Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-16 Thread John Ladasky
On Sunday, January 13, 2013 8:16:29 PM UTC-8, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > A programmer had a problem, and thought Now he has "I know, I'll solve > two it with threads!" problems. Very nice! :^) This problem isn't exclusive to Python, however. Other multi-threaded applications can produce jumbled

Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-15 Thread DJC
On 15/01/13 16:48, Antoine Pitrou wrote: Steven D'Aprano pearwood.info> writes: A programmer had a problem, and thought Now he has "I know, I'll solve two it with threads!" problems. Host: Last week the Royal Festival Hall saw the first performance of a new logfile by one of the world's lea

Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-15 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 3:48 AM, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > D'Aprano: No, no. Look. This thread business -- it doesn't really matter. > The threads aren't important. A few friends call me Two Threads and that's > all there is to it. I wish you'd ask me about the logfile. Everybody talks > about the t

Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-15 Thread Tim Golden
On 15/01/2013 16:48, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > Steven D'Aprano pearwood.info> writes: >> >> A programmer had a problem, and thought Now he has "I know, I'll solve >> two it with threads!" problems. > > > Host: Last week the Royal Festival Hall saw the first performance of a new > logfile by one o

Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-15 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Steven D'Aprano pearwood.info> writes: > > A programmer had a problem, and thought Now he has "I know, I'll solve > two it with threads!" problems. Host: Last week the Royal Festival Hall saw the first performance of a new logfile by one of the world's leading modern programmers, Steven "Two t

Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-15 Thread Dave Angel
On 01/14/2013 09:18 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:15 AM, Tim Chase > wrote: >> A newbie programmer had a problem and thought >> >> >> >> "I'll solve it by posting on >> >> >> >> python-list@python.org and on Google Groups". >> >> >> >> And now we have the problem of two thr

Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-14 Thread Michael Torrie
On 01/14/2013 11:09 AM, John Gordon wrote: > In Michael Torrie > writes: > >> On 01/13/2013 09:16 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >>> A programmer had a problem, and thought Now he has "I know, I'll solve >>> two it with threads!" problems. > >> The same applies to regular expressions, which is ac

Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-14 Thread John Gordon
In Michael Torrie writes: > On 01/13/2013 09:16 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > A programmer had a problem, and thought Now he has "I know, I'll solve > > two it with threads!" problems. > The same applies to regular expressions, which is actually what the > expression was first used with year

Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-14 Thread Michael Torrie
On 01/13/2013 09:16 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > A programmer had a problem, and thought Now he has "I know, I'll solve > two it with threads!" problems. The same applies to regular expressions, which is actually what the expression was first used with years ago. Probably applies to just about a

Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-14 Thread Demian Brecht
Š And I hope you don't mindŠ I may very well "borrow" this as my e-mail sig. Comedic gold imo. Demian Brecht http://demianbrecht.github.com On 2013-01-13 8:16 PM, "Steven D'Aprano" wrote: >A programmer had a problem, and thought Now he has "I know, I'll solve >two it with threads!" problems.

Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-14 Thread Demian Brecht
I love getting that "what's up with this guy" when I start chuckling so hard that I nearly spit out my coffee first thing Monday morning. Thank you sir, this has given my week a bright start :) Demian Brecht http://demianbrecht.github.com On 2013-01-13 8:16 PM, "Steven D'Aprano" wrote: >A p

Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-14 Thread Dave Angel
On 01/14/2013 09:44 AM, Dan Sommers wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:31:59 -0500, Dave Angel wrote: > >> On 01/13/2013 11:16 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >>> A programmer had a problem, and thought Now he has "I know, I'll solve >>> two it with threads!" problems. >> ++10 > It took me a moment to figu

Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-01-14, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > A programmer had a problem, and thought Now he has "I know, I'll solve > two it with threads!" problems. :) That took a few seconds -- must be the cold. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! I hope I bought the

Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-14 Thread Dan Sommers
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:31:59 -0500, Dave Angel wrote: > On 01/13/2013 11:16 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> A programmer had a problem, and thought Now he has "I know, I'll solve >> two it with threads!" problems. > > ++10 It took me a moment to figure it out, but in the end I smiled and I agree:

Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-14 Thread Chris Angelico
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 1:15 AM, Tim Chase wrote: > A newbie programmer had a problem and thought > > > > "I'll solve it by posting on > > > > python-list@python.org and on Google Groups". > > > > And now we have the problem of two threads... And, when faced with problems of having two threads, t

Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-14 Thread Tim Chase
On 01/13/13 22:16, Steven D'Aprano wrote: A programmer had a problem, and thought Now he has "I know, I'll solve two it with threads!" problems. A newbie programmer had a problem and thought "I'll solve it by posting on python-list@python.org and on Google Groups". And now we have the proble

Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-14 Thread alex23
On Jan 14, 2:16 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > A programmer had a problem, and thought Now he has "I know, I'll solve > two it with threads!" problems. I laughed far far longer than I should have, cheers :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Thought of the day

2013-01-14 Thread Dave Angel
On 01/13/2013 11:16 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > A programmer had a problem, and thought Now he has "I know, I'll solve > two it with threads!" problems. > > ++10 I've been thinking about threads lately, and have come to the tentative conclusion that they're a solution which has outlived its use