Re: Where are all the Perl programmers?

[talexb]

One more suggestion that no one's mentioned yet: offer your employees a bounty on a Perl programmer. It's surprising sometimes how large some people's network is, and who they know.

Failing that, consider hiring some good community college graduates and grow your own Perl programmers.

Good luck with that, and let us know how it all turned out.

[holli]

Wasn't there this theory that says everyone on earth can be connected to any other person by a maximum of 7 persons in between? I googled, but seem to fail to use the right keywords.

[bmann]

"six degrees of separation" (or "six degrees of kevin bacon ;) should find what you're looking for.

Check out the Oracle of Bacon, a fun way to kill some time.

Update: I just spent 10 minutes randomly entering actors/actresses, and I can't get a Bacon Number higher than 2!

[SamCG]

Harpo Marx - 3
Charlie Chaplin - 3
W.C. Fields - 3
Anthony J. Baker has a Bacon number of 3
greta garbo has a Bacon number of 3.


also randomly entering, though I got numbers as high as 4 by picking a chinese name, getting it slightly wrong, and then picking a different chinese name from the list of choices.

[talexb]

Well, this is off topic, but I had quite a surreal moment while watching Bob Blumer on The Surreal Gourmet a few months back -- he was entertaining Heidi von Palleske. I went to university with Heidi's sister Aurora and was at Heidi's book launch a few years back in Toronto; and I know Bob from growing up in Montreal and later when he managed Jane Siberry in Toronto.

Weird.