Re: Evaluating user-defined conditions

2014-06-10 Thread Avishalom Shalit
i can't help but repost this http://xkcd.com/327/ -- vish On 10 June 2014 07:26, Roger Bell_West ro...@firedrake.org wrote: On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:59:57AM +0100, Chris Jack wrote: Can I suggest you consider including some rudimentary idea of cost when you're deciding whether to allow

Re: emergency social meet June 11

2014-05-20 Thread Avishalom Shalit
i like followup.cc and followupthen.com for things like that. you forward an email you want to be reminded of to [nextThursday|oct31st|9am]@followup.cc and it responds on the day/time extra functionality if you also address other people, and put the @followup.cc in the CC or BCC addresses. --

Re: LWP::UserAgent and Google

2014-01-13 Thread Avishalom Shalit
here is a non official way to do so without logging in (for a few attempts, with- for more) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17080127/api-alternative-to-google-trends/18082512#18082512 it works - i just tested it link for the lazy

Re: Assigning Classes

2013-09-09 Thread Avishalom Shalit
I would agree that the problem is ill posed. a formal (and therefor solvable ) definition would be e.g. by defining the cost of a solution and minimizing it. e.g. for each student, for each of his two courses his personal cost for that course is the square of his raking. (so if he ranked it 4,

Re: Using grep on undefined array

2013-08-14 Thread Avishalom Shalit
wait, aren't $a and $b special ? (they magically live for {$a=$b} etc. ) -- vish On 14 August 2013 04:07, William Blunn bill+london...@blunn.org wrote: On 14/08/2013 01:17, Adrian Lai wrote: The use of @$fields is sufficient to autovivify $fields as an array ref. Hmmm. Ish. /In the

Re: new Perl project / startup - Need advice

2013-07-22 Thread Avishalom Shalit
neal stephenson's Cryptonomicon, starts with a story about a tech guy who implemented some other guy's idea for a part in the company and ends up (not spoiling) getting screwed . it is a very enjoyable book . i found it also very entertaining because it rang so true, i personally know 2 people ,

Re: cpan you have to see

2012-12-12 Thread Avishalom Shalit
no, this http://perl.plover.com/IAQ/IAQlist.html#how_can_i_find_the_creation_date_of_a_file is mean. :-) -- vish On 12 December 2012 09:35, Anthony Lucas anthonyjlu...@gmail.com wrote: I wouldn't really say mean… The examples themselves trigger the module's own ridiculous failure

Re: cpan you have to see

2012-12-12 Thread Avishalom Shalit
is a second killing. -- vish On 12 December 2012 10:14, Spiros Denaxas s.dena...@gmail.com wrote: That is plain immature. On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Avishalom Shalit avisha...@gmail.com wrote: no, this http://perl.plover.com/IAQ/IAQlist.html

Re: Interview Questions (was: Brainbench)

2012-09-05 Thread Avishalom Shalit
ok now that the subject line has changed to reflect the interview process, here is what i think the ideal interview is (experienced this both as interviewee and as hiring manager.) it should be a very short internship, i.e. here is a masked part of a problem we are working on, lets discuss this

Re: Brainbench perl test?

2012-09-04 Thread Avishalom Shalit
I remember meeting someone who knew what the sequence was but forgot the name. Ended up calling it the Fettucini sequence. Bonus points. -- vish On 4 September 2012 14:12, Piers Cawley pdcawley-london.0dd...@bofh.org.ukwrote: On 4 September 2012 14:17, Dave Cross d...@dave.org.uk wrote:

Re: Brainbench perl test?

2012-09-04 Thread Avishalom Shalit
crawling ? xml parsing ? json printing of structures ? -- vish On 4 September 2012 17:18, David Hodgkinson daveh...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 Sep 2012, at 16:07, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote: Piers Cawley writes: Tower of Hanoi is always a better example for solving with

job. data scientist

2011-11-03 Thread Avishalom Shalit
hi, first post (so far just lurked , and did not attend any meeting), so i'll introduce myself I am an algorithm developer, living in london , originally from israel, i hope that this mailing list is the right outlet for this post we are looking for someone to join our algorithm analytics

Re: job. data scientist

2011-11-03 Thread Avishalom Shalit
thanks i will not make it today, and thanks for the tips -- vish On 3 November 2011 15:10, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote: On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 02:46:31PM +, Avishalom Shalit wrote: hi, first post (so far just lurked , and did not attend any meeting), so i'll introduce myself