Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-09-12 Thread Bahman Movaqar via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 09/13/2015 08:51 AM, Meta wrote: > It's funny, people are willing to suspend their disbelief for demons > from hell, but not for the lack of a flashlight and duct tape. It's > probably because it was an annoying game mechanic, and taping a > flashlight to a gun is something so simple and

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-09-12 Thread Meta via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 12 September 2015 at 14:25:46 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: That's pretty similar to how I felt about Doom3: People complained how "unrealistic" it was to not be able to duct tape the flashlight to the gun, but...For crap's sake, it's a game about a demon invasion from hell and one

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-09-12 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 09/11/2015 01:59 PM, Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: To be fair, wasn't the movie talking about dead baseball player ghosts coming? For people to take that example and apply it to other endeavors in life is a bit ridiculous. That's pretty similar to how I felt about Doom3:

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-09-11 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
ounce" < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 19:35:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > >> I hate the movie "Field of Dreams" where they push the idiotic idea of >> "Build it and they will come." No, they won't. There's a

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-21 Thread Lars T. Kyllingstad via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 19:35:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Here's the pattern that works a lot better: 1. spend hundreds if not thousands of hours developing something really cool Check! 2. spend 10 minutes writing the announcement to D.announce. Be sure to include: who, what,

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-20 Thread Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/20/2015 6:25 PM, Mike wrote: On Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 19:35:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I hate the movie Field of Dreams where they push the idiotic idea of Build it and they will come. No, they won't. There's a blizzard of stuff competing for their attention out there, why should

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-20 Thread Mike via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 19:35:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I hate the movie Field of Dreams where they push the idiotic idea of Build it and they will come. No, they won't. There's a blizzard of stuff competing for their attention out there, why should they invest the time looking

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-20 Thread Mike via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 20 August 2015 at 06:50:51 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: Humm, I wonder if we could strip it out before the final link. I tried a number of things, all discussed on the D.gnu forum (http://forum.dlang.org/post/quemhwpgijwmqtpxu...@forum.dlang.org). The only hack that worked

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-20 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, 2015-08-20 at 14:59 +, Daniel via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: […] Oh, an official Docker image would also help. Look at Go's: https://hub.docker.com/_/golang/ Go 1.3, how appallingly out of date, it's 1.5 now. -- Russel.

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-20 Thread Daniel via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 20 August 2015 at 14:59:33 UTC, bachmeier wrote: On Thursday, 20 August 2015 at 14:45:24 UTC, Daniel wrote: One thing that always comes to mind is that D does not have a free, extensive, structured good reference as Go (https://www.golang-book.com/books/intro) and Rust

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-20 Thread Daniel via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 19:35:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I hate the movie Field of Dreams where they push the idiotic idea of Build it and they will come. No, they won't. There's a blizzard of stuff competing for their attention out there, why should they invest the time looking

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-20 Thread Daniel via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 19:35:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I hate the movie Field of Dreams where they push the idiotic idea of Build it and they will come. No, they won't. There's a blizzard of stuff competing for their attention out there, why should they invest the time looking

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-20 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 20 August 2015 at 14:45:24 UTC, Daniel wrote: One thing that always comes to mind is that D does not have a free, extensive, structured good reference as Go (https://www.golang-book.com/books/intro) and Rust (https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/index.html) do. I mean, compare D's

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-20 Thread anonymous via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday 20 August 2015 17:18, Daniel wrote: Anyway, I didn't know about Ali's book. Maybe it could be linked at dlang.org's left menu? It's the first link on the Getting Started page (added somewhat recently). And it's the first link in the Books Articles section. I wouldn't oppose a

Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-18 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
I hate the movie Field of Dreams where they push the idiotic idea of Build it and they will come. No, they won't. There's a blizzard of stuff competing for their attention out there, why should they invest the time looking at your stuff? You need to tell them why! Here's the frustrating

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-18 Thread Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 19/08/2015 7:35 a.m., Walter Bright wrote: I hate the movie Field of Dreams where they push the idiotic idea of Build it and they will come. No, they won't. There's a blizzard of stuff competing for their attention out there, why should they invest the time looking at your stuff? You need