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| (...) I'm in the process of finding a new employer now, and I'm using recruiters (headhunters) for the first time. What am I supposed to answer when they ask what I make? I'd rather not tell them, but I also don't want them to fail to pass on my (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: X-Face: usage?
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| On Fri, 18 Jun 1999 22:54:37 GMT, Jasper Janssen uttered the following profundities... (...) Its the whatever part.... part that seems most likely. Thanks, I don't know if I would *want* my software to support it! (25 years ago, 20-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: What happened?
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| On Sat, 19 Jun 1999 12:34:44 GMT, Larry Pieniazek uttered the following profundities... (...) I wasn't expecting an answer! However, good luck! It must be quite exciting to be part of a small, up-and-coming firm. I imagine, being a part of (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: Perl rules!
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| Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) functions, (...) regular (...) level" (...) I've always had a sport in my heart for SNOBOL which had an eval function to evaluate an expression, and a compile function if you needed real code. I used the (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: Perl rules!
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| (...) I didn't mean to say that it was necessary for a language to be "high level" but it certainly is a common property of high-level langauges (for example Lisp/Scheme, Logo, PostScript*, and Perl). (...) It certainly has a variety of mis-uses, (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: Perl rules!
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| Good post! (...) I agree with most all you say, but I am surprised that you consider this: in-memory compilation of arbitrary code constructed on-the-fly, necessary for a language to be "high level". I rather consider it a potential pitfall for the (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: What happened?
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| (...) Enough to make me quite happy. For whatever reason, in the US, it's rude to ask specific details, and it would not be prudent for me to answer publicly in more detail. Why salaries and comp are closely guarded may be an interesting .debate (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Fun with JAVA
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| Make sure JAVA-script is turned on and look at (URL) (25 years ago, 19-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Perl rules!
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| (...) Amen to that. Perl is the first general-purpose programming language I've ever used* which hasn't yet made me mad at it because it couldn't do something in a clean and straightforward way. It's amazing: I just never get mad at Perl. Instead, (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: What happened?
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| Once upon a time, (on Thu, 17 Jun 1999 17:52:22 GMT, to be precise!), Larry Pieniazek uttered the following profundities.... (...) Ah ha. Hmmmm. How much %age of the company were you offered? (25 years ago, 19-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: Geometry problem
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| Kevin B wrote in message ... (...) Cool problem. I am actually visually able to see the fact that the "hypotenuse" of the combined area is not straight. I see the top hypotenuse as concave, and the lower as convex. It sometimes amazes me at the (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: Getting a bad impression?
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| (...) [Snippage] (...) [more snippage[ (...) The from header looks worse. Are you sure that was actually there like that? I'd tell my sendmail to reject messages with a From: that badly formatted... Jasper (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: Geometry problem
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| (...) A very similar one is in my mothers' bundle of Lewis Carroll works, originally published before WWII... Jasper (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: X-Face: usage?
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| (...) a 64*64*4bit grayscale image, IIRC. Something along that lines, anyway. If your software supports it, it's a small image of the users' face (or whatever part of his anatomy he would care to show) Jasper (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: Serial Connection Distance
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| (...) Depends. RS232, standard PC serial cables, should get 25 metres, IIRC. RS432, which is a balanced serial system, has reaches in the hundreds of metres range. Jasper (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: Normal to get e-mail 1 month after it was sent?
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| (...) A lot longer, considering that any IP connection first sends a SYN packet, then waits for an ACK, and only then starts tranmsmitting.. Jasper (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Any cygwin32 users out there?
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| Hey fellow geeks, Does anyone use cygwin32 (GNU compiler and utils on Win32 platform) for anything? I gotta buncha "how the hell did you configure this" Q's I might want to bounce off your head, mostly re: bash and readline... Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | A Beautiful Irony
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| I just noticed a curious URL in this message... (URL) one with the embedded parentheses, near the bottom of the message. The code in the web interface for parsing this is incorrect, but it happens to display the hyperlink correctly there because (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
| | | | | Re: What happened?
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| (...) I'm going to work someplace else instead of CTP. My CTP email won't work any more. That's the scoop, the whole scoop and nothing but the scoop. Really. What part didn't you get? :-) Oh, ok. It's not the whole scoop. You want more details? :-) (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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