Morning! ☕

moin moin

morning

@bronsa just tell @jr0cket. He's doing most of the ldnclj organising atm

morning

morning

morning

@bronsa I might even come up to london for that!

i don't believe that for one second

😂

what I mean is, If I am already coming to london on a nearby date I might slightly amend my plans so that I can do that also, up to a maximum of 1 day either side

Watching downton abbey, I was struck by how they said they went 'up to London', even though there were based in Yorkshire which is north of London. I think it was posh to say 'going up to London' regardless of your geographical location, because you are ascending from your common dwelling up to the capital.

we need a matrix of location to location and whether people say going up to or down to

In my neck of the woods (Lancashire), it seems more usual to speak of going ‘down’ to London, but I suppose that the association of North with ‘up’ is somewhat arbitrary.

it's a binary decision, choose one of the poles to represent 'up'

when I lived in Hants we would go 'up to London' and my assumption always was that this was due to the fact that it was north of us.

maybe they accidentally said 'up to London' as Downton Abbey was filmed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highclere_Castle

which is in Hampshire

Mornin’ everyone ☕

they didn't say it accidentally - it was definitely a repetitive thing, unless they were trying to create a parallel universe where Yorkshire was south of London

Yeah, you are dead right ^^ @jonpither - they said it all the time because it was the vernacular of the time.

People went “up to London” from Scotland.

extra points for using the word vernacular

i’d definitely head “down to” london now

@glenjamin - Oh yeah, me too, but I’m not an inter-war landed gent 😉

(if I were I would not be allowed to wear hoodies and that would be simply intolerable)

I think for some people it depends more on relative perceived status than on geographical notions of up and down.

i.e. if you think that London is the bees knees then it is ‘up’, if you think it a putrid festering accretion of ‘hoi poloi’ and ‘nouveau riche’ then it is ‘down’

as a londoner, this is all very amusing

@sundarj maybe you can go side ways?

are you telling me to func myself sideways

how rude 🙂

Whenever I see “how rude” in text I always hear it as delivered by Jar Jar Binks…

works for me

Please can we avoid swearing or other offensive language in this channel.

sorry, will do

afternoon!

thanks for the apology and the edit 🙂 ( sophisticated euphemisms are acceptable in small doses)

@bronsa The next London Clojurians talk evening is the 3rd October. We are looking for speakers for any length of talk, from 5 minutes to a maximum of 2 hours

could do, I'm flying back to london the 1st of october :)

You can use the https://bit.ly/ldnclj-speak form to submit an idea, chat to me directly here on slack or on this channel

Speaking at the meetup is a great way to practice a talk for the ClojureX conference on 4th-5th December https://skillsmatter.com/conferences/8783-clojure-exchange-2017

We should be announcing more speakers for the ClojureX conference over the coming weeks. If you still haven't submitted a talk then contact me directly with your ideas, we have a couple of talks & lightning talk spaces left to fill

how long are the lightning sessions?

https://github.com/satwikkansal/wtfPython/blob/master/README.md I realise that, consistent syntax is both hard and important while reading this.

can you imagine trying to debug one of those?

and i guess you'd have to commit a lot of them to memory so that whenever something goes wrong you can make sure it's not any of them