Re: Our hackernews presence

2014-03-04 Thread Vladimir Panteleev
On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 07:49:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello, I've noticed only few votes and activity on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7336616 (at least compared to reddit, twitter etc). The submission is marked as [dead]. I think it was killed by a moderator.

Re: Our hackernews presence

2014-03-04 Thread Paulo Pinto
On 04.03.2014 08:49, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello, I've noticed only few votes and activity on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7336616 (at least compared to reddit, twitter etc). I encourage you all to get on hackernews. It's a solid geek news site with a lot of visibility. Articles t

Re: RFC: Units of measurement for D (Phobos?)

2014-03-04 Thread Nicolas Sicard
On Wednesday, 26 February 2014 at 22:49:57 UTC, Nordlöw wrote: On Wednesday, 26 February 2014 at 21:41:57 UTC, Kelet wrote: Tangentially related: https://github.com/biozic/quantities Impressive! This seems similar to David Nadlingers std.units and std.si. When will all these efforts on imple

Re: super(...) in mixin template

2014-03-04 Thread Steve Teale
On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 07:23:29 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: Perhaps you already figured this out but template mixins can only mixin declarations, not expression or statements. -- /Jacob Carlborg Damn! Yup, first sentence of the documentation. Wishful reading. Thanks. Steve

Re: super(...) in mixin template

2014-03-04 Thread John Colvin
On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 10:37:02 UTC, Steve Teale wrote: On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 07:23:29 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: Perhaps you already figured this out but template mixins can only mixin declarations, not expression or statements. -- /Jacob Carlborg Damn! Yup, first sentence of t

Re: super(...) in mixin template

2014-03-04 Thread John Colvin
On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 12:01:46 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 10:37:02 UTC, Steve Teale wrote: On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 07:23:29 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: Perhaps you already figured this out but template mixins can only mixin declarations, not expression or sta

Re: RFC: Units of measurement for D (Phobos?)

2014-03-04 Thread Nordlöw
Thanks! I think David Nadlingers' is more elaborate (scaled and affine units) and less prone to rounding errors. I haven't used it yet. Mine is more basic but has a parsing system that I use to So you cannot defined things lika kPa from Pa in compile-time? define units quickly at compile-time

Re: Our hackernews presence

2014-03-04 Thread bearophile
Vladimir Panteleev: The submission is marked as [dead]. I think it was killed by a moderator. Do you know why? Bye, bearophile

Re: DMD via MacPorts has a problem

2014-03-04 Thread Russel Winder
On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 09:23 +0900, Takeshi Enomoto wrote: […] > I updated dmd, druntime, phobos, dmd-doc and dmd-tools to 2.065.0 > and have just committed the changes. Sponditious. They work for me fine on a MBP with OSX Mavericks. However on a white MB with OSX Lion (*) the install of DMD fail

Re: Our hackernews presence

2014-03-04 Thread Vladimir Panteleev
On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 13:48:19 UTC, bearophile wrote: Vladimir Panteleev: The submission is marked as [dead]. I think it was killed by a moderator. Do you know why? No. I can only guess that it struck a moderator as spammish. I think mentioning registration discounts in the title was

Re: Our hackernews presence

2014-03-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/4/14, 1:03 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 07:49:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello, I've noticed only few votes and activity on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7336616 (at least compared to reddit, twitter etc). The submission is marked as [dead]. I

Re: Our hackernews presence

2014-03-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/4/14, 6:49 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: I think mentioning registration discounts in the title was not helpful. I think a better title would have been "D programming language 2014 conference: schedule announced" or something like that. Trying again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7

Re: Philosophy of how OS API imports are laid out in druntime

2014-03-04 Thread Craig Dillabaugh
On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 00:09:47 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: This is an important debate going on here: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/732 It has a wide impact, and so I'm bringing it up here so everyone can participate. You mean the debate about copyright notices

Re: Cross Compiler

2014-03-04 Thread Jeroen Bollen
On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 01:22:15 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Monday, 3 March 2014 at 19:03:20 UTC, Jeroen Bollen wrote: Just realized that's probably the missing runtime. Why does it need a runtime though? It's just returning. There's some hidden references to the runtime outputted, espe

Re: RFC: Units of measurement for D (Phobos?)

2014-03-04 Thread Nicolas Sicard
On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 13:20:02 UTC, Nordlöw wrote: Thanks! I think David Nadlingers' is more elaborate (scaled and affine units) and less prone to rounding errors. I haven't used it yet. Mine is more basic but has a parsing system that I use to So you cannot defined things lika kPa from

Re: Our hackernews presence

2014-03-04 Thread Asman01
On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 15:16:43 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/4/14, 6:49 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: I think mentioning registration discounts in the title was not helpful. I think a better title would have been "D programming language 2014 conference: schedule announced" or some

Re: Our hackernews presence

2014-03-04 Thread Asman01
On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 07:49:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello, I've noticed only few votes and activity on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7336616 (at least compared to reddit, twitter etc). I encourage you all to get on hackernews. It's a solid geek news site with a lot

Re: DMD via MacPorts has a problem

2014-03-04 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2014-03-04 15:29, Russel Winder wrote: Sponditious. They work for me fine on a MBP with OSX Mavericks. However on a white MB with OSX Lion (*) the install of DMD fails. The problem appears to be that Clang cannot link the object files since the object files are not built for x86 architectur

Re: Our hackernews presence

2014-03-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/4/14, 7:16 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/4/14, 6:49 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: I think mentioning registration discounts in the title was not helpful. I think a better title would have been "D programming language 2014 conference: schedule announced" or something like that. Tryin

Re: Philosophy of how OS API imports are laid out in druntime

2014-03-04 Thread Sean Kelly
On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 00:09:47 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: This is an important debate going on here: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/732 It has a wide impact, and so I'm bringing it up here so everyone can participate. I think the current debate is more a result

Re: Philosophy of how OS API imports are laid out in druntime

2014-03-04 Thread Walter Bright
On 3/4/2014 7:53 AM, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 00:09:47 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: This is an important debate going on here: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/732 It has a wide impact, and so I'm bringing it up here so everyone can participate.

Re: Our hackernews presence

2014-03-04 Thread Walter Bright
On 3/4/2014 10:28 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/4/14, 7:16 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/4/14, 6:49 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: I think mentioning registration discounts in the title was not helpful. I think a better title would have been "D programming language 2014 conference: s

Booking travel for Dconf 2014

2014-03-04 Thread Walter Bright
I booked mine last night, belatedly discovering that flights are full and I got stuck with an unfortunate schedule. I recommend that all those going to Dconf book their travel arrangements ASAP! Also, I remember last year some people had trouble getting visas in time - there can be long bureau

Re: Our hackernews presence

2014-03-04 Thread Brad Anderson
On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 21:12:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/4/2014 10:28 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Apparently this post didn't get deleted, right? But it clearly didn't make it to the big leagues, I see it in position 205 now. That one got marked as 'dead' too. Hackernews is m

Re: Booking travel for Dconf 2014

2014-03-04 Thread Adam Wilson
On Tue, 04 Mar 2014 13:30:07 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: I booked mine last night, belatedly discovering that flights are full and I got stuck with an unfortunate schedule. I recommend that all those going to Dconf book their travel arrangements ASAP! Also, I remember last year some pe

Re: Our hackernews presence

2014-03-04 Thread Walter Bright
On 3/4/2014 1:30 PM, Brad Anderson wrote: Anyway, there's my little rant about Hacker News. I still go there daily :) I do, too, but I gave up posting links there.

Re: Our hackernews presence

2014-03-04 Thread Meta
On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 21:12:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: That one got marked as 'dead' too. Hackernews is mostly a Go site. I'd be very surprised if they deleted a Go conference announcement. Something seems weird here. It might be worth emailing the maintainers and asking why it keeps

Re: Our hackernews presence

2014-03-04 Thread John J
On 03/04/2014 10:16 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/4/14, 6:49 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: I think mentioning registration discounts in the title was not helpful. I think a better title would have been "D programming language 2014 conference: schedule announced" or something like that. T

Re: Our hackernews presence

2014-03-04 Thread Meta
On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 23:35:25 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote: On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 22:42:34 UTC, Meta wrote: but I doubt they would pay much attention to an anonymous D fan. Probably not any less than the original submitter. I can't say I like the moderation choices /r/programming ma

Re: Our hackernews presence

2014-03-04 Thread Jesse Phillips
On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 22:42:34 UTC, Meta wrote: but I doubt they would pay much attention to an anonymous D fan. Probably not any less than the original submitter. I can't say I like the moderation choices /r/programming makes, they seem to suck if you don't have lots of rep.

Sierra, a SIMD extension for C++

2014-03-04 Thread bearophile
An interesting paper: http://www.cdl.uni-saarland.de/papers/lhh14.pdf Recently Andrei in a post has written that in D "we have an almost working X, an almost working Y, etc". Thinking more about this I agree that while implementing the simplest possible idea has large engineering advantages (

Re: Our hackernews presence

2014-03-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/4/14, 1:12 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/4/2014 10:28 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/4/14, 7:16 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 3/4/14, 6:49 AM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: I think mentioning registration discounts in the title was not helpful. I think a better title would have been

Re: Our hackernews presence

2014-03-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/4/14, 2:42 PM, Meta wrote: On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 21:12:00 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: That one got marked as 'dead' too. Hackernews is mostly a Go site. I'd be very surprised if they deleted a Go conference announcement. Something seems weird here. It might be worth emailing the main

[OT] Wolfram Language

2014-03-04 Thread Xinok
I'm sure lots of you will find this interesting. Wolfram Research, the same organization that makes WolframAlpha and Mathematica, has officially announced the Wolfram Language. The thing I find most intriguing is the interoperability of the vastly varied components of the language. http://www

Re: super(...) in mixin template

2014-03-04 Thread luminousone
On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 12:04:12 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 12:01:46 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 10:37:02 UTC, Steve Teale wrote: On Tuesday, 4 March 2014 at 07:23:29 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: Perhaps you already figured this out but templ