Re: [Boston.pm] Meeting Tuesday, January 10, 2012 7 – 10p.m. MIT E51-376

2012-01-01 Thread David Larochelle
If you don't already have a speaker, I'd be happy to talk about the multi-language DoS issue that you mentioned. I've been an application security guy in the past (although I've been purely a developer for the last few years) and I wouldn't mind an excuse to research a security issue again. If you

Re: [Boston.pm] Meeting Tuesday, January 10, 2012 7 – 10p.m. MIT E51-376

2012-01-01 Thread Bill Ricker
We have a speaker, signed up over a week in advance! Thanks David. This is a Happy New Year. This should be a great topic - and a demonstration that Perl is not dead, but actually more pro-active secure than platforms for other Web frameworks. We can use this in conversation! Now accepting

[Boston.pm] 2012 is prime

2012-01-01 Thread Bill Ricker
Does 2012 look prime to you? Obviously not, thinking base 10 as we normally do. Nearly as obviously not in any even base we use in software (octal or hex). But it is prime in quite a few Odd bases - a pleasant surprise that I caught from a blog link on twitter. -- Bill @n1vux

Re: [Boston.pm] 2012 is prime

2012-01-01 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 20:38, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote: # John Cook, Endeavour, Mathematica pseudo code # http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2012/01/01/2012-is-prime/ Mathematica is so powerful it can indeed look like pseudo code. That snippet is however fully functional, if not

Re: [Boston.pm] 2012 is prime

2012-01-01 Thread Bill Ricker
On Sun, Jan 1, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Paul Makepeace paul.makepe...@realprogrammers.com wrote: Mathematica is so powerful it can indeed look like pseudo code. That snippet is however fully functional, if not functional in style. For the latter you'd have something like, I didn't mean to imply