@garyd203
 Sydney, New South Wales
Joined December 2010
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My 5c worth: a diverse and inclusive community is supposed to enable all people to belong despite our differences, and all become stronger because of them. If we're going to get selective about which differences are OK, then it feels like we've missed the point.
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Hey @Spotify here’s a bug for you, I’ll let you figure out how to reproduce it because I’ve only got 280 characters here 🤷🏼‍♀️ . Also, since you’re a zillion dollar software company, can you please lead our industry back to the noughties, when we allowed users to report bugs. Ta!
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Choosing a #cloud provider is like playing Starcraft. There's 3 main choices with their own pros and cons to suit your style, along with accompanying fanbase and famous players. But at the end of the day we're all just happy to be playing the game.
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Mammoth skinning: when you are doing something that for all intents and purposes is yak shaving ... except that its genuinely necessary and urgent
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"We invented 'Not Invented Here'"
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I am now at the stage of life where the music from my childhood has a dedicated AM radio station
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Great reality check here, the real world is messy :-(. I once had a similar situation (to a lesser degree), where my house had 2 addresses [*]. This seems to be far less problematic in Australia for some reason, once we had connected the electricity it never caused issues
Simon Willison
@simonw31 Mar 2021
Here's a piece of information that will send a chill down the spine of anyone who's ever designed a database schema: Our new house that we just moved into... has two zip codes!
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[*] The other side of the street also changed suburb at one point, but that's another story
This is what you get when you cancel your @Zoom account. What message does this unnecessarily send to the customer? 1. The way to get a better deal is to be a bad customer (and leave) 2. This provider talks down to me and doesnt respect my decisions ("I don't like savings") #CX
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"Its just how we did it in the past, but doesn't make it right" - unofficial motto of the tech industry
Gary ✝️ =❤ retweeted
Mark Nottingham@mnot18 Feb 2021
Remember, folks -- despite their fevered wishes, @Facebook and @Google are *not* the Internet.
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"Critical labour shortages are forcing Queensland farmers to pay higher wages and provide better conditions to attract local workers.". Maybe tech companies could try this approach too...
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Just to clarify, i am not bemoaning that tech workers are underpaid (far from it). But the discussion around sponsored visas in our industry sounds remarkably similar to this one in the fruit picking industry.
I feel like code review systems are biased toward treating all comments as critical feedback, and surfacing them for action. Sometimes i just want to say "Good one :-)"
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The only interview question you will ever need for software engineers: "Show me your keyboard"
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Here's my office laptop. It's a @GloriousPCGR TKL with mostly Gateron brown switches and an eclectic mix of keycaps. I keep thinking i should remap escape to launch a terminal with 'csh', but that's a lot of annoyance just for a pun:-)
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I find time fascinating, I could read about it for 50 hours a day
Me: Look, i found a pencil peeler DW: intriguing name, but try again
Pencil Peeler

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People often ask me what the Prisoner's Dilemma is. I tell them that it's a hypothetical scenario used for discussing the ethical implications of an individual's decisions on other people, and is most succinctly expressed in the question "Should I buy toilet paper today?"
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For those of you looking for schmaltzy Christmas movies, i can highly recommend The Mistle-Tones. Just the right level of feel-good schmaltz, and it also features the sergeant from Die Hard. But probably not Tenacious D :-/
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