Re: [python-uk] python-uk Digest, Vol 138, Issue 6

2015-02-04 Thread Rizwan Syed
oles available that could save > me from this hell? > > > > > > -- > Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com +1 571 484 6266 @holdenweb > > > > -- next part -- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://mail.python.org/pipermail

Re: [python-uk] London Python Dojo contacts

2015-02-04 Thread Dougal Matthews
FWIW, I'd be happy to help. Not associated with the London dojo in any way, but I run one in Glasgow. On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 8:46 PM, Rachid Belaid wrote: > Hi > Concerning Europython 2015, some friends who organize the Dojo in Barcelona > are considering to do a Dojo during the conf. > Because

Re: [python-uk] Job Ad: Senior Python Engineers -Skimlinks - London

2015-02-04 Thread Martin Campbell
To quote an old boss of mine "Well, it's an interesting way to resign" Sent from my iPhone On 4 Feb 2015, at 21:03, Steve Holden mailto:st...@holdenweb.com>> wrote: We can take it you are self-employed, then? ;-) S On Feb 4, 2015, at 2:40 PM, Stestagg mailto:stest...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi T

Re: [python-uk] London Python Dojo contacts

2015-02-04 Thread Alistair Broomhead
Hi Rachel, I'm a member of the London dojo team, but I've cc'd the team mail address. How can we help? Al On Wed, 4 Feb 2015 20:46 Rachid Belaid wrote: > Hi > > Concerning Europython 2015, some friends who organize the Dojo in > Barcelona are considering to do a Dojo during the conf. > > Becau

Re: [python-uk] Job Ad: Senior Python Engineers -Skimlinks - London

2015-02-04 Thread Hansel Dunlop
See! Why would anyone want to remove this reply-to goodness. It's a bug we've all become to rely on. On 4 Feb 2015 21:03, "Steve Holden" wrote: > We can take it you are self-employed, then? ;-) > > S > > On Feb 4, 2015, at 2:40 PM, Stestagg wrote: > > Hi Tom > > I'm currently looking for work, a

Re: [python-uk] Job Ad: Senior Python Engineers -Skimlinks - London

2015-02-04 Thread Steve Holden
We can take it you are self-employed, then? ;-) S On Feb 4, 2015, at 2:40 PM, Stestagg wrote: > Hi Tom > > I'm currently looking for work, as my current employer is awful, and I pretty > much hate my boss. Do you have any roles available that could save me from > this hell? > > -- Steve

[python-uk] London Python Dojo contacts

2015-02-04 Thread Rachid Belaid
Hi Concerning Europython 2015, some friends who organize the Dojo in Barcelona are considering to do a Dojo during the conf. Because the conf is in English and most of them are not native english speaker, they are looking to get in touch with the London Dojo and maybe collaborate.. If some of the

Re: [python-uk] Job Ad: Senior Python Engineers -Skimlinks - London

2015-02-04 Thread Stestagg
Hi Tom I'm currently looking for work, as my current employer is awful, and I pretty much hate my boss. Do you have any roles available that could save me from this hell? Thanks Steve p.s. If you have a referral bonus, I can give you all my colleagues details too.. j/k ;) On Wed Feb 04 2015

Re: [python-uk] Job Ad: Senior Python Engineers -Skimlinks - London

2015-02-04 Thread Tom Viner
Cheryl Fay would like to recall the message, "[python-uk] New Year's London Dojo Next MONDAY". ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-uk On 4 February 2015 at 15:49, Steve Holden wrote: > +1 > >

Re: [python-uk] Job Ad: Senior Python Engineers -Skimlinks - London

2015-02-04 Thread John Lee
On Wed, 4 Feb 2015, Doug Winter wrote: On 04/02/15 14:16, Andy Robinson wrote: I'm one of the list admins. There are a couple of others. Happy to make a change if a significant majority feel that way. However, sometimes accidental replies are the only thing keeping the list alive ;-) If ev

Re: [python-uk] Job Ad: Senior Python Engineers -Skimlinks - London

2015-02-04 Thread Steve Holden
+1 As long as the list is Cc'd, reply-all works fine. It has the slight disadvantage that some people might receive a second copy of list messages, but that's probably better than accidental list messages. S On Feb 4, 2015, at 8:46 AM, Marcin Tustin wrote: > I'm generally persuaded by the ar

Re: [python-uk] Job Ad: Senior Python Engineers -Skimlinks - London

2015-02-04 Thread Michael
But surely the bikeshed should be blue! Michael On 4 February 2015 at 15:38, Peter Inglesby wrote: > It seems like several of the arguments for keeping the current behaviour > are that it's amusing when somebody gets it wrong. As somebody who once > accidentally reply-alled criticism of my sup

Re: [python-uk] Job Ad: Senior Python Engineers -Skimlinks - London

2015-02-04 Thread Peter Inglesby
It seems like several of the arguments for keeping the current behaviour are that it's amusing when somebody gets it wrong. As somebody who once accidentally reply-alled criticism of my supervisor to my entire department at university, I'm not sure that it always is amusing, and so I'm in favour o

Re: [python-uk] Job Ad: Senior Python Engineers -Skimlinks - London

2015-02-04 Thread Michael
Accidental replies are the spice of life. The only downside of the reply-to header is the fact that people randomly complain about it every other year or two, resulting in 20 arguments in favour, 20 arguments against, then a discussion about how voting for or against it might be a good idea, and i

Re: [python-uk] Job Ad: Senior Python Engineers -Skimlinks - London

2015-02-04 Thread Doug Winter
On 04/02/15 14:16, Andy Robinson wrote: > I'm one of the list admins. There are a couple of others. Happy to > make a change if a significant majority feel that way. > > However, sometimes accidental replies are the only thing keeping the > list alive ;-) If everyone has a client that supports

Re: [python-uk] Job Ad: Senior Python Engineers -Skimlinks - London

2015-02-04 Thread Marcin Tustin
I'm generally persuaded by the arguments against reply-to. On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 2:30 PM, xtian wrote: > I'm pro dropping the reply-to header, it's always awkward when someone > gets bitten by it. People are much more familiar with the difference > between reply and reply all now than they were

Re: [python-uk] Job Ad: Senior Python Engineers -Skimlinks - London

2015-02-04 Thread xtian
I'm pro dropping the reply-to header, it's always awkward when someone gets bitten by it. People are much more familiar with the difference between reply and reply all now than they were when the reply-to header solution was devised. On Wed, 4 Feb 2015 14:22 Richard Barran wrote: > More sensible

Re: [python-uk] Job Ad: Senior Python Engineers -Skimlinks - London

2015-02-04 Thread Alistair Broomhead
These emails all get filtered into a folder for me, it's not hard to do and it makes it easy to ignore them. If anything I'd prefer more activity on here, not less. My 2p worth ;) Al ___ python-uk mailing list python-uk@python.org https://mail.python.or

Re: [python-uk] Job Ad: Senior Python Engineers -Skimlinks - London

2015-02-04 Thread Richard Barran
More sensible, but a lot less fun for us in the popcorn gallery! > The reverse, people accidentally answering just to the sender instead of the > whole list, seems better than people accidentally sending private emails to > everyone.​ ___ python-uk ma

Re: [python-uk] Job Ad: Senior Python Engineers -Skimlinks - London

2015-02-04 Thread Jonathan Lange
I seem to recall a debate about this a little while ago. I'm in favour of dropping the munging. Obligatory link to http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html On Wed Feb 04 2015 at 2:17:22 PM Andy Robinson wrote: > I'm one of the list admins. There are a couple of others. Happy to > make a

Re: [python-uk] Job Ad: Senior Python Engineers -Skimlinks - London

2015-02-04 Thread chris . dent
On Wed, 4 Feb 2015, Andy Robinson wrote: I'm one of the list admins. There are a couple of others. Happy to make a change if a significant majority feel that way. I'm -1 on removing the reply-to. Any group mailing list that actually wants to be a discussion should default to using it. -- C

Re: [python-uk] Job Ad: Senior Python Engineers -Skimlinks - London

2015-02-04 Thread Andy Robinson
I'm one of the list admins. There are a couple of others. Happy to make a change if a significant majority feel that way. However, sometimes accidental replies are the only thing keeping the list alive ;-) On 4 February 2015 at 14:12, Sven Marnach wrote: > Maybe we could just get rid of the po

Re: [python-uk] Job Ad: Senior Python Engineers -Skimlinks - London

2015-02-04 Thread Sven Marnach
Maybe we could just get rid of the pointless "Reply-To" header? It can be disabled by a list admin on the Mailman admin page. I get the impression that at least one person per month falls victim to it. The reverse, people accidentally answering just to the sender instead of the whole list, seems

Re: [python-uk] Job Ad: Senior Python Engineers -Skimlinks - London

2015-02-04 Thread Steve Holden
Spammers gonna spam ;-) Guess we've all done it. S On Feb 4, 2015, at 7:18 AM, Thomas Hunger wrote: > Well now, that's a slightly larger audience than I had in mind. > > How embarrassing .. I apologise for the spam! > > -- Steve Holden st...@holdenweb.com +1 571 484 6266 @holdenweb

Re: [python-uk] Job Ad: Senior Python Engineers -Skimlinks - London

2015-02-04 Thread Thomas Hunger
Well now, that's a slightly larger audience than I had in mind. How embarrassing .. I apologise for the spam! On 4 February 2015 at 13:11, Thomas Hunger wrote: > Hi Niamh, > > I saw a Skimlinks talk a while back at a London data meetup which was > super interesting! > > In any case: if you are

Re: [python-uk] Job Ad: Senior Python Engineers -Skimlinks - London

2015-02-04 Thread Thomas Hunger
Hi Niamh, I saw a Skimlinks talk a while back at a London data meetup which was super interesting! In any case: if you are ever looking for an agency to do coding, we just started one [1]. I worked for Google as an SWE/SRE for several years and the others have a great technical background as well

[python-uk] Job Ad: Senior Python Engineers -Skimlinks - London

2015-02-04 Thread Niamh O'Reilly
Hi Python UK Skimlinks, a leading UK tech startup, is currently hiring for Senior Python Developers to join our team in London. We develop applications and APIs to allow the online publishing community to monetize their content. We are considered leaders in this space and currently work with appr

[python-uk] Job ad: Platform engineers at Yoyo (London, Full-time, no remote)

2015-02-04 Thread David Winterbottom
Morning, Yoyo, the start-up where I work, are looking to hire Python engineers and expand our engineering team. Yoyo is a one-year old company of around 25 people with 6 in engineering doing Python, iOS and Android. We're well funded and have good prospects. If you're interested in a new challeng