Re: [python-uk] Tell us what you did with python this year
I didn't think I did all that much with Python this year other than throwing together a few "one off" scripts to collate and analyze data from several thousand tills. These so-called "one off" scripts have been remarkably useful and they saved one of our teams a lot of time by automating what was previously a rather time consuming, ad hoc process. That being said, our client's demand for stats is insatiable. Last year I did a bit more. We had what appeared to be a performance issue with online authorisation for a POS system. We suspected that the problems were coming from an external system, but couldn't prove it given the data that we had. We used Stackless Python, along with a useful little framework called Concurrence (http://opensource.hyves.org/concurrence/), to write some performance testing utilities to demonstrate that the POS system was indeed fit for purpose and that the cause of the problem was external. --- Rod ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk
Re: [python-uk] Python Developers - ReportLab, Wimbledon, London
Surely it is ageism to imply that energetic implies ageism? In other words, if a person thinks that energetic implies ageism, then that person has a preconceived idea of a relationship between energy levels and age, otherwise they would not have considered such a rule in the first place. --- Rod On 11 December 2012 11:48, Andy Robinson wrote: > On 11 December 2012 11:45, Matt Hamilton wrote: > > We just submitted a job ad to a University placement scheme site and > there was a whole load of info there about what you can and can't say. e.g. > you couldn't ask for someone 'energetic' as it implied ageism. *facepalm* I > remember a while back someone from aUniversity IT dept looking at me in > horror at our job advert. They said they had to ask *exactly* the same > questions of each candidate regardless of how the candidate answered or > whether relevant or not. Seemed to me impossible to actually assess > someone's ability or suitability if they were that strict. > > > > Brilliant. I wonder if the same rules apply to students and academics > they interview? > ___ > python-uk mailing list > python-uk@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk > ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk
