David H. Adler wrote:
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 07:18:28PM +0100, Dave Cross wrote:
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 01:05:11PM -0400, David H. Adler
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
[stuph]
Is it just me, or is everyone getting dha's posts twice?
At the risk of this appearing twice, it's not
Kirrily Robert wrote:
A great book along these lines is How to lie with
statistics by u someone called Hoff or Huff or
something.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0140136290/
How to Lie with Statistics, by Darrell Huff
Cheers,
Philip
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Philip Newton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
All
Paul Mison wrote:
Aha, thanks. From that I was able to finally get back to this:
http://www.davros.org/rail/bell1999.html
which details the (failed) December 1999 attempt.
Ah, most interesting.
I tried to follow along on a PDF tube map I downloaded. Where's Feltham,
though? He went there
Newton, Philip [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Paul Mison wrote:
Aha, thanks. From that I was able to finally get back to this:
http://www.davros.org/rail/bell1999.html
which details the (failed) December 1999 attempt.
Ah, most interesting.
I tried to follow along on a PDF tube map
In addition, I'd say it's recommended reading for anyone who ever
reads a non-tabloid newspaper. You know those leetle graphics they put
to illustrate news stories? Well, a lot of them lie. Tufte has very
neat explanations of the techniques used.
A great book along these lines is How to
Simon Wistow wrote:
#include std_correlation_NE_causation_disclaimer.h
Hey, use of NE is deprecated in modern Perls :)
(The hidden, undocumented commands included for Fortran compatibility, as
far as I can see. Ranks in the Perl arcana along with ignoring lines
beginning with dot and some
I figure we're pretty safe releasing it to CPAN (the kiddies will
never think to look there), but does anyone have any comments before I
do?
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Richard Clamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USIG.pm
Simon Wistow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You don't even need to use 'techniques' - I did some statistics courses and in
some course work managed to 'proove' that the more money you spent on a child
at education the worse their results were.
Done get me started on school league tables...
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Done get me started on school league tables...
It wasn't school league tables. It was the average grade of students
correlated against the amount of money the local authority spent on it. or
something.
Media statistic are often the line between English and Maths and English is
too ambiguous to
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:01:38PM +0200, Newton, Philip wrote:
Ranks in the Perl arcana along with ignoring lines beginning with dot
and some letters
My perl doesn't seem to do that. Or do they have to be particular
letters?
The most arcane special case that I know about is that a spurious
From: Richard Clamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I figure we're pretty safe releasing it to CPAN (the kiddies will
never think to look there), but does anyone have any comments before I
do?
Needed a smile today. Thanks Rich ;)
Barbie.
* Richard Clamp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I figure we're pretty safe releasing it to CPAN (the kiddies will
never think to look there), but does anyone have any comments before I
do?
depending on how flame retardant you feel, you might like to put in a
disclaimer about the use of the word
From: Richard Clamp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 10/23/01 11:09:49 AM
I figure we're pretty safe releasing it to CPAN (the
kiddies will never think to look there), but does anyone
have any comments before I do?
It's great. Let's ship it.
Don't you think that bk should have some kind of
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:36:01PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Richard Clamp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I figure we're pretty safe releasing it to CPAN (the kiddies will
never think to look there), but does anyone have any comments before I
do?
depending on how flame retardant you
Robin Houston wrote:
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:01:38PM +0200, Newton, Philip wrote:
Ranks in the Perl arcana along with ignoring lines
beginning with dot and some letters
My perl doesn't seem to do that. Or do they have to be particular
letters?
They do. Don't ask me which at the
Newton, Philip [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Robin Houston wrote:
The most arcane special case that I know about is that a
spurious colon will be ignored as long as it's the first
character of the source file.
Interesting. Something to do with csh compatibility? Some old csh's or
kernels
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 04:26:41AM -0700, Dave Cross wrote:
Don't you think that bk should have some kind of credit?
Good point.
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:36:01PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
depending on how flame retardant you feel, you might like to put in a
disclaimer about the use of
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 02:44:41PM +0100, Richard Clamp wrote:
+sub gay::is { http://www.cookwood.com/cgi-bin/lcastro/perlbbs.pl?form=4700; }
I think you want s/form/read/ there.
.robin.
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 09:03:20AM -0500, Chris Devers wrote:
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Newton, Philip wrote:
Kirrily Robert wrote:
when I studied HCI at university.
HCI?
Human-Computer Interaction, perhaps?
Close -- Human
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 02:52:45PM +0100, Robin Houston wrote:
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 02:44:41PM +0100, Richard Clamp wrote:
+sub gay::is { http://www.cookwood.com/cgi-bin/lcastro/perlbbs.pl?form=4700; }
I think you want s/form/read/ there.
So I do, thanks for the catch.
Did I ever
Tuesday, October 23, 2001, 10:16:33 AM, Chris Devers wrote:
CD As it is, I'm quite sure
CD that I wouldn't like to commute there for work (unless the newly active
CD Concorde has gotten remarkably cheaper this time around...).
BA is running a half price special. Only $5k for now. I'm sure it
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 03:27:12PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I didn't do the HCI course because that would have meant getting to
lectures at 9am.
Sometimes I wonder if I missed anything useful.
Judging by my HCI course, no, you didn't.
1) Be consistent
2) Be logical
3) Don't force
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Greg McCarroll wrote:
My CS course in HCI didn't just discuss what would be traditionally
defined as interfaces, but also the interaction of many different
systems with the user.
My course made a point of noting that interface meant not just the
visual display -- gui,
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 03:15:32PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
in my experience and I'm sure others will disagree[1], Makefile.PL files
are a bit like sendmail.cf files, you do one once and you copy it from
project/server to project/server. apart from of course i'd rather
rewrite a
* at 23/10 16:46 +0100 Geoff Wright said:
Greg McCarroll ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said : Re: CFT / dim sum / evening meet
is on the south side of London Bridge
(Err its near Cynthia's Cyber
Oddly enough if you go further along the road from Cynthia's toward tower
bridge you get to a bar
* Ian McGilloway ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
There is another Elusive Camel near Victoria Station. I think this is the
third addition...
playing to the peanut gallery
I have spent many a happy afternoon in the back of that camel
seated just beside the fire.
/playing to the peanut
Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
To celebrate Leon's imminent return to employment we shall be having a
meeting of the CFT[2] club (which may be similar to Debauchery.pm) on
Thursday.
You bastard. I get up to London for three consecutive days and I can't
do it. Not even the dim sum
* Dave Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
To celebrate Leon's imminent return to employment we shall be having a
meeting of the CFT[2] club (which may be similar to Debauchery.pm) on
Thursday.
You bastard.
that right, leon and I schemed
Dave Hodgkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Greg McCarroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
To celebrate Leon's imminent return to employment we shall be having a
meeting of the CFT[2] club (which may be similar to Debauchery.pm) on
Thursday.
You bastard. I get up to London for three consecutive
On 23/10/2001 at 15:57 +0100, Tony Bowden wrote:
(on making Makefile.PL files)
Template Toolkit is your friend for this.
Um, did that module [0] ever make it anywhere obvious? For those of us
feeling slow, can you point out where that place might be?
[0] http://london.pm.org/tech_talks/ (see
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:47:02PM +0100, Greg McCarroll wrote:
* Dave Hodgkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I get up to London for three consecutive days and I can't
do it. Not even the dim sum for I shall be in the inner reaches of
zone 2.
Err shurely dim sum is inside zone 1 so
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 04:15:34PM -0400, Kirrily Robert wrote:
(where else can you read about the (mis-)design of common objects like
light switches and stovetops?)
Do you mean the little diagrams telling you which ring you're turning
on? I always manage to get the left and right part
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Robin Houston wrote:
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:01:38PM +0200, Newton, Philip wrote:
Ranks in the Perl arcana along with ignoring lines beginning with dot
and some letters
My perl doesn't seem to do that. Or do they have to be particular
letters?
The most arcane
ignoring lines
beginning with dot and some letters -- known mostly to those who have
grovelled in the sources.
Or those who remember how embeded documentation worked before the
introduction of POD :)
/J\
On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Newton, Philip wrote:
Where's Feltham,
though?
Its the nearest town to heathrow airport.
/J\
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