Re: sub signatures coming
On 25 February 2014 03:45, Paul Makepeace pa...@paulm.com wrote:
Finally. But don't believe the python/perl comparison troll, as
python, for once, actually outguns perl on a character chomping basis,
sub pairwise_sum ($arg1, $arg2) {
return map { $arg1-[$_] + $arg2-[$_] } 0 .. $#$arg1;
}
def pairwise_sum(list1, list2):
return [i + j for i, j in zip(list1, list2)]
List::Util and List::MoreUtils go partway to fixing that, but yes, a
native zip/unzip operation would be nice :)
Paul
Re: I have a bikeshed, colour suggestions appreciated
There's a helpful site at http://red.bikeshed.org/ ... no, wait, ... http://blue.bikeshed.org/ which might help. On 3 December 2013 14:14, Aaron Trevena aaron.trev...@gmail.com wrote: So.. some of you might know I quite like bikes.. I now have a proper bikeshed (or at least I will once I've built and attached the doors tonight) - and I was hoping you nice people could give me some helpful suggestions. Thanks in advance, A. -- Aaron J Trevena, BSc Hons http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk LAMP System Integration, Development and Consulting
Re: Could use some hotel/travel help
Morning tongue croissant! On 26 September 2013 11:22, James Laver james.la...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Kieren Diment dim...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, but I already won. Ungetlemanly as my strategy was. -- Sent from my phone, so please excuse spelling mistakes, top posting, brevity etc. You were in Nidd. Also, we were playing Mornington Croissant.* James * http://www.isihac.co.uk/games/mcvariations/mc-m.html
Re: Robot turtles
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?
Re: A simple and elegant job application
I did try entering What base is this in? but it said Wrong. On 15 May 2013 12:00, DAVID HODGKINSON daveh...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 May 2013, at 11:21, Travis Basevi tra...@cricinfo.com wrote: http://www.mythic-beasts.com/cgi-bin/job.pl This is SO base 10-centric.
Re: A simple and elegant job application
If you can paste the question into google, and then paste the answer back into the application form quick enough to not be told too slow, there might be a place for you ... in the next Star Wars movie. As a span style=text-decoration: line-throughGungan/span Jedi. On 15 May 2013 12:23, Martin Robertson mansionhouseproje...@gmail.com wrote: google fail : https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=726+*+333+%2B+592+-+994 On 15 May 2013 12:13, Will Crawford billcrawford1...@gmail.com wrote: I did try entering What base is this in? but it said Wrong. On 15 May 2013 12:00, DAVID HODGKINSON daveh...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 May 2013, at 11:21, Travis Basevi tra...@cricinfo.com wrote: http://www.mythic-beasts.com/cgi-bin/job.pl This is SO base 10-centric.
Re: ISNIC DNS
On 8 May 2013 10:37, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote: http://whois.net/whois/fkth.at changed:20130508 11:14:29 Is their clock fast, or is that Icelandic time?
Re: jQuery
On 21 March 2013 12:31, James Laver james.la...@gmail.com wrote: AngularJS has the bizarre glory of daftest release names i've ever seen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AngularJS#Releases I suspect increase-gravatas [sic] is a reference to Iain M. Banks' famous gravitas-related Ship Names[0]. [0] http://everything2.com/user/sam512/writeups/Culture+ships
Re: Raising Perl awareness on Tiobe + Wikipedia, etc.
On 21 March 2013 17:28, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote: GM: There is another loud bang and some crunching sounds, as DD's new clone arrives. He lands upside down and may or may not have taken some damage to the head. He thinks he's just fine though. Is this first or second edition paranoia? /me looks both ways and shuffles behind the nearest cover.
Re: 3/15/2013 10:26:49 AM
On 15 March 2013 10:40, DAVID HODGKINSON daveh...@gmail.com wrote: It originated from 109.103.92.141 which is in Romania. More likely a Joe-job. Someone register steakandjjday.com?
Re: French invasion
World's narrowest undefended border? :) On 13 February 2013 10:40, Richard Foley richard.fo...@rfi.net wrote: I knew that darned tunnel would be used one day...! -- Ciao Richard Foley http://www.rfi.net/books.html On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:19:00AM +0100, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote: Hello, We'll be in London (Covent Garden area) for an extended week-end from February 23rd to 26th. And more importantly, we'll be available for food and drinks on the evenings of Sunday February 24th and Monday February 25th, if anyone is interested! -- Philippe Bruhat (BooK) Food and life were both meant to be shared with others. (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #119 (Epic))
Re: Dim sum TODAY 12:30 at Pearl Liang
Make sure you send the Penzance Duck and not the Chicken Surprise ... On 28 January 2013 11:11, Schmoo schmoos...@gmail.com wrote: Some could be posted to you, but may arrive slightly 'rubbery'... Gaz On 28 January 2013 10:43, Piers Cawley pdcawley-london.0dd...@bofh.org.uk wrote: I'm marooned in Cornwall. Rather a long way from Pearl Liang. Or any decent Chinese food, frankly. On 28 January 2013 10:28, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone else marooned in Stockley Park? On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Leon Brocard a...@astray.com wrote: Yet again it's time for dim sum! This time Simon Wistow, our long-lost ex-leader who is on this side of the pond for a change, wants dim sum so we shall oblige. Come join us! Pearl Liang 8 Sheldon Square, W2 6EZ http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Pearl_Liang%2C_W2_6EZ http://www.pearlliang.co.uk/ Today, 12:30 London.pm dim sum is a social event where we meet up every so often at lunch at a different Chinese restaurant, spend about an hour (and about £10 cash) eating tasty dim sum (steamed and fried dumplings), then go our separate ways. PS It's quite hard to find unless you know where you are going. Check the links. See you there, Léon
Re: Hotels for the LPW
On 25 October 2012 18:12, Nigel Metheringham ni...@dotdot.it wrote: Smylers wrote: You don't need to be a member. You do get a duvet (but need to bring your own towel). I'm worried - several hours, and no one grabbed the obvious HHG reference and ran with it... I was all tapped out from the Léon, the Balhatchet and the Figueiredo, sorry :)
Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 2012-10-30
The Locale, the Widget and the Wide character in say at -e line 1.? On 23 October 2012 19:43, Roger Burton West ro...@firedrake.org wrote: On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 07:27:08PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: and we will have a bonus talk: Pedro Figueiredo: The problem with Perl. What next, Mere Perlianity? (Sounds great, pity I can't make it.) R
Re: Available...
On 2 October 2012 12:06, Denny 2...@denny.me wrote: ... Short memory. ... Or post a meta-question here, of course :) Yes, seems like it ;) [ When is a question not a question? ]
Re: [OT] benchmarking typical programs
On 21 September 2012 10:22, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote: Unless there's a CPAN-in-a-box for doing most of the four steps. (which doesn't depend on external C libraries. That was one of my preferably criteria) Alas, the best ones are indeed C (or C++) libraries: Search::Xapian (my preference); KinoSearch; yada yada. So, next question - if I wanted to be as lazy as possible and write a search engine (as described above) using as much of CPAN as possible, which modules are recommended? :-) Probably look at all the Lucene-related modules and steal some code. You wouldn't need to do a full-blown engine with spelling correction, fancy query parsing etc. Nicholas Clark
Re: Brainbench perl test?
On 4 September 2012 14:27, Jasper jaspermcc...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 September 2012 14:12, Piers Cawley pdcawley-london.0dd...@bofh.org.uk wrote: ... Or, in an attempt to really drive it home: blarg(n) is equal to blarg( n - 1 ) * 2 + blarg( n - 2 ) There you go. Not the Fibonacci sequence, but still a recursive definition, trivially implementable with a recursive condition given a couple more bits of knowledge (the values of blarg(0) and blarg(1)). Aha! A couple more bits of knowledge. Now my machine can stop dying when I run my program. The question as originally described is a starting point to deciding if someone can think logically, but it does not fully describe the problem. The point most of us are trying to make is that a programmer who doesn't *ask* you for those bits of knowledge hasn't understood the question sufficiently :)
Re: Puzzle
ACME, Email, Getopt, Date? On 27 August 2012 02:17, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote: Hello. Happy Bank Holiday, for those of you in England, Wales, or Northern Ireland. If anybody's in the mood for a puzzle, here's one I've created: It's in the style of the Connecting Wall round of BBC4's 'Only Connect'. Here are 16 clues. The puzzle is to sort them into 4 groups of 4, with each group having a connection that links its items. Some clues could be a valid member of more than one group, but there's only one way of arranging the items perfectly, assigning them such that each group has 4 distinct items. book crunch bash email acme ping ashdate clang coggetopt kapow awkbiff comm woolfy All the clues are in lower-case (erm, as you can see); capitalize any letters as required when putting them in their groups. It's allowed for London.pm to solve this collaboratively -- if you think you've got a group of 4 items, post a follow-up mail suggesting them and I'll say whether they are a valid group. (Of course, if you wish to have a go at solving it without any help, ignore any follow-up mails on this thread.) Please don't look clues up on the internet, or elsewhere; that's cheating. Good luck! And if you like puzzle-based quizzes, the new series of 'Only Connect' (some questions written by me) starts tonight on BBC4 at 20:30, and will afterwards be on iPlayer here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01m9ty9 Cheers Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2
Re: Puzzle
I thought clang _was_ an onomatopoesis, and bash could be the other language? On 28 August 2012 14:39, Simon Cozens si...@simon-cozens.org wrote: On 28/08/2012 22:16, Will Crawford wrote: ACME, Email, Getopt, Date? Nice! Which leaves: woolfy, book, ash, cog (IRC nicks) clang, awk, ping, comm (Unix commands) crunch, biff, kapow, bash (Batman onomatopoeia) Except that bash isn't a Batman onomatopoeia word. (And there's a clank, clunk and a clange but no clang.) Oops.
Re: Dim Sum?
On 11 July 2012 13:10, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have a craving for Dim Sum in the West End tomorrow? A 100% Venda turn out again would count as a fail... :) If we could go to Pearl Liang again that might be reachable for us :)
Re: Programming Heresy
On 30 March 2012 11:23, Dirk Koopman d...@tobit.co.uk wrote: On 30/03/12 10:24, Steve Mynott wrote: Has anyone tried programming outside? E-ink (like on the Kindle) works well in sunlight and I wondered if any such device would be useable (ideally with a decent keyboard). Get yourself a decent man shed with some decent windows that you can open. What kind of colour is man?
Re: Programming Heresy
On 30 March 2012 15:38, Gareth Harper spansh+lon...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 March 2012 15:08, Steve Mynott st...@gruntling.com wrote: Ummm this is london.pm. People in London don't have sheds. I live in London, and I have a shed. So do most of my neighbours (close to Aleandra Palace) ^^^ was this a Freudian slip? Gareth
Re: Where to buy Cassocks?
On 31 January 2012 13:13, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 Jan 2012, at 13:03, David Cantrell wrote: ... and it is great for scaring people in on foggy evenings. Got a top hat and cane? ... and spare time to wander around Whitechapel?
Re: Beware: NET-A-PORTER
On 9 December 2011 11:42, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote: Rudolf Lippan writes: [...] 3) That NET-A-PORTER was aware that I let another opportunity go based on my understanding that my employment was pending a 'final signature'. [...] 4) That as a condition of final sign off [...] I agreed to this. [...] 5) That NET-A-PORTER decided to withdraw the position at this point That's really unfortunate for you, especially since you'd turned down other work. It certainly sucks from your side. But I'm struggling to extrapolate from that into behaviour by Net-a-Porter that I need to beware of. He may well have had the choice of whether to wait for this sign off instead of taking another role. But if they were aware of his having another offer, took their time, let him think the role was in the bag and then yanked it after it was too late for the other position, and knew this to be the case, they've very much left him in the lurch. It sounds like they said they hoped to do something but it hadn't been approved yet, then later turned out that approval wasn't granted. That's unfortunate, and frustrating, certainly, but it doesn't seem immoral. It's basically a sort of bait and switch. You may not consider it immoral, he does, and at the end of the day it's a betrayal of a trust which - apparently - they knowingly asked for and accepted. Hence the warning to the rest of us that this might happen. It's a salutory lesson, even if you think it's perfectly moral, that we should all watch out for the possible effects of economics, and to censure him for providing that warning to all of us is like telling the green cross code guy hey, people get run over if they mess with cars.
Re: Worst Recruitment Experience
On 9 December 2011 12:53, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote: Leo, I appreciate your point about not naming employers before they've had a reasonable time to respond. The above events took place on 2000 August 29th -- is 11 years long enough? (If so, I'd like to name the employer as 'The Guardian'. If you still think it's a bit soon then I won't.) I presume the interview date and time were misprinted? ;)
Re: look what i made!
On 29 November 2011 17:56, lesleyb lesl...@herlug.org.uk wrote: On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 09:30:21AM +, alex knowles wrote: [...] http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=567471 Regretably, that example gives $# is no longer supported at ./node.567471.pl line 12. under 5.14.2 It amounts to printf(Just another perl hacker, 42); :)
Re: Ruby?
On 16 November 2011 10:53, Leo Lapworth l...@cuckoo.org wrote: On 15 November 2011 22:05, Dave Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote: Any freelancers out there with Ruby experience could use some retainer time for support work? /me checks he's subscribed to the right list... yep.. says Perl in the title still! It's OK, there was no on topic tag ;) Leo
Re: LPW 2011 carpooling
On 19 August 2011 14:37, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote: OK, so the unlimited free wine also helps. Wonder how much that's pushed the ticket prices up? ;)
Re: Cool/useful short examples of Perl?
On 9 June 2011 13:39, Imre Saling imre.sal...@saling.ch wrote:
or to get the elapsed time since the last call to elapsed():
my $t0 = time;
sub elapsed {
...
}
sub start {
return $last = time;
}
sub lap {
my $t = time;
push (@laps, $t - $last);
$last = $t;
return $laps[-1];
}
sub reset {
(@laps) = ( );
}
Re: Someone needs to take jwz aside...
On 20 April 2011 11:59, Peter Edwards pe...@dragonstaff.co.uk wrote: Go ahead and write CPAN modules requiring perl 5.12 and up to date Moose then watch organisations throw Perl out the window and replace it with Java. Like I'm seeing right now because they end up stuck requiring particular versions of libraries to work and rolling upgrades are not company policy or are politically inexpedient. You can get away that if you're running it on your Macbook or in a small central team, good luck on a large corporate platform. *Like* It is frustrating to try to get a recent version of anything at all onto a server that's destined to sit in a data centre for five years, and needs to have a relatively stable install so it won't randomly break ...
Re: Someone needs to take jwz aside...
On 20 April 2011 12:12, Abigail abig...@abigail.be wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:06:27PM +0100, Bill Crawford wrote: It is frustrating to try to get a recent version of anything at all onto a server that's destined to sit in a data centre for five years, and needs to have a relatively stable install so it won't randomly break ... I don't get this. If it's supposed to be relatively stable, you shouldn't install new things, and there's no need to put something recent of anything at all on it. Except when there's a bug fix or a new feature in SQL::Abstract or DBIx::Class or the Catalyst runtime (like assigning '' to $c-response-body not having the desired effect, or the session plugin ignoring specified timeouts, or whatever) that you want to have, but it's not been updated on $PlatformOfChoice, ... Or you install new things, which may need an upgrade of other stuff, but if you're installing new stuff the environment isn't relatively stable. If you are able to build one or two .deb packages of needed modules, and install them, and they stay the same for years ... that's still relatively stable. If (as recently happened) you discover a dependency chain that leads to CPAN complaining that you need a newer perl because it's a core module ... it gets extra annoying. Abigail Will
Re: Back on topic: Buffy Reboot
On 23 November 2010 17:00, Dominic Thoreau domi...@thoreau-online.net I'm hearing murmurs that say Joss Whedon isn't actually involved in this - how good could it be ? As good as the original movie. Which I liked, but I have unusual tastes :)
Re: [ANNOUNCE] London Perl Mongers Technical Meeting 12th April 2010
On 11 April 2010 14:50, Dominic Thoreau domi...@thoreau-online.net wrote: Hi All. Sorry for the top posting, but I feel this may help highlight the point. I booked a place for the Tech meeting tomorrow, but due to complications with my upcoming move, I now can't go. So. One seat/list place (that was previously mine) is now up for grabs Is this still available? I checked the website but said bookings were still closed.
