re-open of Issue 2757

I have noticed that Walter has re-open this enhancement (re Resourcement Management) quite recently (Feb 2014). I originally filed it in 2009. Is anyone able to say why ? Nick

Re: re-open of Issue 2757

On Thursday, 17 April 2014 at 10:10:34 UTC, Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d wrote: According to the modification history for that bug, you reopened it back on May 4, 2009. Walter merely changed the version id recently from 1.041 to D1. https://issues.dlang.org/show_activity.cgi?id=2757

Re: More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

I forgot to add these comments by walter at the top of my previous post: [walter Bright wrote ] the thing is, GC is a terrible and unreliable method of managing non-memory resource lifetimes. Destructors for GC objects are not guaranteed to ever run. So now it looks like dynamic arrays

Re: More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

[ monarch_dodra wrote ] Well, that's always been the case, and even worst, since in a dynamic array, destructor are guaranteed to *never* be run. https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2757 Resource Management. A issue that has been discussed since 2009, and still no *GOOD* solution.

Re: More radical ideas about gc and reference counting

On Saturday, 10 May 2014 at 08:18:30 UTC, w0rp wrote: I've seen this discussion (it's almost performance-free, it's a performance killer) so many times, I can't even say who has the burden of proof anymore. I wish that someone would take the time and implement ARC in D. That's the only

Re: Lost a new commercial user this week :(

On Sunday, 14 December 2014 at 15:03:27 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote: Lastly, when judging all these things, please always try to remember that almost all the work that goes into D (and vibe.d) is non-profit and everyone usually only contributes what (s)he is missing. If I would get payed through

Re: Lost a new commercial user this week :(

On Tuesday, 16 December 2014 at 05:48:27 UT https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-EiBquZktsLc0czUzZVeGlLM00/view?usp=sharing No guarantees of how long it'll stay up there. And to reiterate, its only just a start. Agreed its a great start. Nick

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 22:55:52 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/11/15 2:54 PM, Nick B wrote: On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 17:44:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Ionno how to measure that with the data we have. -- Andrei Perhaps its better to have a number (average or mean)

Re: Thoughts on replacement languages (Reddit + D)

On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 17:44:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 1/11/15 9:43 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I just regenerated the 28-day moving average graph: erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png that is. -- Andrei Looking at the chart it is

Re: Today's programming challenge - How's your Range-Fu ?

On Sunday, 19 April 2015 at 19:58:28 UTC, ketmar wrote: On Sun, 19 Apr 2015 07:54:36 +, John Colvin wrote: it's not crazy, it's just broken in all possible ways: http://file.bestmx.net/ee/articles/uni_vs_code.pdf Ketmar Great link, and a really good arguement about the problems with

Re: Today's programming challenge - How's your Range-Fu ?

On Monday, 20 April 2015 at 03:39:54 UTC, ketmar wrote: On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 01:27:36 +, Nick B wrote: Perhaps Unicode needs to be rebuild from the ground up ? alas, it's too late. now we'll live with that unicode crap for many years. Perhaps. or perhaps not. This community got

Re: Interrogative: What's a good blog title?

On Monday, 27 April 2015 at 23:33:15 UTC, Justin Whear wrote: On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 23:30:11 +, Anonymouse wrote: assumeBlog Or perhaps, getting D-syntax specific, assumeUnique(wisdom) How about '[A] Research Scientist Musings' ?

Re: Interrogative: What's a good blog title?

On Monday, 27 April 2015 at 23:44:51 UTC, Nick B wrote: On Monday, 27 April 2015 at 23:33:15 UTC, Justin Whear wrote: On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 23:30:11 +, Anonymouse wrote: assumeBlog Or perhaps, getting D-syntax specific, assumeUnique(wisdom) How about '[A] Research Scientist Musings' ?

Re: PHP verses C#.NET verses D.

On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 03:44:08 UTC, Etienne Cimon wrote: On Wednesday, 17 June 2015 at 18:40:01 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: Any idea how far away it might be from being something that someone could use in an enterprise environment simply, in the same kind of way that vibed is easy? I

Re: PHP verses C#.NET verses D.

On Thursday, 25 June 2015 at 13:48:38 UTC, Etienne wrote: On Wednesday, 24 June 2015 at 05:34:08 UTC, Nick B wrote: On Tuesday, 23 June 2015 at 11:22:40 UTC, Etienne Cimon wrote: Thanks for the responses and your details replies. I'm going to talk to the CEO of the company described, at the

Re: PHP verses C#.NET verses D.

On Tuesday, 23 June 2015 at 11:22:40 UTC, Etienne Cimon wrote: Nick I don't have current performance results because I've been focused on adding features, but these results were taken on a previous version:

Re: PHP verses C#.NET verses D.

On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 05:23:25 UTC, Nick B wrote: On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 03:44:08 UTC, Etienne Cimon wrote: On Wednesday, 17 June 2015 at 18:40:01 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: Any idea how far away it might be from being something that someone could use in an enterprise environment

Re: PHP verses C#.NET verses D.

On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 03:44:08 UTC, Etienne Cimon wrote: So now I can build a full web application/server executable in less than 2mb packed, and it runs faster than anything out there. Etienne Do you have an performance numbers, as to how fast your web application/server is, or is

Re: PHP verses C#.NET verses D.

On Friday, 19 June 2015 at 11:28:30 UTC, Etienne Cimon wrote: On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 05:23:25 UTC, Nick B wrote: On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 03:44:08 UTC, Etienne Cimon wrote: Will you explain how it is different to Vibe.d ? It has HTTP/2, a new encryption library, it uses a native

Re: PHP verses C#.NET verses D.

On Tuesday, 16 June 2015 at 06:29:46 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On 16/06/2015 11:53 a.m., Nick B wrote: Hi. There is a startup in New Zealand that I have some dealings with at present. Any comments or suggestions on the above? Hello follow Kiwi! Hello kiwi from the south Island. :)

Re: PHP verses C#.NET verses D.

On Thursday, 18 June 2015 at 03:44:08 UTC, Etienne Cimon wrote: On Wednesday, 17 June 2015 at 18:40:01 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: Any idea how far away it might be from being something that someone could use in an enterprise environment simply, in the same kind of way that vibed is easy? I

Re: PHP verses C#.NET verses D.

On Wednesday, 17 June 2015 at 18:40:01 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: On Wednesday, 17 June 2015 at 16:28:42 UTC, Etienne wrote: I've been working on developing the entire Web Stack in D, down from the kernel to the multiplexed HTTP/2 protocol and the high-level framework that queries the database

Re: PHP verses C#.NET verses D.

On Wednesday, 17 June 2015 at 04:51:44 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: On 17/06/2015 6:41 a.m., Nick B wrote: On Tuesday, 16 June 2015 at 06:29:46 UTC, Rikki Cattermole Oh please say Christchurch! sorry for the confusion. Its Wellington.

Re: PHP verses C#.NET verses D.

On Tuesday, 16 June 2015 at 08:47:40 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Monday, 15 June 2015 at 23:53:06 UTC, Nick B wrote: Hi. Any comments or suggestions on the above? Both C# and D sound like good fits there. It depends on whether it's the sort of team who like to innovate and explore new

PHP verses C#.NET verses D.

Hi. There is a startup in New Zealand that I have some dealings with at present. They have build most of their original code in PHP, (as this was quick and easy) but they also use some C#.net for interfacing to accounting appls on clients machines. The core PHP application runs in the cloud

Re: Rant after trying Rust a bit

On Thursday, 23 July 2015 at 06:46:14 UTC, ponce wrote: I've not used Rust, but don't plan to. On Wednesday, 22 July 2015 at 18:47:33 UTC, simendsjo wrote: While code.dlang.org has 530 packages, crates.io has 2610 packages, I think this tells something foremost about the size of the

Re: Implement the unum representation in D ?

On Monday, 13 July 2015 at 21:25:12 UTC, Per Nordlöw wrote: Can we do anything useful with unums in numeric algorithms if only have forward or bidirectional access? Similar to algorithms such as Levenshtein that are compatible with UTF-8 and UTF-16, Andrei? :) Question for Andrei, above, if

Re: Stable partition3 implementation

On Friday, 10 July 2015 at 00:39:16 UTC, Xinok wrote: On Thursday, 9 July 2015 at 21:57:39 UTC, Xinok wrote: I found this paper which describes an in-place algorithm with O(n) time complexity but it's over my head at the moment. [snip]

Re: Implement the unum representation in D ?

On Thursday, 20 February 2014 at 10:10:13 UTC, Nick B wrote: Hi everyone. John Gustafson Will be presenting a Keynote on Thursday 27th February at 11:00 am The abstract is here: http://openparallel.com/multicore-world-2014/speakers/john-gustafson/ There is also a excellent background

Re: Implement the unum representation in D ?

On Sunday, 12 July 2015 at 03:52:32 UTC, jmh530 wrote: On Saturday, 11 July 2015 at 03:02:24 UTC, Nick B wrote: FYI John Gustafson book is now out: I wouldn't have known about this way to deal with it if you hadn't bumped this thread. So thanks, it's interesting (not sure if this book

OT: Hack (Type design features to improve legibility in the harsh conditions of the screen)

an interesting set of features http://sourcefoundry.org/hack/ destroy ? Nick .

Re: Implement the "unum" representation in D ?

On Thursday, 17 September 2015 at 23:53:30 UTC, Anthony Di Franco wrote: I read the whole book and did not regret it at all, but I was already looking for good interval arithmetic implementations. I found that the techniques are not too different (though improved in important ways) from

Re: vibe.d benchmarks

On Thursday, 31 December 2015 at 12:44:37 UTC, Daniel Kozak wrote: V Thu, 31 Dec 2015 12:26:12 + yawniek via Digitalmars-d napsáno: obvious typo and thanks for investigating etienne. @daniel: i made similar results over the network. i want to redo them

Re: vibe.d benchmarks

On Monday, 28 December 2015 at 13:10:59 UTC, Charles wrote: On Monday, 28 December 2015 at 12:24:17 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/ The entries for vibe.d are either doing very poorly or fail to complete. Maybe someone should look into this? Sönke is

Re: OT: 'conduct unbecoming of a hacker'

On Wednesday, 10 February 2016 at 02:11:25 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: http://sealedabstract.com/rants/conduct-unbecoming-of-a-hacker/ (His particular suggestion about accept patches by default is not why I post this). ' ... Hacking should be about making things. And yet a great many of our

Re: Unum II announcement

On Monday, 22 February 2016 at 17:15:54 UTC, Charles wrote: On Monday, 22 February 2016 at 13:11:47 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: Slide 12, 0101 is repeated. The top one should actually be 0111 I believe (this error also repeats). I will check with John re this error. Aside from that,

Re: Unum II announcement

On Wednesday, 24 February 2016 at 21:07:01 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: Implement unum-computing as GPU-compute-shaders. They are present in OpenGL ES 3.1, so they will become ubiquitous. Are you sure ? Here is a link to the spec (pdf, 505 pages) and I can find no mention of unums ?

Re: Unum II announcement

On Tuesday, 23 February 2016 at 21:47:10 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 09:20:23PM +, Nick B via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Tuesday, 23 February 2016 at 18:35:47 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: What I had in mind was more of a unum library that early adopters can use to get a feel

Re: Unum II announcement

On Tuesday, 23 February 2016 at 18:35:47 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: This is very interesting, and looks more promising than the previous unum presentation. While it's too early to hope for a hardware implementation, I'm interested in implementing a software emulation in D. D's powerful

Re: Unum II announcement

On Thursday, 25 February 2016 at 10:36:08 UTC, Robbert van Dalen wrote: On Wednesday, 24 February 2016 at 21:43:59 UTC, Nick B wrote: On Wednesday, 24 February 2016 at 20:11:39 UTC, Robbert van Dalen wrote: Nick, I've just asked Dr. Gustafson to create a group on his behalf and he was

Re: Unum II announcement

On Wednesday, 24 February 2016 at 20:11:39 UTC, Robbert van Dalen wrote: Sorry to hijack this thread, but I think unum II is the best thing since sliced bread! :) It would be great if Dr. Gustafson would initiate a google group so we can discuss the inner workings of unum II. If not, I

Re: Unum II announcement

On Wednesday, 24 February 2016 at 21:14:46 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: On Wednesday, 24 February 2016 at 20:59:20 UTC, Timon Gehr wrote: The basic idea for Unums seems that you get an estimate of the bounds and then recompute using higher precision or better algorithm when necessary.

Re: Implement the "unum" representation in D ?

Hi John Gustafson was in town (Wellington, NZ) for the Multicore World Conference 2016 ( http://www.multicoreworld.com/) conference. I caught up with him, tonight, and spoke to him for about two hours. Here is a quick summary of what we discussed. John has just redesigned Unums, to address

Re: Implement the "unum" representation in D ?

On Wednesday, 17 February 2016 at 16:35:41 UTC, jmh530 wrote: On Wednesday, 17 February 2016 at 08:11:21 UTC, Nick B wrote: Wrt phobos, I would just recommend that whatever unum library gets eventually written has a companion with the equivalent of the functions from std.math. Having

Re: Implement the "unum" representation in D ?

On Saturday, 20 February 2016 at 23:25:40 UTC, Nick B wrote: On Wednesday, 17 February 2016 at 16:35:41 UTC, jmh530 wrote: On Wednesday, 17 February 2016 at 08:11:21 UTC, Nick B wrote: Having just looked at the slides again, I believe this will break compatibility with std.math, (for

Unum II announcement

"For those of you who think you have already seen unums, this is a different approach. Every one of the slides here is completely new and has not been presented before the Multicore 2016 conference [in Wgtn, NZ]." Here is the link as promised to the new presentation by John Gustafson:

Re: Suggestion for a book

On Wednesday, 2 March 2016 at 17:12:39 UTC, karabuta wrote: Whilst coding in D, there so many approaches one can take to structure his project. As the code base grow large, one can get really confused as to how best to structure code (modules, directories, classes, using class or structs,

Re: DConf 2016 Berlin - Live Streaming ?

On Thursday, 21 April 2016 at 00:42:51 UTC, Dicebot wrote: Almost certainly yes. I will make announcement as soon as some last details are figured out (expect it within 24 hours ;)). Hi. Any news on this this ? Nick

D mentioned but Rust wins

[snip] Crowling, Turner, and others originally built Magic Pocket using a new programming language from Google called Go. Here too, Dropbox is riding a much larger trend, languages designed specifically for the new world of massively distributed online systems. Apple has one called Swift,

Re: D mentioned but Rust wins

On Tuesday, 17 May 2016 at 05:39:41 UTC, Nick B wrote: source: http://www.wired.com/2016/03/epic-story-dropboxs-exodus-amazon-cloud-empire/ also But Go’s “memory footprint”—the amount of computer memory it demands while running Magic Pocket—was too high for the massive storage systems the

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

On Friday, 6 May 2016 at 14:13:35 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: The atmosphere here is great, and I'm curious how it feels for those who are watching remotely. Is the experience good? What can we do better? I also viewed from New Zealand, but I thought it was hard to view the images, and

DConf 2016 Berlin - Live Streaming ?

Hi. Can anyone advise if there will be live streaming of this event ? cheers Nick

Re: Opportunity: Software Execution Time Determinism

On Wednesday, 13 April 2016 at 15:50:40 UTC, Nordlöw wrote: I'm currenly in an industry with extremely high demands on software determinism, both in space and time (hard realtime). I'm aware of the lack of absolute time-determinism in the CPU architectures of today. What is absolute

Re: Unum II announcement

On Wednesday, 10 August 2016 at 08:36:41 UTC, Nick B wrote: On Tuesday, 9 August 2016 at 09:45:58 UTC, Nick B wrote: http://www.johngustafson.net/pubs/RadicalApproach.pdf Please note that Figure 8 on page 9 has errors. Please note these errors have now been corrected, and the paper is

Re: Unum II announcement

On Tuesday, 9 August 2016 at 09:45:58 UTC, Nick B wrote: On Tuesday, 23 February 2016 at 21:47:10 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 09:20:23PM +, Nick B via Digitalmars-d wrote: ? I hope to be able to present a link to the finalised paper on Unums within 24 to 48 hours

Re: Unum II announcement

On Tuesday, 23 February 2016 at 21:47:10 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 09:20:23PM +, Nick B via Digitalmars-d wrote: I do want to clarify, though, that I think at this point implementing unum in the D compiler is almost certainly premature. What I had in mind was more

Re: Unum II announcement

On Monday, 15 August 2016 at 00:42:16 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 09:08:31PM +, Nick B via Digitalmars-d wrote: While I certainly hope this research would eventually revolutionize numerical applications, it would take a long time before it would catch on, and until

Re: Unum II announcement

On Sunday, 25 September 2016 at 21:47:15 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: A dub package seems like the best approach at present. I would be quite interested in such a library solution, FWIW. If it turns out to be a good idea, then we can consider putting it into Phobos, or perhaps even the language.

Re: Unum II announcement

On Wednesday, 17 August 2016 at 16:03:22 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 03:44:48AM +, Nick B via Digitalmars-d wrote: On Monday, 15 August 2016 at 00:42:16 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: [...] > Thanks to operator overloading and alias this, we can > probably do a pretty go

Re: Unum II announcement

On Wednesday, 17 August 2016 at 11:34:15 UTC, Seb wrote: If you want Andrei or Walter's opinion on whether they could in principle imagine Unum as part of Phobos or even the language, you should ping them directly via mail. Agreed.

Re: Unum II announcement

On Sunday, 25 September 2016 at 02:22:01 UTC, Nick B wrote: I suggest that now, programmers would/may have a choice: be slow and correct, or fast and incorrect, and that would depend if real accuracy is important or not, the types of problems being work on, and cost of failure. (see examples

Re: Implement the "unum" representation in D ?

On Wednesday, 21 September 2016 at 07:52:18 UTC, Ethan Watson wrote: On Tuesday, 20 September 2016 at 22:52:57 UTC, Nic Brummell Is there some central repository with links to the active projects? I'll try and wrap my head fully around the math before we get to that point though. Ethan

Re: Implement the "unum" representation in D ?

On Tuesday, 20 September 2016 at 22:52:57 UTC, Nic Brummell wrote: If anyone is still interested in this concept whatsoever, we are holding a mini-workshop on the current developments of Unums at the University of California Santa Cruz on Oct 24th. We'd love to have some participation from

Re: Unum II announcement

On Saturday, 24 September 2016 at 12:56:48 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: From what I read in the freely-available materials on Unum (actually I also skimmed the book) it seems to me Unum is predicated on a hardware implementation. It seems there would be little interest in a slow

Re: Unum II announcement

On Saturday, 8 October 2016 at 00:35:31 UTC, Nick B wrote: On Sunday, 25 September 2016 at 02:22:01 UTC, Nick B wrote: I suggest that now, programmers would/may have a choice: be slow and correct, or fast and incorrect, and that would depend if real accuracy is important or not, the types of

Re: Unum II announcement

On Monday, 10 October 2016 at 05:32:55 UTC, Nick B wrote: On Saturday, 8 October 2016 at 00:35:31 UTC, Nick B wrote: On Sunday, 25 September 2016 at 02:22:01 UTC, Nick B wrote: I suggest that now, programmers would/may have a choice: be slow and correct, or fast and incorrect, and that would

Re: Earthquakes - New Zealand

On Monday, 14 November 2016 at 14:25:02 UTC, Meta wrote: On Sunday, 13 November 2016 at 12:17:22 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: I saw in the news that there was a tsunami and many aftershocks coming after the initial quake. Hope everyone's okay. The top of the south island and Wellington

Re: D Flowgraph GUI Interface

On Monday, 5 December 2016 at 12:35:46 UTC, D.Rex wrote: Howdy, I am embarking on a project to create a Flowgraph (node based) GUI interface, much like Blender's Node Editor or Unreal ENgine 4's Blueprint System, for other future projects, I have been looking around for many months now on

OT: Tiobe Index - December Headline: What is happening to good old language C?

The programming language of all programming languages C is consistently going down since November 2015. The language was in a range of 15% to 20% for more than 15 years and this year it suddenly started to suffer. Its ratings are now less than 10% and there is no clear way back to the top. So

Re: Exceptions in @nogc code

On Sunday, 2 April 2017 at 21:27:07 UTC, deadalnix wrote: On Saturday, 1 April 2017 at 22:08:27 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 4/1/2017 7:54 AM, deadalnix wrote: It doesn't need any kind of throw new scope Exception, and was proposed, literally, years ago during discussion around DIP25 and

Re: What are we going to do about mobile?

On Saturday, 8 April 2017 at 05:37:24 UTC, Jethro wrote: On Thursday, 6 April 2017 at 05:24:07 UTC, Joakim wrote: I have been saying for some time now that mobile is going to go after the desktop next (http://forum.dlang.org/thread/rionbqmtrwyenmhmm...@forum.dlang.org), Samsung just announced

Re: What are we going to do about mobile?

On Friday, 7 April 2017 at 14:47:03 UTC, Marco Leise wrote: Am Thu, 06 Apr 2017 05:24:07 + schrieb Joakim : D is currently built and optimized for that dying PC platform. As long as the world still needs headless machines running web sites, simulations, cloud

Walter and Andrei and community relationship management

I'm going to address this post to Walter and Andrei, as the joint captains of the D ship, so to speak. As an outsider I can see there are two major issues, at play, at present, in this series of threads. 1. The technical proposals and arguments for x & y, or against x & y. On one side is

Re: Walter and Andrei and community relationship management

On Thursday, 6 April 2017 at 19:17:53 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: There's one big difference. The proposal I put forth is fairly complete, and I am well along implementing it. deadalnix's requires a great deal of further work just to figure out what it means - as presented, it is not much more

Re: Walter and Andrei and community relationship management

On Thursday, 6 April 2017 at 19:27:50 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: We commit to be more formal about the process, but overall it is correct that we have more say in what gets in the language. Allow me to add a couple of things. First, this is the way things are commonly done in language

DConf 2017 Berlin - Streaming ?

Hi Can anyone advise if there will be live streaming or will there only YouTube videos after the event. Not that I'm complaining. thanks Nick

Re: NG technical issues: Is it just me?

On Thursday, 20 April 2017 at 21:16:38 UTC, David Gileadi wrote: On 4/20/17 2:05 PM, lawrence wrote: On 04/20/2017 02:09 PM, Timon Gehr wrote: On 20.04.2017 21:45, Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa) wrote: [snip] It's not just you. I have the same issues. I used to have this same problem, until I

Re: [your code here] HexViewer

On Wednesday, 2 August 2017 at 19:39:18 UTC, Andre Pany wrote: This application opens the file passed as argument and display the content in hex and text format: Is this code in GitHub or DUB ? Is there a link ? Nick

[OT] - A hacker stole $31M of Ether — how it happened, and what it means for Ethereum

See - https://medium.freecodecamp.org/a-hacker-stole-31m-of-ether-how-it-happened-and-what-it-means-for-ethereum-9e5dc29e33ce A long read. Someone has stolen $31M of Ether. Interesting quote near the end of the article: In blockchain, code is intrinsically unrevertible. Once you deploy a bad

Re: Experience with https://www.patreon.com

On Thursday, 6 July 2017 at 13:53:08 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Does anyone have experience with https://www.patreon.com either as a patron or creator? Thanks! -- Andrei I support someone who is a pure intellectual now, and can no longer survive in the university system, with his radical

Re: DConf 2017 Berlin - Streaming ?

On Thursday, 4 May 2017 at 07:28:42 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqrJZg6PgnM_content=buffercc4c1_medium=social_source=twitter.com_campaign=buffer Wow - walters talk has 1,000 views already !! How do we see the next talk? Nick

Re: DConf 2017 Berlin - Streaming ?

On Friday, 5 May 2017 at 01:41:25 UTC, bachmeier wrote: Nick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqiXMN03968 thanks :)

Re: Livestreaming DConf?

On Friday, 9 May 2014 at 19:48:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hi folks, We at Facebook are very excited about the upcoming DConf 2014. In fact, so excited we're considering livestreaming the event for the benefit of the many of us who can't make it to Menlo Park, CA. Livestreaming

Dconf 2014 talks - when to be available

Hi Can any one advise when we can expect the conference talks (and perhaps the slides as well) to available to download or via Utube ? I saw some of the streamed talks, but would love to view the rest. cheers Nick

Re: Dconf 2014 talks - when to be available

On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 13:31:26 UTC, Dicebot wrote: On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 12:20:34 UTC, Bruno Medeiros wrote: On 28/05/2014 04:54, Saurabh Das wrote: I actually prefer the slow release of the videos - it gives me enough time to digest each talk and discuss it before the next one

Re: DConf 2015 Schedule published

On Monday, 23 March 2015 at 16:47:30 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Dconf 2015's programme is on! http://dconf.org/2015/index.html We're operating at a loss to keep registration costs low, and chose a location that is accessible and affordable. Take the schedule to your employer or

Re: Valgrind

On Monday, 20 April 2015 at 17:25:55 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Monday, 20 April 2015 at 16:58:18 UTC, Robert M. Münch wrote: On 2015-04-20 13:29:57 +, John Colvin said: Were the causes ever analyzed? I'm a bit wondering why it happens on floating point stuff... valgrind doesn't

Re: pl0stuff an optimizing pl0 > c transcompiler

On Tuesday, 29 December 2015 at 17:59:15 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: On Tuesday, 29 December 2015 at 04:37:44 UTC, Nick B wrote: Would you know what is required to get good performance ? I can guess. However without actually implementing it my guess is as good as any. I would probably look at

Re: pl0stuff an optimizing pl0 > c transcompiler

On Sunday, 27 December 2015 at 21:13:07 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: Hello again. please feel free to comment or ask questions here. Hi. what languages do you plan to support for input and output ?

Re: pl0stuff an optimizing pl0 > c transcompiler

On Tuesday, 29 December 2015 at 00:50:49 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: so could it be used to produce D output instead of C ? Could it be used to parse PHP as input ? That would probably require implementing a vm. fancyPars can certainly be used to create a php parser but a straightforward

Re: pl0stuff an optimizing pl0 > c transcompiler

On Monday, 28 December 2015 at 16:41:30 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote: On Monday, 28 December 2015 at 10:45:59 UTC, Nick B wrote: what languages do you plan to support for input and output ? I just planned on PL/0 as input and C as output. It is a simple one-pass (okay 2 pass if you count the

Re: New D book available for pre-order: D Web Development

On Sunday, 29 November 2015 at 18:24:38 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: On Wednesday, 25 November 2015 at 04:35:47 UTC, Nick_B wrote: Hi Nick! Yes, the book will be available in hardcopy. Proposed publication date is January 2016. Regards, Kai Kai - Are you saying that the hardcopy will be

short programme from "Programming in D" by Ali Cehreli.

Hi, Can anyone assist me with the short D programme. It is taken straight from "Programming in D" by Ali Cehreli. The code below is the solution, on page 684. The Exercise is on Page 27, item 2 half way down the page. The problem is that the program crashes, when it runs. The only thing

Re: short programme from "Programming in D" by Ali Cehreli.

On Tuesday, 14 June 2016 at 09:28:18 UTC, cym13 wrote: On Tuesday, 14 June 2016 at 09:17:35 UTC, Nick B wrote: Hi, Can anyone assist me with the short D programme. It is taken straight from "Programming in D" by Ali Cehreli. The code below is the solution, on page 684. The Exercise is on

Re: short programme from "Programming in D" by Ali Cehreli.

On Tuesday, 14 June 2016 at 09:53:03 UTC, cym13 wrote: On Tuesday, 14 June 2016 at 09:39:05 UTC, Nick B wrote: On Tuesday, 14 June 2016 at 09:28:18 UTC, cym13 wrote: On Tuesday, 14 June 2016 at 09:17:35 UTC, Nick B wrote: Hi, Can anyone assist me with the short D programme. It is taken

Re: short programme from "Programming in D" by Ali Cehreli.

On Tuesday, 14 June 2016 at 16:09:00 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 6/14/16 11:44 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 06/14/2016 04:52 AM, Nick B wrote: Further, when the format string is a literal like the one used in the program, the compiler can in theory determine at compile time that the

Re: Release vibe.d 0.7.27

On Tuesday, 9 February 2016 at 19:16:49 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote: This release brings some larger changes: - A lot of work went into performance tuning. Single-core performance of the HTTP server is improved by about +50% and multi-core performance scales properly again after excessive

Re: Live streaming of DConf 2016: confirmed

On Monday, 2 May 2016 at 00:45:39 UTC, Nick B wrote: [snip] Only bit that is still decided upon is platform choice for primary stream source - will update this topic when it gets settled. Any update on this ? Can't we get some communication on this issue ? I can't be the only person who

Re: Live streaming of DConf 2016: confirmed

On Tuesday, 3 May 2016 at 21:45:27 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I forwarded your question appropriately. -- Andrei Thank you.

Re: Live streaming of DConf 2016: confirmed

On Thursday, 21 April 2016 at 17:24:43 UTC, Dicebot wrote: Have just got a confirmation that there will both live stream and high quality recording for later publishing during DConf 2016 @ Berlin - not being able to attend is not a reason to not participate! ;) [snip] Only bit that is still

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