On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 15:39:47 -0700
Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote:
On 7/21/2013 3:24 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
This is why I prefer to use 'thou' when writing documentation. :-P
I use thou when I'm issuing commandments to my subjects.
Thou shalt not obey this commandment.
the colors still through me off. with orange and shades of grey
for the text and the background.
i liked the article.
On Monday, 22 July 2013 at 19:07:50 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
On Monday, 22 July 2013 at 12:39:28 UTC, renoX wrote:
On Sunday, 21 July 2013 at 20:25:38 UTC, Tobias
On Wednesday, 24 July 2013 at 17:27:46 UTC, Kirill wrote:
I think bright orange on the webpage distracts from the low
contrast main text.
That's the intended design. Also, the contrast passes online all
contrast tests i've tried, so i will leave it as it is.
On 7/20/13 2:19 PM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
I'm starting to blog a little more and in particular i've started
writing more about D. I'm using it a great deal at work now and all new
stuff is to be written in it. I'm loving every minute of this and really
want to sing its praises.
Great work! If
On 7/21/13 7:18 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/20/2013 2:19 PM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
Be gentle: http://nomad.so/2013/07/templates-in-d-explained/
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1irdjn/how_to_use_templates_in_d/
Publishing to reddit should be preferably done on weekdays in the
On Sunday, 21 July 2013 at 20:25:38 UTC, Tobias Pankrath wrote:
Stopped reading after two sentences because it is grey font on
grey background.
+1
Please fix the colours: I don't care whether you use I or i,
anyway I can't read what you wrote..
Sure I could copy/paste the text, mess with the
On Monday, 22 July 2013 at 12:39:28 UTC, renoX wrote:
On Sunday, 21 July 2013 at 20:25:38 UTC, Tobias Pankrath wrote:
Stopped reading after two sentences because it is grey font on
grey background.
+1
Please fix the colours: I don't care whether you use I or i,
anyway I can't read what you
Content looks great, but I was continually distracted by the
consistent use of lowercase i as a pronoun. Please fix this. It
would be a real shame for such a long and otherwise excellent
article to be rendered amateurish by such a trivial error.
Just in case English isn't your first language:
On Sunday, 21 July 2013 at 11:31:09 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
Content looks great, but I was continually distracted by the
consistent use of lowercase i as a pronoun. Please fix this. It
would be a real shame for such a long and otherwise excellent
article to be rendered amateurish by such a
On Sunday, 21 July 2013 at 13:47:06 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
On Sunday, 21 July 2013 at 11:31:09 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
Content looks great, but I was continually distracted by the
consistent use of lowercase i as a pronoun. Please fix this.
It would be a real shame for such a long and
On Sunday, 21 July 2013 at 14:18:50 UTC, Peter Lundgren wrote:
It doesn't matter why. That's how it's done in English. You
don't get to change the capitalization of keywords in D. Same
thing here.
Computer languages are wholly different from *fluid* spoken and
written languages. See en_US vs
On Saturday, 20 July 2013 at 21:19:03 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
I'm starting to blog a little more and in particular i've
started writing more about D.
Cool! Would you mind adding a D tag to the related articles, so I
could add it to Planet D ( http://planet.dsource.org/ ) ?
On Sunday, 21 July 2013 at 17:05:23 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
Cool! Would you mind adding a D tag to the related articles, so
I could add it to Planet D ( http://planet.dsource.org/ ) ?
http://nomad.so/tag/d/
On Sunday, 21 July 2013 at 17:54:12 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
On Sunday, 21 July 2013 at 17:05:23 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
Cool! Would you mind adding a D tag to the related articles,
so I could add it to Planet D ( http://planet.dsource.org/ ) ?
http://nomad.so/tag/d/
Added,
On 7/21/2013 8:43 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
Please don't let this degenerate into a grammar nazi poasting session, please
focus on the article content instead.
Well, if you do want to be a rebel on capitalization, you have to accept that
your audience may get distracted from your message and
On 7/20/2013 2:19 PM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
I'm starting to blog a little more and in particular i've started writing more
about D. I'm using it a great deal at work now and all new stuff is to be
written in it. I'm loving every minute of this and really want to sing its
praises.
I'll not lie
Stopped reading after two sentences because it is grey font on
grey background.
On Sunday, 21 July 2013 at 19:45:07 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
It's a nice blog! Thanks for doing this.
A stylistic issue:
These are useful if you want to pass an arbitrary amount of
types or values to any kind of template.
It sounds better as:
These are useful for passing an arbitrary
On Sunday, July 21, 2013 12:40:17 Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/21/2013 8:43 AM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
Please don't let this degenerate into a grammar nazi poasting session,
please focus on the article content instead.
Well, if you do want to be a rebel on capitalization, you have to accept
On 7/21/13, Jonathan M Davis jmdavisp...@gmx.com wrote:
Or worse, just think that you have a lower intelligence level than you
actually have.
It looks like everyone enjoys being an asshole on the internet these
days. Instead of focusing on content these people start min-wars about
On 7/21/2013 2:17 PM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
Thanks, updated.
Welcs. With my own writing, I'll often write it all out, then grep for you and
fix them all :-)
On Sunday, 21 July 2013 at 19:45:07 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
I've found in practice that nearly all uses of the word you
in technical writing are superfluous and it flows better if
they are removed.
This is why I prefer to use 'thou' when writing documentation. :-P
On 7/21/2013 2:21 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
Or worse, just think that you have a lower intelligence level than you
actually have.
I read code, articles, books, etc., all day. There's a million times more
content than I could hope to read. So I (and everyone else) needs some sort of
On 7/21/2013 3:24 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
This is why I prefer to use 'thou' when writing documentation. :-P
I use thou when I'm issuing commandments to my subjects.
On 7/21/13 3:38 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/21/2013 2:21 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
Or worse, just think that you have a lower intelligence level than you
actually have.
I read code, articles, books, etc., all day. There's a million times
more content than I could hope to read. So I (and
On 7/20/2013 2:19 PM, Gary Willoughby wrote:
Be gentle: http://nomad.so/2013/07/templates-in-d-explained/
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1irdjn/how_to_use_templates_in_d/
On Saturday, 20 July 2013 at 21:19:03 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
I'm starting to blog a little more and in particular i've
started writing more about D. I'm using it a great deal at work
now and all new stuff is to be written in it. I'm loving every
minute of this and really want to sing its
I'm starting to blog a little more and in particular i've started
writing more about D. I'm using it a great deal at work now and
all new stuff is to be written in it. I'm loving every minute of
this and really want to sing its praises.
I'll not lie though, i still need to learn a great deal
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