Re: Mercury Amalgam (was: insidious biometrics, identity crises)

2003-09-02 Thread Adam Turoff
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 06:19:05PM +0100, Paul Makepeace wrote: > Je 2003-09-02 18:01:12 +0100, Ben skribis: > > I mean, the RDA for vitamin C is only, what, 60 milligrams? Right. That's the amount determined to stave off scurvy[1]. The RDA doesn't say anything about if you should have more, or

Re: The Perl Nature

2003-08-28 Thread Adam Turoff
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:09:57PM +0100, Clayton, Nik [IT] wrote: > "One of the big themes for me was hearing the Perl guys wanting to help > out everyone else, whether the other languages wanted them or not. That > fits in with what's best described as the irrational exuberance of the > Per

Re: New York, New York

2002-12-11 Thread Adam Turoff
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 02:29:08AM -0800, john muth wrote: > > Yes! Two Boots is fantastic. Lordy but I miss decent > pizza living in London. If you're looking for a gastronomic tour of New York, then you must visit Brooklyn for some pizza. There's a Two Boots in Brooklyn (Park Slope, Brooklyn

Re: [JOB] I Need One

2002-11-07 Thread Adam Turoff
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 09:54:37AM +, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 12:19:43AM +0100, Paul Johnson wrote: > > http://jobs.perl.org/job/513 > > > > And that's in San Jose, which is one of the most expensive places to > > live in the USA - and has too much traffic to boot. > >

Re: Usernames?

2002-11-05 Thread Adam Turoff
On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 10:24:42PM +, Paul Makepeace wrote: > The traditional restrictions on web usernames are things like only > alphanumerics, and usually lowercase to reduce user confusion/burden > remembering. > > I was wondering, why? I think the restriction, at least in regards to low

Re: applying patterns

2002-10-09 Thread Adam Turoff
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 05:49:33PM +0100, Simon Wistow wrote: > On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 05:21:15PM +0100, Shevek said: > > I disagree entirely. This gives the impression that one should consciously > > code from the book. > > Au Contraire. If you don't understand the pattern properly *then* you'

Re: Rindolf again

2002-04-06 Thread Adam Turoff
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 04:30:38PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 02:01:20PM -0600, Chris Devers wrote: > > Over here, we're lucky enough to get Dan Sugalski giving talks on his > > progress with Parrot most months, and it seems like things are going well. > > I'm not count

Re: We're all going to die!

2002-04-05 Thread Adam Turoff
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 09:31:10AM +0200, Newton, Philip wrote: > "EARTH IN DANGER > Asteroid on collision course > > Washington - A killer asteroid with a diameter of one kilometer and weighing > 10'000 megatons[1] could crash into the earth on the 16th of March 2880. Bummer. The SciFi channe

Re: Rindolf again

2002-03-11 Thread Adam Turoff
On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 11:31:27PM +1100, Damian Conway wrote: > BTW, that's why Rindolf isn't the solution: it's only Shlomi's dozen or so > ideas of what Perl needs to become. Nothing wrong with most of those ideas and > I hope he goes ahead with implementing them. *But* they don't cover what Si

Re: The Perl Review

2002-03-01 Thread Adam Turoff
On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 06:19:37PM +, Dave Cross wrote: > On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 12:54:08PM -0500, Adam Turoff ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Anyone see this month's edition of the Perl Review yet? > > Yep. Just finished reading it. So, whacha think?

The Perl Review

2002-03-01 Thread Adam Turoff
Anyone see this month's edition of the Perl Review yet?

Re: Tea (was Re: Bolloxia)

2002-02-26 Thread Adam Turoff
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 12:06:01PM +, Simon Wilcox wrote: > On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, the hatter wrote: > > Erm, if you restore an AI to the state it was in some time ago, why would > > it be any more confused than when it was first in that state ? Unless > > you're implying that some part of the

Re: Something for the CFT brigade

2002-02-08 Thread Adam Turoff
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 03:51:11PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: > I'm actually slightly surprised they don't push Python since that's > their internal language preference for the crawler, which is a pretty > sophisticated piece of code from what I've heard. s/the crawler/prototypes/; Guido menti

Re: Something for the CFT brigade

2002-02-05 Thread Adam Turoff
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 01:37:01PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:20:30PM +, Chris Ball wrote: > >http://www.google.com/programming-contest/ > > Ah yes, the classic old "why put expensive clever people on the payroll > when we can run a competition and for a mea