On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 08:46:35PM +1200, Kent Fredric wrote:
> On 19 September 2013 19:41, Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
> wrote:
>
> > That book needs a chapter about the secret operators. ;-)
>
>
> I disagree, I don't see much value in promoting esoteric ways to u
who learnt Perl from reading horrible scripts that have been copy pasted
> around the internet.
That book needs a chapter about the secret operators. ;-)
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Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
Trust only in incompetence. You will never be disappointed.
(Moral from Groo The Wanderer #16 (Epic))
fic applications of Perl?
Not sure what the answer is to that one, probably a little bit of both.
I was about to mention a Perl book published in France recently, but it
turns out it's been three years since...
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Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
No matter how you dress a cow, it still gives milk
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:18:47AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:42:25AM +0200, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote:
> >
> > I'd say it's more of a distributed solution, since the work is distributed
> > over the computing power of the student
uting
power they'll apply to improving the solution. Which should improve the
overall satisfaction.
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Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
Trust only in incompetence. You will never be disappointed.
(Moral from Groo The Wanderer #16 (Epic))
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 09:59:01AM +0100, Pierre M wrote:
>
> I have an idea of a suboptimal "lazy" (in terms of computation) strategy,
> but i'm lazy to write it right now.
And it would be too large to fit in the margin anyway.
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Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
One lesson
On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 04:16:28PM +, Dave Cross wrote:
> Quoting "Philippe Bruhat (BooK)" :
>
> >On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 11:55:16AM +0100, Mark Keating wrote:
> >>
> >>Tickets:
> >>
> >>1. Attendee of the LPW - €0
> >>2. Frie
lworkshop.org.uk
301 Moved Permanently
GET http://conferences.yapceurope.org/lpw2012/
301 Moved Permanently
GET http://act.yapc.eu/lpw2012/
200 OK
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Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
The end of a battle is not the same thing as peace.
(Moral from Groo The Wanderer #79 (Epic))
with "almost 0 IT expertise" don't generally do that sort of
> thing. I would assume that's why Aaron is asking for professional
> recommendations.
>
But if it comes to this, and the disk is really in bad shape, I would
heartily recommend GNU ddrescue.
http://www.gnu.o
n the other hand, we've not hired any remote dev since 2009.
So I can probably claim the "endangered species" badge too. ;-)
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Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
All life affects us... even that which is far from our gaze.
(Moral from Groo The Wanderer #59 (Epic))
nder a CC-ND-NC license after a few months, and end up here:
http://articles.mongueurs.net/
You'll need to write in French, though. And get paid in Euro.
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Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
Be careful when you take one side or the other. You could wind up in the
middle.(Moral from Groo The Wanderer #33 (Epic))
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 09:21:55AM +0100, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote:
>
> This is tonight! We should be at the Gunmakers around 7pm.
>
> See you there.
>
Having safely returned back to France, I'd like to thank everyone who
came to the Gunmakers; we spent a very nic
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:27:17AM +0100, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 05:00:49PM +, Bob Walker wrote:
> >
> > id say the gunmakers since its not that far from covent garden.
> > the holborn whippet is quite good as well and may be bearable
ndon.pm
favourite.
Let's say Monday Feb 25, 6.30pm - 7pm? Is a reservation needed?
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Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
When the employee is a fool, so is the employer.
(Moral from Groo The Wanderer #26 (Epic))
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:19:00AM +0100, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote:
>
> We'll be in London (Covent Garden area) for an extended week-end from
> February 23rd to 26th.
>
> And more importantly, we'll be available for food and drinks on the
> evenings of Sun
Hello,
We'll be in London (Covent Garden area) for an extended week-end from
February 23rd to 26th.
And more importantly, we'll be available for food and drinks on the
evenings of Sunday February 24th and Monday February 25th, if anyone
is interested!
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Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
Foo
:bar = Immortal->new(); Foo::bar();
*Foo::bar = sub {print "blargh\n"}; Foo::bar();'
called the object
blargh
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Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
The man who accuses others falsely only succeeds in condemning himself.
(Moral from Groo The Wanderer #112 (Epic))
daemon can even prioritise interactive operations agains the
> longer batchy one and unfilfilled reports.
>
> Thoughts on managing this?
>
Are you looking for a generic throttling module?
If so, you can try Schedule::AdaptiveThrottler.
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Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
When you wander ne
now lives at https://github.com/yapceurope/perl-events
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Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
Solve a problem before you become part of it.
(Moral from Groo The Wanderer #60 (Epic))
't cover all eventualities.
>
And more explicit rules mostly mean more incentives to game the system.
--
Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
It matters not how grand your plans when they are built on a faulty
foundation.(Moral from Groo The Wanderer #19 (Epic))
by celebrating with some tasty beer!
>
> As such, we will be convening at the Craft Beer Co in Leather lane
> (just around the corner from the gunmakers) on Sunday evening, from
> 6pm. (http://thecraftbeerco.com/ http://goo.gl/maps/Uyeq).
>
This is tonight! Hope to see you ther
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 03:06:41PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 03:34:57PM +0200, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote:
>
> > "The first round for London.pm in Calais will be on me."
>
> Noted for the September 2011 ORTHODOX social :-)
>
Er,
everyone who came to meet us.
Nicholas advised me on the use of a good bait to get more Londoners in
Calais (Léon already has the flyers). And I'm not afraid to use it:
"The first round for London.pm in Calais will be on me."
--
Phili
On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 11:55:15AM +0200, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote:
>
> Hoping to see you there,
>
In the meantime, I'll be in London next Friday. And I'll have colou?rful
flyers to distribute (and you're welcome to pick a few to distribute to
your office mates).
--
'll have to buy your T-shirt of the event).
We want to reach a large public, and would love to offer presentations
in French and English. The standard presentation times are 20, 40 and
80 minutes, plus lightning talks.
Sign up now: http://journeesperl.fr/fpw2010/
Hoping to see you there,
--
;s not too tired (or runs out
of excuses).
Our hotel will be close to Aldgate East (which is on both District
line and Hammersmith & City line, Wikipedia informs me), if that helps
narrowing down the selection of places to meet.
Hoping to see you in a few weeks,
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Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:41:37AM +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:36:11PM +0100, Philippe Bruhat (BooK) wrote:
>
> > Go to a Perl conference and you'll often get a T-shirt.
> > Then go to the auction and spend stupid amounts of money on more T-s
go to some usefully-related cause (i.e. instead
> of just something mentioning Perl from thinkgeek/cafepress/etc..)?
>
Go to a Perl conference and you'll often get a T-shirt.
Then go to the auction and spend stupid amounts of money on more T-shirts.
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Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
To fla
ng the event, everyone tried to
avoid gratuitous language bashing as much as possible.
--
Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
When you double-cross a friend, you triple-cross yourself.
(Moral from Groo The Wanderer #8 (Epic))
et the boss
> know how you feel!
>
Don't you guys eat those?
« Dans le cochon, tout est bon. »
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Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
The right answer is worthless with the wrong question!
(Moral from Groo The Wanderer #88 (Epic))
pick a winner from the emails that are sent to you in reply, and then
> post a second email saying that you've chosen someone and the stuff is
> gone now.
>
Web site doing freecycle-like style donation in France:
http://www.donnons.org/.
Subscribed yesterday, put in two items, go
o, and
found it excellent, especially with regard to explaining how the object
database works. Too bad it doesn't even mention the git stash command.
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Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
When the employee is a fool, so is the employer.
(Moral from Groo The Wanderer #26 (Epic))
> if there is, I haven't seen one. I miss the certainty of the C
> standard...
>
Well, there's the Perl test suite. I'd say that for the op/ part,
I expect it to be very definitive and cast-iron.
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Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
Friendship is j
On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 12:41:30PM -0700, Paul Makepeace wrote:
> I for one welcome our new UTF-8 pub overlord!
>
Not to diminish his merits, but he also fits in latin-1.
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Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
There is a lesson to be learned from every bit of misf
of
> time. The food on offer appeared to be of a reasonable standard.
For brits.
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Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach- a route which takes you
nowhere near his brain.(Moral from Groo The Wanderer #28 (Epic))
ideas (and I go there twice a month).
Telecommuting is great, as long as you commute often enough to keep
in sync with the rest of the teams.
--
Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
Honesty is its own reward. Dishonesty is its own punishment.
(Moral from Groo The Wanderer #30 (Epic))
d b. don't have
> the same long-term access to a university library that I have got.
c. really need/want to read the book, and don't just pile it as yet
another file in their collection of "ebooks that might be useful someday"
--
%%%
Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
A subst
or
a new house you had to take into account the length of walls without a
window, a door or a heater, that are needed to accomodate your shelves
(and also the ones you'll add later on).
--
Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
You can always buy another house but you cannot pu
til youve exhausted the possibilites
> all: there is more than one way to do it!
I love this one. This is the first one that talks about the community.
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Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
You can always buy another house but you cannot put a price on a home.
(Moral from Groo The Wanderer #63 (Epic))
language is copyright London.pm"
(the plan is to make a unique T-shirt to auction at YAPC in Lisbon)
I'm sure he'll be more than happy to adapt the text to suit and fit a
bottle of beer.
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Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
All life affects us... even that which is far from our gaze.
ink the "vamp face" referred to the work email address.
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Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
Eliminate a problem before it eliminates you!
(Moral from Groo The Wanderer #65 (Epic))
ich will fall on the 4th and hasn't yet been
> announced -- it is quite a way away).
Don't forget to keep a few of them for the Lisbon auction.
It'll be worth it, if only to watch people throwing in a lot of money
for beer in the land of cheap beer... ;-)
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Philippe Bruhat
an error unless you add the obscure syntax:
This is a different issue: it's not == vs. eq any more, but == vs. =.
And I'd do it like this:
foreach my $i ( 0 .. $tbl_width - 2 ) { ... }
No more naughty comparison operators to misinterpret my data!
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Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
S
conferences I attend[1], I'll be sitting in the front row.
[1] French Perl Workshop, Paris, June 12-13 and YAPC::Europe, Lisbon,
August 3-5. And if you want to give such a tutorial, I'm sure we
can find a way to sponsor your coming to the French Perl Workshop...
--
Philippe
like?
>
> class A{public static void main(String[]a){System.out.println("Hello
> World");}}
^
Can't we even delete a single character from that big string? Maybe this one? ¦
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Philippe Bruhat
;s not titled "Sensible engineering with Perl").
Actually, it seemed to me that the Perl culture was one of automated
testing.
--
Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
Ignorance weaves a web from which none can escape.
(Moral from Groo The Wanderer #52 (Epic))
t;Perl is dying" (which, BTW, I don't agree with,
> and haven't agree with for more than 10 years.
I don't know if "Perl is dying", but I'm pretty sure the Perl community
is not. I keep meeting new faces to every Perl event I go, from the
tiniest PM meeting to the biggest YAPC. Let's put them to work! ;-)
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Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
Just because you do not see it does not mean it is not there.
(Moral from Groo The Wanderer #85 (Epic))
Ruby communities
could also help share knowledge and exchange ideas. And maybe grab the
attention of the bystanders that came because they keep hearing about
that RoR thing.
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Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
Be careful when you take one side or the other. You could wind up in the
middle.(Moral from Groo The Wanderer #33 (Epic))
gt; people to look at before and after the conference, fill in your own name
> and details of presentation - try to do this in alphabetical order of
> last name please.
Also note that the talk page has two entries for inputing URL, one for
the slides, and the other for the abstract.
--
>
> Not sure what to conclude from either of those :-)
I'm sure you can conclude that I do not conduct thorough research when
trolling. :-)
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Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
When you allow legends to rule your life, your world is based on fiction.
(Moral from Groo The Wanderer #99 (Epic))
>> a = {'foo': 'bar'}
> >>> a['foo']
> 'bar'
> >>> for k in a:
> ... print k
> ...
> foo
> >>> for k in a: print k
> ...
> foo
>>> exit
Use exit() or Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit
>>>
be clouded by the previous C, C++ and Java
>> experiences.
>
> It would be interesting if we had some basis for comparison.
There was this project: http://pleac.sourceforge.net/
PLEAC - Programming Language Examples Alike Cookbook
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Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
When you wander
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 02:56:53PM +0100, Iain Barnett wrote:
>
> [1] non-stealth Godwin invocation
>
Does that mean this thread is dead and we can move on?
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Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
The shortest distance between two points is not always the safest.
; But only slightly less
well known is this: "Never go in against a Sicilian when death is
on the line."
--
Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
When it is time for voting- / In the West or in the East-
Why must we always settle for- / The man we hate the least?
he fifth element of array b and assign to new scalar
> foo
>
You mean sixth. :-)
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Philippe Bruhat (BooK)
When you do not think for yourself, no one thinks for you...
(Moral from Groo The Wanderer #61 (Epic))
n older Perl
will work with a new Perl". Compare with PHP.
The first time I heard of a Perl program being broken by an upgrade,
it was a Perl 4 program (used by the Haskell compilation toolchain or
something) that used the long-deprecated $* variable. When it went away
in 5.10, the program broke.
have a well-established way of being
> pronounced I think it ought to have this one!
Note that the ~~ secret operator (the one that does "scalar" and works
with Perls older than 5.10, not "smart-match") is called "inchworm".
Example usage:
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