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Jonathan Wilson: (...) Hey wow, you can!!! Cool! -- recursive pizza! (almost) Say, I wonder if this means that they finally worked out their issues with the LEGO Legal Department as to the use of the word "legos"... (URL) (HTTP date stamp of (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jun-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.publish, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: "Well-Formed" LDraw (Was: regular expressions for DAT file subpart lines)
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(...) Oh, good. Then I wrote something close to correct. :) (...) That's probably a good idea. Most people will just scratch their heads at them, but some people would find it useful. Steve (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: "Well-Formed" LDraw (Was: regular expressions for DAT file subpart lines)
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Hey now, that's beginning to look like the yacc grammer for LDRAW in the LDLite source code. If you want to get precise in the language spec, grab the LDLite lex and yacc files and either take them as the defacto standard or modify them to handle (...) (25 years ago, 25-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: "Well-Formed" LDraw (Was: regular expressions for DAT file subpart lines)
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(...) Both of the above are common output from LDAO code. (...) Well, I was just throwing stuff out. I don't know if LDraw would take that one, or not. (...) Darned context-sensitive constructions. (...) I didn't say they made sense. Just that they (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: True Geekness
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(...) Todd, any reason there is no link to the traffic page from "(URL) The only link directly to Traffic I saw was the intro/setup screen. A link on the Traffic site from the page listing all the groups would be great. (25 years ago, 24-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Nope, won't take a fraction w/o the integer part; gotta fix that (...) Nope, same reason as above (...) Nope, won't take a fraction w/o the fraction part, gotta fix that (...) Nope, same reason as above (...) Yep! Woo-Hoo!!! :-, (...) Nope, I (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: regular expressions for DAT file subpart lines
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Oops, I forgot a few other odd things. I *think* your expression allows these, but I'm not sure: .1 -.1 0. -0. 001 1E BTW, the color-code can be in scientific notation. The line-type can't, at least, it can't in LDLite. I'm betting LDraw would (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: True Geekness
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(...) Slight clarification here (I'm sure I'm one of the people who said they didn't like to scroll horizontally): I don't like horizontal scrolling, when it was a design choice of the site developer(s). If the data is visually structured, and it (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: True Geekness
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ... (...) Nah. Then we'd have to scroll :) Mike (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: True Geekness
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(...) It's not really fixed at 500 pixels or anything, it's just whatever width the particular message you're viewing happens to be. Most of the time, it's an 80-column ASCII text message, displayed in Times Roman (or whatever the default (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Getting a job - advice from the experts (was: Re: What happened?)
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Christopher L. Weeks <c576653@cclabs.missouri.edu> wrote: I'll have to respond to more of this later, especially the situation-specific stuff. Maybe privately since I would assume it might bore others. (...) No, dial-up service is not free, although (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: regular expressions for DAT file subpart lines
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(...) Arg. Is this allowed? I guess it should be; the original parser was implemented using Pascal... Yes, ugly getting it is, hmmm? :-, if( $linein =~ m/ ^ \s*1 # indicates a subpart \s+([0-9]+) # color (?:\s+[+-]?[0-9]+(?:...-9+])?){3} # (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: So few threads...
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(...) Oh, were that it were! :-, Tamy, I noticed that while the Followup-To: header was set to lugnet.off-topic.fun, your message was still posted into both lugnet.off-topic.fun and lugnet.general. It seems you're posting via the e-mail interface. I (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: What happened?
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Oops ... forgot to mention that the new place is about 3 blocks away from my current place. AND, he didn't know my current salary. (...) -- Lee Jorgensen, Programmer/Analyst - Bankoe Systems, Inc. mailto:jorgensen@bankoe.moc <-- reverse moc (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: What happened?
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(...) I got a job proposal (which I'm starting on Monday), and that had a 50% jump. But I agree that a 100% jump is pretty steep. There are several reasons that I feel that I got: 1) Current programmers are focused on other things, and need somebody (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: regular expressions for DAT file subpart lines
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(...) You sure do. Can your code handle the following: 1 4E0 0 0 0 1E0 0 0 0 1E0 0 0 0 1E0 3001.dat Steve (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: True Geekness
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(...) Yeah, that's just what my other half says. :') Sorry, I bust his chops for it all the time. Almost everyday when I boot up the computer, its a new experience! He has this wonderful habit of reconfiguring things and then leaving me to figure (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Getting a job - advice from the experts (was: Re: What happened?)
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(...) We have roughly 30K students and 10K faculty and staff since we're the home of the state university system. We run the public computing sites 800+ workstations in 15 locations. Mostly we help with the equipment in the room, but we also do (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Fun with JAVA
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(...) It can? *shiver*! Anyway, the early version of Netscape 2.0 I talked about didn't have any Java-thingeys at all, and the sendmail-tag was impossible to turn off. It's a good thing they discontinued the feature. Personally, I don't use Netscape (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Getting a job - advice from the experts (was: Re: What happened?)
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(...) You have 150 employees working helpdesk? My God, how many students do you have? What kind of services do you provide to your students via the helpdesk? Might be scary to admit, but at a school of more than 25k students, we have 5 full-time (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Getting a job - advice from the experts (was: Re: What happened?)
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(...) I would say that it's the norm for a midwestern public university in a town where the ACCRA cost of living index is .9 or so. People move from here to industry in St. Louis or Kansas City and typically pick up a %50+ raise. Moving to the west (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: True Geekness
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(...) More candid/open/spontaneous/frank feedback from people this way sometimes. (...) Have you seen where the traffic page now points? (URL) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.admin.general)
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| | True Geekness
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Tongue planted firmly in cheek!! How geeklike of Todd to spring an announced change to the "program" without a word of warning! Tongue out of cheek. I like the overall look of the new web interface, but would prefer a list of the last 20 posts with (...) (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Stunningly ignorant people
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(...) In New Jersey, we'd usually call 'em "Flat." Red means stop, green means honk. LFB (25 years ago, 23-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: regular expressions for DAT file subpart lines
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(...) Whoops! I need to account for floating point values within the matrix. m/ ^ \s*1 # indicates a subpart \s+([0-9]+) # color (?:\s+[+-]?[0-9]+(?:...-9]+)?){3} # coordinates (?:\s+[+-]?[0-9]+(?:...-9]+)?){9} # 3 x 3 transform matrix \s+(\S+) # (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: What happened?
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(...) Don't answer specifically until and unless you are about to get a job offer from a specific firm. Do your research about what you are worth, then answer the "what do you make" question from a headhunter with "well below market, which is 90K (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | regular expressions for DAT file subpart lines
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Hey Perl fans, What's your favorite regular expression for a subpart line (or any other line, for that matter) in an LDraw DAT file? Here's my entry; $linein is a single line from the DAT file, may or may not be padded with whitespace at the (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Fun with JAVA
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(...) Nononononononono --- it's Javascript that does that (1). Last time I checked, Java doesn't have any control over the browser's window geometry. I keep Java turned on, Javascript turned off. (...) And this is why I keep Javascript turned off. (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Fun with JAVA
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(...) Yup, the future doesn't look too bright. It's a really bad thing to allow the script language to control the geometry of the client window. I'll be keeping Java turned off for the near future, I think. By the way, anybody remember the cool (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: Fun with JAVA
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(...) lol It certainly is one way to get someone's attention - too bad I couldn't read it. It needs to shut off after a few seconds and it would be better. Out here in California I thought it was a tumbler rumbling through my ISP.. -Tom McD. when (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: What happened?
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(...) Tell them what you're worth (and why) and what range you're willing to accept, but not what you currently make. What you currently make is largely irrelevant anyway during the headhunting phase, especially if you are moving from MS to NJ, (...) (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) It makes the browser window go bezerk and start shaking all over the screen. I almost threw up. (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: What happened?
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(...) Either tell them the truth or don't tell them anything. I'm in the same boat, and if internal mobility doesn't present itself soon, I'll be revamping the resume and starting the same process. (25 years ago, 22-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: What happened?
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(...) Hmm. Tell them the truth? Or at least tell them what you'd like to be making. Steve (25 years ago, 21-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) perhaps nice, but it also presents an enormous security issue. Can you give a description of what it does before I turn my browser into a security hole? Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 21-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | Re: What happened?
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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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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| | 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)
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