Re: Dear Dr Who experts...

2014-10-08 Thread Dominic Humphries
Real daleks don't climb stairs, they level the building :) On 8 October 2014 19:55:34 Gareth Harper wrote: It's not just the more recent episodes (depending on your definition of "recent"), the Daleks could levitate during my childhood era (80s-90s). I'm sure I remember an episode from the S

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Damian Conway Speaking at London.pm: Monday, 10th March

2014-03-06 Thread Dominic Humphries
I'd buy DVDs! :) On 6 March 2014 10:41:17 Damian Conway wrote: Just to elaborate on Sue's kind explanation: I make my entire living from speaking (in one form or another). And I ask not to have my community talks recorded because I also sell many of those presentations to paying clients...wh

Re: isolating thread-unsafe modules

2013-07-28 Thread Dominic Humphries
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think, "I know, I'll use threads," and then two they hav erpoblesms On 28 July 2013 21:13:52 Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Threads? Now you have two problems. Why not processes? Sent from my iPhone On 28 Jul 2013, at 20:07, Bob MacCallum wrote: > Sor

Re: New pet keeping rules in the Netherlands (part of Re: london.pm Digest, Vol 92, Issue 13)

2013-06-20 Thread Dominic Humphries
On Thu, 2013-06-20 at 09:07 +0100, 'lesleyb' wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 10:15:05PM +0100, Dominic wrote: > > > > Message: 9 > > Subject: Re: New pet keeping rules in the Netherlands > > To: "London.pm Perl M[ou]ngers" > > Message-ID: <1371674233.15265.0.camel@laptop> > > > > Excellent! Sen

Re: New pet keeping rules in the Netherlands

2013-06-19 Thread Dominic Humphries
Excellent! Sensible policies for a happier Britain! On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 20:15 +0100, Dirk Koopman wrote: > It appears that my esteemed government has changed the rules about about > which pets one might keep at home. Apart from all the usual suspects, it > appears one may keep a water buffalo

Re: Alternative sources of Perl programmers

2013-05-14 Thread Dominic Humphries
On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 14:43 +0100, Ben Vinnerd wrote: > I have to travel > 50 miles per day to get to my clients office (and back) 50 miles? Luxury! I have to do sixty! :) > I live in the North West and recently I saw a contract at Jobsite in > Hampshire (i.e. a long way away). I spoke to the ag

Re: URL shorteners (was: Re: ISNIC DNS)

2013-05-08 Thread Dominic Humphries
On Wed, 2013-05-08 at 13:01 +0100, Sam Kington wrote: > Getting off-topic here, but what use are URL shorteners now that Twitter > converts all links to be t.co/blah ? They don't save you any space in tweets, > and they obfuscate the URL you're linking to. Is link-tracking really that > useful?

Re: Kindle Fire

2012-11-29 Thread Dominic Humphries
FWIW, Project Gutenburg mentions the Kindle vs Nexus question: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Kindle_Fire_Review On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 16:50 +, Nic Gibson wrote: > I've got a Kindle Fire, a Kindle Fire HD and most of the rest (I do > publishing tech for a living, it's an occupational

Re: Brainbench perl test?

2012-09-04 Thread Dominic Humphries
On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 14:31 +0100, Matt Freake wrote: > For that reason, I would have thought there were other, better, recursion > problems out there I could use. Tower of Hanoi? :)

Re: 5 minimums for any perl script?

2012-01-30 Thread Dominic Humphries
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 09:02:41PM +, Leo Lapworth wrote: > 2) all files to be perl tidied (ideally automatically) How do people recommend setting up automatic perltidy? I've been considering setting it up so vim would perltidy any time I save a file with filetype perl. Or maybe tying it to a