Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-07-06 Thread aberba via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 6 July 2020 at 12:22:56 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 6/26/20 2:30 AM, aberba wrote: > I'm curious what's happening in those D meetups. Are they still > happening (online)? Our Silicon Valley meetups are still going on:

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-07-06 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/26/20 2:30 AM, aberba wrote: > I'm curious what's happening in those D meetups. Are they still > happening (online)? Our Silicon Valley meetups are still going on: https://www.meetup.com/D-Lang-Silicon-Valley/events/kmqcvqybcjbxb/ However, without dedicated effort to line up speakers,

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-07-03 Thread Simen Kjærås via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 3 July 2020 at 07:58:31 UTC, Nick Treleaven wrote: On Thursday, 25 June 2020 at 13:17:55 UTC, jmh530 wrote: Good piece. I've been following the recent thread, but this really helped make some things clear. Do you have a link to that thread (or title) please? Pretty sure it's the

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-07-03 Thread Nick Treleaven via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 25 June 2020 at 13:17:55 UTC, jmh530 wrote: Good piece. I've been following the recent thread, but this really helped make some things clear. Do you have a link to that thread (or title) please?

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-07-01 Thread Johannes Pfau via Digitalmars-d-announce
Am Fri, 26 Jun 2020 08:36:06 + schrieb Mike Parker: > I suspect they track HTTP referrers and red flag multiple hits to the > same link from the same referrer. However they do it, I would expect > linking directly to search results is something they account for. Can't we just set

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-28 Thread Tove via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 28 June 2020 at 16:31:35 UTC, Avrina wrote: On Sunday, 28 June 2020 at 02:52:03 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: If that's not good enough for you, then I have nothing else to say on the matter. Replies like this one and andrei are why. You are directing a community around a topic to an

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-28 Thread Avrina via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 28 June 2020 at 02:52:03 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 17:58:50 UTC, Avrina wrote: They are actually going against their rules and are actively trying to game their algorithm by telling D's community to search for the article instead of providing. So

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-27 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 17:58:50 UTC, Avrina wrote: They are actually going against their rules and are actively trying to game their algorithm by telling D's community to search for the article instead of providing. So actually, I'd they also wanted to follow tand respect the rules

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-27 Thread favela via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 17:58:50 UTC, Avrina wrote: On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 16:02:53 UTC, Paul Backus wrote: On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 15:06:12 UTC, Avrina wrote: Do you understand what prioritizing is? Fake internet points are being prioritized over ease of access to the

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-27 Thread Avrina via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 16:02:53 UTC, Paul Backus wrote: On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 15:06:12 UTC, Avrina wrote: Do you understand what prioritizing is? Fake internet points are being prioritized over ease of access to the community. Another way to frame it is that "respecting the

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-27 Thread Arun Chandrasekaran via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 16:02:53 UTC, Paul Backus wrote: On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 15:06:12 UTC, Avrina wrote: Do you understand what prioritizing is? Fake internet points are being prioritized over ease of access to the community. Another way to frame it is that "respecting the

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-27 Thread Arun Chandrasekaran via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 15:06:12 UTC, Avrina wrote: On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 02:42:13 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 6/26/20 1:02 PM, Avrina wrote: On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 13:35:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 6/26/20 9:03 AM, Avrina wrote: [...] From

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-27 Thread Paul Backus via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 15:06:12 UTC, Avrina wrote: Do you understand what prioritizing is? Fake internet points are being prioritized over ease of access to the community. Another way to frame it is that "respecting the rules of another community (HN) is being prioritized over a minor

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-27 Thread Avrina via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 02:42:13 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 6/26/20 1:02 PM, Avrina wrote: On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 13:35:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 6/26/20 9:03 AM, Avrina wrote: On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 05:37:13 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: On Thursday, 25

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-27 Thread 9il via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 25 June 2020 at 11:55:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Simen Kjærås outlines an approach to supporting head-mutable types in D without the need for compiler or language changes. The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2020/06/25/a-pattern-for-head-mutable-structures/ Reddit:

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-26 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 03:56:58 UTC, Clarice wrote: Don't forget moderating the newsgroups! Heck, managing DIPs and their discussions alone is worthy of gratitude. So thank you, Mike. Thanks Clarice! And Dennis!

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-26 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 03:27:14 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 14:02:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: But if you do want to vote, I'd like your vote to count. I've seen no evidence that this strategy actually works. Appears totally random if a D post sticks around or

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-26 Thread Clarice via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 23:25:00 UTC, Dennis wrote: On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 19:57:36 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: No, that's not right to say just for a hyperlink! Show some appreciation and kindness please. If we don't have anything nice to say, it's better not to say anything at

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-26 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 14:02:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: But if you do want to vote, I'd like your vote to count. I've seen no evidence that this strategy actually works. Appears totally random if a D post sticks around or not. And in a great many of these posts, people complain that they

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/26/20 1:02 PM, Avrina wrote: On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 13:35:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 6/26/20 9:03 AM, Avrina wrote: On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 05:37:13 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: On Thursday, 25 June 2020 at 11:55:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: I've also submitted it to

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-26 Thread Dennis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 19:57:36 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: No, that's not right to say just for a hyperlink! Show some appreciation and kindness please. If we don't have anything nice to say, it's better not to say anything at all. True that! Mike has been doing many thankless jobs

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-26 Thread aberba via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 17:05:40 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 17:02:05 UTC, Avrina wrote: "It says a lot about the priorities when you can't even get a simple link, community comes last." If the community came last for me, I wouldn't be doing the work I do. I'd be

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-26 Thread Arun Chandrasekaran via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 13:03:01 UTC, Avrina wrote: On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 05:37:13 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: On Thursday, 25 June 2020 at 11:55:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: I've also submitted it to HN (please use the search box): https://news.ycombinator.com/newest This is a

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-26 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 17:02:05 UTC, Avrina wrote: "It says a lot about the priorities when you can't even get a simple link, community comes last." If the community came last for me, I wouldn't be doing the work I do. I'd be focusing on my own projects. So try again.

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-26 Thread Avrina via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 13:35:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 6/26/20 9:03 AM, Avrina wrote: On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 05:37:13 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: On Thursday, 25 June 2020 at 11:55:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: I've also submitted it to HN (please use the search box):

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-26 Thread Per Nordlöw via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 25 June 2020 at 11:55:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Simen Kjærås outlines an approach to supporting head-mutable types in D without the need for compiler or language changes. The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2020/06/25/a-pattern-for-head-mutable-structures/ Reddit:

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-26 Thread Per Nordlöw via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 25 June 2020 at 11:55:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Simen Kjærås outlines an approach to supporting head-mutable types in D without the need for compiler or language changes. The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2020/06/25/a-pattern-for-head-mutable-structures/ This is a brilliant

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-26 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 13:04:27 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 08:36:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: I wouldn't be so sure. See the "Anti-Voting Manipulation" section here: you telling us to vote in a specific way is already gaming the system. stop trying to manipulate

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-26 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/26/20 9:03 AM, Avrina wrote: On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 05:37:13 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: On Thursday, 25 June 2020 at 11:55:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: I've also submitted it to HN (please use the search box): https://news.ycombinator.com/newest This is a very interesting post.

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-26 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 08:36:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: I wouldn't be so sure. See the "Anti-Voting Manipulation" section here: you telling us to vote in a specific way is already gaming the system. stop trying to manipulate their idiotic algorithm and just focus on delivering value to

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-26 Thread Avrina via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 05:37:13 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: On Thursday, 25 June 2020 at 11:55:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: I've also submitted it to HN (please use the search box): https://news.ycombinator.com/newest This is a very interesting post. But this strategy with HN is

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-26 Thread Johannes Loher via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 09:30:47 UTC, aberba wrote: On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 07:35:17 UTC, JN wrote: [...] For a while I thought it was just me but the D blog posts addressing D specific nifty tricks mostly don't interest me. Benchmarks, const, etc... :(. Probably it's just because of

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-26 Thread aberba via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 07:35:17 UTC, JN wrote: On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 05:37:13 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: This is a very interesting post. But this strategy with HN is clearly not working. 5 upvotes after 17 hours and 0 comments. Please paste the direct link in future even if the

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-26 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 07:35:17 UTC, JN wrote: Here's some examples of blog posts that got popular on reddit last week. They're short enough and can be understood without deep understanding of the language: We've had long, D-specific posts be successful on reddit on more than one

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-26 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 06:52:58 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote: Isn't it possible to just paste to the search results? https://hn.algolia.com/?q=A+pattern+for+head+mutable Then presumably after clicking on comments you would be allowed to upvote. I wouldn't be so sure. See the

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-26 Thread JN via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 05:37:13 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: This is a very interesting post. But this strategy with HN is clearly not working. 5 upvotes after 17 hours and 0 comments. Please paste the direct link in future even if the ranking goes down after a few hours. Some publicity

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-26 Thread Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 06:14:48 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 05:37:13 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: This is a very interesting post. But this strategy with HN is clearly not working. 5 upvotes after 17 hours and 0 comments. Please paste the direct link in future

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-26 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 05:37:13 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote: This is a very interesting post. But this strategy with HN is clearly not working. 5 upvotes after 17 hours and 0 comments. Please paste the direct link in future even if the ranking goes down after a few hours. Some

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-25 Thread Arun Chandrasekaran via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 25 June 2020 at 11:55:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: I've also submitted it to HN (please use the search box): https://news.ycombinator.com/newest This is a very interesting post. But this strategy with HN is clearly not working. 5 upvotes after 17 hours and 0 comments. Please

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-25 Thread jmh530 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 25 June 2020 at 11:55:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Simen Kjærås outlines an approach to supporting head-mutable types in D without the need for compiler or language changes. [snip] Good piece. I've been following the recent thread, but this really helped make some things clear.

Re: From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-25 Thread FeepingCreature via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 25 June 2020 at 11:55:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Simen Kjærås outlines an approach to supporting head-mutable types in D without the need for compiler or language changes. The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2020/06/25/a-pattern-for-head-mutable-structures/ Reddit:

From the D Blog: A Pattern for Head-mutable Structures

2020-06-25 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce
Simen Kjærås outlines an approach to supporting head-mutable types in D without the need for compiler or language changes. The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2020/06/25/a-pattern-for-head-mutable-structures/ Reddit: