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Gail Shaw wrote:
> Isn't it also the place with 80% or so of the IT work in England?
The qualification "IT" is superfluous. ;-)
[But then, "London" now covers about 25% of all the land space in the
UK, so...]
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Invisible wrote:
> Gail Shaw wrote:
>
>> Isn't it also the place with 80% or so of the IT work in England?
>
> The qualification "IT" is superfluous. ;-)
>
> [But then, "London" now covers about 25% of all the land space in the
> UK, so...]
Hmm, taking Doctor John's figures of 30x50km and assuming London to be
rectangular, let's call it an even 1500 km2. An overestimation, but it's
the right order of magnitude. That's about 1.2% of England alone
according to Wikipedia, and barely 0.6% of the UK as a whole...
That's interesting, I've never had cause to work it out before and it's
actually bigger than I imagined.
I couldn't comment on the proportion of the IT sector that resides
there, however. :-)
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scott wrote:
> Dude, you so should be doing something else than fixing computers for a
> job.
...and during today's lunch break, a wrote a program that connects to
the Internet, downloads an HTML page via HTTP, parses the large table in
the middle, and outputs the resulting data as a CSV file.
In other words, with a single command, it gives me a CSV file containing
all of PassMark's CPU ratings data.
(NB. I am not aware of any HTTP libraries for Haskell, so I'm handling
HTTP manually. Similarly, I am not using any XML library, just plain
string matching.)
Apparently, a Mac Mini is a few percent faster than my current PC.
[Difference between a normal person and a Geek:
- A normal person goes to a website, looks up the speeds, and has their
answer.
- A Geek goes to a website, finds the information, writes a program to
download the page and parse the dense presentational markup, and produce
a searchable database. And then they have their answer.
Hmm... I'm really inefficient!]
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> (NB. I am not aware of any HTTP libraries for Haskell, so I'm handling
> HTTP manually. Similarly, I am not using any XML library, just plain
> string matching.)
You could have just copy and pasted the table into Excel, then saved as csv
if you really needed it.
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And lo on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:33:29 +0100, Bill Pragnell
<bil### [at] hotmail com> did spake, saying:
> Invisible wrote:
>> Gail Shaw wrote:
>>
>>> Isn't it also the place with 80% or so of the IT work in England?
>> The qualification "IT" is superfluous. ;-)
>> [But then, "London" now covers about 25% of all the land space in the
>> UK, so...]
>
> Hmm, taking Doctor John's figures of 30x50km and assuming London to be
> rectangular, let's call it an even 1500 km2. An overestimation, but it's
> the right order of magnitude. That's about 1.2% of England alone
> according to Wikipedia, and barely 0.6% of the UK as a whole...
Conceptually it's about 25% of all land space though :-P
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>> [But then, "London" now covers about 25% of all the land space in the
>> UK, so...]
>
> Hmm, taking Doctor John's figures of 30x50km and assuming London to be
> rectangular, let's call it an even 1500 km2. An overestimation, but it's
> the right order of magnitude. That's about 1.2% of England alone
> according to Wikipedia, and barely 0.6% of the UK as a whole...
>
> That's interesting, I've never had cause to work it out before and it's
> actually bigger than I imagined.
Pretty big, eh?
I'm told in ancient times, "London" was a small town in the edges of the
Thames river. Since then it's grown, swallowing other towns around it,
until now it makes up a significant fraction of the whole country.
> I couldn't comment on the proportion of the IT sector that resides
> there, however. :-)
Like I said, I think 80% of *all* employment is in London. Certainly if
you ask Monster for jobs, almost all of them are from London. And it
doesn't seem to matter *what* kind of jobs you ask for!
[Then again, when I changed Monster to search by postcode rather than
geographic area, it started giving me jobs only from Canada, so maybe
Monster is just defective!]
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On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:33:29 +0100, Bill Pragnell
<bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>
>Hmm, taking Doctor John's figures of 30x50km and assuming London to be
>rectangular, let's call it an even 1500 km2. An overestimation, but it's
>the right order of magnitude. That's about 1.2% of England alone
>according to Wikipedia, and barely 0.6% of the UK as a whole...
Have you ever heard of the 7.84 company?
--
Regards
Stephen
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Stephen wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:33:29 +0100, Bill Pragnell
> <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>
>> Hmm, taking Doctor John's figures of 30x50km and assuming London to be
>> rectangular, let's call it an even 1500 km2. An overestimation, but it's
>> the right order of magnitude. That's about 1.2% of England alone
>> according to Wikipedia, and barely 0.6% of the UK as a whole...
>
> Have you ever heard of the 7.84 company?
I hadn't, until I Wikipediaed it. But I'm still none the wiser... you'll
have to explain the relevance (words of 1 syllable, please!)
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On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:32:09 +0100, Bill Pragnell
<bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>Stephen wrote:
>> On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:33:29 +0100, Bill Pragnell
>> <bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>>
>>> Hmm, taking Doctor John's figures of 30x50km and assuming London to be
>>> rectangular, let's call it an even 1500 km2. An overestimation, but it's
>>> the right order of magnitude. That's about 1.2% of England alone
>>> according to Wikipedia, and barely 0.6% of the UK as a whole...
>>
>> Have you ever heard of the 7.84 company?
>
>I hadn't, until I Wikipediaed it. But I'm still none the wiser... you'll
>have to explain the relevance (words of 1 syllable, please!)
It is a reference to 84% of the land in Scotland being owned by 7% of
the population.
As for relevance it flew into my head like a cosmic ray leaving a
trail of light. For the backfill on the story we need to meet up in
London for the next LonPovCon ;)
--
Regards
Stephen
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Stephen wrote:
> As for relevance it flew into my head like a cosmic ray leaving a
> trail of light. For the backfill on the story we need to meet up in
> London for the next LonPovCon ;)
Aha, the elusive Inspiration Particle, otherwise doomed to be wasted on
the minds of poorly-equipped recipients.
LonPovCon, aye :)
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