Re: Card on fire

2016-07-11 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 10 July 2016 at 02:43:42 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Got a text from Walter - his famous fanless graphics card caught fire along with the motherboard. He'll be outta commission for a few days. -- Andrei I hope he wasn't using it on the back of a camel in the desert... http://fo

Re: DConf Videos

2016-07-01 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 16:22:18 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote: On Monday, 6 June 2016 at 10:40:01 UTC, sarn wrote: What's the best source of DConf videos at the moment? Are there are any edited versions released? I'd like to share some of my favourite talks. Also, where are the DConf 2016 v

Re: Always false float comparisons

2016-05-16 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 16 May 2016 at 06:46:59 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 5/15/2016 10:37 PM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote: [...] Because, as I explained, that results in a 2x or more speed degradation (along with the loss of accuracy). [...] I used to do numerics work professionally. Most of the

Re: Please mark off-topic discussions with [OT]

2016-05-14 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 14 May 2016 at 14:41:06 UTC, ZombineDev wrote: On Saturday, 14 May 2016 at 14:32:03 UTC, Mike James wrote: On Saturday, 14 May 2016 at 13:07:56 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: The thread "Github names & avatars" is not related to the D language, and adds much traffic to the forum.

Re: Please mark off-topic discussions with [OT]

2016-05-14 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 14 May 2016 at 13:07:56 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: The thread "Github names & avatars" is not related to the D language, and adds much traffic to the forum. Please place [OT] in title when posting anything that is not releated to the D language. Thanks, Andrei A lot of me

Re: D ranked as #25 by IEEE spectrum

2015-09-25 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 09:17:46 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Friday, 25 September 2015 at 08:45:08 UTC, Kagamin wrote: [...] Well, gnome is written entirely in C AFAIK, so it's definitely possible to write full-scale desktop applications in C without C++. But off the top of my he

Re: Interesting user mistake

2015-09-04 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 4 September 2015 at 14:05:09 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Friday, 4 September 2015 at 13:55:03 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: [...] [snip] [...] Isn't it called Maximal Munch... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximal_munch Regards, --

Re: Current state of GUI's

2015-09-03 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 3 September 2015 at 12:19:25 UTC, motaito wrote: Hi, I haven't used D before and wanted to take a closer look at it. However, there are a few things that keep me from doing so. Most notably I am somewhat confused about the state of GUI's. I have looked at a couple projects and on

extending 'import' using 'with'

2015-04-01 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d
Just a thought... How about adding the keyword 'with' to 'import' to save on typing :-) import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Canvas, org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite, org.eclipse.swt.events.DisposeListener, org.eclipse.swt.events.DisposeEvent, org.eclipse.swt.events

Re: A few notes on choosing between Go and D for a quick project

2015-03-24 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 20 March 2015 at 20:34:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/20/2015 8:25 AM, weaselcat wrote: All of the content on rosettacode appears to be licensed under GNU FDL, I believe it would just have to be released under the GNU FDL or a similar copyleft license that fulfills the GNU FDL.

Re: Would Lcl be better if it was in D?

2015-03-01 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 1 March 2015 at 20:41:30 UTC, Taylor Hillegeist wrote: So I was using the Lazarus IDE the other day, and i thought to myself, what if i create an application with only a button in it. well it was easy enough to do. but behold I saw the executable and it was 14 MB, and I said 'well da

Re: NASA/JPL Rules for writing Critical Software

2015-01-09 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d
"Walter Bright" wrote in message news:m8n4c2$2ovq$1...@digitalmars.com... http://pixelscommander.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/P10.pdf Misra is also a good set of guidelines to follow... http://www.misra.org.uk/ -=mike=-

D Language Specification corrupted.

2014-09-30 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d
Hi, The PDF of the D Language Specification appears to be corrupted - it only contains the front index. Regards, -=mike=-

Re: What are the worst parts of D?

2014-09-26 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d
"H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d" wrote in message news:mailman.1690.1411686833.5783.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:56:55PM +, Sean Kelly via Digitalmars-d wrote: .. Nah, they should be behead() and amputate(). Then the language would have to be called jihaDi..

Re: Case for std.experimental

2014-07-30 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d
"Andrei Alexandrescu" wrote in message news:lr8r7a$j7v$1...@digitalmars.com... On 7/29/14, 12:01 PM, Sean Kelly wrote: Frankly, if Dub is bundled with D, I don't see any reason for std.experimental to exist. Those two ideas just seemed to develop in parallel. The way I see it: * dub: a loos