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#1 2014-07-16 01:55:58
Just another perl hacker
Any perl hackers here?
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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#2 2014-07-16 02:28:21
- ShivamS
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Re: Just another perl hacker
I'm retired.
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#3 2014-07-17 00:57:23
- danaj
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Re: Just another perl hacker
Indeed there are.
There was even a "Perl and Scientific Programming" panel at YAPC this year, and someone gave a lightning talk about a Perl number theory package.
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#4 2014-07-17 01:54:22
Re: Just another perl hacker
Oh. Nice to meet you.
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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#5 2014-07-17 01:56:06
- bobbym
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Re: Just another perl hacker
You forgot to ask your question.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#6 2014-07-17 01:57:22
- David
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Re: Just another perl hacker
Hi;
What is your favourite colour?
His dominion is an everlasting dominion, Which shall not pass away, And His kingdom the one Which shall not be destroyed.
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#7 2014-07-17 02:00:23
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Re: Just another perl hacker
Now you are learning!
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#8 2014-07-17 02:13:40
- David
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Re: Just another perl hacker
What it takes to be more "boffin".
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#9 2014-07-17 03:36:08
Re: Just another perl hacker
I am a boffin?
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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#10 2014-07-17 03:39:59
- bobbym
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Re: Just another perl hacker
Yes, you might be considered a boffin.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#11 2014-07-17 03:49:04
Re: Just another perl hacker
But what is that?
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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#12 2014-07-17 03:51:24
- bobbym
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Re: Just another perl hacker
A nerd, a geek.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#13 2014-07-17 04:04:39
Re: Just another perl hacker
Oh. Thanks 
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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#14 2014-07-17 04:07:18
- bobbym
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Re: Just another perl hacker
Sometimes it means a guy with an elliptical shaped head and very beady eyes.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#15 2014-07-17 04:13:15
Re: Just another perl hacker
And what about the guy with large ears?
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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#16 2014-07-17 04:22:01
- bobbym
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Re: Just another perl hacker
He is not boffin.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#17 2014-07-17 04:25:01
Re: Just another perl hacker
What is he?
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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#18 2014-07-17 04:31:59
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Re: Just another perl hacker
A bumpkin! You fall for that line all the time.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#19 2014-07-17 05:38:02
Re: Just another perl hacker
Yes, it is a good pickup line
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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#20 2014-07-17 06:44:46
- anonimnystefy
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Re: Just another perl hacker
Hm, does the first meaning of boffin vary from context to context, because a nerd is not the same as a geek.
Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
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#21 2014-07-17 09:06:33
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Re: Just another perl hacker
Depends on whom you talk to.
In mathematics, you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.
Always satisfy the Prime Directive of getting the right answer above all else.
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#22 2014-07-17 09:42:07
- David
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Re: Just another perl hacker
Hm, does the first meaning of boffin vary from context to context, because a nerd is not the same as a geek.
A boffin is better than a nerd.
His dominion is an everlasting dominion, Which shall not pass away, And His kingdom the one Which shall not be destroyed.
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#23 2014-07-18 03:58:03
- danaj
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Re: Just another perl hacker
(p.s. the talk at YAPC was by me, so we have a little Perl representation)
I didn't know I was supposed to ask a question... Will we have a proof of the Riemann Hypothesis by 2059?
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#24 2014-07-18 04:02:39
Re: Just another perl hacker
Hm, does the first meaning of boffin vary from context to context, because a nerd is not the same as a geek.
Which one is you?
'And fun? If maths is fun, then getting a tooth extraction is fun. A viral infection is fun. Rabies shots are fun.'
'God exists because Mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we cannot prove it'
I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested.
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#25 2014-07-18 04:21:47
- anonimnystefy
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Re: Just another perl hacker
*are you
I'm a nerd, I would say. Which one do you think you are?
Here lies the reader who will never open this book. He is forever dead.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.
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