Re: Something for the CFT brigade

2002-02-08 Thread Adam Turoff
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 03:51:11PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: I'm actually slightly surprised they don't push Python since that's their internal language preference for the crawler, which is a pretty sophisticated piece of code from what I've heard. s/the crawler/prototypes/; Guido

Re: Something for the CFT brigade

2002-02-07 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 03:00:10PM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Not true... read carefully: If your code depends on third-party packages, you must include a complete list of all packages, including exact version information and download URLs. Sorry, we cannot accept entries

Re: Something for the CFT brigade

2002-02-06 Thread Andy Wardley
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:20:30PM +, Chris Ball wrote: http://www.google.com/programming-contest/ I guess it's a moot point because they're only accepting submissions in C++ or Java. A

Re: Something for the CFT brigade

2002-02-06 Thread Mark Fowler
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Andy Wardley wrote: On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:20:30PM +, Chris Ball wrote: http://www.google.com/programming-contest/ I guess it's a moot point because they're only accepting submissions in C++ or Java. http://search.cpan.org/doc/INGY/Inline-CPR-0.12/CPR.pod

Re: Something for the CFT brigade

2002-02-06 Thread Piers Cawley
Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Paul Makepeace wrote: Ah yes, the classic old why put expensive clever people on the payroll when we can run a competition and for a measly $10K keep *all* the IP for *all* the answers? (US$10K barely buys two weeks of contract

Re: Something for the CFT brigade

2002-02-06 Thread Piers Cawley
Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 5 Feb 2002, Mike Jarvis wrote: On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 17:08, Chris Devers wrote: real cynicism: pretzel shmetzel, the guy was drunk :) Not believing everything that comes out of the White House and the right wing controlled media (ie, all of it)

Re: Something for the CFT brigade

2002-02-06 Thread Piers Cawley
Chris Ball [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.google.com/programming-contest/ I would be quite remarkably fired if I entered, I'm sure. But it looks like lots of fun, and search is something that #perl people tend to talk about quite a bit. Just thought I'd pass it on. One team gets

Re: Something for the CFT brigade

2002-02-06 Thread Simon Wistow
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 11:22:25AM +, Piers Cawley said: Just finished reading Jon Ronson's 'Them'. Very highly recommended indeed. He spends a large part of the book dealing with folks who go on about the 'shadowy Bilderberg group that controls the world government, full of high powered

Re: Something for the CFT brigade

2002-02-06 Thread Piers Cawley
Simon Wistow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 11:22:25AM +, Piers Cawley said: Just finished reading Jon Ronson's 'Them'. Very highly recommended indeed. He spends a large part of the book dealing with folks who go on about the 'shadowy Bilderberg group that controls the

Re: Something for the CFT brigade

2002-02-06 Thread Chris Devers
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Piers Cawley wrote: And the Bilderburg Group comes across as just another ASRLondon or London.pm but with a different set of interests, more money and more influence. The point that was made by one of the anonymous members -- that it's the markets that run the world -- is

Re: Something for the CFT brigade

2002-02-06 Thread Andy Wardley
Piers wrote: ...it'd be the Gnomes of Zurich, Dangerous little fuckers. Don't mess with them if you know what's good for you. ...by the Grand Masonic Lodge in London, Now the Moonies, er, I mean the HTML::Masons really are a screwy bunch. Them and their funny tabards. But I better not

Re: Something for the CFT brigade

2002-02-06 Thread David H. Adler
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 05:27:33PM +, Andy Wardley wrote: [demented babbling] Hmm...back to Perl. And here I thought that was just your method for developing the new version of TT... :-) -- David H. Adler - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ Pancakes is the better part of

Re: Something for the CFT brigade

2002-02-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Andy == Andy Wardley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andy On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:20:30PM +, Chris Ball wrote: http://www.google.com/programming-contest/ Andy I guess it's a moot point because they're only accepting submissions Andy in C++ or Java. Not true... read carefully: If your

Something for the CFT brigade

2002-02-05 Thread Chris Ball
http://www.google.com/programming-contest/ I would be quite remarkably fired if I entered, I'm sure. But it looks like lots of fun, and search is something that #perl people tend to talk about quite a bit. Just thought I'd pass it on. - Chris. -- $a=printf.net; Chris Ball | chris@void.$a

Re: Something for the CFT brigade

2002-02-05 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:20:30PM +, Chris Ball wrote: http://www.google.com/programming-contest/ I would be quite remarkably fired if I entered, I'm sure. But it looks like lots of fun, and search is something that #perl people tend to talk about quite a bit. Just thought I'd

Re: Something for the CFT brigade

2002-02-05 Thread Adam Turoff
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 01:37:01PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:20:30PM +, Chris Ball wrote: http://www.google.com/programming-contest/ Ah yes, the classic old why put expensive clever people on the payroll when we can run a competition and for a measly

Re: Something for the CFT brigade

2002-02-05 Thread Chris Ball
Paul Makepeace [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:20:30PM +, Chris Ball wrote: Ah yes, the classic old why put expensive clever people on the payroll when we can run a competition and for a measly $10K keep *all* the IP for *all* the answers? I did refer to it as 'the

Re: Something for the CFT brigade

2002-02-05 Thread Chris Devers
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Paul Makepeace wrote: Ah yes, the classic old why put expensive clever people on the payroll when we can run a competition and for a measly $10K keep *all* the IP for *all* the answers? (US$10K barely buys two weeks of contract work in Silicon Valley) OTOH, how much

Re: Something for the CFT brigade

2002-02-05 Thread Mike Jarvis
On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 17:08, Chris Devers wrote: real cynicism: pretzel shmetzel, the guy was drunk :) Not believing everything that comes out of the White House and the right wing controlled media (ie, all of it) isn't cynicism, it's good sense. -- mike Pretzel schmetzel, the guy was drunk

Re: Something for the CFT brigade

2002-02-05 Thread Chris Devers
On 5 Feb 2002, Mike Jarvis wrote: On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 17:08, Chris Devers wrote: real cynicism: pretzel shmetzel, the guy was drunk :) Not believing everything that comes out of the White House and the right wing controlled media (ie, all of it) isn't cynicism, it's good sense. Check

Re: Something for the CFT brigade

2002-02-05 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 06:08:22PM -0500, Mike Jarvis wrote: On Tue, 2002-02-05 at 17:08, Chris Devers wrote: real cynicism: pretzel shmetzel, the guy was drunk :) Not believing everything that comes out of the White House and the right wing controlled media (ie, all of it) isn't cynicism,

Re: Something for the CFT brigade

2002-02-05 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 03:23:35PM -0800, Paul Makepeace wrote: Huh, last I looked it was claimed by the right-wingers to be liberal controlled. Funny, depends who ya ask, huh? :) Ah, the BBC :) Paul, lived equal time in Texas California, and a few months in the Midwest Anywhere near