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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?
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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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On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:56:19 +0100, Bill Pragnell
<bil### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>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.
>
A drappie of the Cratur helps
>LonPovCon, aye :)
It is an excuse :)
--
Regards
Stephen
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"Stephen" <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom> wrote in message
news:6lm4649t91kbg5h8tf1pmc8012l8fue7i6@4ax.com...
> London for the next LonPovCon ;)
>
I read that as LonPubCon, which probably isn't far from the truth.
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