On Aug 23, 2009, at 6:41 AM, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote:
This is the future; we were supposed to be done with paper already.
Also, jetpack!
Paper is the blood of bureaucracy. Paper will never go away so long
as there are managers.
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On Jan 28, 2009, at 9:58 AM, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
On Wednesday 28 January 2009 15:24:43 Jonathan Stowe wrote:
2009/1/28 Jonathan McKeown jonathan+londo...@hst.org.za:
On Wednesday 28 January 2009 14:30:20 Jonathan Kimmitt wrote:
However, what about this one:
for (my $i==0; $i($tbl_width
Finally slogging through my mail backlog after the holidays, and i
find this:
On Dec 10, 2008, at 4:41 AM, Andy Wardley wrote:
PS I think we should make Perl is Alive! the unoffical secret verbal
handshake by which Perl mongers make themselves known to each other
(spoken in the style of
On Dec 22, 2008, at 3:09 AM, Léon Brocard wrote:
Now you know what I've been working on for the last few months! Feel
free to forward and repost elsewhere. Léon
Most excellent news. Thanks for all the work.
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On Sep 8, 2008, at 1:48 PM, Tomas Doran wrote:
On 8 Sep 2008, at 17:59, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Anyway, so has anyone moved from svk to git? Any thoughts on the
experience?
Disclaimer - I haven't, I'm still using svk...
However - I've seen a number of people curse git-svn.. The
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 06:02, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Is there a standard
efficient, clear way of saying ...or function 'return;'s.?
i believe the pod refers to that as returns an empty list.
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On Friday, September 5, 2003, at 11:39 AM, Jonathan Peterson wrote:
Hence also the central tenet 'There is no God but God'.
and here all this time i thought it went the tao that can be named is
not the true tao.
/me ducks
It's worth remembering that most of the
saints were created in
On Friday, September 5, 2003, at 12:42 PM, Jason Clifford wrote:
How often are stereotypes correct?
rather often. it's how they become stereotypes, you know. ;-)
,
but closer than lotus notes gets.
although i think wxwindows on win32 actually uses win32api directly. don't
quote me, but i think that's true.
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that you added two gotos to perl5 because the
alternative was a twisty and nasty ratsnest of if() trees.
stop the wrongful slander of goto!
:-)
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guess that makes me a pessimist or a codger.
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On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 05:50 PM, Alex Brewer wrote:
The real question was why the STDOUT doesn't appear in the terminal
window, so the famous 'hello world' script runs OK but puts the output
somewhere else. I can pipe it to a second script to put the output in
a file but that's no use
of when you'd need to: due to
implementation details, your module cannot be implemented all in one
file. in pretty much all other cases, it's an incredibly bad idea.
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. for that reason, the Class-method syntax is
preferable to the Class::method version.
that said, with some modules the whole purpose, as you mentioned, is to
import some functions, so it's completely a matter of design and taste.
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down a jim beam warehouse?
man, i keep getting london.pm confused with (void).
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(which can be accelerated via mmap
and/or a memory-based filesystem). those are the ones i've used, there are
certainly more.
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,
but i would wager that you could see old data in the swap partition, unless
there have been security-minded wiping algorithms put in.
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On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 08:02 PM, muppet wrote:
in fact, a friend of mine recently wrote XS bindings for a C++ neural
net library, and was talking about putting them on CPAN, i'll have to
check on that.
i bugged him a bit, and now they're up:
http://search.cpan.org/author/RMCFARLA/AI
On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 11:14 AM, Shevek wrote:
The reason this method is used with Gtk/Gtk2 is that even when new
widget
types are added, a piece of code that factories a ListBox still wants a
ListBox, and the only cases where widgets are likely to be
configuration-generated as above is
On Thursday, July 10, 2003, at 11:36 AM, Shevek wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Richard Clamp wrote:
my $obj = Factory-$type(...);
But now you are allowing configuration variables to modify actual code,
whereas normally for security reasons one would prefer to keep code and
data strictly separate.
-perl/gtk2-perl-xs/Glib/GBoxed.xs?annotate=1.4
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On Sunday, July 6, 2003, at 09:03 AM, Simon Wistow wrote:
I hate our internal templating language which we affectionateluy refer
to as Satan's own templating language or Gah, you
suckle on the wang of a syphillitic mule you pus filled buboe of a
abomination-stroke-language ... a curse on
On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 12:42 PM, Tim Sweetman wrote:
I'm gonna do a lightning talk on that, but I'm still rubbing the
clouds together it's not ready yet.
bravo. read this sentence aloud to my wife and she spat cookie crumbs
and soda all across her laptop's screen.
On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 02:57 PM, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote:
Andy Wardley wrote:
Toby Corkindale wrote:
I'm not convinced Perl is the best language to implement such things.
Why not? Performance concerns or something else?
That's a serious question by the way, not just me being
On Thursday, July 3, 2003, at 09:27 AM, Ben wrote:
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 07:56:31AM -0500, Nigel Hamilton wrote:
Any good defensive programming practices that help to avoid
writing memory-hungry programs? For example, at the moment I'm just
letting object references go out of
On Tuesday, July 1, 2003, at 05:46 AM, Alex Hudson wrote:
You would have to be an a-class muppet though.
/me pouts
now i see how you really feel about me. i'm going to take my ball and
go home.
On Tuesday, July 1, 2003, at 05:38 AM, Dave Cross wrote:
1/ How much chance is there that a Samba installation will cause
problems? How stable is Samba?
i've been using samba at my job for four years. i started using it to
share a single filesystem to unix, windows, and mac clients (also had
On Tuesday, July 1, 2003, at 05:59 AM, Tom Hukins wrote:
http://people.freebsd.org/~tom/tmp/units/
i've always loved the sound of yottabyte. yotta yotta yotta.
anyway, i read these aloud to my wife:
kbyte1024 byte
megabyte 1024 kbyte
gigabyte
David Cantrell said:
The hundredweight is 112 lbs, or 8 stone, or 1/20 ton.
suddenly i have a new understanding of weighin' in at nineteen stone, from
whole lotta rosie. indeed, that is a whole lot of woman. wow.
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they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
not that the merkins are much better --- we know that metric will save us, and
even had a national plan to switch almost thirty years ago, but we're still on
the old-school aaanglish system.
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magnitude,
is brass monkey.
last i checked, Math::Units doesn't cover any of that.
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of gravitational attraction. air vs vacuum makes a difference for
falling speed, which for some reason is of incredible interest to physicists.
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to lift it (which would indeed
be affected by surrounding fluid), then you are using a different definition,
and i shall dub thee 'clin-ton'.
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On Monday, June 23, 2003, at 08:03 AM, Dominic Mitchell wrote:
Dave Cross wrote:
Indeed; I'm sure you never find people like this there anymore. ;-)
http://dave.org.uk/blog/archives/000163.html>
I wasn't in a heavy metal band. so what, were you just standing in for a guy that was in the band
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it.
note also that i use this in conjunction with a MakeMaker override that adds '
-o $@' to the compile command to make sure the objects go to the same
directory as the source files.
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