OT

2012-01-25 Thread Trass3r
For some reason your messages never have the proper position (i.e. they aren't connected with the post the respond to) in the message tree.

[OT]

2010-08-17 Thread Michal Minich
Hi, could somebody please approve my email to phobos mailing list. I received message: ...Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. The reason it is being held: Post to moderated list... I suppose the moderation is only for first message... Thank you.

[OT] ...

2016-06-23 Thread Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d
On 24.06.2016 01:58, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 01:33:46AM +0200, Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d wrote: On 24.06.2016 00:53, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote: Because 0^^0 = 1, and 1 is representable. E.g. n^^m counts the number of functions from an m-set to an

Re: [OT] [ot Programming language WATs

2012-01-20 Thread Adam D. Ruppe
On Friday, 20 January 2012 at 15:40:44 UTC, Robert Clipsham wrote: Just came across this amusing 4 minute video: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat Anyone have any other WATs you can do in other languages? Bonus points for WATs you can do in D.

Re: OT

2012-01-25 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Wednesday, January 25, 2012 22:37:41 Trass3r wrote: > For some reason your messages never have the proper position (i.e. they > aren't connected with the post the respond to) in the message tree. I believe that it has something to do with newsgroup vs mailing list post, but I'm not sure. It co

OT: Editors

2012-08-02 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On 8/3/12, Walter Bright wrote: > An editor I wrote years ago had the rendering code in a separate thread from > user input. You never had to wait to type in commands, the rendering would > catch up when it could. I bet every programmer eventually tries to implement their own editor, even if just

OT: scrypt

2012-08-08 Thread Johannes Pfau
Am Wed, 08 Aug 2012 11:27:49 +0200 schrieb Piotr Szturmaj : > > Yes, there should be bcrypt, scrypt and PBKDF2. Wow, I didn't know about scrypt. Seems to be pretty cool.

[100% OT]

2010-07-15 Thread BCS
OK, only 98% http://www.hulu.com/initial-d -- ... <

Re: [OT]

2010-08-17 Thread simendsjo
On 17.08.2010 22:01, Michal Minich wrote: Hi, could somebody please approve my email to phobos mailing list. I received message: ...Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. The reason it is being held: Post to moderated list... I suppose the moderation is only fo

Re: [OT]

2010-08-17 Thread Brad Roberts
TC) > From: Michal Minich > Reply-To: digitalmars.D > To: digitalmars-d@puremagic.com > Newsgroups: digitalmars.D > Subject: [OT] > > Hi, could somebody please approve my email to phobos mailing list. I > received message: > > ...Is being held until the list moderato

Re: [OT]

2010-08-17 Thread Walter Bright
Brad Roberts wrote: All new subscribers to any of the d lists I host are subject to a first post moderation hiccup due to spam systems that are actually smart enough to subscribe to lists that are restricted to subscriber only posting. It's happened a couple times to my lists. The one step mo

Re: [OT]

2010-08-17 Thread Johannes Pfau
On 17.08.2010 22:01, Michal Minich wrote: > Hi, could somebody please approve my email to phobos mailing list. I > received message: > > Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. > > The reason it is being held: > >Post to moderated list... > > I suppose the mo

Re: [OT]

2010-08-17 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Tuesday, August 17, 2010 13:59:54 Johannes Pfau wrote: > On 17.08.2010 22:01, Michal Minich wrote: > > Hi, could somebody please approve my email to phobos mailing list. I > > received message: > > > > Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval. > > > > The reason it

Re: [OT]

2010-08-17 Thread Vladimir Panteleev
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:58:26 +0300, Walter Bright wrote: Unless Michal is a spam bot!! http://www.thesecretknots.com/2009/03/17/on-spam/ -- Best regards, Vladimirmailto:vladi...@thecybershadow.net

[OT] Empire

2014-07-19 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
Heh, Walter wrote a game that "inspired a great deal of the strategic gaming genre, most notably including Civilization:" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Empire Other than a couple mentions in this newsgroup, I'd never heard of this game, now available in D: http://www.classicempire.com

Re: [OT] ...

2016-06-23 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d
On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 02:40:15AM +0200, Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On 24.06.2016 01:58, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 01:33:46AM +0200, Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d > > wrote: > > > On 24.06.2016 00:53, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote: > > > > > >

Re: [OT] ...

2016-06-24 Thread Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d
On 24.06.2016 08:49, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote: >I don't care about any of the limits. ^^ has an essential >discontinuity at (0,0), so the limits don't need to have a bearing on >how you define the value, but if they do, consider that there is only >one direction in which the limit is 0,

Re: [OT] ...

2016-06-24 Thread Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d
On 24.06.2016 08:49, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote: ...How do you define "number of functions" when m and n are non-integer? ... I don't. But even when n is an arbitrary real number, I still want empty products to be 1. ... Have a look at this plot: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/

Re: [OT] ...

2016-06-24 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 24 June 2016 at 21:11:52 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote: By treating 0^0 consistently as 1, you never run into this kind of problem. Doesn't this demonstrate that they are doing it wrong? How would you design the notation? You really need to look at the context. It is not uncommon that solv

Re: [OT] ...

2016-06-24 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d
Btw, one might take the view that "pown(real x,int y)" is describing monomials: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomial Whereas "powr(real x,real y)" is a shorthand for "exp(y * log(x))".

[OT] Chromebook

2015-06-03 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at 04:36:31 UTC, weaselcat wrote: chromebooks weren't even really usable until the latter half of 2013/start of 2014 when Acer/HP/Dell/Toshiba/etc all got on board and it stopped being just Samsung making them. 2% is huge for less than 2 years. That was the chromebook

OT: int.min

2018-02-05 Thread Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d
On 05.02.2018 22:20, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Ouch. I guess "the real WTF" is that 2's complement leads to supporting one value that cannot be negated. ... Actually, it's not fully supported at this time, but it soon will be. import std.exception; void main(){ auto i = int.min; enforce(

[OT] college

2018-09-02 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 2 September 2018 at 07:56:09 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: On 09/02/2018 02:06 AM, Joakim wrote: On Sunday, 2 September 2018 at 05:16:43 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: Smug as I may have been at the at the time, it wasn't until later I realized the REAL smart ones

[OT] Android

2018-10-19 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 18 October 2018 at 19:37:24 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 07:09:42PM +, Patrick Schluter via Digitalmars-d wrote: [...] I often have the impression that a lot of things are going slower than necessary because a mentality where the perfect is in the way of good.

[OT] Naming

2016-11-30 Thread Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d
On 30.11.2016 22:12, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: On Wednesday, 30 November 2016 at 20:36:34 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote: On 30.11.2016 16:22, Ilya Yaroshenko wrote: Hi, Mir Random has [1, D] 16 out of 20 [2, C++] random number distributions. Remaining 4 are: 1. piecewise_constant_distribution 2. piecew

[OT] Nick's being an ass again (ok, *way* OT)

2011-10-08 Thread Nick Sabalausky
ith anything else. And I'm supposed to believe the people who claim Google isn't a bunch of Orwellian fuckups with their heads up their asses? Seriously, fuck Google. MS were much better overlords. (I was nice enough to properly label it [OT] at least! That counts for something, right? ;) )

[OT] Mozilla Thunderbird

2010-12-16 Thread Justin Johansson
Just wondering how others rate Thunderbird as a decent newsreader. My experience with Thunderbird is that it is not of a standard of distinction that one would hope for in 2010 coming 2011. For one thing, and perhaps this is a newsgroup server problem, but I doubt it, my Thunderbird client sh

[OT] Gibberish webpages

2012-10-01 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
I have a Google alert on "D programming language" and it sometimes yields pages like this: http://swpp.co.uk/lovegovee.php?lib=1612 It looks like random sentences either scraped from other sites or generated using a language model. What would be the purpose of all this? Thanks, Andrei

[OT] for SO

2011-11-28 Thread Jude
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/28/2011 02:56 AM, so wrote: > I think you believe something i would say quite naive, as everyone > have the best intentions, as they just fight for what they believe > right. Maybe it was the case where we were in caves, it is not > now. I'm sorr

Interesting observation [ot]

2011-03-04 Thread uri
This should likely go to d.learn or someplace else. As a simple exercise I tried to build a tool that fetches a list of random news articles written by a single person and determine his or hers time zone based on the frequencies. I first thought the period of sleep would determine the daily rhyt

[OT] GitHub down?

2012-05-11 Thread Nick Sabalausky
Is it just me, or does GitHub (in its entirety) seem to be down today?

OT: phobos name

2012-07-31 Thread akaz
According to Wikipedia: "Phobos (Ancient Greek: Φόβος, pronounced [pʰóbos], meaning "fear" or "terror") is the personification of fear in Greek mythology." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_(mythology) I just discovered that. I find it surprisingly. Fear Terror

Re: OT: Editors

2012-08-02 Thread Bernard Helyer
On Thursday, 2 August 2012 at 22:44:44 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: I bet every programmer eventually tries to implement their own editor Some crazy bastards try and implement ed(1) in x86 assembly. I wouldn't know anything about that, though. >_>

Re: OT: Editors

2012-08-02 Thread Walter Bright
On 8/2/2012 3:44 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 8/3/12, Walter Bright wrote: An editor I wrote years ago had the rendering code in a separate thread from user input. You never had to wait to type in commands, the rendering would catch up when it could. I bet every programmer eventually tries t

[OT] Good webhost?

2011-09-13 Thread Nick Sabalausky
(Sorry for this being so wildly off-topic, but this is the only place I can think of where I already trust the people around to know what they're talking about.) Anyone know of a good webhost? I'm looking for something that matches all of these criteria (not in any order): 1. All the basics: L

[OT] google, wtf?

2011-09-14 Thread Nick Sabalausky
Goddamn, Google is such a fucking piece of shit. If there anything those orwellian dumbshit fuckwads can actually get right? Apperently not...Figures, though, it's all just filled with MS people anyway.

Re: [100% OT]

2010-07-16 Thread Robert Jacques
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:20:59 -0400, BCS wrote: OK, only 98% http://www.hulu.com/initial-d :) Though it seams to be a little incomplete. The company's website (Initial D was re-licensed by Funimation, has several more episodes) Season 1 http://www4.funimation.com/video/?page=show&b=41 Se

Re: [100% OT]

2010-07-16 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Robert Jacques" wrote in message news:op.vfxvndtn26s...@sandford... > On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:20:59 -0400, BCS wrote: > >> OK, only 98% >> >> http://www.hulu.com/initial-d >> > > :) Though it seams to be a little incomplete. The company's website > (Initial D was re-licensed by Funimation, has

Re: [100% OT]

2010-07-16 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Friday, July 16, 2010 11:02:29 Nick Sabalausky wrote: > "Robert Jacques" wrote in message > news:op.vfxvndtn26s...@sandford... > > > On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:20:59 -0400, BCS wrote: > >> OK, only 98% > >> > >> http://www.hulu.com/initial-d > >> > > :) Though it seams to be a little incomplete

Re: [100% OT]

2010-07-16 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Jonathan M Davis" wrote in message news:mailman.365.1279305436.24349.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... > On Friday, July 16, 2010 11:02:29 Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> >> I'm only familiar with Funimation for their treatment of Dragonball, DBZ >> and DBGT (and Kai), and as I recall from way back then,

Re: [100% OT]

2010-07-16 Thread Robert Jacques
On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:54:43 -0400, Nick Sabalausky wrote: "Jonathan M Davis" wrote in message news:mailman.365.1279305436.24349.digitalmar...@puremagic.com... On Friday, July 16, 2010 11:02:29 Nick Sabalausky wrote: I'm only familiar with Funimation for their treatment of Dragonball, DBZ

Re: [100% OT]

2010-07-17 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Robert Jacques" wrote in message news:op.vfy2m9fs26s...@sandford... > > For the record, all the cuts you are talking about were done by 4kids, > which had the broadcast rights to several popular shows, none of which > survived intact. Funimation got the DVD distribution rights and later the >

[OT] Boiling frogs

2010-08-19 Thread Tomek Sowiński
Dnia 19-08-2010 o 23:19:13 Nick Sabalausky napisał(a): I think it's been a bit of a "boiled frog" issue: Discussions tend to drift off-topic just a *little* at a time, so we don't notice until they're already a full-sized completely-offtopic discussion. Why slowly straying off topic is call

OT: Firefox 3.6.10

2010-09-16 Thread Manfred_Nowak
> hundreds of memory leaks have been remedied. Do they mean leaks in the common sense---or in the sense, that they lessened the nummer of calls of a garbage collector? -manfred

[OT]: Memory & Performance

2013-09-03 Thread Chris
If you had the choice between: - 4 GB DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 1 X 4 GB - 8 GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 2 X 4GB ( + $49.00 ) Is it worth the extra money or is the increase in performance not worth mentioning? Any experience with that. The processor 4th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-4

Re: [OT] xombrero

2013-09-05 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2013-09-05 20:12, H. S. Teoh wrote: Hmm. I built xombrero from git, and it seems to be unable to connect to anything. There are no error messages, no nothing -- it just displays the loading icon animation and sits there looking cute but doing absolutely nothing. AFAICT, it didn't even send an

Re: [OT] xombrero

2013-09-05 Thread H. S. Teoh
On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 08:37:36PM +0200, Jacob Carlborg wrote: > On 2013-09-05 20:12, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > >Hmm. I built xombrero from git, and it seems to be unable to connect > >to anything. There are no error messages, no nothing -- it just > >displays the loading icon animation and sits ther

[OT] Language Cocktail

2013-09-18 Thread Namespace
http://consoleblog.me/posts/cocktails-for-programmers Any suggestions for D?

[OT] Engine braking

2013-07-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 7/26/13 11:23 PM, Jordi Sayol wrote: On 27/07/13 01:25, Walter Bright wrote: 2. Using the engine as a brake can cause unburned gas to wash the oil off of the cylinder walls, resulting in excessive wear. [citation needed] Mechanics at the dealer told me this. They had no reason to lie to m

Re: [OT] Empire

2014-07-19 Thread Meta via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 20 July 2014 at 05:03:51 UTC, Joakim wrote: Heh, Walter wrote a game that "inspired a great deal of the strategic gaming genre, most notably including Civilization:" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Empire Other than a couple mentions in this newsgroup, I'd never heard of this

Re: [OT] Empire

2014-07-21 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
On 7/19/2014 11:06 PM, Meta wrote: I have to ask now, what features of other games (probably tabletop based, given the time) did YOU take inspiration from for the first version of Empire, Walter? Mainly Risk.

Slightly OT - Survey

2014-08-31 Thread Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d
As part of my Degree in ICT at CPIT, I do a largish project at the end. Called Industry project. My own is in house, which I proposed. Essentially its a web service to aid learning. It would really help me if anyone who falls under either, student, educator or corporate (admin) to fill in my s

[OT] Ada gems

2014-10-14 Thread eles via Digitalmars-d
Just a bunch of links: http://www.horstpeterhermann.de/ada_related/gems.html This one reminded me D, with some hints about what could still be offered: http://www.adacore.com/adaanswers/gems/ada-gem-7/

ot: vibe.d forum

2014-12-20 Thread Vic via Digitalmars-d
vibe.d forum is down, can't post messages.

[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

[OT] DConf socks

2014-06-09 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
Hello, Someone at DConf left me a pair of handmade socks to pass to a coworker whom they didn't get to meet. I forgot who! Please email me with the answer. Thanks! Andrei

OT: Analog Mars? ;-)

2014-07-08 Thread via Digitalmars-d
http://mars-lang.appspot.com/

OT: Programming Expansibility

2015-10-21 Thread Jeffery via Digitalmars-d
It kinda dawned on me that there are two major issues with programming: [Internal code = code created by you/me, User code = code created by the user to use our code] 1. Extensibility - When we write code that will be used(by anyone), essentially it is wrapped in another layer of indirection.

OT: Vulkan released

2016-02-16 Thread Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d
https://www.khronos.org/vulkan/ OS-X Metal is kinda like a C++ derivative => GPU compilation. With Vulkan/SPIR other languages should be able to come up with something similar for other platforms.

[OT] UTF-16

2016-05-31 Thread Marco Leise via Digitalmars-d
Am Tue, 31 May 2016 15:47:02 -0700 schrieb Walter Bright : > But I didn't know which encoding would win - UTF-8, UTF-16, or UCS-2, so D > bet > on all three. If I had a do-over, I'd just support UTF-8. UTF-16 is useful > pretty much only as a transitional encoding to talk with Windows APIs. I

[OT] 0^^0

2016-06-23 Thread Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d
On 23.06.2016 21:04, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 08:59:07PM +0200, Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d wrote: [...] Unrelated comment: 0^^0 should not overflow. Says who? http://www.askamathematician.com/2010/12/q-what-does-00-zero-raised-to-the-zeroth-power-

[OT] Checked opCast

2016-07-02 Thread Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d
On 02.07.2016 14:26, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: How would you reshape this? It's important that the call to hook is physically at the end of the function and issued just in that place, and that the code does not do any redundant work. U hook(U, T)(T value) { return U.init; } U opCast(U, T)(T p

[OT] Windows install

2016-07-15 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 15 July 2016 at 05:10:29 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I'm excluding the pain of Windows reinstall, as it took 14 hours of sitting there blankly "checking for updates". I wonder what it was possibly doing that took 14 hours (the disk was fresh, there was nothing to transmit to the NSA).

[OT]: Congrats Andrei!

2015-03-27 Thread Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d
Lets all give it up for Andrei and his wife Sanda. Who had their second son today (Dan)! Please congratulate them both. Ok now down to business, who wants to step up in place of Andrei hmm? But seriously we should all recognize that he will be busier then he already was, and will need to pus

[OT] compiler optimisations

2015-04-23 Thread John Colvin via Digitalmars-d
Why can no compiler I try optimise this toy example as I would expect? // uncomment if using a C compiler // typedef unsigned int uint; uint foo(uint a) { if (a < 5) return (a * 3) / 3; else return 0; } So, I would expect the compiler to be able to see that it is equivalent to ui

Re: [OT] Chromebook

2015-06-03 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at 08:34:22 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at 04:36:31 UTC, weaselcat wrote: chromebooks weren't even really usable until the latter half of 2013/start of 2014 when Acer/HP/Dell/Toshiba/etc all got on board and it stopped being just Samsung making them. 2

Re: [OT] Chromebook

2015-06-03 Thread Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at 08:38:09 UTC, weaselcat wrote: On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at 08:34:22 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at 04:36:31 UTC, weaselcat wrote: chromebooks weren't even really usable until the latter half of 2013/start of 2014 when Acer/HP/Dell/Toshiba/etc all g

Re: [OT] Chromebook

2015-06-03 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at 08:44:28 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: Stream?! I had to search for it, only found the HP Stream model, running a full Windows 8.1 OS, not a browser pretending to be an OS. -- Paulo Yes, and that "full Windows 8.1 OS" makes it run 2-3x slower than equivalent hardwar

Re: [OT] Chromebook

2015-06-03 Thread Paulo Pinto via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at 08:48:03 UTC, weaselcat wrote: On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at 08:44:28 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: Stream?! I had to search for it, only found the HP Stream model, running a full Windows 8.1 OS, not a browser pretending to be an OS. -- Paulo Yes, and that "full Wind

Re: [OT] Chromebook

2015-06-03 Thread weaselcat via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at 09:27:49 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at 08:48:03 UTC, weaselcat wrote: On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at 08:44:28 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote: Stream?! I had to search for it, only found the HP Stream model, running a full Windows 8.1 OS, not a browse

Re: [OT] Chromebook

2015-06-03 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d
On 06/03/2015 04:44 AM, Paulo Pinto wrote: Surfaces have always been full-blown laptops with detachable keyboards. Very, very, very low-end laptops (with a high-end price tag) considering their notable lack of I/O and storage, and their sub-par keyboards (by laptop standards anyway. Keyboar

[OT] Flu shots

2018-01-05 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d
On 1/5/18 9:39 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Friday, 5 January 2018 at 06:20:54 UTC, Patrick Schluter wrote: The only people I ever saw with a flu (I mean a real influenza) had all one thing in common: they all had gotten the flu shot. That's a case of selection bias: the people who get the shot

[OT] Gaming Meetup

2018-03-06 Thread WebFreak001 via Digitalmars-d
Hi, I was planning on going to what is basically a LAN Party in the Netherlands near Venlo and was wondering if anyone in this community also went or would want to go. It is themed after a certain computer game called osu! which probably not a lot of you play, but it might still be a nice oppor

[OT] Leverage Points

2018-08-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
A friend recommended this article: http://donellameadows.org/archives/leverage-points-places-to-intervene-in-a-system/ I found it awesome and would recommend to anyone in this community. Worth a close read - no skimming, no tl;rd etc. The question applicable to us - where are the best leverage

Re: [OT] college

2018-09-02 Thread Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) via Digitalmars-d
On 09/02/2018 05:43 AM, Joakim wrote: Most will be out of business within a decade or two, as online learning takes their place. I kinda wish I could agree with that, but schools are too much of a sacred cow to be going anywhere anytime soon. And for that matter, the online ones still have to

Re: [OT] college

2018-09-03 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 2 September 2018 at 19:30:58 UTC, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: On 09/02/2018 05:43 AM, Joakim wrote: Most will be out of business within a decade or two, as online learning takes their place. I kinda wish I could agree with that, but schools are too much of a sacred cow to be

Re: [OT] college

2018-09-03 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d
On 03/09/2018 7:05 PM, Joakim wrote: One of the root causes of that dysfunction is there's way too much software written. Open source has actually helped alleviate this, because instead of every embedded or server developer who needs an OS kernel convincing management that they should write the

[OT] Algorithm question

2017-04-30 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d
I'm been thinking about the following problem, and thought I'd pick the brains of the bright people around these parts... Given a set A of n elements (let's say it's a random-access range of size n, where n is relatively large), and a predicate P(x) that specifies some subset of A of elements that

[OT] Generative C++

2017-07-28 Thread Yuxuan Shui via Digitalmars-d
Someone made an interesting proposal to C++: https://herbsutter.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/p0707r1.pdf Thoughts?

[OT] Windows dying

2017-10-29 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 29 October 2017 at 20:58:45 UTC, 12345swordy wrote: On Sunday, 29 October 2017 at 18:52:06 UTC, Joakim wrote: [...] What makes you think that windows is a "dying platform"!? There is no evidence to suggest this. Take a look at the links in the thread I linked you, which show PC

[OT] D merch

2017-11-19 Thread WebFreak001 via Digitalmars-d
Hi, Adam just sent me this link on IRC where you can buy some D (or rather digital mars) merch which I didn't know about yet, maybe it is also interesting for you: http://digitalmars.com/gift/index.html If you buy anything there use the gift code EARLYBIRD25, it gives 25% off and it just rand

[OT] tilix packaging

2017-11-29 Thread drug via Digitalmars-d
Gerald, I'd like to learn how to make deb packages, could you share your scripts etc you use to build packages for tilix? Thank in advance)

OT: Bad translations

2018-09-25 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d
On 09/24/2018 08:17 AM, 0xEAB wrote: > - Non-idiomatic translations of tech terms [2] This is something I had heard from a Digital Research programmer in early 90s: English message was something like "No memory left" and the German translation was "No memory on the left hand side" :) Ali

Re: [OT] Android

2018-10-19 Thread H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d
On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 06:34:50PM +, Joakim via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Thursday, 18 October 2018 at 19:37:24 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: [...] > > Eventually I resorted to generating Java code from D for some fo the > > most painful repetitive parts, and the way things are looking, I'm > > likel

[OT] fastest fibbonacci

2016-10-23 Thread Stefam Koch via Digitalmars-d
Hi Guys, while brushing up on my C and algorithm skills, accidently created a version of fibbonaci which I deem to be faster then the other ones floating around. It's also more concise the code is : int computeFib(int n) { int t = 1; int result = 0; while(n--) { res

[OT] static foreach

2017-01-04 Thread Stefan Koch via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 4 January 2017 at 15:56:13 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote: [1] Both static if and static foreach (once it lands) need the same kind of scoping rules. Please do contact me if you are working on static foreach, there are dmd and implementation specific issues to be taken into account.

[OT] cheap hosting

2017-03-15 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, March 15, 2017 08:27:23 Suliman via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On Tuesday, 14 March 2017 at 20:21:44 UTC, aberba wrote: > > Amazon S3 seem like a common solution for object storage these > > days[1] but I'm seeing almost no activity in this area (stable > > native D API). Why? > > > > [1]

[OT] Google wave

2009-07-28 Thread Knud Soerensen
Today Google released a open source implementation of the wave protocol in Java. It would be interesting to see how long it takes before we have a D version. http://googlewavedev.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-wave-federation-protocol-and.html If you don't know Google wave then look at http://w

OT - Which Linux?

2009-08-19 Thread Paul D. Anderson
I'm going to add Linux to my PC to get a dual-boot configuration. (I'm tired of slw start ups and want to tap into the great tools available.) The tutorial I'm looking at suggests Ubuntu. Is there a significant difference in Linux implementations? Is Ubuntu one of the better ones? Does it ma

OT: GUI Libraries

2009-10-11 Thread Chad J
Jeremie Pelletier wrote: > Chad J wrote: >> >> I actually rather dislike GTK from a user standpoint. It doesn't mesh >> well at all on my KDE linux setup. The file dialog is also a frequent >> source of annoyance, as it is different then everything else and seems >> to want to fight with me. Qt

Re: [OT]bigfloat

2009-04-08 Thread Piotrek
superdan wrote: Frank Torte Wrote: When you can use a number in D that is more than the number of atoms in the known universe why would you want a bigger number? the [/censorship/]* gov't debt. Hehe. Nice one.They can put an arbitrary big number into the financial system. It seems no one w

OT: I'm back

2010-02-03 Thread Joel Anderson
Hello, Just wanted to congratulate Walter and the community for keeping D going strong for so long. Its nice to see some features such as pure and ranges have actually become realities. D 2.0 feels like its no-longer a sibling language of D 1.0. I imagine a lot of people here don't remembe

OT: pulling teeth

2010-05-22 Thread Walter Bright
Nick Sabalausky wrote: If I had hundreds of dollars to toss around, I'd get my bad tooth pulled. Your original teeth are always better than the replacements, no matter how bad they are, unless they are causing you great pain. Don't let some greedy dentist convince you otherwise. Pulling a t

Re: [OT] Nick's being an ass again (ok, *way* OT)

2011-10-08 Thread Vladimir Panteleev
On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 02:56:34 +0300, Nick Sabalausky wrote: [snip rant] I believe the reason why Google has started requiring phone numbers was to curb usage of its free services by spammers. Captchas aren't cutting it any more, when you can get people in developing countries to solve th

Re: [OT] Nick's being an ass again (ok, *way* OT)

2011-10-08 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Vladimir Panteleev" wrote in message news:op.v215o1z3tuz...@cybershadow.mshome.net... > On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 02:56:34 +0300, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > >> [snip rant] > > I believe the reason why Google has started requiring phone numbers was to > curb usage of its free services by spammers. Capt

Re: [OT] Nick's being an ass again (ok, *way* OT)

2011-10-08 Thread Vladimir Panteleev
On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 03:27:46 +0300, Nick Sabalausky wrote: How do I send an invite? At the bottom of the sidebar on the left, there should be an "Invite a friend" section. -- Best regards, Vladimirmailto:vladi...@thecybershadow.net

Re: [OT] Nick's being an ass again (ok, *way* OT)

2011-10-08 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Vladimir Panteleev" wrote in message news:op.v216hhvctuz...@cybershadow.mshome.net... > On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 03:27:46 +0300, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > >> How do I send an invite? > > At the bottom of the sidebar on the left, there should be an "Invite a > friend" section. > Oh, you mean through

Re: [OT] Nick's being an ass again (ok, *way* OT)

2011-10-08 Thread Vladimir Panteleev
On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 04:22:26 +0300, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Oh, you mean through the web interface? I probably won't bother then. I don't want to tempt fate and end up with my domain's technical contact address getting messed up. If you're willing though, you could send an invite to the mailinat

Re: [OT] Nick's being an ass again (ok, *way* OT)

2011-10-08 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Vladimir Panteleev" wrote in message news:op.v22aeznvtuz...@cybershadow.mshome.net... > On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 04:22:26 +0300, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > >> Oh, you mean through the web interface? I probably won't bother then. I >> don't want to tempt fate and end up with my domain's technical conta

Re: [OT] Nick's being an ass again (ok, *way* OT)

2011-10-08 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Nick Sabalausky" wrote in message news:j6qvej$28d1$1...@digitalmars.com... > "Vladimir Panteleev" wrote in message > news:op.v22aeznvtuz...@cybershadow.mshome.net... >> On Sun, 09 Oct 2011 04:22:26 +0300, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> >>> Oh, you mean through the web interface? I probably won't b

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