On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Lucy McWilliam wrote:
>
> Speaking of which, has anyone seen Iris and did you notice Paulin McGlynn
> (Mrs Doyle from Father Ted) as nurse?
Yes, and no.
Iris was fantastic though, and is worth being seen.
Alex Gough
( having
use overload
'.' => sub { _add(@_, sub {$_[0] . $_[1]})},
'+' => sub { _add(@_, sub {$_[0] + $_[1]}0};
)
Other than, I might be too set in my ways.
Alex Gough
w.
Manning generally publish quite good books.
Alex Gough
> The above statement cannot be true.
> "all known viruses" would be truthful.
> "all viruses" is not.
It didn't claim it would find them all, merely scan for them.
I wonder if email can get smallpox... The NHS would throw a fit.
Alex Gough
The slides from my confused attempt to explain Data::Dimensions are here:
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~shug0957/dd/
Thanks for listening, and all that.
Alex Gough
--
Lucid Nonsense, Awkward Customer, Thorough But... Unthinkable, Advanced Case
of Chronic Patheticism, Another Fine Product From The
en how
many applications require use of rand()) to make tests using it.
Alex Gough
>
> i think we should start using scientific notation for ages,
>
> e.g.
> Greg = 2.695 * 10^01
> Robin = 3.799 * 10^01
>
> this may seem pointless, but just wait until its Dave[1] and Stowes
> turn to post their ages ;-)
>
I think they'd rather you took logs.
Alex Gough
r than the CS student as they are
> > thinking "out of the box" whereas CS students are quite often all taught
Does this include physicists? Periodic boundary conditions make this sort
of thinking almost impossible...
Alex Gough
--
Syng a song of Saxons
In the Wapentake of Rye
Four and twenty eaoldormen
Two eaold to die . . .
III - the recent one film in pre-lid Tate-Modern to be
Alex Gough
--
It was about this time that Mac Beth ('Ian Hay'), known as
the Bane of Fife, murdered a number of his enemies, including
Mac Duff, Lord Dunsinaney, Sleep, etc.
I did like the bits with the ping pong balls.
Alex Gough
> Almost forgot...
>
> In the Heat of the Night
Yes, and, worst of all to forget (but not in terms of chatty volume):
Kind Hearts and Coronets
Alex Gough
sage like this, you are best advised to place your
finger on the part of the page that you were redirected from, so as to
more easily locate it after reading all the footnotes [1],[5].
[8] See [1],[5] and [7].
[9] See [1],[5],[8] also [7].
[10] See [1],[5],[7],[8] and [9].
[11] But where would be the fun in that.
Alex Gough
tired now, but I'm glad I finished it. Everyone else should as well.
Alex Gough
--
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but
it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Either way you'd need to think of a good way of representing it so that
you can find the features you want quickly. Oh for Tufte that thinks about
more modern plotting methods than charts.
Alex Gough
--
Lucid Nonsense, Awkward Customer, Thorough But... Unthinkable, Advanced Case
of Chro
;\n",scalar(localtime),"\n";
while (<>) {
print FOO $_;
}
And bash stuff into STDIN followed by a ^D.
I can then use grep to remember what I've done and when, or feed the days
through something to pod them or whatever...
Alex Gough
--
"Contrariwise,"
the skills needed to do so well. Perhaps schools need proper
sysadmins...
Alex Gough
--
That one never has to vary G or introduce any fudge factors in order to fit
emperical data illustrates the essential difference between the mere
mathematical modelling of irregular phenonema and laws of nature: r
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, anathema wrote:
> Newton, Philip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >From: "Amelia C . Bactrianus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >so that should reach her.
>
> Those go astray.
>
> Ha! I slay dha.
And you're killing me.
Alex Go
?
> > * What is a programming language?
> > * What is a computer?
>
Where they in that order, or do biologists usually start reading
at the bottom of a page?
Alex Gough
--
Dear Mary,
I yearn for you tragically.
R. O. Shipman, Chaplain, U.S. Army
hew's Band
Houses of the Holy - Led Zep
Alex Gough
On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Why am I drawing class diagrams based on code?
>
> Didn't I buy a computer to extract this sort of information for me?
>
*cough* GraphViz *cough*
Even works for OO-Fortran...
Alex Gough
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Piers Cawley wrote:
> Roger Burton West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > that; it's the idiots we have to worry about.
>
> Please, these people are *not* idiots. And if we persist in calling
No, it will be the clever people that chose perl 6.
Alex Gough
erwise unconnected people are hearing about
what's happening, faffing with a name would spoil the effect entirely.
Alex Gough
;fingerprint" vomit.
ITYM: "dust for".
On that note, and taking a wild leap into new lands of myth and legend,
stop working (unless all out of chocolate) and go and read Philip Pullman.
Alex Gough
--
Nigel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
Marty: Why don't you just make
Or, for maximum amusement use the Lilliputian civil service exam to
select our newest most glorious leader once our current delegator
gives up through old age and a surfeit of palfreys.
Alex Gough
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