So many failures, so very sad – enough to have made me cry on occasion and hang my head in shame for Australia. There’s at least a little hope the next government might be a little better. Barnaby Joyce, Malcolm Roberts and other ‘citizenship seven’ MPs receive verdict – live from the High Court http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/the-pulse-live/barnaby-joyce-malcolm-roberts-and-other-mps-receive-citizenship-verdict-from-high-court-20171027-gz9efa.html?sortOrder=LATEST …
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Five years later, the Ariane 5 story is still my favorite software bug
I first learned about the Ariane 5 explosion, partly caused by reusing Ariane 4 code, around five years ago at a one day taste of YoW! 2012 in Sydney, where I was also introduced to Don Reinertsen’s Keynote on the Practical Science of Batch Size (unfortunately it looks like the Melbourne copy of that video is …
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As a customer, why I’m quitting Uber
I used to use Uber about twice a year, at other times I’m a huge public transportation fan. The change to require tipping to get a 5 star rating (because people respond to incentives) is a complete surprise to me. In essence, Uber didn’t learn anything about setting (and appropriately notifying the public about changing) …
‘The great Australian nightmare’ alive and well in Sydney, Melbourne
Nice one, this wonderful article by Emily Cadman, while it as Michael Pascoe points out contains some errors, it still made my day: http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/the-great-australian-nightmare-alive-and-well-in-sydney-melbourne-20171004-gyujbr.html
Helping start something – Australian Affordable Housing Party
Disclaimer: These views are my own, and do not necessarily represent the views of the Australian Affordable Housing Party, Dick Smith’s Fair Go, the Australian Labour Party, the Liberal Party (of the Menzies era), or any other individual or organisation. For years I’ve been concerned about rising housing unaffordability in Australia. Rational Radical’s graph …
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I’m back!
I’d like to say there are some absolutely wonderful people at Wesley Mission and kudos to them.
Final post?
So after several days of back and forth, and thanks to my parents neglecting to tell me pjschmidt@bigpond.com would lapse, it’s come to my attention that I’ll need a Notary Public to prove I’m me and thus that I once owned / but a NP is something like $250 + GST (404, archive) for something …
Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule
Having operated on a maker’s schedule for so long, I really appreciated the insight into the manager’s schedule: http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
Yep, learning the hard way
Woohoo! Lesson: Hi <name>, How’s your day been? 25 odd characters of awesomeness, thanks <name>. Got to tone down these intricate 30-second thoughts, TMI, and come back to Earth. Fascinating how the academic world of course tends to push so hard in the other direction towards theses of hundreds of pages, but that doesn’t excuse …
Can you upgrade to Python 3?
Basically it comes down to whether your dependencies are up to date and if they aren’t, if you want to help and contribute back to the community to move them along. The easiest is to drop your requirements.txt file into: https://caniusepython3.com/ Both of the following are also excellent tools to get an overview of …
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