On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> It was a joke, implying that my mother uses the same "truly unique"
> handle as you.
>
> With over 7 billion people on the planet, and no upper limit on the
> number of handles anyone can take, together with the lack of any
> definitive cen
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:44:29 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
>> On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 07:46:31 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>>> I have my surname in my From address, but I tend to sign my posts
>>> "ChrisA" (no relation, btw, to DaveA, tho
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> People have the right to ask to be known by a particular name, but they
> are obliged to be reasonable about how successful their request will be
> when they ask.
Reminds me of what Torhelm said during one of our Dungeons and Dragons
campaigns:
Steven D'Aprano writes:
> (However, I don't promise not to roll my eyes if they choose a silly
> moniker, and I am the final arbitrator as to what counts as silly.)
I also don't promise to remember or comply with their request to be
known by an egregiously silly moniker, with me as the sole arb
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 07:46:31 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
>
>> I have my surname in my From address, but I tend to sign my posts
>> "ChrisA" (no relation, btw, to DaveA, though our surnames are similar).
>> That's generally been sufficient
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 07:46:31 +1000, Chris Angelico wrote:
> I have my surname in my From address, but I tend to sign my posts
> "ChrisA" (no relation, btw, to DaveA, though our surnames are similar).
> That's generally been sufficient for distinguishing purposes, though if
> anyone wants a truly u
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 7:12 AM, Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
wrote:
> Probably you were asked that so that your postings could be distinguished
> from that of the other potential Marks around here.
I have my surname in my From address, but I tend to sign my posts
"ChrisA" (no relation, btw, to Dave
Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 14/08/2012 04:00, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 01:34:46 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>>> When did you seek my permission to call me by my forename?
>> Sheesh. It's 2012, not 1812. If you sign your posts with your full name,
>> you have to expect that peopl
Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 14/08/2012 00:00, Xantipius wrote:
>> On Aug 13, 3:40 pm, Mark Lawrence wrote:
>>> On 13/08/2012 11:18, Xantipius wrote:
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>>>
>>> Either
>>>
>>> a) write some code and when and if it fails give us a small code snippet
>>> that demonstates the problem with the co
On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 12:38:24 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 14/08/2012 04:00, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
[...]
> For the record I was asked to use my full name rather than my user name
> on Python mailing lists. But see also my earlier reply to you on the
> "save dictionary to a file without bracke
On 14/08/2012 04:00, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 01:34:46 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote:
When did you seek my permission to call me by my forename?
Sheesh. It's 2012, not 1812. If you sign your posts with your full name,
you have to expect that people will call you "Mark" rather t
On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 01:34:46 +0100, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> When did you seek my permission to call me by my forename?
Sheesh. It's 2012, not 1812. If you sign your posts with your full name,
you have to expect that people will call you "Mark" rather than "Mr
Lawrence" or "Lord High Mucky-Muck G
On 14/08/2012 00:00, Xantipius wrote:
On Aug 13, 3:40 pm, Mark Lawrence wrote:
On 13/08/2012 11:18, Xantipius wrote:
subj
Either
a) write some code and when and if it fails give us a small code snippet
that demonstates the problem with the complete traceback.
or
b) state how much you are
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Xantipius wrote:
> Mark, in regard your last remark:
> it's just a recreation for me. Nothing more in it.
> I like to put some weird and useless problems before myself.
In that case, I strongly recommend that you write some code instead of
throwing zero-effort que
On Aug 13, 3:40 pm, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 13/08/2012 11:18, Xantipius wrote:
>
> > subj
>
> Either
>
> a) write some code and when and if it fails give us a small code snippet
> that demonstates the problem with the complete traceback.
>
> or
>
> b) state how much you are willing to pay for so
Have a look at PyMedia.
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On 13 aug 2012, at 14:40, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 13/08/2012 11:18, Xantipius wrote:
>> subj
>>
>
> Either
>
> a) write some code and when and if it fails give us a small code snippet that
> demonstates the problem with the complete traceback.
>
> or
>
> b) state how much you are willing
On 13/08/2012 11:18, Xantipius wrote:
subj
Either
a) write some code and when and if it fails give us a small code snippet
that demonstates the problem with the complete traceback.
or
b) state how much you are willing to pay for someone here to come up
with a solution for you.
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Xantipius writes:
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On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 03:18:49 -0700, Xantipius wrote:
> subj
The same way as you compressed it, only in reverse.
When you ask a sensible question, I'm sure that somebody will give you a
sensible answer.
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