Re: [OT] Re: C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

2018-08-03 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 31 July 2018 at 22:55:08 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: Dpp doesn't work with STL yet. I asked Atila how long to #include vector and he thought maybe two months of full-time work. That's not out of the question in time, but we have too much else to do right now. I'm not sure if recen

Re: [OT] Re: C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

2018-07-31 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 29 July 2018 at 09:35:06 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote: On Saturday, 28 July 2018 at 14:45:19 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi wrote: I forgot the link... here it is: https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-make-sense-of-the-present-brains-may-predict-the-future-20180710 An interesting article. I found that

Re: [OT] Re: C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

2018-07-31 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 31 July 2018 at 12:02:55 UTC, Kagamin wrote: On Saturday, 28 July 2018 at 19:55:56 UTC, bpr wrote: Are the Mozilla engineers behind it deluded in that they eschew GC and exceptions? I doubt it. They are trying to outcompete Chrome in bugs too. You're not Mozilla. And why you menti

Re: [OT] Re: C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

2018-07-31 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 28 July 2018 at 19:55:56 UTC, bpr wrote: Are the Mozilla engineers behind it deluded in that they eschew GC and exceptions? I doubt it. They are trying to outcompete Chrome in bugs too. You're not Mozilla. And why you mention exceptions, but not bounds checking? Here we kind of

Re: [OT] Re: C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

2018-07-30 Thread bpr via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 28 July 2018 at 21:44:10 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote: On Saturday, 28 July 2018 at 21:27:12 UTC, bpr wrote: I hear you. You're looking (roughly) for a better Java/Go/Scala, and I'm looking for a better C/C++/Rust, at least for what I work on now. I don't think D can be both right now, a

Re: [OT] Re: C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

2018-07-29 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 28 July 2018 at 14:45:19 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi wrote: I forgot the link... here it is: https://www.quantamagazine.org/to-make-sense-of-the-present-brains-may-predict-the-future-20180710 An interesting article. I found that Dennet's Consciousness Explained, which is presumably de

Re: [OT] Re: C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

2018-07-28 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d
On 07/28/2018 05:43 AM, Laeeth Isharc wrote: > It's not that bad calling D from Java. Running D's GC in a thread that is started by an external runtime (like Java's) can be problematic. If a D function on another D-runtime thread needs to run a collection, then it will not know about this Java

Re: [OT] Re: C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

2018-07-28 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
On 7/28/2018 7:09 AM, Laeeth Isharc wrote: Opportunities are abundant where people aren't looking because they don't want to. My father told me I wasn't at all afraid of hard work. I could lie down right next to it and go to sleep.

Re: [OT] Re: C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

2018-07-28 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 28 July 2018 at 21:27:12 UTC, bpr wrote: I hear you. You're looking (roughly) for a better Java/Go/Scala, and I'm looking for a better C/C++/Rust, at least for what I work on now. I don't think D can be both right now, and that the language which can satisfy both of us doesn't e

Re: [OT] Re: C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

2018-07-28 Thread bpr via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 28 July 2018 at 20:34:37 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote: On Saturday, 28 July 2018 at 19:55:56 UTC, bpr wrote: On Saturday, 28 July 2018 at 15:36:43 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote: I think that I no longer fall into the category of developer that D is after. D is targeting pedal-to-the-metal requiremen

Re: [OT] Re: C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

2018-07-28 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 28 July 2018 at 19:55:56 UTC, bpr wrote: On Saturday, 28 July 2018 at 15:36:43 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote: I think that I no longer fall into the category of developer that D is after. D is targeting pedal-to-the-metal requirements, and I don't need that. TBH I think 99% of developers do

Re: [OT] Re: C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

2018-07-28 Thread bpr via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 28 July 2018 at 15:36:43 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote: I think that I no longer fall into the category of developer that D is after. D is targeting pedal-to-the-metal requirements, and I don't need that. TBH I think 99% of developers don't need it. I'm 99% sure you just made that number u

Re: [OT] Re: C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

2018-07-28 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 28 July 2018 at 12:43:55 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: It's tough when dealing with genuine - Knightian uncertainty or even more radical versions. When one doesn't even know the structure of the problem then maximising expected utility doesn't work. One can look at capacities - Cho

Re: [OT] Re: C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

2018-07-28 Thread Paolo Invernizzi via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 28 July 2018 at 14:09:44 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: On Saturday, 28 July 2018 at 13:55:31 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi Perceptions, expectations, prediction... an easy read I suggest on the latest trends [1], if someone is interested... I forgot the link... here it is: https://www.qua

Re: [OT] Re: C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

2018-07-28 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 28 July 2018 at 13:55:31 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi wrote: On Saturday, 28 July 2018 at 12:43:55 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: each project I start I give some very hard thought about which development environment I'm going to use, and D is often one of those options. The likely future of

Re: [OT] Re: C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

2018-07-28 Thread Paolo Invernizzi via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 28 July 2018 at 12:43:55 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: each project I start I give some very hard thought about which development environment I'm going to use, and D is often one of those options. The likely future of D on the different platforms is an important part of that assessme

Re: [OT] Re: C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

2018-07-28 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 28 July 2018 at 11:09:28 UTC, Abdulhaq wrote: On Friday, 27 July 2018 at 23:42:47 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: For me, I think that managing money is about choosing to expose your capital intelligently to the market, balancing the risk of loss against the prospective gain and conside

[OT] Re: C's Biggest Mistake on Hacker News

2018-07-28 Thread Abdulhaq via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 27 July 2018 at 23:42:47 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: For me, I think that managing money is about choosing to expose your capital intelligently to the market, balancing the risk of loss against the prospective gain and considering this in a portfolio sense. Prediction doesn't really