of the stuff they (we) did with perl
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know if that presentation is available online anywhere ?
i might have it in one of a several 100Mb of wav files awaiting checking
and mp3ing
however, having been at the presentation i dont think it is what you need
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he
is...
wookie = big hairy loud
shurely there is an abundance of london mongers who fit this role
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be up for the trip once some other
variables fall into place)
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say? they are just
crazy!
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for those needing my mobile number to find there way to the
heretics meeting tonight, this will not be possible as i
have left my phone at home - well done me!
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* Tony Bowden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Thu, Feb 08, 2001 at 11:20:58AM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
sounds like someone needs to buy the DVD and see if it comes with
a cinema trailer
But, where would one buy DVDs?
virgin megastores, hmv, wh smith, even woolies has them now
reminder - heretics meeting tommorow night, email me if you need
directions or my mobile number
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.
What is your ... err ... friend's name?
/me suggests that grep post a map on his website.
i havent found one yet - i spose i could do a streetmap ...
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* Redvers Davies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Dammit, we are *not* third world!
Highest rate of child poverty in the developed world. An estimated 40%
of the population have no healthcare.
where are you talking about Red, Indonesia? Ethyopia? China?
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e off list to let me know if they are coming or
not i can increase/decrease the booking size on wednesday
Greg
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blame me if it turns out to be
kittie [;-)] porn
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http://10.am/Development/Perl
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* Michael Stevens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
It's oh so quiet.
After recent activity this is somewhat disconcerting.
everyone is probably reading up on ruby in preparation for it
taking over the world
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LCN
much kudos to Dean for this , it is a fucking wonderful idea
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.. ho hum.
don't look at bad technology that becomes the de facto choice as bad
technology, look at it as a catalyst to the next generation of
technology
Greg
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i got a shiny copy of Dave's book in the post on saturday, very nice
indeed
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* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
At Mon, 29 Jan 2001 14:46:40 +, Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
* James Powell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:12:01PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
i got a shiny copy of Dave's book in the post on saturday
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
At Mon, 29 Jan 2001 14:54:26 +, Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
the minute i cross the river, i can feel grimness coming upon me
AOL/ One of the big plus points for this jobs was that it was on the
right (i.e. south) side of the river
how the f*** did you lot send 33 mails to this list between
when i left work and now?
sheesh
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* Jonathan Stowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, dcross - David Cross wrote:
From: Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 29 January 2001 15:34
just think of the sitcom possibilities if i lived above you
Dave? heh? heh? ;-) ;-)
Bit tricky that. What with us
).
It will be in the Barrowboay Banker at the southern end of London
Bridge. There's a map on the web site.
Mark-Jason Dominus will be joining us and I think that Simon Cozens
is thinking of coming along too.
Dave...
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are going to have to go for it big time on thursday night
if i can have 2 teams of 3 before tomorow (tuesday) night
i'll come up with a drinking game/quiz based around
perl/london.pm/computing trivia
how about Dave Cross and MJD as team captains?
gre[gp]
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wants anyone
to turn up.
The Anchor, near London Bridge, 8/1/2001, starting 6.30 ish ;-)
(ask me for directions if you dont' know it)
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* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 12:23:43AM +, Greg McCarroll
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
if i can have 2 teams of 3 before tomorow (tuesday) night
i'll come up with a drinking game/quiz based around
perl/london.pm/computing trivia
how about Dave
* Robin Szemeti ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, you wrote:
Here's a top tip. Don't try to video two hours of programs on an hour and a
half of video tape.
can't you just gzip it?
only if its a GNU video recorder
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* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Doesn't bi-monthly mean every tw months?
yes, and if there is any doubt, i recommend looking up ``bi'' on
your favourite search engine ;-)
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it was happening.
how about if we notified the list everytime someone subscribed or
unsubscribed
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* Philip Newton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
this is forwarded from manning and they are offering each pm group a
free copy of data munging with perl by dave cross.
Hey! Now Dave can have his very own free copy of DMWP!
and we can all sign it!
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* Jonathan Stowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
If no-one objects I will put this in place this weekend. I guess it will
result in ~ 10 excess messages a week.
with current volumen, this is a drop in the pond
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by posting so
much that they get overloaded and fall over? ;-)
they wouldn't fall over if ..
they were written using java on a windows platform and using
DB2 as the database
;-)
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some goats going over my bridge
at 9
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(they
didn't realise the significance of this and so were flamed, the flame
got to abou)
grep - i was called this by a non-london.pmer recently
[1] you++ to anyone who gets the joke apart from stevem
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, archiving of this email
is strictly prohibetted
and then call them up/fax them/go sit in their lobby/email them etc.
telling them how they shouldnt be doing this
better still if everybody did this for just one or two messages
a year it would cause chaos
muhahahahahahahaha
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* James Powell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
To make it harder for google to find you - change your name Prince style.
good idea!
- greg of wales
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is it still 12:30 at the new world today?
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* Simon Wistow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Andy Wardley wrote:
So without wishing to start another holy war, is it possible to change
the mailing list configuration to have a more sensible default Reply-to?
rant
I have arguments with Leon about this. He usually quotes 'Reply To
munging
* Simon Wistow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Greg McCarroll wrote:
reply-to having the address of the sender is the right thing,
it means when you reply to a message you reply to author of
that message, when you reply-all you reply to all
No. When you reply-all it replies
10~20 people on this list? ;-)
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on is what are people trying
to do - create a Jobs or a Wozniak consultancy?
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not sure
if there are direct flights to .us - but that's OK, there's no direct
flights from .eu to Monterey :-)
or better still consider Dublin or Edinburgh
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* Dave Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Michael Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:33:09PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Dave Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
No, I'm not going to code a forum
* Jonathan Stowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Aaron Trevena wrote:
On 21 Jan 2001, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Michael Stevens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 01:33:09PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote
would create the most technically
brilliant corporatopia (i just made that up ;-) ), Jobs would make the
most money - i'm certainly arguing in this ``debate'' (although that
implies too much conflict) that job's way is best others may feel woz's
way is best
Greg
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* David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 11:36:25AM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
Dave's new SUPER CHARGED TURBO NUTTER 2001 pc reminded me of the good
old days of distributed.net. Is anyone still participating in this?
I've just threw some keys at PMU
and a law that alows be to
go around and shooting people who work in IT and i deep unworthy[1].
Greg
[1] i'm willing to limit this law to semi-automatic weapons - i'm that
reasonable
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the standardisation on the bloody massacre part?
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things are more expensive
and in some cases involve disgarding existing equipment
and at the end of the day its a hobby machine that currently is lucky
to have an average CPU usage of 0.1% per hour
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* Steve Mynott ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* Aaron Trevena ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Also many hackers have more business sense than their MDs - look at
success of projects started by hackers or engineers versus that of those
started
* Greg Cope ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Thats were a few people have gone wrong lately then ;-)
yup
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* Michael Stevens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 10:32:16AM +, Michael Stevens wrote:
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 09:42:11AM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
yes and no. If you need to do an allnighter and its unavoidable (due to a
client suddenly changing ther mind
Apologies one and all,
i am not going to be able to make it tonight, today is my first day
back at work after some flu like illness. i had hoped to make it
tonight but currently feel like matt wrights code,
see you all at the next meeting,
Greg
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ike double that.
yes, but if it was a proper consultancy youd be expected to write off some
of that occasionally and also maybe have some centralised support
of the course the real cash comes from ongoing support contracts
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* David Cantrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 02:56:43PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
there is a big question here, do people want to create a small business
with a few perl programmers all on largish salaries or do people want
to create a proper consulting business
for consultancy
Location
snip ;-)
have to pay them back with interest and stuff.
equity surely? ;-)
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* Tony Bowden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 04:42:55PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
have to pay them back with interest and stuff.
equity surely? ;-)
Yes. But if you're successful the "interest" rate is huge ;)
But if you're not, well, they lose
don't even come into effect (See page 'iv' of Programming
Perl for trademark discussion) and it's really, really got nothing to do
with them.
besides, ``Icon'' smoking joint has been done to death, hash bang perl is
original
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thats right its meet
the parents, with Robert De Niro as an ex-CIA guy who is equally
surprised at PtMD being about this.
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ship and sale it across to london - of course someone should make
sure we shoot the cook before the operation starts, oh and fire
a couple of rounds into the birthday cake while your at it.
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they use a CE device and i've seen palm pilots
used - now if it was EPOC say a nice R380 (with non-standard ROM)
sure, but PalmOS, CE .. nah
Greg - who is easily bought
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* Mike Wyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Jonathan Peterson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Also, as it is a modern cruise ship, we will use Grep's l33t hacking skills
to gain control of all the automated systems from his Psion 5, whereupon we
don't
this settled.
ah the joy of 7 degrees of seperation
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cool name Case - sorry this was just a bad attempt to justify my
experimental use of replying to multiple emails
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;-)
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* James Powell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
You can't beat marble madness for old arcade games though...
and it runs nicely in MAME.
apparently its one of the most in demand video game cabinet/controller
combo's as the whell broke so much
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it was a good way to meet a brand new batch of girls. I stopped soon after.
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you before, i'm greg
X
why thats a lovely name
X
oh really, what do you think of this japanese class
X
yes i have exactly the same opinion as you
X
etc
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* Tony Bowden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 04:53:57PM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
I started learning Japanese when the NI administration decided to teach
it to joint classes of catholic children and protestant children. Hence
it was a good way to meet a brand new
)
however, having said that, still like the # , ! , perl one ;-)
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somehow.
While talking about it, i have a very very old memory of it being
the cover story in computer and video game annual or some such
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as
comments? suggestions?
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of hell when it
is office party season
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all be over by 9:30 and we can all bugger off to the
nearest hostelry.
ack, if i'm going to speak i'll have to allow myself a one beer
ration
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because we are the perl community, all we ever do is talk or if you are
lucky work on personal projects
/previous_comment
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and i want london.pm to work to help perl
-greg
[1] double double quotes to indicate how much removed this is from the
crap some of us suffer at work
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t properly - anyway see the other mail i sent
recently
thanks again for the offer!
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* Mark Fowler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Thou shalt optimise for programmer time unless absolutely necessary,
Thou shalt optimise for programmer time unless O(x(n)) O(y(n)) and n is
what are O(x(n)) and O(y(n)), i'm not familiar with the x and y notation
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. But it was worth
reading. It was by that guy. Y'know, the guy who wrote that paper.
ah, but its half the difference and thats whats important in this context,
besides i think we'll all agree we are not talking about magnitudes of
difference in this advice
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rs instead of a test set of five.
the best way to do this, if you see something is N^2 is to figure out
how you could do it with a sort and hey presto it usually can be turned
into NlogN+N .. NlogN
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* Piers Cawley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* Piers Cawley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:25:18AM +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
6.) regular expressions are not the only
on the
development and design of the beastie
Greg
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in Sicilian Avenue or Virgin Megastore on TCR, both walking
distance.
I'll submit to the popular vote of course, though a central London pub would
be easier if we have to change. Why don't people like the PO?
have we ever tried reservin tables in PO?
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* Philip Newton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Greg McCarroll wrote:
oh well i've just got another 4.5 days (ish) of drinking left before
its dry january - apart from time during the month of january spent
abroad or places i can claim are abroad
Ah, so you'll be spending a lot of time
the wall.
All the *.pm groups up here have Marie-Celeste websites. Has there been a
pogrom in the North?
is a pogrom something that brings grimness to a region?
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that the
book was nothing more than the online manual :-)
Yes, but that's because you have such a good reputation for delivering
*more* than the online manual!
yip they have the pretty cover animals as well ;-)
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.
" Dave, is it true that as well as munging data, this book will teach me
how to munge perldoc into printed books? "
DUCK COVER
Laugh? I thought I'd never start...
sounds like its time to dust my DBI book off and warm up the old scanner ;-)
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;-)
-greg
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/me is thinking of a new london.pm project called ``ignore the perl 6 body
and parallel to it lets create our own perl propoganda/marketting/best
practice/for the good fo the language movement''
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well they know too much about monty python
dha : you mean things like ``the how to recognise body parts'' sketch
from series 2 took 18 takes, as palin and cleese couldn't stop
laughing at each other
alex : yeah thats right, say ..
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ill stick more details about this here
http://www.mccarroll.uklinux.net/
including a method for generating a character
* Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
there has been some talk, of playing a one off (ish) rpg, the night is
probably next thursday night and the game is open
* Dave Cross ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
As always I'm looking for volunteers to speak at the meeting. If you've
got anything really cool[1] to tell us about then please let me know.
i can do 20 minutes on SOAP (not 20 mins squeezed into 5) ;-)
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* Piers Cawley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I want to see someone do a lightning talk on musical interpretations
of common Compsci algorithms.
i could clean up Devel::MIDI if you really waned Piers
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i was just reading comp.unix.programmer and saw GREP and thought who's
talking about me,
this is all your fault!
greg
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to teach one of the staff in their
computing section how to spell the word 'silicon'. So he could put it into
their computer and find the book I wanted, for which I knew both title
and author.
That was Sili of you
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* Jonathan Stowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Wed, 3 Jan 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
check beano's in croydon, they can be quite good - also skoob do some
rare tapes (in sicillian ave, next to pc bookshop)
Wow, Beano's still there ? Its been there since I was a kid.
good
* Simon Wistow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Greg McCarroll wrote:
next youll be saying top gun is considered bad
Top Gun is a top film (no pun intended) and Quentin Tarantino is a
jumped up little pissant wannabe with 'I wanna be a cool gang-sta but
I'm actually a white geek with bad hair
* Michael Stevens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:49:58AM +, Aaron Trevena wrote:
erm.. whats the irc channel for london.pm again.
I spose I'll have to download bitchx as well now.
irc.rhizomatic.net #london.pm
london.rhizomatic.net
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