On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:58:25PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> > I'm sure there are plenty of lurkers on this list who would fit in
It is quite a difficult thing to walk into a pub and land in a room
full of strange people (people you don't know) who are all engaged in
varying levels of intens
On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 12:23:44AM +, Struan Donald wrote:
> is a good idea too as it's a bit weird to walk up to a bunch of
> strangers and offer to buy them $alchohol but buying your own drink
> and then sitting nursing it in the corner isn't all that social. on
> the other hand if you get b
* at 19/02 22:16 + Kate L Pugh said:
>
> * "Social meets aren't the best way to recruit newbies."
>
> Pah, that's where you got me from, and aren't you glad you did.
i think the key difference is that people who come to social meets are
more likely to participate actively rather than just l
* at 20/02 00:02 + David Cantrell said:
> > On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Kate L Pugh wrote:
> > > * "How about offering a free pint to first-time attendees at the social?"
>
> That was originally my silly suggestion, but I'll stand by it. I'll buy
> a $drink_of_choice for a few new faces.
is a good
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 11:42:49PM +, the hatter wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Kate L Pugh wrote:
> > * "How about offering a free pint to first-time attendees at the social?"
> Hurrah, make that 10.
That was originally my silly suggestion, but I'll stand by it. I'll buy
a $drink_of_choice f
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:16:35PM +, Kate L Pugh wrote:
> >> [...] to bring Perl programming friends along, maybe to encourage old
> >> members of the list who don't turn up that often to come along [...]
Well, I'm one of the oldest members and don't turn up that often (altho'
living 6,000mi
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Kate L Pugh wrote:
> * "Let's discuss social things on IRC rather than the list; all of the
>social types are on IRC anyway."
>
> I disagree with the latter assertion, and even if it were true, nobody
> watches IRC all the time.
Agreed, maybe they mean 'all the types who
Long mail; bear with me.
On Fri 15 Feb 2002, Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'd like to suggest that we make this a special social meeting. Lets
>> take the whole of the cellar and make it a challenge for us as a group
>> [...] to bring Perl programming friends along, maybe to encou
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, jo walsh wrote:
>
> > There must be easier ways than this :-)
>
> why don't you just throw hardware at the problem? :)
>
Yeah, lets hand out loads of kit to early adopters of Perl 5.8.0 :)
/J\
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Richard Clamp wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:31:17PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> > However perlbench went slower because I'd made
> > /(.{1,76})/ slower (used in string/base64.t). How many people use {} in real
> > regexps? IIRC There are
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 07:15:03PM +, jo walsh wrote:
>
> > There must be easier ways than this :-)
>
> why don't you just throw hardware at the problem? :)
Because there's this little label on it marked "product warranty will be
void if label on the top cover is removed or if the drive exp
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 07:15:03PM +, jo walsh wrote:
>
> > There must be easier ways than this :-)
>
> why don't you just throw hardware at the problem? :)
I have an old crappy keyboard with a sticky Shift key you're welcome to
throw at any other hardware.
Paul
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:31:17PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> How many people use {} in real regexps? IIRC There are almost none
> in any script used to build perl.
I've used it quite often for validating input, for example to check
the user entered a number containing y digits/letters.
Tom
> There must be easier ways than this :-)
why don't you just throw hardware at the problem? :)
z
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:05:36AM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:31:17PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> > How many people use {} in real regexps?
>
> s/(.{1,72})(\s+|$)/$1\n /g;
>
> (Wordwrap for my sigs.)
D'oh!
$definition =~ s/(.{74,77},)/$1\n/g;
That bit of w
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:31:17PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> How many people use {} in real regexps?
s/(.{1,72})(\s+|$)/$1\n /g;
(Wordwrap for my sigs.)
Paul
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 03:31:17PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> However perlbench went slower because I'd made
> /(.{1,76})/ slower (used in string/base64.t). How many people use {} in real
> regexps? IIRC There are almost none in any script used to build perl.
I t
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 01:05:29PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> However, I think I'm at the limit of things I can learn from DProf.
> What other techniques can I use to figure out where and why it is slow?
Devel::Cover now does time coverage, aka profiling. It's pretty basic
and pretty new, a
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 02:22:09PM +, Jonathan Stowe wrote:
> Build the Perl with the gcc option -pg and then run gprof, and then get
> jiggy in pp_hot.c ;-}
Mmm. Not tried that. I did try using gcov a while back, and found that if I
re-ordered the switch statement in rexexec the regression
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> I have a slow perl script that is currently annoying me.
> I have run it under Devel::DProf, and from that have already identified 2
> places where it could be accelerated.
>
> [4.5% by replacing explicit loops with join ",", upack "C*", $foo
> 7.5% b
I have a slow perl script that is currently annoying me.
I have run it under Devel::DProf, and from that have already identified 2
places where it could be accelerated.
[4.5% by replacing explicit loops with join ",", upack "C*", $foo
7.5% by replacing recursion with a loop]
However, I think I'
I think that he may be violating the Trades Descriptions Act, or something
like that. Either that or Websters has some definition of "easy" that the OED
doesn't. Go on, prove me wrong!
Nicholas Clark
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On Tue, 19 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Ok, I don't *expect* anyone will be interested in this, but if anyone
> does want to spend two days packing CDs into boxes (or whatever) for
> 5ukp/hour in Abingdon, let me know :)
Try s3ending ti to oxford.pm. Or am I confused?
L.
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 01:37:17PM +, Simon Wistow wrote:
> That's just an indication of ignorance. See also Pret a Porter -> Ready
> to Wear.
cf. "The Madness of King George"
Tony
Ok, I don't *expect* anyone will be interested in this, but if anyone
does want to spend two days packing CDs into boxes (or whatever) for
5ukp/hour in Abingdon, let me know :)
Tony
On 19/02/2002 10:38:22 Ed Birney wrote:
>Morning all
>
>Do you have a loved one sitting at home rotting away? Do
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:22:12AM +, Greg McCarroll said:
> Bringing this all back to computing, John Sculley, who worked for
> Pepsi and was CEO of Apple for a while, was very keen on the taste
> test challenge between Pepsi and Coke, the simple reason was that cos
> Pepsi was sweeter it won
* Peter Sergeant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Roger Burton West wrote:
>
> > Actually this is first-year Economics (or was on my course anyway).
> > Paul's suggestion works in a situation of perfect competition and
> > homogeneous goods - e.g. 2 litres of Coke is just as good
* at 18/02 17:57 -0600 Chris Devers said:
>
> But what then? The more I study this, the more all the sides just sound
> hopelessly naive & wrongheaded, but I can't offer any better suggestions.
we should all just rememember to be nice to each other and get along :)
s
Paul Mison wrote:
> * If you think the new list is an amazingly good/bad idea to stop
> a lot of posts boring people/cause fragmentation, say so here.
I think we need a [Bolloxia] list.
And I think I regret having posted the original link :)
Cheers,
Philip
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Moin,
On 18-Feb-02 Richard Clamp tried to scribble about:
> There's a new release in town. It scratches off one of the oldest
> TODO items, that of counting the docs in the base class(es) towards
> your packages coverage.
Thanx, much appreciated.
Cheers,
Te
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Roger Burton West wrote:
> Actually this is first-year Economics (or was on my course anyway).
> Paul's suggestion works in a situation of perfect competition and
> homogeneous goods - e.g. 2 litres of Coke is just as good as 2 litres of
> Pepsi. When you introduce advertisin
Hmm, where to start? Well, at the emergency social with Simon Cozens,
there seemed to be quite a lot of talk about IRC bots, and how dipsy
should do things. A couple of people suggested that it would be a good
idea to have a list to discuss them on, so I (finally) set one up
yesterday. If you want
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