupid share bikes littered all over Sydney.

    Yesterday though, I realised I had the perfect use case for one. The Snook’s office was having a party over at the Entertainment Quarter, and though it isn’t far from our house, it’s kind of a pain in the ass to get to on public transport. And sure, I could ride my own bike over there, but then I planned on having some beers and taking the bus back with the Snook which ruled that out. A one-way rental on a share bike seemed like the perfect solution!

    First things first – which of the (many) options to choose from? I googled “Sydney share bike review” and found this article in The Australian which indicates that Mobike (the orange and silver one) and Ofo (the yellow one) were the best in terms of build quality. I quickly installed the Mobike app. Next I grabbed my own helmet – no head lice for me, thank you! Then I just needed to locate the nearest bike. OH RIGHT, THERE ARE LIKE EIGHT ON THE FOOTPATH ON MY STREET RIGHT NOW.

    I used the app to unlock the nearest Mobike, which was painless and honestly kind of neat how it worked. Then I raised up the seat as high as it would go. Hm. First problem. This felt pretty low. (For the record, I’m 5’10” / 1.78m with longish legs. Tall, but not freakishly so.) I persevered though, and took a quick photo to send to the Snook (who was already at the party) to tell him to expect me in 25 minutes.

    SEE? I GOT ON!

    Then I headed off through Chippendale. About thirty seconds later, I went to change gears and discovered THIS BIKE HAS NO GEARS. The handlebar control that I thought was a gear shifter is just a bell. How can you offer bikes in Sydney without gears?? We’re not Santa Monica. We have HILLS. Oh, and did I mention this bike was HEAVY AS HELL? No way was I puffing through the back streets of Surry Hills on a too-small tank of a bike with no gears. I pulled over at the nearest pile of share bikes to chuck the Mobike and try another. I’d made it three blocks.

    After locking that one up, I switched to an Ofo (the yellow one). The seat went a little higher on this one. Still not as high as I need, but better. Also – it has gears! I felt optimistic. I headed off through Redfern and Surry Hills.

    Well. My 25 minute ride actually took me 35 minutes, and that’s not counting the couple of times I stopped for a drink of water. (It was a hot and sunny day.) Even with gears, that heavy-ass, still-too-tiny bike was murder on the hills. I even ended up walking it on a couple. I finally made it to the Entertainment Quarter though, parked, and staggered into the party – sweaty and dazed and in desperate need of a beer. On the upside, neither bike ride actually cost me anything as they’ve all got introductory specials on right now.

    Results of experiment

    Scenario: This was the most optimal use case I could think of for me to use a share bike – a short, one-way trip to a location inconvenient for public transport.

    Good stuff: It was free. The apps were easy-to-use for unlocking the bikes. (I didn’t bother using them to find a bike since, as I previously mentioned, THEY’RE BLOODY EVERYWHERE.) I didn’t have to worry about getting my bike home or making sure somebody didn’t steal it.

    Bad stuff: The bikes weigh a ton. They’re too small for people on the taller side of the bell curve. Some of them have no gears, and the ones that do don’t have very many, resulting in a painful, sweaty, very difficult ride. And then there’s the whole helmet situation (public lice helmet vs. no helmet at all), of which the only remedy is to bring your own (which you then have to carry around with you).

    So yeah. That was my one experiment on a share bike. Now we can shoot them all into the sun. 🚲🚀☀

  • I made a new dress! It’s got LITTLE PINK DINOSAURS all over it!! 🦖🦕❤️ (Petey Cat approves.) Pattern: Tiramisu from Cake Patterns

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    RT @glasnt: Rejection emails are going out for @pycon right now. I’ve spoken there the last two years, but was rejected for all my submissi…

    @servantofchaos Given that I once created one that was nothing but covers of “Don’t You Want Me Baby,” I shudder to think what that says about my personality.

    Blockchain/cryptocurrency spam is really on the rise, huh? Some idiot spammed everyone in the @fendersperth Slack last night, and now another one is posting on heaps of @Meetup groups. 😐

    @RyanBErickson Diane wouldn’t change her name! And Lloyd would never expect her to.

    Google “Everyone is awesome!” party. ❤️😊🤖 https://t.co/8X826RwTN5 https://t.co/Mo1Xcb6mf8

    Everything *is* awesome. Sunshine, tunes, and deep fried ice cream. 🌞🎶🍨❤️ https://t.co/JCwCq4PmDE https://t.co/mqqgSl0Uhs

    Being friends with a brewer has its advantages! https://t.co/g6GvLeDqU3 https://t.co/82EZ23ZU5s

    Art is happening. https://t.co/4A25kXdcmL https://t.co/yMsAnQcZKo

    BUBBLE STORM! https://t.co/DCKuoxRUXV https://t.co/XuXkRO9mah

    A rare morning meet up for me – Sydney Data Science Breakfast! @atockar kicking things off with “food for thought.” https://t.co/FTvhrkEz5p

    Hearing from @TomerGarzberg from @GRONADE about factories where the workers work 24-7 with no lights, A/C, or running water. Because they’re robots! 🤖 https://t.co/HJM9LYs4nY

    According to the Short Term Automation Susceptibility Index, the first jobs to be automated away involve low skill and low variability. @TomerGarzberg https://t.co/BaoCN0pb14

    Interesting range of companies represented on the Sydney Data Science Breakfast panel. @Minervaprojects @kpmgaustralia @GRONADE @VergeLabsAI https://t.co/cIe08PwUd2

    Low level jobs in accounting and finance are ripe for automation, says @TomerGarzberg, “but I think we’ll always have senior partners.” https://t.co/g5C4BBnzSS

    If the only roles for humans are going to be senior roles, how do we train up people for those skills? (Yes, Universal Basic Income has been invoked!) #sydneydata https://t.co/gwM2AmyPMG

    “When the stock market is down, crypto currencies are down, what do you invest in? Maybe pitchforks.” #sydneydata https://t.co/rHO0c3J2cf

    “In light of all this talk about automation, what should we, as data scientists, do?” – @atockar
    “Existentially?!” – @TomerGarzberg
    Many chuckles from the crowd… #sydneydata 😂 https://t.co/oUwrnloW57

    Wait, was it a full size car or a miniature that just got launched into space? Because if it’s the former – ugh.

    @fbz @tcn33 Humans are the worst.

    @drkyliesmith The fucking hubris.

    @micheinnz Triple ugh.

    @MelissaKaulfuss The ego! It boggles the mind.

    @afcowie Or, like, something that would have scientific value. Rather than space junk.

    @fbz Sorry!! 😂

    HOLY MOLY. Suddenly crochet is redeemed. (Thanks @chrisgander!!) https://t.co/bxazu2JKpL

    I get that firing a car into space makes for some stunning visuals. But I keep thinking about my visit to Kennedy Space Center in 2007. They had an exhibit that was a wall of like 25 TVs each showing a shuttle launch…

    They were all synced up so they all launched at the same time. And as each mission reached orbit, the TV would shut off. After a couple minutes, they were all off except one.

    And we stood there in front of the Challenger mission video screen, and I teared up. It makes me tear up still. People gave their LIVES for this, to further our understanding of the universe.

    And now we’ve turned it into a commercial. It’s just… awful.

    At Kennedy we saw the shuttle, had lunch with an astronaut, flew a shuttle simulation, and went on the multi-axis trainer. The only brand I saw all day: Dippin’ Dots. https://t.co/4OfWGLf9wG

    @afcowie I get that private enterprise is making great strides in this area. That’s great. But what if it were Starbucks launching a payload of coffee cups or Taco Bell sending a bunch of burritos? Or worse – Enron or a mining company or someone like that.

    @afcowie That fact that most techies are Tesla and Musk fanboys shouldn’t give the commercialisation of this space a pass.

    RT @damncabbage: @web_goddess anyway, probably time for this photo again https://t.co/Lwx8BBV2v5

    @rbtcollins @afcowie Some look at space and see a market opportunity, another way for humans to market new crap to each other. I just think that’s depressing. We’re going to ruin it the way we ruin everything else.

    Yes, exactly this. https://t.co/UG3iKJ4hcO

    @darthted Oh god, that must have been… I can’t even come up with a word.

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    Google “Everyone is awesome!” party. ❤️😊🤖

    Everything *is* awesome. Sunshine, tunes, and deep fried ice cream. 🌞🎶🍨❤️

    Being friends with a brewer has its advantages!

    Art is happening.

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