Re: [python-uk] PSF Python Developer Survey 2018

2018-10-10 Thread Tom Wright
> all of the responses on this list and even some to my personal email were of a critical nature (concerning grammar, the sorts of questions and even the point of such surveys). Unrequested advice is the best form of advice... I note that the survey helpfully provides a free-text field at the end

Re: [python-uk] A stack with better performance than using a list

2017-06-07 Thread Tom Wright
Algorithms questions are always fun. Quick time to answer before other people! You might be hitting problems with the "amortized part" if their code didn't run for large enough n or used dumb special cases or bounds. They may have (inadvertantly?) meant "realtime constant" (python lists occasional

Re: [python-uk] Python Platform Developer - Counter Terrorism

2017-02-15 Thread Tom Wright
The treasury places internal fraud detection and money-laundering detection responsibilities on financial organisations (hence your bank asking you three items proving your identify and then refusing to open an account when you only have two). Part of the justification for this anti money launderi

Re: [python-uk] Python services within existing .Net infrastructure

2017-01-31 Thread Tom Wright
If people on the internet agree with you does it help you win arguments :), if so you should definitely use linux... One potentially interesting alternative is the UNIX implementation on windows 10. I've no experience, but would be interested in others' (including yours). I would throw two additi

Re: [python-uk] 2 Principle Engineer roles in London up to £95k

2016-12-06 Thread Tom Wright
Perhaps replying immediately doesn't count as pause, but I hope this constitutes thought. I would make three points: I. The tone of the response may in part be due to the recruitment topic more than anything else. This is unfortunately a rather fraught subject. Bulk recruitment ads are so common

Re: [python-uk] Data Wrangling with Python Course

2016-04-18 Thread Tom Wright
Hey, So there are a couple of python events that you could advertise at. The python coding dojo is quite big, and if you contact ntoll or tom vines you could probably get them to make an announcement for you. The django meet up is also quite big. It might also be worth scouring meetup.com (most g

Re: [python-uk] And now for something completely different - the PyCon UK Poster Session!

2015-06-06 Thread Tom Wright
Where are you getting your posters printed: https://www.instantprint.co.uk/posters On 6 Jun 2015 12:36, "Tom Wright" wrote: > Hmmm... that means you can buy a television for the price of three > posters > On 6 Jun 2015 11:12, "Nicholas H.Tollervey" wrot

Re: [python-uk] And now for something completely different - the PyCon UK Poster Session!

2015-06-06 Thread Tom Wright
Hmmm... that means you can buy a television for the price of three posters On 6 Jun 2015 11:12, "Nicholas H.Tollervey" wrote: > This is going to be a wonderful thing. I've always enjoyed the poster > sessions at PyCon (US/NorthAmerica) and EuroPython. Glad to see it make > an appearance at Py

Re: [python-uk] PyCon By Video?

2012-03-19 Thread Tom Wright
I'd be keen! On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Jonathan Hartley wrote: > Definitely interested. I did attend, and have been catching up on videos > of talks I missed ever since, but that's still six days worth of video to > catch up on, so I'd way rather do some of it accompanied by discussion wi