Re: Walter on his experience as a dev, on running an open source project and D
On 2016-01-21 11:01, deadalnix wrote: On Thursday, 21 January 2016 at 05:14:03 UTC, thedeemon wrote: On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 11:07:16 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: From what Walter said, they all knew c. So not really too low level for them. To me it looked like: Walter: "You all write in C, right?" Audience silent with expression on their faces "What is C? We've only heard about JavaScript". ;) Isn't C that language that compiles to javascript ? No, it compiles to CoffeeScript which then compiles to JavaScript. -- /Jacob Carlborg
Re: Walter on his experience as a dev, on running an open source project and D
On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 03:13:38 UTC, deadalnix wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/41sdzj/walter_bright_on_being_a_developer_running_an/ I also prefer to work at night, mainly because of silence. A simple test: listen to a song in your headphones at day, then listen to it on the same volume level at night. Recently I almost stopped listening to music (even ambient) while I write code, because it turns out I do less mistakes and overlook things not so often, when I code in silence. It makes coding less entertaining, but more productive.
Re: Walter on his experience as a dev, on running an open source project and D
On Thursday, 21 January 2016 at 05:14:03 UTC, thedeemon wrote: On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 11:07:16 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: From what Walter said, they all knew c. So not really too low level for them. To me it looked like: Walter: "You all write in C, right?" Audience silent with expression on their faces "What is C? We've only heard about JavaScript". ;) Isn't C that language that compiles to javascript ?
Re: Walter on his experience as a dev, on running an open source project and D
On 1/21/2016 5:06 AM, burjui wrote: Recently I almost stopped listening to music (even ambient) while I write code, because it turns out I do less mistakes and overlook things not so often, when I code in silence. It makes coding less entertaining, but more productive. The trick is to turn the volume down so the music is barely perceptible.
Re: Walter on his experience as a dev, on running an open source project and D
On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 11:07:16 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: From what Walter said, they all knew c. So not really too low level for them. To me it looked like: Walter: "You all write in C, right?" Audience silent with expression on their faces "What is C? We've only heard about JavaScript". ;)
Re: Walter on his experience as a dev, on running an open source project and D
On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 21:38:55 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 1/20/2016 12:41 PM, epsilomish wrote: Actually, the 'alias this' is probably not that much a problem. In their shoes I would even ask myself: mmh what is this obscure feature, let's have a deeper look to D...Anyway the technical part of the talk is small, there is the thing about lexical D t_h_i_n_g_s, the octal template and half-floats...It globally works. I wanted a mix of trivial and advanced stuff, so there was something for everyone. That's well reflected, despite of my first comment. One thing I'd like to say in reaction the first part: noise and fan. Personally I can't live without noise anymore. I used to be obsessional about silence but now I think it's very relaxing to have a fan turning again and again, by fan I mean: http://www.cinni.com.au/images/pedestalFans.jpg They produce a LF vibe which is very relaxing. For example now, here, where I live: https://www.google.fr/maps/@48.5591464,7.7793422,9z?hl=fr It's 21.2 F° outside, but I still have the good vibes from the low frequency generator in my computer room. a steady purr.
Re: Walter on his experience as a dev, on running an open source project and D
On 1/20/2016 12:41 PM, epsilomish wrote: Actually, the 'alias this' is probably not that much a problem. In their shoes I would even ask myself: mmh what is this obscure feature, let's have a deeper look to D...Anyway the technical part of the talk is small, there is the thing about lexical D t_h_i_n_g_s, the octal template and half-floats...It globally works. I wanted a mix of trivial and advanced stuff, so there was something for everyone.
Re: Walter on his experience as a dev, on running an open source project and D
On 21/01/16 12:22 AM, epsilomish wrote: On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 11:07:16 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On 20/01/16 11:58 PM, Joakim wrote: On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 03:13:38 UTC, deadalnix wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/41sdzj/walter_bright_on_being_a_developer_running_an/ Thanks for the link, just watched all four parts. I'm not sure Walter is the right speaker for those kids, like having Yoda lecture a bunch of young padewan. His half-float example was likely too low-level for that audience, better to show something you'd do in ruby or python and explain how it'd run _much_ faster in D, while not much more difficult to write. From what Walter said, they all knew c. So not really too low level for them. But half-float uses the 'alias this' trick, furthemore on a getter function. Without a bit of D knowledge you can't get how it's subtle. Yeah I agree, alias this was definitely too much for them. But half float wasn't an issue IMO.
Re: Walter on his experience as a dev, on running an open source project and D
On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 11:07:16 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On 20/01/16 11:58 PM, Joakim wrote: On Wednesday, 20 January 2016 at 03:13:38 UTC, deadalnix wrote: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/41sdzj/walter_bright_on_being_a_developer_running_an/ Thanks for the link, just watched all four parts. I'm not sure Walter is the right speaker for those kids, like having Yoda lecture a bunch of young padewan. His half-float example was likely too low-level for that audience, better to show something you'd do in ruby or python and explain how it'd run _much_ faster in D, while not much more difficult to write. From what Walter said, they all knew c. So not really too low level for them. But half-float uses the 'alias this' trick, furthemore on a getter function. Without a bit of D knowledge you can't get how it's subtle.
Walter on his experience as a dev, on running an open source project and D
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/41sdzj/walter_bright_on_being_a_developer_running_an/
