Riding exercises meetup
the second one
Last sunday I've hosted the second "Practice riding exercises" meetup. It's a definitely improvement from the first one but still many things needs to be worked on.
Favourite gems
from Rails Camp 19
I've been asking people for the gems they would recommend to others at Rails Camp 19. This is a compiled list of answers.
Math challenge
Last friday one of my friend gave me a math challenge. You've given four numbers 6, 6, 5 and 2, you need to find 3 math operations to get 17 as a result. You have to use all four numbers and only once each. Order of numbers can be any.
I couldn't figure it out in my head so have to write a ruby script to iterate over all combinations, which turned out as a great coding exercise.
Let the president lead
Proposal to Ruby Australia
TL;DR; I'd like to propose new organisation structure for Ruby Australia: decrease committee role and give more power to the president.
Recently I went to Rails Camp 19 in Adelaide and as always Ruby Australia General Meeting was held there. I've seen many committee meetings but only now realised that the organisational model for Ruby Australia is chosen incorrectly.
Gall's law
Gall's Law states that all complex systems that work evolved from simpler systems that worked.
Bystander effect
The bystander effect, or bystander apathy, is a social psychological phenomenon that refers to cases in which individuals do not offer any means of help to a victim when other people are present. The probability of help is inversely related to the number of bystanders. In other words, the greater the number of bystanders, the less likely it is that any one of them will help.
-- Wikipedia
You never change things fighting existing reality...
You never change things fighting existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
-- Buckminster Fuller
Советы Олигарха (трилогия)
Сергей Кареев
Прочитал где-то 2 года назад. Быстро и легко читается и есть что подчеркнуть хоть советы и правда нацелены на сливки общества.
Five Love Languages
by Gary Chapman
This is great book which I've read multiple times. First many years ago and last time about two years ago. Teaches you that relationships are hard work and not be to taken for granted.
The Sheltering Sky (1990)
- Are you lost?
- Yes
Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times and a small number, really.
How many more times will you remember a certain
afternoon of your childhood... some afternoon so deeply a part of your being so that you can't conceive your life without it?Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even that.
How many more times will you watch the full moon rise?
Perhaps 20.And yet it all seems limitless...
The Romanovs / Романовы (2013)
This is one the best documentary series.
The Romanov dynasty played a hugely important role in world history, and the series highlights the life stories and characters of the tsars, recounting their rise to power and their contribution to the dynasty, their merits and their faults, their achievements and mistakes, their victories and defeats in war.
The series also examines the Russian form of 'Caesarism' as a system of state administration - its advantages and drawbacks and how the Russian state changed under the Romanov's rule.
THE ROMANOVS is told in eight epic one-hour episodes using a unique combination of magnificent CGI animation and dramatic reconstruction with careful and accurate attention paid to each period.
The great thing it's available for free in russian and english. Subtitles are also available, which is a great way to learn russian/english language.
Ruby Inline Tests
Did you know you can inline tests with your ruby code in the same file?
After reading the title Embedding a Test Suite in a Single-file Ruby App (Part 1) I thought: aha! finally somebody has done it and used ruby data block to store tests. However I was disappointed as there was another approach, which I think is less elegant.
Below I show you a proof of concept of embedding tests in ruby code.
Volunteering at RailsGirls Next
at Melbourne
Spend the whole today at RailsGirls Melbourne. Met many great people and had fun. It's the first time I've done it and would recommend others to do it.
I was helping RailsGirls Next group and should say exercises were too difficult and boring as they require minimum coding and mostly mathematical logic.
Volunteering at Park Run
at Albert Part, Melbourne
I hope all of your timings were correct :D
p.s. I was a time keeper
My first meetup: 'Practice riding exercises'
Today was the first meetup organised solely by me. It almost catastrophically failed though.
Every life history is the history of suffering
Every life history is the history of suffering
-- Arthur Schopenhauer
Живи легко
Меняться начинаешь, только поняв, что смертельно устал смертельно уставать.
Все на свете можно испортить излишним старанием… Петь надо так, будто тебе не нужны деньги, любить – так, будто не знаешь боли, танцевать – так, будто никто на тебя не смотрит… Чтобы получалось, надо делать все не умом, а сердцем.
-- Сэтчел Пей
Warren Buffett once said
As Warren Buffett once said, the greatest investment a young person can make is in their own education, in their own mind. Because money comes and goes. Relationships come and go. But what you learn once stays with you forever.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
-- Gandhi
Doop Freestyle 2015 modification
Got Doop Freestyle 2015 recently. They are great and have adjustable shoe size and there is a small discomfort because of it.
