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From: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] NUMA
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 20:29:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110716202922.0901e060@lahti.ethans.dre.am> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110716180627.GA29488@polynum.com>

On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 20:06:27 +0200
tlaronde@polynum.com wrote:

> There is an english expression, IIRC: penny wise and pound fool.

Very close: penny wise and pound foolish. (Possibly capitalise Pound to be correct.)

I had not heard this expression for years. Now you've reminded me of it, I wonder what else it could be applied to. Gcc perhaps?



  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-16 19:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-15 15:15 tlaronde
2011-07-15 20:21 ` tlaronde
2011-07-15 20:47   ` ron minnich
2011-07-15 22:59     ` Charles Forsyth
2011-07-16  8:02     ` tlaronde
2011-07-16 16:27       ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-16 18:06         ` tlaronde
2011-07-16 19:29           ` Ethan Grammatikidis [this message]
2011-07-16 19:54           ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-16 20:56             ` dexen deVries
2011-07-16 22:10               ` Charles Forsyth
2011-07-17  1:44                 ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-17  7:38                   ` tlaronde
2011-07-17  8:44                     ` Bakul Shah
2011-07-17 10:02                       ` tlaronde
2011-07-17 12:04                         ` dexen deVries
2011-07-17 15:24                       ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-17 15:28                         ` ron minnich
     [not found]                         ` <CAP6exYL2DJXbKfPZ8+D5uL=fRWKEyr8vY2OVc4NTO3wsFo=Unw@mail.gmail.c>
2011-07-17 15:32                           ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-17 17:16                         ` Bakul Shah
2011-07-17 17:21                           ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-17 15:51                     ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-17 16:12                       ` dexen deVries
2011-07-17 16:37                       ` tlaronde
2011-07-17 10:08               ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-07-17 14:50                 ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-17 17:01                   ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2011-07-17  3:39       ` Joel C. Salomon
2011-07-17  7:01         ` tlaronde
2011-07-17 15:05           ` Joel C. Salomon
2011-07-17 15:26           ` erik quanstrom
2011-07-17 15:52             ` ComeauAt9Fans@gmail.com

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