Re: Should I work in the US or the UK? - which pays best? (slight diversion)

2011-12-15 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 06:25, Toby Wintermute wrote: > and hiring has been at a low rate due to the general global economic > situation. > Not so in the US - unemployment in tech is about 0% as far as I've heard. The H1-B work visa hit its cap in about 6-7 weeks this (fiscal) year. Paul

Re: Perl threads and libwww wierdness

2011-12-15 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Hello. 2011/12/14 12:16:04 +1100 Toby Wintermute => To London.pm Perl M[ou]ngers : TW> I'm hitting some really odd behaviour, infrequently, with libwww and TW> mechanize under a highly-threaded Perl. TW> Error rates initially increase with the number of simultaneous TW> threads, but seem to top

Re: Should I work in the US or the UK? - which pays best? (slight diversion)

2011-12-15 Thread Toby Wintermute
On 15 December 2011 17:25, Toby Wintermute wrote: > On 15 December 2011 11:36, Toby Wintermute wrote: >> On 15 December 2011 08:01, Kieren Diment wrote: >>> On 15/12/2011, at 2:52, Travis Basevi wrote: >>> On 14/12/2011 09:39, Kieren Diment wrote: > (I've got to concur with Toby b

Re: Perl threads and libwww wierdness

2011-12-15 Thread Toby Wintermute
2011/12/16 Peter Vereshagin : > Hello. > > 2011/12/14 12:16:04 +1100 Toby Wintermute => To > London.pm Perl M[ou]ngers : > TW> I'm hitting some really odd behaviour, infrequently, with libwww and > TW> mechanize under a highly-threaded Perl. > > TW> Error rates initially increase with the number

Re: Perl threads and libwww wierdness

2011-12-15 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Hello. 2011/12/16 12:38:16 +1100 Toby Wintermute => To London.pm Perl M[ou]ngers : TW> > (i)Threaded perl5 ( 'use threads' ) doesn't seem to be recommended for TW> > production environments. TW> TW> I know it certainly wasn't recommended back in the days of 5.6 or 5.8, TW> but I thought things