Re: John Chapman (Juno), calling for John Chapman (not spam)

2014-06-11 Thread Karen Bantoft via Digitalmars-d-announce
I'm looking for the John Chapman who worked as a programmer at Centre-file Ltd, in Finsbury Circus London in 1971. Any leads? Karen

Re: DConf 2014 Day 1 Talk 4: Inside the Regular Expressions in D by Dmitry Olshansky

2014-06-11 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 June 2014 at 18:03:06 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: I wish I'd taken the mic at the end, and 2 days later Adam D. Ruppe said what I was thinking of saying: unit test and debug the CTFE function at runtime and then use it at compile-time when it's ready for production. Aye. It wasn'

Re: Embarrassment of riches: another talk came online today

2014-06-11 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 June 2014 at 19:47:56 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote: On Tuesday, 10 June 2014 at 16:30:31 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: "Leverage" - my talk at Lang.NEXT. I think this is one of your better D talks. It's refreshing to see honest admittance of the shortcomings of D's features,

Re: Embarrassment of riches: another talk came online today

2014-06-11 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/11/14, 11:06 AM, justme wrote: On Tuesday, 10 June 2014 at 16:30:31 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: "Leverage" - my talk at Lang.NEXT. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/27sp6r/langnext_2014_leverage_by_andrei_alexandrescu/ https://news.ycombinator.com/newest https://twitter.c

Re: hap.random: a new random number library for D

2014-06-11 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 June 2014 at 07:24:11 UTC, Chris Cain wrote: I almost always like all the D posts I see on r/programming, but in general if any language highlighted the efforts in the RNG part of the standard library, I would like it. Too many languages get it wrong or don't care enough about

Re: Embarrassment of riches: another talk came online today

2014-06-11 Thread Jesse Phillips via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 June 2014 at 18:06:03 UTC, justme wrote: I cannot accept 10. .iota; // The space here is unacceptable. Please have the programmer change 10. to 10.0 so that we have 10.0.iota; // Cleaner, obvious, and doesn't look like a typo. Thank you. The point wasn't about how best to

Re: Embarrassment of riches: another talk came online today

2014-06-11 Thread Peter Alexander via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 10 June 2014 at 16:30:31 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: "Leverage" - my talk at Lang.NEXT. I think this is one of your better D talks. It's refreshing to see honest admittance of the shortcomings of D's features, although I think a little too much time was spent talking about in

Re: Embarrassment of riches: another talk came online today

2014-06-11 Thread justme via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 10 June 2014 at 16:30:31 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: "Leverage" - my talk at Lang.NEXT. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/27sp6r/langnext_2014_leverage_by_andrei_alexandrescu/ https://news.ycombinator.com/newest https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/47640027916088

Re: DConf 2014 Day 1 Talk 4: Inside the Regular Expressions in D by Dmitry Olshansky

2014-06-11 Thread Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 10 June 2014 at 19:36:57 UTC, bearophile wrote: At about 40.42 in the "Thoughts on static regex" there is written "even compile-time printf would be awesome". There is a patch about __ctWrite in GitHug, it should be fixed and merged. Bye, bearophile I wish I'd taken the mic at th

Re: hap.random: a new random number library for D

2014-06-11 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/11/2014 12:35 PM, Kagamin wrote: In some scenarios impredictability is not enough. For example, when you generate a session id, an attacker doesn't have to predict it ahead of time, he can guess it at any time later. And if they listen to radio waves - that's an "open protocol", an attacker

Re: DMD 2.066 Alpha

2014-06-11 Thread Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11 June 2014 17:56, Andrew Edwards via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On 6/11/14, 11:24 AM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: >> >> On 11 June 2014 14:19, Andrew Edwards via Digitalmars-d-announce >> wrote: >>> >>> On 6/11/14, 2:23 AM, deadalnix wrote: I'll be there

Re: DMD 2.066 Alpha

2014-06-11 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/11/2014 9:19 AM, Andrew Edwards wrote: On 6/11/14, 2:23 AM, deadalnix wrote: I'll be there to test and bug report ! Thank for being the release lieutenant. In my world a lieutenant is absolutely useless. Given the tutelage and guidance of solid staff non-commissioned officer, some day the

Re: DMD 2.066 Alpha

2014-06-11 Thread Andrew Edwards via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/11/14, 11:24 AM, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On 11 June 2014 14:19, Andrew Edwards via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On 6/11/14, 2:23 AM, deadalnix wrote: I'll be there to test and bug report ! Thank for being the release lieutenant. In my world a lieutenant is absol

Re: hap.random: a new random number library for D

2014-06-11 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 10 June 2014 at 23:08:33 UTC, Chris Cain wrote: 4. I'd just like to say the idea of using ranges for seeds gets me giddy because I could totally see a range that queries https://random.org for true random bits to seed with, wrapped by a range that zeroes out the memory on popFront.

Re: hap.random: a new random number library for D

2014-06-11 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 10 June 2014 at 10:57:32 UTC, bearophile wrote: Kagamin: Pass it by reference, I see no reason why MT can't be pure. I meant strongly pure :-) I'm afraid, this pure rng pattern precludes all pure optimizations, so it's effectively weakly pure.

Re: DMD 2.066 Alpha

2014-06-11 Thread Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 11 June 2014 14:19, Andrew Edwards via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On 6/11/14, 2:23 AM, deadalnix wrote: >> >> I'll be there to test and bug report ! Thank for being the release >> lieutenant. > > > In my world a lieutenant is absolutely useless. Given the tutelage and > guidance of solid s

Re: DMD 2.066 Alpha

2014-06-11 Thread Andrew Edwards via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/11/14, 2:23 AM, deadalnix wrote: I'll be there to test and bug report ! Thank for being the release lieutenant. In my world a lieutenant is absolutely useless. Given the tutelage and guidance of solid staff non-commissioned officer, some day they will become productive members of the com

Re: DlangUI

2014-06-11 Thread Vadim Lopatin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 19:58:10 UTC, Casper Færgemand wrote: On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 16:10:00 UTC, Mike James wrote: I checked the sub-directory the loading refers to and all the pngs seems to be there. I managed to get the files from github just fine, but dub says it is unable to co

Re: DlangUI

2014-06-11 Thread Vadim Lopatin via Digitalmars-d-announce
Project Update: Grid control is implemented.

Re: hap.random: a new random number library for D

2014-06-11 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 June 2014 at 07:42:10 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote: Have you any plan to implement CMWC? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiply-with-carry#Complementary-multiply-with-carry_generators I hadn't made any concrete plans about that particular family of generators (my impression was t

Re: DlangUI

2014-06-11 Thread Vadim Lopatin via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 14:22:46 UTC, Mike James wrote: First problem: you need to add gl3n to the git clone list for developing under Visual-D. Fixed. I've removed gl3n and libpng references from project. I am having problems running (debugging) the example1 program. When loading the res

Re: QtE - D small binding for Qt.

2014-06-11 Thread MGW via Digitalmars-d-announce
Example of D (dmd 2.065 64) with Qt 64 Windows64/Linux64. Running programs *.EXE with key "--debug". http://yadi.sk/d/qLE7Kgz9SpKEX

Re: hap.random: a new random number library for D

2014-06-11 Thread Andrea Fontana via Digitalmars-d-announce
Have you any plan to implement CMWC? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiply-with-carry#Complementary-multiply-with-carry_generators On Monday, 9 June 2014 at 18:09:21 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: Hello all, Some of you may remember my earlier draft of a class-based std.random successor

Re: hap.random: a new random number library for D

2014-06-11 Thread Chris Cain via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 June 2014 at 06:48:24 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: Incidentally, would it be a good idea to post a link to the blog post on r/programming? Haven't done so yet, as generally I prefer to leave decisions about D publicity to others, but can do so if people would like. I

Re: hap.random: a new random number library for D

2014-06-11 Thread Chris Cain via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 11 June 2014 at 06:41:34 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: That would be very cool. Can you point me at your code examples? It's written in Nimrod (in a way that someone who learned Nimrod the day before would write them, because I learned Nimrod the day before and worked on

Re: hap.random: a new random number library for D

2014-06-11 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/11/2014 2:41 AM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: 5. Another possible improvement would be something akin to a "remix" function. It should work identically to reseeding, but instead of setting the internal state to match the seed (as I see in https://github.com/WebDrake/hap/blob/master/source/

Re: hap.random: a new random number library for D

2014-06-11 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/10/2014 7:08 PM, Chris Cain wrote: 3. I'd also REALLY like to see seed support ranges/values giving ANY type of integer and guarantee that few bytes are wasted (so, if it supplies 64-bit ints and the generator's internal state array only accepts 32-bit ints, it should spread the 64-bit int