Re: Mobile is the new PC and AArch64 is the new x64

2018-09-16 Thread Gambler via Digitalmars-d
On 9/15/2018 11:25 AM, Joakim wrote: > On Friday, 14 September 2018 at 09:23:24 UTC, Dave Jones wrote: >> On Thursday, 13 September 2018 at 22:56:31 UTC, Joakim wrote: >>> On Thursday, 13 September 2018 at 22:41:08 UTC, Nick Sabalausky >>> (Abscissa) wrote: On 09/10/2018 11:13 PM, tide wrote:

Re: Mobile is the new PC and AArch64 is the new x64

2018-09-16 Thread Gambler via Digitalmars-d
On 9/12/2018 11:38 AM, Joakim wrote:> On Wednesday, 12 September 2018 at 06:41:38 UTC, Gambler wrote: >> On 9/10/2018 9:43 AM, Joakim wrote: >>> Yes, I know, these devices won't replace your quad-core Xeon >>> workstation with 32-64 GBs of RAM anytime soon, but mos

Re: Mobile is the new PC and AArch64 is the new x64

2018-09-11 Thread Gambler via Digitalmars-d
On 9/10/2018 9:43 AM, Joakim wrote: > Yes, I know, these devices won't replace your quad-core Xeon workstation > with 32-64 GBs of RAM anytime soon, but most people don't need anywhere > near that level of compute. That's why PC sales keep dropping while > mobile sales are now 6-7X that per year: I

Re: This thread on Hacker News terrifies me

2018-09-03 Thread Gambler via Digitalmars-d
On 9/3/2018 1:55 PM, Gambler wrote: > There is this VR game called Fantastic Contraption. Its interface is > light-years ahead of anything else I've seen in VR. The point of the > game is to design animated 3D structures that solve the problem of > traversing various obstacles

Re: This thread on Hacker News terrifies me

2018-09-03 Thread Gambler via Digitalmars-d
I have to delete some quoted text to make this manageable. On 9/2/2018 5:07 PM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: > [...] > GUI programming has been attempted a lot. (See Scratch for one of the > latest, possibly most successful attempts). But there are real, > practical reasons it's never made si

Re: This thread on Hacker News terrifies me

2018-09-02 Thread Gambler via Digitalmars-d
On 9/1/2018 11:42 PM, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: > On 09/01/2018 05:06 PM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: >> >> If you have a specific context (like banking) then you can develop a >> software method that specifies how to build banking software, and >> repeat it, assuming that the banks you deve

Re: This thread on Hacker News terrifies me

2018-09-01 Thread Gambler via Digitalmars-d
On 9/1/2018 7:36 AM, Walter Bright wrote: > On 9/1/2018 2:15 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote: >> On Saturday, 1 September 2018 at 08:19:49 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: >>> On 8/31/2018 11:59 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote: > For example, in any CS program, are there any courses at all about > this? Yes, we

Re: This thread on Hacker News terrifies me

2018-09-01 Thread Gambler via Digitalmars-d
On 8/31/2018 3:50 PM, Walter Bright wrote: > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17880722 > > Typical comments: > > "`assertAndContinue` crashes in dev and logs an error and keeps going in > prod. Each time we want to verify a runtime assumption, we decide which > type of assert to use. We prefe

Re: std.logger

2013-08-23 Thread Gambler
On 8/23/2013 9:48 AM, Robert Schadek wrote: > On 08/23/2013 02:56 PM, Piotr Szturmaj wrote: >> W dniu 23.08.2013 14:16, Robert Schadek pisze: >>> On 08/23/2013 01:10 PM, Piotr Szturmaj wrote: so if I have a LogLevel variable I want to use: LogLevel myLogLevel; I need to wri

Re: OT; Will MS kill .NET ?

2013-08-21 Thread Gambler
On 8/20/2013 3:18 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote: > On Tuesday, 20 August 2013 at 16:07:00 UTC, Kagamin wrote: >> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.type.makegenerictype.aspx >> How would you implement this in native code? > > Like we use to do in the old days when we were forced to rewrite > A

Re: Ideas for a brand new widget toolkit

2013-08-19 Thread Gambler
On 8/19/2013 5:01 PM, Ramon wrote: > I suggest to first find out what we really want (and therefore who "we" > is). ... > My first target would be something like "designing a new 'fox' fully > using D's superior capabilities and doing that along the lines I listed > above". > > In other words: L

Re: Experiments with emscripten and D

2013-08-18 Thread Gambler
On 8/17/2013 5:16 PM, John Colvin wrote: > On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 20:58:09 UTC, Dicebot wrote: >> On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 20:42:33 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: >>> And you'd have to sandbox the code since arbitrary D code running wild >>> on the user's computer is a Bad Thing(tm). Which ru

Re: Experiments with emscripten and D

2013-08-18 Thread Gambler
On 8/18/2013 12:52 AM, deadalnix wrote: > On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 16:43:14 UTC, Piotr Szturmaj wrote: >> What happens when you forget a semicolon or a comma? Or make some >> typos? It silently breaks. I don't care if there are tools to help >> with it. It's still a mess. Did you see WAT >> (

Re: Experiments with emscripten and D

2013-08-17 Thread Gambler
On 8/17/2013 12:43 PM, Piotr Szturmaj wrote: > W dniu 17.08.2013 16:42, Gambler pisze: >> On 8/15/2013 5:55 PM, Piotr Szturmaj wrote: >>> bearophile: >>>> Piotr Szturmaj: >>>> I have found some related activity from Rust people: >>>>

Re: Experiments with emscripten and D

2013-08-17 Thread Gambler
On 8/15/2013 5:55 PM, Piotr Szturmaj wrote: > bearophile: >> Piotr Szturmaj: >> I have found some related activity from Rust people: >> https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/2235 >> https://github.com/Yoric/Mozilla-Student-Projects/issues/33 >> https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2012-Apri

Re: GPGPUs

2013-08-17 Thread Gambler
On 8/13/2013 12:27 PM, Russel Winder wrote: > The era of GPGPUs for Bitcoin mining are now over, they moved to ASICs. > The new market for GPGPUs is likely the banks, and other "Big Data" > folk. True many of the banks are already doing some GPGPU usage, but it > is not big as yet. But it is coming

Re: Evangelizing Your Cool Product

2013-08-05 Thread Gambler
On 8/5/2013 3:44 PM, Walter Bright wrote: > Throwing code up on github isn't good enough. On a related note, I almost never hear about D projects on Hacker News. It's a good place for language promition. Heck, even vanilla github project get up-voted there if they have some kind of cool factor to

Re: Article on programming language adoption (x-post from /r/programming)

2013-08-05 Thread Gambler
On 8/1/2013 9:21 AM, Dicebot wrote: >> They see more value in unit > tests than types, both overall and as a debugging aid. Fur- > thermore, how features are presented strongly influences > developer feelings about them, such as prioritizing class in- > terfaces much higher than static types > > S

Re: With statement become like C#'s using?

2013-08-05 Thread Gambler
On 8/5/2013 11:30 AM, Bosak wrote: > On Monday, 5 August 2013 at 13:54:38 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: >> On Monday, 5 August 2013 at 13:42:01 UTC, Michal Minich wrote: >>> But what Bosak proposes is that when "with" statements ends, the >>> object should be destructed >> >> That would happen if the o