Re: Dear Git Users

2011-07-21 Thread Philip Potter
On 21 July 2011 22:46, Paul Johnson p...@pjcj.net wrote: I seem to recall moving stuff to github being fairly straightforward once you worked out what needed to be done.  I'm afraid that I can neither remember what I did, nor can I find the instructions on how to do it on github itself. When

Re: Functional Grammar is fun (apparently)

2010-10-20 Thread Philip Potter
On 19 October 2010 17:27, Nick oinksoc...@letterboxes.org wrote: There's a growing trend for re-writing 99 Prolog Problems for other languages.  https://prof.ti.bfh.ch/hew1/informatik3/prolog/p-99/ Googling for ninety nine problems X where X is your language of interest often finds

Re: Scotch!

2010-06-01 Thread Philip Potter
On 1 June 2010 14:56, Victoria Conlan vi...@comps.org wrote: Here's what you all missed by not coming to the emergency social at the Britannia: http://abuse.mooli.org.uk/dscf3859.jpg Blimey.  I seem to have missed the invite, can you send me the address for future reference (and

Re: Cheap places in central London?

2010-05-04 Thread Philip Potter
On 4 May 2010 17:16, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote: The YHA place next to St Paul's Cathedral: http://www.yha.org.uk/find-accommodation/london/hostels/london-st-pauls/facilities.aspx I was really surprised by how good it is when I stayed there a few months ago (somebody else picked the

Re: Solid state drives

2010-04-20 Thread Philip Potter
On 20 April 2010 20:02, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote: On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 05:27:31PM +0100, Simon Wilcox wrote: On 20/4/10 16:52, David Cantrell wrote: Very few people live in areas with flaky power, at least in the UK. I had a 5 minute power cut in SE26 two weeks ago and a

Re: [Fwd: Betonmarkets CTO position]

2010-02-11 Thread Philip Potter
On 11 February 2010 11:13, Kieren Diment dim...@gmail.com wrote: Mine came to my mailing lists address.  The job is in an absolutely beautiful part of the world with great food and just about the most benign weather you could possibly imagine by the way.  It's a shame I'm not in the market

Re: Looking for a Perl development position in London

2010-02-04 Thread Philip Potter
On 4 February 2010 14:48, Raphael Mankin r...@mankin.org.uk wrote: On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 13:31 +, Bob MacCallum wrote: Under the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act it's unlawful for an employer to discriminate against you because you are married.  This means that they cannot ask you about this

Re: Looking for a Perl development position in London

2010-02-04 Thread Philip Potter
On 4 February 2010 16:50, Dominic Thoreau domi...@thoreau-online.net wrote: On 4 February 2010 16:29, Raphael Mankin r...@mankin.org.uk wrote: It's 9 months of full salary more expensive to hire a woman who gets pregnant, takes her full maternity leave and then decides not to return to work.

Re: Looking for a Perl development position in London

2010-02-04 Thread Philip Potter
On 4 February 2010 16:29, Raphael Mankin r...@mankin.org.uk wrote: On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 15:48 +, Philip Potter wrote: On 4 February 2010 14:48, Raphael Mankin r...@mankin.org.uk wrote: On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 13:31 +, Bob MacCallum wrote: Under the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act it's

Re: Looking for a Perl development position in London

2010-02-04 Thread Philip Potter
On 4 February 2010 18:14, Raphael Mankin r...@mankin.org.uk wrote: On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 16:58 +, Philip Potter wrote: What I want to see is some real data showing what the difference in cost is to hire a woman of childbearing age who may or may not have any plans for getting pregnant

Re: Looking for a Perl development position in London

2010-02-04 Thread Philip Potter
On 4 February 2010 16:58, Philip Potter philip.g.pot...@gmail.com wrote: get pregnant. I don't know. What I want to see is some real data showing what the difference in cost is to hire a woman of childbearing age who may or may not have any plans for getting pregnant, compared to hiring

Re: SHA question

2010-01-13 Thread Philip Potter
2010/1/13 Luis Motta Campos luismottacam...@yahoo.co.uk: I believe the official answer to this question would be The London Perl Mongers list considers on-topic messages that talk about Ponies, Buffy, Beer, and Pie. Everything else should be tagged as 'off-toppic'. There is even a FAQ about

Re: UTF-8 + HTML::Template + CGI::Fast

2009-12-04 Thread Philip Potter
2009/12/4 Andrew McGregor a...@txm.net: If a user enters UTF-8 chars then the string displayed is corrupt, or looks like it has been double encoded. Adding this: 1293 $rtbx_senderDetails = decode(utf8, $rtbx_senderDetails); Just before passing the param to HTML::Template seems to work.

Re: UTF-8 + HTML::Template + CGI::Fast

2009-12-04 Thread Philip Potter
2009/12/4 Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org: On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 11:49:09AM +, Philip Potter wrote: I don't know if this problem is in general solvable, because user agents are not required to declare what encoding they are using to submit form contents. Even when the form uses the accept

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-19 Thread Philip Potter
2009/11/19 Dermot paik...@googlemail.com: 2009/11/19 Gianni Ceccarelli dak...@thenautilus.net: Hi all! Some questions I have: - can anyone recommend some agencies (or other methods) to search for  the apartment? This site has lots of private property rental so there's no agency fees

Re: Help me become a Londoner!

2009-11-19 Thread Philip Potter
2009/11/19 Gianni Ceccarelli dak...@thenautilus.net: Ok, based on feedback from the list and IRC, I'll add some more information. Job is (going to be in a few months' time, but let's simplify) in W12, Westfield IIRC. That would suggest looking westward. All places within 30 minutes commute

Re: Every other

2009-10-30 Thread Philip Potter
2009/10/30 Mark Fowler m...@twoshortplanks.com: Hello, I have in the past coded things to only discover later that someone else has already written what I have toiled away on, only better.  So this time, I'm asking the experts[1] first. I have an array in Perl 5 [2].  I want *every* *other*

Re: Every other

2009-10-30 Thread Philip Potter
2009/10/30 Mark Fowler m...@twoshortplanks.com: my $i; my @new = grep { $i = !$i } @old; Thinking about it further, this could be more readable as: my @new = grep { ++$i % 2 } @old; [idea stolen from pod for List::MoreUtils::part] Phil

Re: Every other

2009-10-30 Thread Philip Potter
Torsten's solution was fastest: p...@teach:~/src/perl/scratch$ cat every-other.pl #!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; use feature qw(say); use Benchmark qw(:all); my @data = 1..100; cmpthese( 50_000, { 'via array slice map' = \via_array_slice_map, 'via array slice

Re: keyboards/RSI/switching costs (was Looking for a secondhand Datahand Pro II)

2009-10-22 Thread Philip Potter
2009/10/21 Jacqui Caren-home jacqui.ca...@ntlworld.com: Smylers wrote: You shouldn't; you should use an editor which has completion on words which are used in your project. I use a few with completions - with no one being best for the various languages I use. Which brings up what perl

Re: keyboards/RSI/switching costs (was Looking for a secondhand Datahand Pro II)

2009-10-22 Thread Philip Potter
2009/10/22 James Laver james.la...@gmail.com: On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 8:56 AM, Philip Potter philip.g.pot...@gmail.com wrote: I personally use vim, though if and when Padre gets good I will switch to that. I'm currently trying to add extract subroutine and rename variable to it, but it's

Re: keyboards/RSI/switching costs (was Looking for a secondhand Datahand Pro II)

2009-10-22 Thread Philip Potter
2009/10/22 David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 12:21:05PM -0400, jesse wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 04:50:19PM +0100, Smylers wrote: A friend with RSI has a keyboard he can use fine, but needs to avoid mousing.  Unfortunately[*1] whoever wrote the bespoke software

Re: Credit Cards

2009-10-14 Thread Philip Potter
2009/10/13 David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk: On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 02:21:14PM +0100, Philip Potter wrote: wth? I call bullshit on play.com. If the card company will pay, it's none of play.com's business whether you are creditworthy or not. play.com gets the money and the credit card

Re: Credit Cards

2009-10-13 Thread Philip Potter
2009/10/13 Denny 2...@denny.me: On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 13:27 +0100, Robert Shiels wrote: I tried to buy something through play.com last week, and they want my credit card details. Along with the usual dates and numbers, they are also insisting on a date of birth, and a landline telephone