On 5 September 2012 23:25, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote:
Nor's a naive iterative method though - it takes no time at all before
you overflow your ints and then (assuming that you're aware of this and use
bigints, instead of just doing a fandango on core^Wvariable) every
single
On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 10:23:21AM +0100, Jasper wrote:
On 5 September 2012 23:25, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote:
Nor's a naive iterative method though - it takes no time at all before
you overflow your ints and then (assuming that you're aware of this and use
bigints,
The social is tonight, with free beer:
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 02:44:59PM +0100, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker wrote:
ilm...@ilmari.org (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker) writes:
Hi all,
The September London.pm Social will be next Thursday, September 6th, at
The Edgar Wallace in Aldwych/Strand.
On 5 Sep 2012, at 17:35, Abigail wrote:
[...]
No. Well, it filters out the wannabees. It doesn't recognize the serious
coder. If, given the Fibonacci sequence, or a similar recursive formula,
and your first instinct is to solve it with recursion or iteration, you
aren't serious.
Isn't the
Hi all,
This is tonight, hope to see as many as possible there!
We have tables reserved upstairs, and as mentioned, earlier PhotoBox
(who are hiring, see http://careers.photobox.co.uk/who-we-want/) are
kindly preloading the kitty with a few hundred quid.
ilm...@ilmari.org (Dagfinn Ilmari
On 6 Sep 2012, at 16:04, ilm...@ilmari.org (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker) wrote:
PhotoBox (who are hiring, see http://careers.photobox.co.uk/who-we-want/)
are
kindly preloading the kitty with a few hundred quid.
...so get there quickly because once ilmari starts drinking that's about half
an
On 6 Sep 2012, at 16:29, James Laver wrote:
[...]
...so get there quickly because once ilmari starts drinking that's about half
an hour ;-)
I was particularly amused to watch one social where the sponsor was called over
to the bar after about twenty minutes. I couldn't hear the conversation,
Hello all!
A bit off topic, but I hope some of you could be interested in coming to
IPW in Bologna in about one month. We'll also be holding a Drinkers.pm
late night meeting there... :-)
So here we are with the second Italian Perl Workshop 2012 newsletter.
The conference will happen on
On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 03:55:36PM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote:
On 5 Sep 2012, at 17:35, Abigail wrote:
[...]
No. Well, it filters out the wannabees. It doesn't recognize the serious
coder. If, given the Fibonacci sequence, or a similar recursive formula,
and your first instinct is to solve
Hopefully there will be some of you left after the impending exhaustion of tab,
as I won't make it until 20:30.
As I don't quite know many faces, hopefully I won't end up sitting with some
randoms! Or worse, the .NET ebook reading crew (you know who you are!).
--Original Message--
On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 10:31:49AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 10:23:21AM +0100, Jasper wrote:
Python seems to handle big integers much better (that is a complete
Python newbie's POV). Maybe you could switch language ;)
But to Python 2, or Python 3? That is the
Hello
From: James Laver james.la...@gmail.com
To: london pm london.pm@london.pm.org
Sent: Thursday, 6 September, 2012 4:29:48 PM
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl M[ou]ngers September Social - 2012-09-06
-The Edgar Wallace, Strand,
...so get there quickly because once ilmari
On 09/06/2012 02:34 PM, Abigail wrote:
On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 03:55:36PM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote:
On 5 Sep 2012, at 17:35, Abigail wrote:
[...]
No. Well, it filters out the wannabees. It doesn't recognize the serious
coder. If, given the Fibonacci sequence, or a similar recursive formula,
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote:
maybe i overstepped in calling that a serious coder filter. i would never
just use that determining a skilled coder. it could be useful to filter out
the total losers. i speak to hiring managers all the time and they give
On 6 Sep 2012, at 22:07, Paul Makepeace pa...@paulm.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote:
maybe i overstepped in calling that a serious coder filter. i would never
just use that determining a skilled coder. it could be useful to filter out
the
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 2:49 PM, David Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote:
I like the FizzBuzz test. Not far removed from what I was hit with today.
Talking of which, here's a fizzbuzz solution that's one of the most
amazing presentations I've seen. It's Ruby but if you understand
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 3:12 PM, Paul Makepeace pa...@paulm.com wrote:
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 2:49 PM, David Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote:
I like the FizzBuzz test. Not far removed from what I was hit with today.
Talking of which, here's a fizzbuzz solution that's one of the most
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