it (have to check something), I'll give a little
update on the new web site.
Bugger. I definitely can't make it.
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. And he looked surprised when I asked for a receipt.
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). Result.
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may lead to fuzzyness and light trails.
Really pretty pics:
http://www.well.com/user/pdcawley/misc_images/
But I may be biased.
There are no London.pmers in those though.
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www.iterative-software.com
Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 11/06/2001 at 11:10 +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://husk.org/perl/pics/
http://www.well.com/user/pdcawley/misc_images/
But I may be biased.
Nah, they are nice. But you've been selective,
Of course
Tony Bowden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 12:23:26PM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
Just thinking about why they are your favourites and what you did to
make the image will improve your general photography. Certainly my
contacts sheets have got generally better as I've
Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Piers Cawley wrote:
I don't know about you, but I'm *definitely* fat.
4XL, innit? (Remembering you at yapc::Europe:19100 at the T-shirt stand,
wondering whether even to bother looking at them.)
4XL Tall acksherly.
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www.iterative
Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't know about you, but I'm *definitely* fat.
Big boned.
Nope.
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www.iterative-software.com
Dominic Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 08:46:39AM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I presume that this is a permie thing?
Yes. And I'd estimate that _most_ of you I know would be, um, a bit
too heavyweight for them
want to live in
London. Thanks for that.
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www.iterative-software.com
Jonathan Peterson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A reasonably reliable headhunter I've dealt with in the past is
looking for technical project managers for new web company. Let me
know if interested...
Hmm... I wonder if I could morph... Bet that's a permie thing isn't it?
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have this feeling that maybe we ought to get a Morris
Side together for next years Jack in the Green festival in Hastings,
No way on this planet am I morris dancing. Not that I object to
watching other fools doing it, but exercise and me don't go well
together.
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www.iterative
to their own I suppose.
Look, I'm not saying Bragg's voice is pretty. But his pitching is
accurate, his tunes are good, his songwriting is immaculate and you
can tell what he's singing. Same goes for his Bobness too come to
that.
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www.iterative-software.com
Barbie [easynet] [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From: Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Look, I'm not saying Bragg's voice is pretty. But his pitching is
accurate, his tunes are good, his songwriting is immaculate and you
can tell what he's singing. Same goes for his Bobness too come
a bed again, what with the Iterative meeting the
next day...
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www.iterative-software.com
* older holiday than that.
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the foreman's job at last.
Or
The people's flag is deepest puce
with fleurs de lys in pale chartreuse
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www.iterative-software.com
the hell do you fit it to The White Cockade? No matter how
I try it it still sounds bloody ugly.
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www.iterative-software.com
weren't lying about the Celts (Though why would they want to do
that?)
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try using your ears.
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sent when I got home.
100 x I must check the spelling of people's surnames before hitting send
I think you'll find that that only works if you do it the other way
around.
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www.iterative-software.com
Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://www.jobserve.com/jobserve/JobDetail.asp?jobid=14094948
I've already sent in a CV for that one. Agent seemed a little
perturbed when I guessed who it was after his (short) description of
what the client did.
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www.iterative
that I'm a BAD MAN who is trying to PERVERT PERL in
NASTY WAYS.
No, you're confusing yourself with Damian :-)
[FX: points to Symbol::Approx::Sub]
Are you *quite* sure about that?
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www.iterative-software.com
::Hash::Conway
Presumably this will lead to a load of gags about not wanting to go
too far from his stash?
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www.iterative-software.com
Damian Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Damian is so cool...
The next version of Text::Autoformat (which should be out before TPC5)
will also leave header lines and sigs unmolested, making it truly useful
for email tidying.
Huzzah!
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www.iterative-software.com
it to the film fest
anyway...
Er...
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comedy, on a road trip. Quite a few good
one liners. John Cusack being John Cusack very well. Zuniga being
Zuniga, also very well.
Oh, hang on. Has it got Tim Robbins in it as well? If so I *have* seen
it and it's bloody good.
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www.iterative-software.com
are.
Well, up to a point. Dramatic reduction in yield + high chance of
infertility == significant (indirect) risk to animal's health.
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www.iterative-software.com
else equally lovely,
then well done Mr Adler.
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www.iterative-software.com
Neil Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 01:26:43PM +0100, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
On 20 May 2001, Piers Cawley wrote:
Neil Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just picked up the latest FHM to check out the above mentioned list...
The interesting bits
.
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www.iterative-software.com
Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 00:06 20/05/2001, James Powell wrote:
On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 12:00:38AM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
Neil Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just picked up the latest FHM to check out the above mentioned list...
The interesting bits
thinking Why isn't this as good as
Interface Builder is on NeXTSTEP? Actually, I find myself thinking
that when I use almost any IDE...
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that,
Object Pascal is possibly one of the best practical OO languages
in existence. Their component model just rocks. And their editor
is fantastic.
Delphi rules.
Still not as good Interface Builder + Objective C + AppKit +
NeXTSTEP...
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Piers Cawley
www.iterative-software.com
vote on
the affairs of England and Westminster but not vice versa
I thought the Scots Nats were vaguely good about not voting on stuff
that didn't affect Scotland.
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www.iterative-software.com
Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 10:37:23AM +0100, Cross David - dcross wrote:
Here's a pretty fundamental issue. Why do so many people seem to think that
low taxes are good?
Rule one, man, rule one.
What? Always be wary of smiling old men?
--
Piers
of generic vocational training...
And while I'm about it, can I please kill anyone who complains that
our universities are 'too elitist?'. Excuse me? I thought that was the
whole point.
Ahem.
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Piers Cawley
www.iterative-software.com
how, pray, do I opt out of the international oil companies' cartel?
use the tube and electric trains? Most power stations aren't oil fired
AFAIK.
No, they're gas fired. And who owns the gas rigs?
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Piers Cawley
www.iterative-software.com
Roger Burton West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 02:10:56PM -0400, Piers Cawley wrote:
And while I'm about it, can I please kill anyone who complains that
our universities are 'too elitist?'. Excuse me? I thought that was the
whole point.
Oh, that's easy.
- Being
that more than half of schools get above average results.
Depends on which average. It's *possible* for more than half the
schools to get results above the mean. But it does mean you need some
really AWFUL schools to pull the average down...
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www.iterative-software.com
Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, 14 May 2001, you wrote:
But it does mean you need some
really AWFUL schools to pull the average down...
AIUI suitable arrangments have been put in place to enable this to
happen.
I intended to leave that implicit.
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Nathan Torkington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Piers Cawley writes:
I'm trying to work out if I was bowled over by
'Go to sleep pretty baby' because of the song or the visuals...
Ob Porn: You can see a nipple and curve of a breast through a wet
shirt if you look in the right place
prefer the gentler, old timey stuff. I'd
rather hear a banjo played clawhammer style than plucked any day of
the week. Sara Gray is about the best player in this style I've heard
over here...
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www.iterative-software.com
. I'm looking forward to the release of
that.
DA Pennebaker.
On the subject of music (despite the Subject: of movies) ... anyone
here into trad. Irish instrumental music?
I prefer trad English. And I really prefer trad. English vocal,
preferably without instruments...
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* irish...
So you don't like English traditional music then. Shame.
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it's like.
And the women they provided (hmm, think I'm going too far ?)
Yup.
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.
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://www.riceholm.demon.co.uk/
We decided not to go. Worked on the website instead. What fun. Not.
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www.iterative-software.com
Space meets Blade Runner meets Austin Powers?
meets Buckaroo Banzai.
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www.iterative-software.com
three pages, up to the line about pizza, cut slightly and narrated
in a deadpan style against some suitably badass footage would make an
absolutely superb start to a movie.
They make a pretty spiffing start to a book too.
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www.iterative-software.com
Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* Piers Cawley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
And while we are on the old films chestnut, my current
recommendation is 'O Brother, where art thou?', excellent film.
Oh yes. Truly fantastic. Must buy
Matthew Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Wisty - next T-shirt please:
use strict
is gay
Hey, that's perl6 compliant.
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www.iterative-software.com
their agents now.
For the London.pm bof I take it?
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to concatenate?/ :)
Don't miss the smiley, I don't actually care.
I'm really looking forward to apoc9, multi-dimensional slices makes my
brain water.
Properties are already looking pretty scary.
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www.iterative-software.com
come from Scotland. And you speak English so
well!). ;-)
My wife's aunt married a GI. When she was introduced to some of his
relative she was complimented on how good her English was. Yes, I
learnt it on the boat coming over. And they believed her.
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www.iterative-software.com
so much since Date::MMDDYY...
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www.iterative-software.com
Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 18/04/2001 at 16:36 +0100, Dean wrote:
Does OS X come with GNU tools like GCC and make then?
Yes, but they're not installed by default. (I can't remember if the
'BSD subsystem' is installed by default either though.) It comes on a
seperate CD within
Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Remember the Liz Castro BBS that I was talking about a few weeks ago.
Simon mentioned that a couple of the natives were getting restless and
seemed uncomfortable with me being there.
Well, one of them has finally snapped and is currently having a real
David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 10:56:51AM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You also get ProjectBuilder IDE.
http://developer.apple.com/tools/projectbuilder/
Which is very nice. Or at least it was, back when
Simon Cozens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:02:03AM +0100, Piers Cawley wrote:
Then you're missing half the fun. Seriously. M-x compile was the
reason I started using emacs in the first place.
And I \N{WHITE HEART SUIT} M-x gdb
Oh, yes, baby. And M-x ediff
dcross - David Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
From: Piers Cawley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 11:34 AM
Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Remember the Liz Castro BBS that I was talking about a few weeks ago.
Simon mentioned that a couple of the natives were
dcross - David Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
PGP isn't free for commerical use. You're supposed to buy a license.
When our purchasing department here approached NAI to buy one, they
were told the the Unix (server) version was 27,000 and the Windows
version was 657.
Stick it on a Win2K
Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think it likely that the licence fee will go. It would be a popular
move with the Great Unwashed. ( who seem happy to spend 400 quid a year
on a Sky subscription ), so I can see the BBC being released from its
licence fee. This would have huge
Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ooh .. that reminds me .. the Census man has just dropped a form in .. I
didn't reallise it was this year .. excellent .. now dont forget .. your
religion is 'Jedi' ok ?
putting jedi is a bad idea
its you letting the shoreditch lot win
Viral
jo walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Last Thursday I bullied^Wasked some people to consider doing talks for us,
but I can't remember who they were. This is your opportunity to step
forward.
i recall promising to do 20 minutes on '101 fun things to do with
Tangram', or something like
Jonathan Stowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Chris Devers wrote:
At 08:22 AM 9.4.2001 +, Robin Szemeti wrote:
personally the ultimate task of any minimise/restore function should be
to get a window on or off the dispaly as fast as possible ... slowly
attempting
David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 07:10:02PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 02:54:25PM +0100, Martin Ling wrote:
Grr. I don't *want* to turn into an elitist wanker
I seem to solve this by being one all along...
'Elitist' implies to
Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Piers Cawley wrote:
I'm really liking Damian's work on this. Favourite so far:
%new_hash = map {yield munge_key($_); munge_value($_)} %a_hash
^
Looks like someone's been doing too much Ruby to me
Yield
Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/555930.asp
Sadly, lacking on details.
Paul, who still likes it.
Certainly from the play I had with it at Neil's, it looks pretty good.
Now, if I can just get someone to give me a G4 Titanium PowerBook I'll
actually have
I'm really liking Damian's work on this. Favourite so far:
%new_hash = map {yield munge_key($_); munge_value($_)} %a_hash
That's glorious that is...
--
Piers
Leon Brocard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Robin Szemeti sent the following bits through the ether:
was there not a recent thread regarding a module on CPAN and someone said
somehting along the lines of ' we need review of modules before they get
onto CPAN...' :)
OKOK, and you'd have a
Robin Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:08:00PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Can Perl do distributed database transactions?
probably .. simple multi threaded app, fork a few child processes,
establish the odd DBI
Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* Piers Cawley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hmm... Given that big business seems to have bought some of the ideas
of 'Just In Time' stock holding and delivery type stuff, maybe the
time has come to start pushing Perl and open source programming
Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* Matthew Byng-Maddick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Simon Cozens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:47:03PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
I suggest (with Dave Cross' blessing),
Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 21:24 28/03/2001, you wrote:
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:58:36PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
Also i think the lack of Perl certification, is one of the biggest
problems with Perl work in london,
Are employers there too stupid to read CVs? Or too
"Jonathan Peterson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think the money aspect is very important. This isn't YAS,
it's supposed to
be a professional qualification for professional programmers.
300 sounds
like a good number for me. "If it only costs a fiver then
what good can it
be" will be
"Jonathan Peterson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The recent .com crash has had many desirable effects as well as undesirable
ones, and one of these is the devaluation in hype in .com related
technologies. An awful lot of the value of the big packages is based on
future value - "You don't need
David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:04:56PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
Hush now brother, contain thy enthusiasm, others are still not ready
for the way of the heretic. We must consider them - they are the
sheep that may prefer their 2 half pints of
Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, you wrote:
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:26:38PM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
(my pseudo-transaction scheme for MySQL is basically : .. do this and
return a closure to undo it if I to .. bung the closures in an array ..
James Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 01:59:18AM +0100, Robin Szemeti wrote:
mmm ..
by some dint of fate I appear to be the proud owner of a rather nice new
Dell laptop.
Bit slow ( 850mhz P3 ) and 128 mb of ram is hardly enough to run Vi in is
it .. a
Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
y* Simon Cozens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:41:33PM +0100, Aaron Trevena wrote:
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Roger Burton West wrote:
Just to let you all know I'm on the market again.
Me too.
er.. and me.
Who was
Andrew Bowman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In Iceland they append 'son' for sons and 'dottir' for daughters -
hence Magnus Magnusson is the son of Magnus, whilst Sally Magnusson
would, in Iceland at least, be Sally Magnusdottir.
I used to work with an Icelandic chap who told me that the Rekjavik
"Jonathan Peterson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This site seems to confirm it tho:
http://www.saqqara.demon.co.uk/datefmt.htm
Hmmm, 11 reasons to use this format:
5 of these reasons are "Because it makes it easier for me to write software
if you do" which don't carry much weight
Mark Fowler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Finding out where perl is
parody
Stop, stop, this script archive is not ready yet! Where are the Hello
world examples? Where are the detailed instructions? And why are you
actually working on these scripts yet!
/parody
You're all getting
, perhaps, is
The presence of Piers Cawley, Dave Cross, Greg McCarroll,
Lon Brocard, and Tony Bowden also meant that at that one
gathering I was able to spend time with the contributers of
over half my YAS grant. It was very humbling to think that
this community of clever
Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* Philip Newton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Simon Wistow ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
This summary has been bought to you by the letters Alpha, Beta and
Gamma, the numbers 1,3,5,7 all superimposed and the colour
Dominic Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 04:38:49AM -0500, Dave Cross wrote:
p.s. And don't get me started on my nightmare journey. I thought that
all night buses went thru Trafalgar Sq - the N19 doesn't :(
Ugh. At least I got on the right end of the train and
"Ian Brayshaw" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
Given the following lvalue subroutine
sub mysub : lvalue {
$value;
}
is there any way for mysub() to be able to determine that it
was called in an lvalue context?
No. If you need to know that sort of thing, you
Mike Jarvis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Tuesday, February 27, 2001, 11:54:15 AM, Hamlet D'Arcy wrote:
HDA As an American in the audience of Quantum::Superpositions last night I have
HDA one question.
HDA What in the world is a 'geek football pool'?
Just be glad they didn't start
Robin Houston [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 10:50:26PM +1100, Ian Brayshaw wrote:
Given the following lvalue subroutine
sub mysub : lvalue {
$value;
}
is there any way for mysub() to be able to determine that it
was called in an lvalue
David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 01:46:49PM +, Piers Cawley wrote:
That's almost as good as ()^0.5.
I was thinking about that on the way to work.
AIUI, square roots apply to numbers, so how can you have a square root of
something that isn't
Dominic Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 10:15:27AM +, Michael Stevens wrote:
On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 10:06:07AM +, Paul Mison wrote:
On 22/02/2001 at 16:24 +, Dave Cross wrote:
IIRC we also investigated the possibility of registering pm.org.uk,
Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, you wrote:
to wit, testing of object based modules. Firstly what do people generally
use for this? Test::Unit ?? or is there something more freindly out
there?
Test::Unit *almost* does the right thing, but looking
Paul Mison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 12/02/2001 at 19:59 +, David H. Adler wrote:
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 07:37:14PM +, Paul Mison wrote:
On 12/02/2001 at 19:36 +, Greg McCarroll wrote:
David H. Adler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Well, now that you have something to
"Mike Jarvis" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
David H. Adler wrote:
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 04:32:08PM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote:
When looking at cost, remember what hotel rates in NYC are like
(almost as
bad as London). You can easily pay US$250/night for a room
that you would
Dave Cross [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
At 22:26 06/02/2001, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
Oi! Davorg! stop posting to the wrong list and confusing everyone :)
You're the third person to point this out to me - and it wasn't me who
started it. The culprit has been identified and told off :)
I'm
Redvers Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It took me 3 hours to get home :-(
It took me 2 hours (via Wong Kei, BBQ pork noodle soup, Hot Duck with
plum sause).
I'm more of a BBQ duck noodle soup and a plate of green vegetable in
oyster sauce man myself. But Mmm... Wong Kei...
--
Piers
Chris Heathcote [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
on 22/1/01 6:34 pm, Piers Cawley wrote:
One of the things that I love about the iterative approach of XP is
that during the process the client begins to learn exactly what she
wants, and is taught to express that by the team. The idea
Robin Szemeti [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, you wrote:
Heh. But if we're good at our job we can pull them through that.
uhh .. I have on occasion worked with clients that I reckon are the
exception to that rule ... some of them find lightswitches a
technically
"James O'Sullivan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Michael Stevens wrote:
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 08:47:35AM +, Roger Burton West wrote:
Contracts _should_ say that the client pays for changes to what he
originally said he wanted. Sometimes they do. It's quite rare,
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