Re: [OT] Extra time spent

2014-06-02 Thread Wyatt via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 2 June 2014 at 18:19:30 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: (There seems to be a rule that all mobile keyboards manufactured after about 2005 MUST be terrible. Heck, you can barely find ones with halfway-decent *arrow keys* anymore, let alone realistically usable home/end/etc (which mobile

Re: [OT] Extra time spent

2014-05-30 Thread Wyatt via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 30 May 2014 at 11:35:19 UTC, Chris wrote: Are we mad or just passionate? Yes.

Re: std.experimental – DConf?

2014-05-29 Thread Wyatt via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 29 May 2014 at 19:15:29 UTC, ponce wrote: Now you have another problem, how do you know that something "looks good" from a design point of view for inclusion in std.experimental? Reviews like for Phobos inclusion? Especially with no users at this point. It's an experiment; simp

Re: std.experimental – DConf?

2014-05-29 Thread Wyatt via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 29 May 2014 at 15:44:11 UTC, Meta wrote: Yes, I think this is a good case where making things slightly harder for users is good. If someone has to think twice about using std.experimental because of the long name, then they'll probably also think twice about how their code might

Re: std.experimental – DConf?

2014-05-29 Thread Wyatt via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 29 May 2014 at 13:34:26 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d wrote: Minor point -- is it really going to be the clunky std.experimental, or is it going to be something elegant like exp.* ... ? I would prefer the latter. :-) I think I would too. But failing that, sin

Re: System level language, GC, allocation and typeinfo

2014-05-27 Thread Wyatt via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 18:19:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 5/27/14, 7:59 AM, MachMit wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 13:06:10 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: ...However, I cannot really come up with a single situation where I don't know what kind of allocator I have used when acc

Re: D to ASM.js vs D to Dart (VM)

2014-05-16 Thread Wyatt via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 16 May 2014 at 14:03:05 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: Dart compiles to JS, but drops support for IE9 after this summer… so it isn't a mono culture, but you do depend on Google strategic planning by using Dart. As I understand it, you take a substantial performance hit for doing

Re: D to ASM.js vs D to Dart (VM)

2014-05-16 Thread Wyatt via Digitalmars-d
On Thursday, 15 May 2014 at 20:34:31 UTC, Etienne wrote: My position has changed, and I now think D would be in a better position if it ran in the Dart VM. Even if I _were_ a Chrome user, I'd have precisely zero interest in a browser monoculture. To wit, [P]NaCl and Dart effectively don't

Re: More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

2014-05-14 Thread Wyatt via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 13 May 2014 at 19:56:20 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote: I just read the first chapters, and according to that, existing local gcs needs write barriers, so we are back to my second proposal. The implementation in the paper even adds read barriers. At this point, I suspect write barri

Re: More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

2014-05-13 Thread Wyatt via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 13 May 2014 at 06:06:40 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote: This comes up from time to time, but to me it is very blurry how this can work in reality. The paper I linked on Friday [0] presents a collector like this. Are there concerns I've missed that make that not applicable? Conside

Re: More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

2014-05-09 Thread Wyatt via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 9 May 2014 at 16:12:00 UTC, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote: Let's also bear in mind that Java's GC is worlds ahead of D's. Is Sun/Oracle reference implementation actually any good? I am getting very tired of repeating myself and having my points basically ignored, or dismissed with

Re: More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

2014-05-06 Thread Wyatt via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 18:02:46 UTC, John Colvin wrote: It never occurred to you that people's libraries would be published as part of a centralised repository with a tool that manages dependencies? Hate to be the cynic, but how in the world do you expect people to even know about Dub or

Re: More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

2014-05-06 Thread Wyatt via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 06:39:45 UTC, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote: The Obj-C thing as an example. Granted, it's a huge feature and has extensive implications. The Authors have said themselves that they agree it's not 'ready' for inclusion... so, what? It sits and rots? I think it needs an ex

Re: What's the deal with "Warning: explicit element-wise assignment..."

2014-04-30 Thread Wyatt via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 16:48:50 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 15:45:32 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: The name should indicate what you get (the calculating of a result), not how the framework obtains it (sequential scan). Making complexity an impleme

Re: D For A Web Developer

2014-04-30 Thread Wyatt via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 13:52:25 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 13:38:28 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: But still, one person's productivity is too subjective to focus a lot on IMO. Calculated dishonesty is healthy in a marketing campaign :p Put another way, one dat

Re: Default arguments in function callbacks not taken into account when instantiating templates has huge security implications

2014-04-29 Thread Wyatt via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 29 April 2014 at 10:38:24 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic via Digitalmars-d wrote: void main() { auto safeCallback = (string user, string pass = "hunter2") { writefln("The password is: '%s'", pass); }; I'm sorry, but can you explain how this lets an attacker learn anything

Re: Redesign of dlang.org

2014-04-21 Thread Wyatt via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 18 April 2014 at 16:40:32 UTC, Aleksandar Ruzicic wrote: I have 27'' monitor with resolution of 2560x1440 and Yeah, me too... left-aligned websites are really hard to read! ...so I have no idea what you're even talking about with this statement. There is a reason why most edit

Re: Redesign of dlang.org

2014-04-18 Thread Wyatt via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 18 April 2014 at 14:04:04 UTC, Aleksandar Ruzicic wrote: So, what do you guys think? I _strongly_ suggest any proposed redesign retain the left-justification seen in the current design. It improves readability and gives opportunities for better information density. I know centr

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