/etc/hosts file so that search.cpan.org
is 23.235.37.143 23.235.33.143, then I can click on Google results with
impunity, and always end up on a useful page on metacpan?
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a
cleanup?)
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* possible exaggeration
guys on a USB stick in the post.
Bandwidth...]
Although probably the talk that the most people wanted copies of the slides
of was Tim Bunce's Application Logging in the 21st Century
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qj-_eimGuE
Allocate 45 minutes of work time to watch that one :-)
Nicholas
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 07:52:37PM +0100, Steve Mynott wrote:
On 15 October 2014 15:09, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote:
On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 08:44:54AM +0100, Sue Spence wrote:
This message took an hour to arrive, as opposed to 3-4 hours. So some
progress has been made.
I approve
.
Nicholas Clark
* or malt, or whatever. Although I hope that it's malt by choice, not by
desperation.
exactly that.
3) Is there a representative clip of this online?
Nicholas Clark
* please don't post links to places that would make Auntie upset.
.
(Are there any 8 core phones yet?)
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something:
http://act.useperl.at/apw2014/newtalk
We also like sponsors:
http://act.useperl.at/apw2014/sponsors.html
For the avoidance of doubt, other Perl workshops are available**
Nicholas Clark
* strictly this is not accurate. N.H.G. is really the Germanic equivalent
days.
However, I suspect that the beer is better these days, and generally the
meetings are above ground.
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to make it for the start,
you'll need to allow quite a bit more for that stretch.
Finding somewhere a bit further out to park and making the final part of
the journey by train or tube will massively increase your journey time
reliability.
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(I guess) about 6pm. We'll be colonising space as needed.
http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Royal_Oak,_SE1_4JU
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-hold most things.
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* So *this* would put me off Windows RT even if it ticked all the other boxes,
as I can't see how MS are going to sanely sustain 3 different OSes and
ecosystems, and I suspect that RT is more than 33% likely to be the one for
the chop. And even if it isn't
something even more current from
source.
IIRC booking.com thought that they got roughly a 30% CPU drop in going from
vendor supplied 5.8.5 to vanilla 5.14.mumble built from source.
They never did blog this though :-(
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us to find out who. Or it looks like you don't care.
I wonder if eventbrite will go evil if they ever manage to get similar market
share.
Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 12:47:20PM +, Fred Youhanaie wrote:
On 08/11/13 12:29, Nicholas Clark wrote:
For future reference for anyone else finding this message in the archive,
if you get your e-mail client to show full message headers, you should see:
List-Id: London.pm Perl M\[ou
...@london.pm.org?subject=subscribe
and you can use either the mailto link or the http link to unsubscribe
yourself.
You're still welcome to attend socials, tech meets and the London Perl
Workshop even if you're no longer subscribed to the list. Some of these even
have free food and drink :-)
Nicholas Clark
?
(And if the answer to that is yes, I guess it mostly doesn't matter, as one
just formats the disk as FAT32, and makes images on top of it)
It's turning out to be impressively hard to Google* for any of these.
Nicholas Clark
* Am I using the wrong search engine?
still:
The Sekforde Arms
34 Sekforde Street
London EC1R 0HA
This Thursday.
From, I guess, about 18:30
)
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.
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Perl. We've never seen any bug reports from them.
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also don't know if there's an extra sting thanks to a charge that gets made
by the delivery firm for collecting the duty.
So, if you're interested, you have about 96 hours to JFDI.
Nicholas Clark
PS I'm not kidding about the 14000 categories.
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 02:22:29PM +0200, Joel Bernstein wrote:
On 23 September 2013 13:39, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote:
Robot Turtles is a board game you play with your favorite 3-8 year
old. It sneakily teaches programming fundamentals.
I'm not aware of any 3-8 year
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 01:43:15PM +0100, Mark Keating wrote:
On 23/09/2013 13:22, Joel Bernstein wrote:
On 23 September 2013 13:39, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote:
Robot Turtles is a board game you play with your favorite 3-8 year
old. It sneakily teaches programming
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 02:20:40PM +0100, Will Crawford wrote:
On 23 September 2013 13:58, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote:
...
But E seems to be more interested in rockets than water*. Maybe she'll
become a rocket scientist.
Or, if the hydrophobia is strong enough, a hovercraft engine
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 03:00:53PM +0100, Smylers wrote:
Nicholas Clark writes:
So, there is this kickstarter for Robot Turtles:
Robot Turtles is a board game you play with your favorite 3-8 year
old. It sneakily teaches programming fundamentals.
http://www.kickstarter.com
to blag an
interview.
Nicholas Clark
not be possible for the hive mind to find a solution before classes need to
start.
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, for the benefit of residents of the Netherlands? :-)
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anyone ever realised that they existed.
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right.
I was also surprised to notice that the new (8 weeks old) official mirror
client for PiPy, bandersnatch, is written in Python 2.7. Official, because
the description and link are from here https://pypi.python.org/mirrors to
here https://pypi.python.org/pypi/bandersnatch
Nicholas Clark
the original problem - who to use to serve DNS for an Icelandic domain.
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for sponsoring the social.
(Even though I wasn't able to attend, now being somewhat further from
London than most people on the list. Because I like the idea of free beer
and would like to see it happen more often.)
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stopped appearing on his
Google+ stream, I suspect that he's not on holiday.)
Nicholas Clark
. :-/
And, technically the north of Scotland is an island since the construction
of the Caledonian Canal, but no-one seems to think of it that way.
Nicholas Clark
.
The solution is to ask the bar staff where the London Perl Mongers are, as
they know who we are (and are very nice), and will direct you upstairs if
that's the right place.
Nicholas Clark
.
Nicholas Clark
* Maybe the highly rigorous method behind Tiobe's index is simply to search
the various London user groups' list archives for traffic. If so, that
would explain a lot.
Perhaps someone should name a programming language Beer. To see how fast
its ranking rises.
http
to be for blackhats and bots to
hijack them and spew malware?
And I'm kicking myself a bit for not spotting this one coming, given that
the PDX.pm list has already had something similar from the same hijacking.
Nicholas Clark
, there will be a few days for
which there is *no* current development release, as 5.18.0 will obsolete
5.17.everything)
Nicholas Clark
as this remains
the case.
Nicholas Clark
?
and is it possible to have a conversation that isn't drowned out by music?
I don't think that london.pm has ever been there. At least not officially.
Nicholas Clark
) are not shared, but the
expensive stuff is.
Nicholas Clark
.
(But not as impressive as getting a schedule put together in 4 days)
I'm curious if there's any easy way to work out which is more effective at
breaking out of the echo chamber. I suspect that it's rather hard to
measure.
Nicholas Clark
one
(to the jobs-discuss list), so I infer that some are being caught by
spam-filtering somewhere between you and my inbox. Hence I know I don't
know how many have actually been sent.
Nicholas Clark
things onto the CPAN or send unclear emails.
But yes, either way, it's not helpful.
Nicholas Clark
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 08:56:34AM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 12:35:18PM +0100, Nicholas Clark said:
Lots of one trick pony type benchmarks exist, but very few that actually
try to look like they are doing typical things typical programs do, at the
typical scales
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 12:28:20AM +0100, Rafiq Gemmail wrote:
On 19 Sep 2012, at 12:09, Nicholas Clark wrote:
So, what I missed from this was:
I'm trying to get better benchmarks for the perl interpreter itself.
Lots of one trick pony type benchmarks exist, but very few that actually
try
needs to avoid being too Perl version specific.
Preferably needs to avoid being a maintenance headache itself.
With a pony too, if possible. :-)
Nicholas Clark
PS Ilmari, lunch!
://python3wos.appspot.com/
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for newbies.
Details here about the pub, and how to get to it:
http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Edgar_Wallace%2C_WC2R_3JF
Nicholas Clark
, David Hodgkinson wrote:
And I don't think a mental image of Gillian Keith masturbating falls under
any of that. Collateral damage maybe. Ho hum.
That is not exactly something I want to think about, let alone look at.
But that might just be me.
Nicholas Clark
of charge to http://jobs.perl.org
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drinking it in large quantities.
Nicholas Clark
* In 2008 we had massive fun in Mainz (the far end of the line from the
airport), trying to find a machine that would sell the right kind of
tickets and accept the size of banknote that the cash machine had just
dealt out. I forgot to blog about
of digital and metric, these 21st century devices still
have integral to them a 3/16 British Standard Whitworth thread :-)
Nicholas Clark
. (I checked earlier too, and it wasn't
there for me)
It's never occurred to me that there is a systematic design bug in
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
Or maybe it's by design. everyone as in
http://www.theonion.com/articles/relations-break-down-between-us-and-them,715/
Nicholas Clark
not?)
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On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 10:23:36PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote:
at some point I should properly parse the assembler file using a grammar
but since the spec is still in flux I'll go with my bodged parser for
So there's still a chance it will converge onto the VAX instruction set?
Nicholas
://downloads.bbc.co.uk/foi/classes/disclosure_logs/rfi2046_salary_ranges_aug_2011.pdf
Nicholas Clark
leader victims beware - Tom is already living south of
the river, so he doesn't need any major logistics planning before going
tag, you're it
Nicholas Clark
* I'm really not sure what power the leader has. Mostly responsibility.
And outgoings. But no pay.
not going to ask you which
cricket team your support if I don't already know the answer nature of
the Indians round here.*)
Nicholas Clark
* For example, the local to my parents when I grew up:
http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Sonali_Tandoori,_SE12_0DZ
Which will support Sri Lanka
reads.
I think you need to look to see what API Win32::SerialPort provides to
do a non-blocking read natively, and use that.
I have no idea about the answer to your other question.
Nicholas Clark
To Do It.
:-)
Nicholas Clark
PS Happy birthday 5.8.8 - 6 today.
of the Apple laptop layout, there's
a logical craziness. It has § on a keysim, and no #. WTF? Which UK made
UK keyboard ever has §? Whereas all the genuine items have a #.
You can map that out. But software can't fix the shape of the enter key.
Only the 6 P principal can.
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://j.mp/xIyqQN
Registration: http://act.yapc.eu/ye2012/register
No call for papers (yet) or prices, but I'd guess that the latter is 100
Euros. BA fly from City to Frankfurt, which is probably nicer than most
of the other options.
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of is no longer in production.
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* If I need to build a new *nix desktop, it may well be FreeBSD, because the
last time I had a FreeBSD desktop, I liked it much better than the mess
that Linux installed. Currently I'm disliking what Ubuntu is doing.
Although, much like Apple, I think I
not a trustworthy firm.
But yes, I am curious what the other scumballs get up to.
Nicholas Clark
building a system using MySQL's fast flat file loader paid off in
the medium term, as it eliminated needing to code around differences,
because the test database system was pretty much identical to the real
thing.
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they seem to tweak both of these from the defaults
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:
Thanks for taking the time to discuss about this, I feel strongly about
it and love learning more on this topic. If possible, would you mind
updating your blog with more information? It is extremely helpful for
me.
followed by a link to a completely unrelated e-commerce site.
Nicholas
, then later you can tell them that they *had* a copy back then, so
it's hard to complain later]
All this leads to the default being a flood of e-mail. Which everyone
(and the organisation as a whole) pays for.
Nicholas Clark
/jobs-discuss@perl.org/msg01469.html
Hmmm, I thought one of the features of the job discuss list was that it
isn't archived, but apparently it is.
That URL is for the perl.org jobs list.
The london.pm jobs discuss list is not archived. That's the one you're
thinking of.
Nicholas Clark
and the .pm domain extension.]
Gandi are selling a year's registration for £10.
A French company selling a French product and charging in not-Euros.
Hmm :-)
Nicholas Clark
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 03:46:35PM +, Dave Cross wrote:
Quoting Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org:
A French company selling a French product and charging in not-Euros.
Hmm :-)
That'll be because I have an account with Gandi and the site is
honouring my charge me in Sterling dammit! cookie
successfully keeping secret? :-)
Or are they all in Salford already? Doublepluswest London.
Nicholas Clark
* http://www.slideshare.net/davorg/perl-masons
No idea if the video from the LPW is online yet.
socials in December. For the avoidance of Heresy*,
the one with the free drinks for newcomers is on the 8th December.
Are there any active Ruby groups in London? Are there even any Ruby
programmers in London?
Nicholas Clark
* http://london.pm.org/about/faq.html#heretics
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 02:44:37PM +, Mike Whitaker wrote:
On Wed, 2011-11-16 at 14:39 +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
For the avoidance of Heresy*,
the one with the free drinks for newcomers is on the 8th December.
Damn. I had forgotten that when I turned up at the October one, which
still owe MJD a proper review for Higher Order Perl. For now, the
executive summary will have to suffice:
Don't only *buy* this book - read it.
Nicholas Clark.
https://careers-upstream.icims.com/jobs/1209/job
[such as location, yes, we do want Perl :-), and possibly even an indication
of salary]
You can also advertise on http://jobs.perl.org/
Nicholas Clark
variation. A long time ex-employer of mine was bloody sure that its (then)
new logo was Pantone Rhodamine Red: http://www.tnsglobal.com/
And yes, I think it's misnamed. Improved Engine Red would be better :-)
]
Nicholas Clark
not clear is the suitable contact address
Find a sacrificial manager who needs to hire and volunteer its e-mail address
for the greater good of Auntie?
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on most job ads. Which pretty much goes to show how required
required is, as people at said organisations when pointed at such ads
usually then say that I'm still the sort of person that they'd want.
Nicholas Clark
PS If anyone's employer *is* recruiting, $10,000 is less than you'd pay
.
(or if it is London, then is there a difference between companies who say
that they are recruiting and those that actually *are*?)
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is still hiring.
They are, I got double spammed by jobstheword about a BBC job this morning.
Would be nice if $pimp knew to mail the jobs list.
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(for
consumers) until the rise of the video recorders.
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is likely to sit
there, looking pretty, but not actually solving anything, unless there's
also a suitable victim lurking, ready to pounce with a proposal that needs
funding.
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.
Possibly that's part of the difference here. Possibly not.
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structural
security bugs in their core interpreters.
But yes, agree totally, as far as mass-market web apps go, they are wiping
the floor with everyone.
Nicholas Clark
by was
a cruise ship docking at London, Dover.
Note that some cruise ships can just fit under Tower Bridge, and hence can
dock next to HMS Belfast, in the Pool of London. Zone 1, beating even London
City Airport's Zone 3.
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be an auction? :-/
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somewhere non-UK top. Terrible :-(
Big thanks to Andrew Shitov for organising an excellent conference.
[He also got one of the non-orange dromedary things, as did Daisuke Maki]
Nicholas Clark
yes options to the privacy policy without
[proper] notification, to pimp us harder?
I so want to be pimped harder by some valueless post IPO firm.
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, with
pages linking to what we would like people to read.
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+vulnerability
]
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hour]
To atone for mentioning the 4 letter word (and quoting another mention of
it), I should remind everyone that there is a social tomorrow at The
Victoria, W2 2NH*)
Nicholas Clark
* Somewhere near Paddington, and convenient for the Central Line, so maybe
we'll see some people from a large
replied to this message, but changed the subject completely and deleted
all quoted text and then ask is this actually a new message?, and scrub
the References: and In-Reply-To: if you tell it that it's not a reply.
Software still hateful.]
Nicholas Clark
Is there a way to harness dancing monkeys to generate electricity?
Can we back feed it to the grid, for great profit (and hence free beer?)
Nicholas Clark
On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 11:45:45AM +0100, Edmund von der Burg wrote:
So this seems to be turning into a threading thread - please reply
match funds last (so get in quick)
* Buy Dave, get me free. Or something like that :-)
Nicholas Clark
PS Even though this message mentions the naughty 4 letter word, I consider it
still on topic, as it's about raising money for me to buy beer.
[And pay the rent, utility bills, food, and all
in a numeric context, but
it warns about the conversion. The dualvar doesn't)
[whilst beer is foamy, and none of the above]
Nicholas Clark
for the previous version of XCode)
I'm not sure what other and the like have been problems, since the switch
to dlopen() some years back. But everyone's mileage varies.
Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 01:28:14PM +0100, Pedro Figueiredo wrote:
On 27 Apr 2011, at 13:02, Nicholas Clark wrote:
The issues seem to be dependency management and code reuse.
How is Java solving these in ways that Perl is failing at?
It's not automating the (to some degree
weeks), but don't bother upgrading to any
earlier version, as 5.8.x and 5.10.x are already end of life.
(the Linux vendors are own their own now)
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