Crowdfunding article features DConf 2013

2013-04-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
http://workbar.com/tips-tales-of-effective-crowdfunding/ Andrei

Re: Crowdfunding article features DConf 2013

2013-04-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 4/29/13 10:49 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://workbar.com/tips-tales-of-effective-crowdfunding/ Andrei On reddit technology: http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1dcmzd/tips_tales_of_effective_crowdfunding/ Vote up! Andrei

Functional Programming in D on reddit

2013-04-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1clufn/functional_programming_with_d/ Andrei

Re: We have completed our GSoC 2013 application

2013-04-08 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Unfortunately our application to GSoC 2013 has been rejected. The list of accepted organization is at https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2013. We will consider applying again to GSoC in the future. This is of course not the outcome we were hoping for, but not a

Re: TDPL Japanese Edition

2013-04-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 4/4/13 1:51 AM, Masahiro Nakagawa wrote: Hi guys, I and Kenji are happy to announce TDPL Japanese edition will be published on April 8th in Japan. We are translation supervisor of this book. This is an awesome surprise to wake up to. Congratulations, and many thanks to Masahiro, Kenji,

Timothee Cour joins our GSoC 2013 mentors team

2013-04-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
I'm pleased to announce that Timothee Cour's application to join our GSoC 2013 mentor ranks has been accepted. Congratulations Timothee, and let's hope we amass many projects! Andrei

DConf 2013 canceled; hoping for DConf 2014

2013-04-01 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Hello everyone -- Early bird DConf 2013 has ended yesterday, March 31st, so we made a headcount at this milestone. Unfortunately we could not muster enough attendance to keep the conference going - only 19 people confirmed aside from speakers. This forces us to cancel DConf 2013. We will

Re: DConf 2013 canceled; hoping for DConf 2014

2013-04-01 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 4/1/13 5:01 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: 02-Apr-2013 00:44, Andrei Alexandrescu пишет: Hello everyone -- Early bird DConf 2013 has ended yesterday, March 31st, so we made a headcount at this milestone. Unfortunately we could not muster enough attendance to keep the conference going - only

Re: Justin Bieber booked for Dconf 2013!

2013-04-01 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 4/1/13 5:23 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 14:05:06 -0700 Walter Brightnewshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: I know you are all Bieber fans, so you'll be please to know he will be doing the Keynote. I happily cede the slot to him. (P.S. Bieber has been an undercover D coder

We have completed our GSoC 2013 application

2013-03-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
For details: http://dlang.org/gsoc2013.html This year we have the accumulated experience of the previous two editions, a strong mentor lineup, and a community more welcoming and active than ever before. We hope to get a strong outcome from our participation this year at GSoC 2013. The

Re: Go vs. D [was Re: Rust vs Dlang]

2013-03-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/25/13 8:02 AM, Rory McGuire wrote: Perhaps it is actually just the feel of the debugging and benchmarking, and the general completeness of the *documentation*. This set of slides: http://talks.golang.org/2012/simple.slide introduces pretty much everything you need to know about Go. Graphs

Re: Go vs. D [was Re: Rust vs Dlang]

2013-03-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/25/13 10:43 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/25/2013 5:02 AM, Rory McGuire wrote: The profiling doc is here: http://blog.golang.org/2011/06/profiling-go-programs.html It is all super easy, and documented so that you can do it now. What it says about profiling: To start tuning the Go

DConf 2013: last week of early bird prices

2013-03-25 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Hello, I had a meeting today with Facebook's representatives who are in charge of organizing the conference. The A/V is taken care of, the menu for various tastes is set (yum), the Wednesday reception is being prepared, lanyards are on stand by waiting for the final list, the T-shirt printer

Re: Go vs. D [was Re: Rust vs Dlang]

2013-03-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/18/13 1:46 AM, Rory McGuire wrote: The reason I use golang and not dlang for development at work is because debugging is straightforward no weird segfaults after you program has been running for a couple of days. Their debugging and benchmark tools are really good and the documentation is

Re: Rust vs Dlang

2013-03-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/17/13 4:44 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 3/17/2013 8:58 AM, Suliman wrote: Yesterday I had tried to put it reddit, but I have never used reddit before and do not sure that it was added at proper section. reddit.com/r/programming is where it should go. It was at:

Three optimization tips for C++

2013-03-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Destroy (but upvote): http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1adf94/three_optimization_tips_for_c/ Andrei

Re: Four new committers on github: AndrejMitrovic, ibuclaw, klickverbot, and rainers

2013-03-08 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/8/13 3:33 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: There is got to be more effective process to merge stuff. Current situation involves ping-pong between commiter/reviewer and contributor on every minor nit there is. That basically involves reviewing the same exact code few times over as cleanup arrives

Re: Four new committers on github: AndrejMitrovic, ibuclaw, klickverbot, and rainers

2013-03-08 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 3/8/13 10:53 AM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: I think the skepticism is misplaced. Feel free to experiment with it. The problem with this approach is people will post increasingly sloppy code on the account that reviewers must fix it. I'm glad we're well past the point where people shove

Four new committers on github: AndrejMitrovic, ibuclaw, klickverbot, and rainers

2013-03-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Hello everyone, I'm happy to announce we have four new committers to our project on github: AndrejMitrovic, ibuclaw, klickverbot, and rainers. Lots of cool things are happening nowadays in D, what with DConf gearing up, the rise of private and corporate use, and the swelling of

DConf Reception sponsored by the HipHop team at Facebook

2013-03-01 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Hello, The HipHop group at Facebook, which I recently joined, is sponsoring a reception at DConf on the evening of May 1st (details to follow). The HipHop team is working on a virtual machine for PHP (http://goo.gl/bPGqP) and has an interest in systems programming languages. Some of the

Re: D 2.062 release

2013-02-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/17/13 9:10 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: On 2/18/13, Mike Parkeraldac...@gmail.com wrote: But I just want to throw in my 2 cents about the new changelog format. Not just the changelog, but this release announcement too. Two sentences, without any information about what is being released,

Re: D 2.062 release

2013-02-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/17/13 8:02 PM, Walter Bright wrote: http://digitalmars.com/d/download.html The dlang.org site isn't updated yet, but the downloads are there. I've updated the website, too. Enjoy! Andrei

Re: Higgs, a JavaScript JIT done in D

2013-02-05 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 2/5/13 1:04 PM, FG wrote: On 2013-02-05 18:21, Matthew Caron wrote: In all fairness, I wasn't aware of text until this comment, so perhaps the author was not either? There are still many examples around with to!string, so it's easy not to notice text() if you are like me and stop looking

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-09 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/9/13 12:43 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Friday, January 04, 2013 14:13:22 Walter Bright wrote: It's THE SAME LIST as in the bugzilla list. It's even in the same order. It's just that the bugzilla generated list is complete. I don't understand your rationale that it's _far_ more user

Re: Announcement: preapproved tag added to bugzilla

2013-01-09 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/9/13 9:15 PM, Pierre Rouleau wrote: On 13-01-08 9:09 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: As part of our continued efforts to improve the process, we have added the preapproved tag to bugzilla. An enhancement request that has the preapproved tag is considered reviewed and vetted by Walter

Announcement: preapproved tag added to bugzilla

2013-01-08 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Hello, As part of our continued efforts to improve the process, we have added the preapproved tag to bugzilla. An enhancement request that has the preapproved tag is considered reviewed and vetted by Walter (and myself on occasion). An implementation of the issue is guaranteed to be

Re: Amber

2013-01-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 12/21/12 1:02 PM, Lars Ivar Igesund wrote: Dear D community, I've been urged by many others to post about Amber here. It is a programming language being derived from D1, with a compiler written using D1 and Tango, with LLVM and C backends. The quality of code and documention is alpha (or

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/7/13 7:47 AM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: I can write a roadmap, but then, nobody will listen to me. Walter can write a roadmap, nobody will listen to him. One thing that few people know is that Walter and I have tried to kindly convince people to work on specific things we believed were

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/7/13 9:51 AM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu, el 7 de January a las 08:31 me escribiste: Why would I bother to do anything if is very likely that Walter don't want to go that direction and all my work was done for nothing? Been there before. Now I'm more cautious when

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/7/13 12:39 PM, Johannes Pfau wrote: Am Mon, 07 Jan 2013 19:39:52 +0100 schrieb Jacob Carlborgd...@me.com: On 2013-01-07 19:29, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: It's less structured than a roadmap but maybe that's what would make it tenable! It would be like a roadmap without the timeline

Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release

2013-01-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/3/13 3:32 AM, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/2/2013 11:53 PM, Russel Winder wrote: On Wed, 2013-01-02 at 13:18 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: […] I don't store email on the server, I store it locally. I think that this is at the heart of your mail problems. It means you rely on one and only one

Re: Managing email [ was Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release ]

2013-01-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/3/13 1:53 PM, Russel Winder wrote: On Thu, 2013-01-03 at 10:26 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: […] 1. I control the backups I run my own SMTP and IMAP server, including it's backing up. I like control! 2. Third parties don't have access to my email history. I don't care what their privacy

Re: Managing email [ was Re: D 1.076 and 2.061 release ]

2013-01-03 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 1/3/13 10:07 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/3/2013 11:17 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Andrei I don't yet run my own SMTP and IMAP server Alexandrescu Sheesh. How can you ever hold your head up again after that admission? I actually used to, heh. Communigate Pro they called it, beautiful

Re: DConf 2013: The new Call for Submissions is out!

2012-12-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 12/30/12 5:24 AM, Benjamin Thaut wrote: Am 29.12.2012 22:00, schrieb Andrei Alexandrescu: http://dconf.org Please consider submitting and let your friends know about it! Andrei Does North America airfare mean that you only get it when you travel from within the US or does this also

Re: Getting ready for 2.061

2012-12-22 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 12/22/12 1:39 PM, Jesse Phillips wrote: On Friday, 21 December 2012 at 22:12:47 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: We plan to start building a new release on Sunday evening. To do so (pursuant to the embryonic process we're putting in place), at that time we'll create a new branch called

Re: [OT] Three Optimization Tips for C++

2012-12-21 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 12/21/12 7:23 AM, Peter Alexander wrote: On Thursday, 20 December 2012 at 05:29:46 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Vote up! http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/155ivw/three_optimization_tips_for_c_video/ Andrei I think the most interesting thing from that talk is when you said

Getting ready for 2.061

2012-12-21 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
We plan to start building a new release on Sunday evening. To do so (pursuant to the embryonic process we're putting in place), at that time we'll create a new branch called staging for each of dmd, druntime, and phobos. All contributors - over the weekend please ping reviewers on what you

[OT] Three Optimization Tips for C++

2012-12-19 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Vote up! http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/155ivw/three_optimization_tips_for_c_video/ Andrei

Re: DConf 2013: Call for Submissions is now live!

2012-12-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 12/18/12 12:14 PM, Iain Buclaw wrote: On 18 December 2012 06:07, Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org mailto:seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: We're very excited to announce the Call for Submissions for DConf 2013. It's barebones right now but it has all

Re: DConf 2013: Call for Submissions is now live!

2012-12-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 12/18/12 11:26 AM, John Colvin wrote: On Tuesday, 18 December 2012 at 06:07:42 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, We're very excited to announce the Call for Submissions for DConf 2013. It's barebones right now but it has all of the information needed to get everyone started

Re: DConf 2013: Call for Submissions is now live!

2012-12-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 12/18/12 2:46 PM, Iain Buclaw wrote: Now it looks like some bad html. :o) Refixed... Andrei

Re: DConf 2013: Call for Submissions is now live!

2012-12-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 12/18/12 1:07 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello everyone, We're very excited to announce the Call for Submissions for DConf 2013. It's barebones right now but it has all of the information needed to get everyone started! http://dconf.org Now on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r

DConf 2013: Call for Submissions is now live!

2012-12-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Hello everyone, We're very excited to announce the Call for Submissions for DConf 2013. It's barebones right now but it has all of the information needed to get everyone started! http://dconf.org Share away! We have firm dates, and Facebook generously offered to host the conference at

Re: User Defined Attributes

2012-11-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 11/14/12 1:13 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 11/14/2012 2:53 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: If std.mytypes.mystring is a variable of the type string then the fully qualified name is lost if it's used as an attribute. Something like this: I am having a REALLY hard time making my point here. struct

Re: DConf 2013 on kickstarter.com: we're live!

2012-11-12 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Update - we've crossed $20K! At this point we're one major backer away from achieving the goal, and we're looking at a number of options. Please share with your friends and coworkers, and bring the discussion up with your employer's managers and recruiters. It should be an easier case to make

Re: User Defined Attributes

2012-11-08 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 11/8/12 12:20 AM, Walter Bright wrote: One last thing. Sure, string attributes can (and surely would be) used for different purposes in different libraries. The presumption is that this would cause a conflict. But would it? There are two aspects to a UDA - the attribute itself, and the symbol

Re: DConf 2013 on kickstarter.com: we're live!

2012-11-05 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 11/6/12 4:15 AM, Jesse Phillips wrote: On Monday, 5 November 2012 at 21:57:01 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 10/31/2012 05:35 PM, Faux Amis wrote: I will pledge 100$ if that would mean videos. There is a change on the project page: :) Late-Breaking News: Smile, You're On Camera! It's

Re: DConf 2013 on kickstarter.com: we're live!

2012-11-05 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 11/6/12 8:40 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 11/6/12 4:15 AM, Jesse Phillips wrote: On Monday, 5 November 2012 at 21:57:01 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 10/31/2012 05:35 PM, Faux Amis wrote: I will pledge 100$ if that would mean videos. There is a change on the project page: :) Late

Re: DConf 2013 on kickstarter.com: we're live!

2012-11-01 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 10/31/12 8:35 PM, Faux Amis wrote: On 22/10/2012 19:25, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: We're on! For one month starting today, we're raising funding for DConf 2013. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2083649206/the-d-programming-language-conference-2013-0 Please pledge your support

Re: DConf 2013 on kickstarter.com: we're live!

2012-10-23 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 10/22/12 10:26 PM, xenon325 wrote: On Monday, 22 October 2012 at 17:25:28 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2083649206/the-d-programming-language-conference-2013-0 Typo on the front page: Some of use are lucky to already use ... ^ Ouch. Fixed, thanks

Re: DConf 2013 on kickstarter.com: we're live!

2012-10-23 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 10/23/12 7:10 AM, Dejan Lekic wrote: I have been a committee member of the UK AUA (http://www.iua.org.uk) and I know that the best way to get funding is to find good sponsors. That is my recommendation to you, Andrei. - Try hard to find sponsors for the DConf. Perhaps FSF would help or some

Re: DConf 2013 on kickstarter.com: we're live!

2012-10-23 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 10/23/12 10:26 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 23 October 2012 at 14:15:22 UTC, deadalnix wrote: 1/4 of the money raised in 2 days. I expect the speed will slow down significantly because most the D followers would have already seen it in the first couple days... Yah. On the other

Re: DConf 2013 on kickstarter.com: we're live!

2012-10-22 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 10/22/12 1:25 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: We're on! For one month starting today, we're raising funding for DConf 2013. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2083649206/the-d-programming-language-conference-2013-0 Please pledge your support and encourage your friends to do the same. Hope

Re: DConf 2013 on kickstarter.com: we're live!

2012-10-22 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 10/22/12 2:32 PM, mist wrote: There is a serious reason of getting through some registration issues and pledging via kickstarter - project either gets all money if it is funded or no at all if it is not (and all pledges are returned automatically). And, of course, any other means of

Re: DConf 2013 on kickstarter.com: we're live!

2012-10-22 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 10/22/12 1:25 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: We're on! For one month starting today, we're raising funding for DConf 2013. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2083649206/the-d-programming-language-conference-2013-0 We seem to be off to a good start. I've also just added a Facebook ad, see

Alex Rønne Petersen joins phobos and druntime

2012-10-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Hello all, Please join me in congratulating Alex Rønne Petersen for joining the phobos and druntime committers on github. Alex has been a very active contributor to D, particularly druntime. We hope his prolific participation to continue and be enhanced by his new role. Good luck!

Re: Blog post: Demystifying Garbage Collectors

2012-10-12 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 10/11/12 9:15 PM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: http://xtzgzorex.wordpress.com/2012/10/11/demystifying-garbage-collectors/ Essentially an explanation of garbage collection for the layman programmer. Though, it does assume some familiarity with C and memory management. It's an abstract article

Re: news.digitalmars.com server has a wrong date

2012-10-10 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 10/10/12 4:29 PM, Leandro Lucarella wrote: I'm sorry to use this group to report this but I failed at looking for a better place to do so (including mailing Walter). The news.digitalmars.com server seems to have the date set incorrectly, so I'm getting a very annoying message complaining

Re: Component Programming in D

2012-10-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 10/2/12 6:14 PM, Paulo Pinto wrote: On Tuesday, 2 October 2012 at 21:27:42 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/10u6sk/component_programming_in_d/ Andrei Nice article! I liked it the most of all I've read from Walter. Andrei

Slides from LASER 2012

2012-09-20 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
I've had the honor of rubbing shoulders for a week at http://laser.inf.ethz.ch/2012/ with Roberto Ierusalimschy, Ivar Jacobson, Erik Meijer, Bertrand Meyer, Martin Odersky, Simon Peyton-Jones, and Guido van Rossum. It was awesome, and I got many good tips on how to grow our community. In

Re: Slides from LASER 2012

2012-09-20 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 9/20/12 10:06 AM, Simen Kjaeraas wrote: Cool. And now the inevitable: Will there be video? No video was taken. Andrei

Re: Slides from LASER 2012

2012-09-20 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 9/20/12 10:16 AM, deadalnix wrote: What is Sininimp-Mulinint object-oriented style ? Single inheritance of implementation, multiple inheritance of interface. Andrei

Re: Slides from LASER 2012

2012-09-20 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 9/20/12 11:06 AM, David Nadlinger wrote: Bummer that they didn't hold the event in Zurich – maybe I would have managed to sneak in… ;) On Thursday, 20 September 2012 at 12:56:44 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://laser.inf.ethz.ch/2012/slides/Alexandrescu/2-D%20course%20parts%201%20and

Re: Slides from LASER 2012

2012-09-20 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 9/20/12 6:03 PM, renoX wrote: Thank for these slides. I didn't get some part of the VRP slides: p40 of the third lesson: byte a, b, c; a = 1; b = c | a; // error Is-this really an error? A binary-or operation on bytes should return a byte.. BR, renoX Yes, it's a bug in the slides. Thanks!

Re: GC vs. Manual Memory Management Real World Comparison

2012-09-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 9/7/12 6:31 PM, Benjamin Thaut wrote: I did build druntime and phobos with -release -noboundscheck -inline -O for DMD. For MinGW GDC I just used whatever version of druntime and phobos came precompiled with it, so I can't tell you which flags have been used to compile that. But I can tell you

Re: GC vs. Manual Memory Management Real World Comparison

2012-09-05 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 9/5/12 1:03 PM, Benjamin Thaut wrote: http://3d.benjamin-thaut.de/?p=20#more-20 Smile, you're on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ze4cx/real_world_comparison_gc_vs_manual_memory/ Andrei

Re: GC vs. Manual Memory Management Real World Comparison

2012-09-05 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 9/5/12 4:59 PM, Benjamin Thaut wrote: Still, comparing two type info objects will result in one or multiple allocations most of the time. Could you please submit a patch for that? Thanks! Andrei P.S. Very nice work. Congrats!

Re: Wrote a blog post about CTFE and D

2012-09-04 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 8/30/12 11:41 AM, Danny Arends wrote: I wrote a blog post about the stuff I've been doing last weekend using CTFE. All comments are welcome, you can find the blog post at: http://www.dannyarends.nl/index.cgi?viewDetailed=00029 On reddit:

The best programming advice I ever got

2012-08-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Not directly related to D, but hopefully a hook :o). http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1945828 Andrei

Re: The best programming advice I ever got

2012-08-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 8/29/12 9:09 AM, d_follower wrote: On Wednesday, 29 August 2012 at 14:53:39 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Not directly related to D, but hopefully a hook :o). http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1945828 Andrei An excellent read! Thank you very much for the article! Thank

Re: The best programming advice I ever got

2012-08-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 8/29/12 5:01 PM, MattCoder wrote: On Wednesday, 29 August 2012 at 14:53:39 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Not directly related to D, but hopefully a hook :o). http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1945828 Andrei, About this: If I could go back and change one thing, I'd do

Re: Server downtime

2012-08-28 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 8/28/12 12:42 AM, mta`chrono wrote: Am 28.08.2012 00:53, schrieb Walter Bright: Jan Knepper is going to be upgrading the digitalmars server to new hardware over the next couple days. This will result in some downtime. Is this only related to the digitalmars website or to this newsgroup,

Re: Walter charms the audience at Sioux

2012-08-24 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 8/23/12 9:27 PM, F i L wrote: Jonathan M Davis wrote: You've been mistaken. @system is the default. If we could go back in time and redo things, we'd probably do stuff like make pure and @safe the default, but it's far too late now. Okay, thanks for the info. I have a feeling that D3 will

Re: Walter charms the audience at Sioux

2012-08-24 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 8/24/12 4:09 AM, Walter Bright wrote: On 8/24/2012 12:00 AM, Bernard Helyer wrote: On Friday, 24 August 2012 at 06:46:10 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 8/23/2012 11:34 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: Will there be a video posted? If not by now, probably not. Was the talk mostly the same as the

Re: Walter charms the audience at Sioux

2012-08-24 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 8/24/12 12:35 AM, bearophile wrote: Walter Bright: I like the plain jane look, and do not think it is unprofessional. A part of me thinks the outlook of those slides is not shiny-professional, just compare your slides with the first and last slides in that Pdf probably added by the

Dmitry Olshansky Passes GSoC Final Evaluation

2012-08-24 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Hi everybody, I'm happy to announce that Dmitry has passed GSoC's final evaluation. Going forward he and I will focus on integrating his work within Phobos. This should have technically occurred during the allocated time itself, but it's not like Dmitry will run away with the money :o).

Social Influence on Language Adoption

2012-08-24 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
This good paper seems to be ignored on reddit. I think it's worth a look particularly for us in a non-mainstream language community. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/yon3i/social_influences_on_language_adoption_pdf/ Andrei

Re: Article: D-style Mixins in C#

2012-08-24 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 8/24/12 2:06 PM, Adam Wilson wrote: On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 01:40:27 -0700, Michal Minich michal.min...@gmail.com wrote: http://blogs.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2012/08/resharper-sdk-adventures-part-5-%E2%80%94-d-style-mixins-in-c/ This is pretty cool. The guys at JetBrains are well known in the

Re: Dmitry Olshansky Passes GSoC Final Evaluation

2012-08-24 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 8/24/12 2:44 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: On 24-Aug-12 19:50, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hi everybody, I'm happy to announce that Dmitry has passed GSoC's final evaluation. Going forward he and I will focus on integrating his work within Phobos. This should have technically occurred during

Re: NaNs Just Don't Get No Respect

2012-08-18 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 8/17/12 8:03 PM, Walter Bright wrote: Our discussion on this in the last few days inspired me to write a blog post about it: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/yehz4/nans_just_dont_get_no_respect/ Homerun. Nice!! Andrei

D overview on facepunch.com

2012-08-12 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1204676s=affb44baf90ed48786f63e20a6052df1p=37188144#post37188144 Andrei

Re: First working Win64 program!

2012-08-11 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 8/11/12 4:16 AM, Walter Bright wrote: No, it ain't much, some of it is jury rigged, and there's a heluva lot more work to do. But we've got liftoff! - import core.stdc.stdio; extern (C) int main() { puts(hello world\n); return 0; }

Re: Binding D to C

2012-08-06 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 8/6/12 11:42 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Not sure whether this has been announced here: http://www.gamedev.net/blog/1140/entry-2254003-binding-d-to-c/ Andrei And on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/xrppn/binding_d_to_c_4parts_blog/ Andrei

Re: Dscanner - It exists

2012-08-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 8/2/12 3:43 AM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: A range-based function operating on strings without special-casing them often _will_ harm performance. But if you special-case them for strings, then you can avoid that performance penalty - especially if you can avoid having to decode any characters.

Re: Pull freeze

2012-08-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 8/2/12 8:47 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 8/2/12 5:00 AM, Russel Winder wrote: On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 07:56 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: [….] Well this doesn't do a lot in the way of substantiating. I do want to be illuminated. I want to get DVCS! And my understanding is that we

Re: Pull freeze

2012-08-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 8/2/12 5:00 AM, Russel Winder wrote: On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 07:56 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: [….] Well this doesn't do a lot in the way of substantiating. I do want to be illuminated. I want to get DVCS! And my understanding is that we need to branch whenever we plan a new release

Re: dmd 1.075 and 2.060 release

2012-08-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 8/2/12 4:36 PM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2012-08-02 21:18, Walter Bright wrote: Another big pile of bug fixes. More contributors than ever! http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.075.zip http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html

Re: dmd 1.075 and 2.060 release

2012-08-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 8/2/12 6:46 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Thursday, August 02, 2012 12:18:37 Walter Bright wrote: Another big pile of bug fixes. More contributors than ever! http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.075.zip

Re: dmd 1.075 and 2.060 release

2012-08-02 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 8/2/12 7:15 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote: We need changelog.dd for the new/changes section (which is where the problem is in this case), but your suggestion makes sense for the bugzilla section. It requires someone doing the work though. I threw together a quick program to grab the bugfix list

Re: Pull freeze

2012-08-01 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 8/1/12 3:44 AM, Russel Winder wrote: On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 11:38 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: […] You can't suggest a revolution - only carry it through. But I'm a bit confused. We already use git, and the idea is to use it better. What's the thing with subversion etc? Where's

Re: Dscanner - It exists

2012-08-01 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 8/1/12 5:09 PM, deadalnix wrote: Le 01/08/2012 19:58, Brian Schott a écrit : On Wednesday, 1 August 2012 at 17:36:16 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I suggest proposing the D lexer as an addition to Phobos. But if that is done, its interface would need to accept a range as input, and its output

Re: Dscanner - It exists

2012-08-01 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 8/1/12 6:23 PM, David wrote: I think the best way here is to define a BufferedRange that takes any other range and supplies a buffer for it (with the appropriate primitives) in a native array. Andrei Don't you think, this range stuff is overdone? Define some fancy Range stuff, if an array

Re: Pull freeze

2012-07-31 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 7/31/12 2:24 AM, Russel Winder wrote: On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 23:40 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: […] Walter and I will dedicate time after 2.060 to improving the process. Improve implies tinkering at the edges. This situation requires a change or perhaps revolution. I suggest just

Re: Pull freeze

2012-07-31 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 7/31/12 11:46 AM, deadalnix wrote: We actually have to « reverse » the way thing are done. You can't go to the other side of a gap in 2 steps. We face a change that cannot be gradually adopted. Then I need more education. I thought a good thing to do is use branching for releases, and that

Re: Pull freeze

2012-07-30 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 7/30/12 11:08 PM, deadalnix wrote: Le 29/07/2012 21:16, Jacob Carlborg a écrit : On 2012-07-29 16:28, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I'm all for it. We're just too busy most of the time to stop and improve our process. I think it's a good opportunity to do so right after 2.060. It should

Pull freeze

2012-07-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Due to the upcoming release, there will be no regular pull walk-through tomorrow. Thanks for the growing rate of contribution, and let's resume the ritual next Sunday. Andrei

Re: Pull freeze

2012-07-29 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 7/29/12 7:43 AM, Robert Clipsham wrote: On Sunday, 29 July 2012 at 06:08:18 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Due to the upcoming release, there will be no regular pull walk-through tomorrow. Thanks for the growing rate of contribution, and let's resume the ritual next Sunday. Andrei I

Re: Tiny Redis- a Redis driver for D

2012-07-28 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 7/27/12 4:59 AM, Russel Winder wrote: I wonder if having one person working on a package management system for D as a side-project is a missed opportunity for D. Putting more effort and resource into this aspect of D is probably far more constructive to traction than tinkering with the

Re: A partial D crypto library

2012-07-28 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 7/27/12 8:45 PM, Stian Pedersen wrote: Hi We did a project a couple of weeks ago implementing some cryptographic primitives in D. Just wanted to tip you guys about it. It has some basic RSA functionality, SHA and AES. For production use it would need some scrutiny, proper random generators

Re: Glamour – An opengl wrapper for D

2012-07-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 7/26/12 9:47 AM, David wrote: https://github.com/Dav1dde/glamour http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/x9htl/glamour_an_opengl_wrapper_for_d/ Andrei

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