Re: [OT] Re: How are you enjoying DConf? And where to go next?

2016-05-08 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d
On Sunday, 8 May 2016 at 14:05:58 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:   -∞ 2    =    0 Don't try this at home kids, several mathematicians died during the making of that equation.

Re: [OT] Re: How are you enjoying DConf? And where to go next?

2016-05-08 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d
On Sat, 2016-05-07 at 20:45 +0300, Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On 07-May-2016 19:50, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2016-05-07 at 15:17 +, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d > > wrote: > > > > > > > > […] > > > > > > Besides, zero is just as arbitrary

Re: [OT] Re: How are you enjoying DConf? And where to go next?

2016-05-07 Thread Timon Gehr via Digitalmars-d
On 07.05.2016 23:49, deadalnix wrote: On Saturday, 7 May 2016 at 16:50:10 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Sat, 2016-05-07 at 15:17 +, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d wrote: […] Besides, zero is just as arbitrary as thirty-two (which, btw, is a power of two*) and easy to remember if you use

Re: [OT] Re: How are you enjoying DConf? And where to go next?

2016-05-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 5/7/16 6:15 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: When people complain about the D forums, they aren't complaining about infrequent OT stuff. Most related complaints I got at DConf were about off-topic posts. -- Andrei

Re: [OT] Re: How are you enjoying DConf? And where to go next?

2016-05-07 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 7 May 2016 at 19:11:50 UTC, Mathias Lang wrote: In any case it should be accessible. As nice as the Salt Lake City location was, it was not easily accessible for everyone. When looking at the flight price (in November or December), it was twice as expensive to fly to SLL (from

Re: [OT] Re: How are you enjoying DConf? And where to go next?

2016-05-07 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 7 May 2016 at 16:50:10 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: On Sat, 2016-05-07 at 15:17 +, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d wrote: […] Besides, zero is just as arbitrary as thirty-two (which, btw, is a power of two*) and easy to remember if you use it anyway! I […] 0 is a power of

Re: [OT] Re: How are you enjoying DConf? And where to go next?

2016-05-07 Thread deadalnix via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 7 May 2016 at 15:15:23 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Saturday, 7 May 2016 at 13:10:37 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Please curb off-topic discussions and mark them with [OT], yadda yadda yadda. Thanks! -- Andrei When people complain about the D forums, they aren't complaining

Re: [OT] Re: How are you enjoying DConf? And where to go next?

2016-05-07 Thread Mathias Lang via Digitalmars-d
2016-05-07 17:15 GMT+02:00 Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d < digitalmars-d@puremagic.com>: > On Saturday, 7 May 2016 at 13:10:37 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > >> Please curb off-topic discussions and mark them with [OT], yadda yadda >> yadda. Thanks! -- Andrei >> > > When people complain

Re: [OT] Re: How are you enjoying DConf? And where to go next?

2016-05-07 Thread Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d
On 07-May-2016 19:50, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Sat, 2016-05-07 at 15:17 +, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d wrote: […] Besides, zero is just as arbitrary as thirty-two (which, btw, is a power of two*) and easy to remember if you use it anyway! I […] 0 is a power of two

Re: [OT] Re: How are you enjoying DConf? And where to go next?

2016-05-07 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d
On Sat, 2016-05-07 at 15:17 +, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d wrote: > […] > Besides, zero is just as arbitrary as thirty-two (which, btw, is  > a power of two*) and easy to remember if you use it anyway! I  […] 0 is a power of two as well. > * I really think that's the main difference

Re: [OT] Re: How are you enjoying DConf? And where to go next?

2016-05-07 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 7 May 2016 at 15:15:23 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Think how much more productive the forum would appear if people - including you and Walter! - actually talked about ongoing projects on it instead of primarily just proposals. Oh, one more important point: I sometimes I want to

Re: [OT] Re: How are you enjoying DConf? And where to go next?

2016-05-07 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 7 May 2016 at 13:30:28 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote: The zero is a point when water became an ice, so anything below zero means snow and anything above means rain :) Except it doesn't quite work that way you can get snow when it is a above freezing if the humidity is low enough.

Re: [OT] Re: How are you enjoying DConf? And where to go next?

2016-05-07 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 7 May 2016 at 13:10:37 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Please curb off-topic discussions and mark them with [OT], yadda yadda yadda. Thanks! -- Andrei When people complain about the D forums, they aren't complaining about infrequent OT stuff. Random tangents about the weather

[OT] Re: How are you enjoying DConf? And where to go next?

2016-05-07 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d
On Saturday, 7 May 2016 at 01:19:43 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: Yes, my wife went for an interview there out of college :) The snow banks were like 6 feet high! hehe, yeah, we had some beast winters recently too. This last one was pretty mild in comparison, but the one before was one of

[OT] Re: How are you enjoying DConf? And where to go next?

2016-05-07 Thread Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d
Dne 7.5.2016 v 14:54 Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d napsal(a): On Saturday, 7 May 2016 at 07:29:28 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: Oh, of course, you are in the USA and are still using weird temperature scales, unlike the rest of the world. ;-) I really don't understand the appeal of the Celsius

[OT] Re: How are you enjoying DConf? And where to go next?

2016-05-07 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 5/7/16 3:54 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Saturday, 7 May 2016 at 07:29:28 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: Oh, of course, you are in the USA and are still using weird temperature scales, unlike the rest of the world. ;-) I really don't understand the appeal of the Celsius scale. Zero degrees