Re: DCompute is now in the master branch of LDC

2017-05-30 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 29 May 2017 at 20:36:26 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: May I suggest, however, that the name DCompute is a bit generic, and provides no hint that it provides GPU programming for D. How about calling it D-GPU ? I bet you'd get a lot more clicks on a name like that. For what it's

Re: Cppcon tonight at 8:30 in Bellevue

2016-09-22 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 22 September 2016 at 14:03:04 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 9/21/16 7:37 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 9/21/2016 3:48 PM, Brad Anderson wrote: http://www.elbeno.com/presentations/using-types-effectively/presentation.html Sorry I wasn't clear. The free entry is only for the

Re: Cppcon tonight at 8:30 in Bellevue

2016-09-21 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 21 September 2016 at 22:32:27 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Wednesday 09/21/2016 8:30pm: Writing Secure C++ CppCon is being hosted at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue. Directions and parking information can be found here: http://www.meydenbauer.com/parking-directions/ Additional

Re: D Article: Memory Safety

2016-01-21 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 21 January 2016 at 17:42:02 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote: On Thursday, 21 January 2016 at 17:39:11 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Good work, thanks! Has this been reddited yet? -- Andrei I don't think so. Personally I don't think I have a reddit account, but people are more than

Re: D Article: Memory Safety

2016-01-21 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 21 January 2016 at 17:56:19 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote: On Thursday, 21 January 2016 at 17:42:02 UTC, Jakob Ovrum wrote: On Thursday, 21 January 2016 at 17:39:11 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Good work, thanks! Has this been reddited yet? -- Andrei I don't think so. Personally I

Re: Logo for D

2016-01-18 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 18 January 2016 at 10:28:48 UTC, Guillaume Piolat wrote: On Saturday, 16 January 2016 at 17:55:13 UTC, karabuta wrote: How do you see it? http://amazingws.0fees.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/dlang2.png Many variants are on the way. The current logo is very good and there is value

Re: MurmurHash3

2015-12-10 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 10 December 2015 at 22:25:21 UTC, Guillaume Chatelet wrote: Here is an implementation of MurmurHash [1] for D. http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/1b94ed0aa96e I'll do a proper pull request later on for addition to std.digest if the community feels like it's a valuable addition. Guillaume --

Re: https everywhere update - dlang.org gets an "A" now!

2015-12-03 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 2 December 2015 at 22:17:20 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=dlang.org=on Dlang.org gets an "A" now! Thanks to Jan Knepper's efforts. Nice work by Jan. I know how big of a hassle things like this can be so taking the time to actually do

Re: The D Language Foundation has $5000 to its name

2015-11-22 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 23 November 2015 at 04:37:18 UTC, Dicebot wrote: And how about GPG signing of releases which comes free and actually helps? :P On linux, sure. That'd be a good idea. That doesn't help with the usage problems on the other platforms though and GPG is kind of useless without the

Re: The D Language Foundation has $5000 to its name

2015-11-22 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 19 November 2015 at 12:31:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 11/17/2015 04:01 PM, cym13 wrote: On Tuesday, 17 November 2015 at 20:54:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Quite timely after the announcement of that $600K donation for the Julia language, I'm happy to announce that

Re: Fastest JSON parser in the world is a D project

2015-10-17 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 17 October 2015 at 09:35:47 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote: Am 17.10.2015 um 13:16 schrieb Marco Leise: Am Sat, 17 Oct 2015 09:27:46 +0200 schrieb Sönke Ludwig : Okay, I obviously misread that as a once familiar issue. Maybe it indeed makes sense to add a

Re: Last - but not least! - two DConf talks

2015-07-14 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 13 July 2015 at 07:12:48 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: On Friday, 10 July 2015 at 18:33:04 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Spread the word! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxSPCmwqgYs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQF3m5e2l0 Andrei

Re: More Dconf 2015 videos

2015-06-27 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 27 June 2015 at 13:59:11 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 6/27/15 6:37 AM, Andy Smith wrote: There have been a few responses agreeing with me. Chucks talk was awesome but the current edit doesn't do it justice. Is there any way this can be fed back to UVU/Chuck etc.? Did

Re: More Dconf 2015 videos

2015-06-26 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 26 June 2015 at 20:32:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Monday morning is probably a better time, due to Reddit usage patterns. Weekends tend to not get nearly so much traffic. Also, I completely spaced that I'll be on the road all day and not back until Tuesday. It'll have to be

Re: Walter, Brian, and Daniel's DConf 2015 talks are up

2015-06-22 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 19 June 2015 at 22:47:03 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote: Walter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znjesAXEEqw Brian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmFyB9e7edw Daniel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5daHGXSetXk I've only just started watching but the editing seems to be well done so

Walter, Brian, and Daniel's DConf 2015 talks are up

2015-06-19 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
Walter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znjesAXEEqw Brian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmFyB9e7edw Daniel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5daHGXSetXk I've only just started watching but the editing seems to be well done so thanks to UVU for that.

Re: Monday is last day for DConf 2015 registrations

2015-05-19 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 18 May 2015 at 19:59:08 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: [snip] I just booked a car, but could cancel it. Anyone from the area know whether it's worth having a car there or should I just book a shuttle to/from the airport? The Salt Lake and Utah county areas are a bit of a

Re: Found on Reddit: It's time for D to own up

2015-04-21 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 21 April 2015 at 22:41:38 UTC, Bill Baxter wrote: Anyone mentioned Automatic Reference Counting yet? Works pretty well for ObjC from what I've seen. Here on the forums? Quite a bit. The designer of ObjC's ARC even stopped in to clarify a few points about how it works in ObjC.

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-25 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 24 March 2015 at 18:18:44 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: [snip] What I'm regretting more, is that I have to run after every contributor, bugging them 3 times to write a single changelog line. One way to improve this would be to have changelogs in the dmd/druntime/phobos repo and make

Re: Release D 2.067.0

2015-03-25 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 26 March 2015 at 01:44:44 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote: That's a good idea. Maybe use separate files for each changelog entry (which are then combined into into the actual changelog by the dlang.org makefile). Then there wouldn't be merge conflicts with basically every pull request.

Re: serve - A simple HTTP server for static files

2015-03-22 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 22 March 2015 at 10:33:38 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: On Sunday, 22 March 2015 at 07:11:05 UTC, Suliman wrote: Could you explain why pure vibed do not good for static files? It's mainly a replacement for `python -m SimpleHTTPServer`, and is just a very small tool around vibe.d's

Re: dfmt 0.1.0

2015-02-20 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 20 February 2015 at 02:21:01 UTC, Brian Schott wrote: dfmt is a D source code formatting tool. https://github.com/Hackerpilot/dfmt/ https://github.com/Hackerpilot/dfmt/releases/tag/v0.1.0 Great! I've been using clang-format lately for my C++ code and it's really blown me away how

Re: DConf 2015 Call for Submissions is now open

2015-01-12 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 at 00:22:33 UTC, Mike wrote: I have a suggestion for any compiler implementers: How about a talk on how to get started hacking the compiler. Something that may lower the entry barrier and encourage participation. Some random thoughts: * General structure of the

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-03 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 09:00:25 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 07:46:42 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote: I could add links to DPaste and the #d IRC channel. Both good ideas. Done. You can see this here:

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-02 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 21:56:31 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: [snip] I hope so too! The CAPTCHA only triggers on a spam check fail, which should not occur for normal forum content. I get the captcha every single time I post at home. I suspect it's because I'm on IPv6. Everything

Re: dsource.org moved

2014-12-02 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 23:02:32 UTC, Kiith-Sa wrote: [snip] My blog is not there, but it's not pure D blog: defenestrate.eu defenestrate.eu/rss.html If you can add an rss feed for specific categories he could just add that. I know he's done that for some of the planet D blogs. I'd

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-02 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 06:44:17 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: [snip] As I said, it's not about bots any more. The wiki got flooded after one person solved the D-specific question, after which the old CAPTCHA became useless. Ah yeah, that's right. I forgot that was your goal. I'm

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-02 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 06:52:23 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 01:48:57 UTC, krzaq wrote: [snip As for math/algorithms, this one feels too advanced: return iota(9).reduce!a+b; I think it's a pretty good (albeit slightly advanced) question. 9 is a

Re: undeaD - zombie phobos modules back from the grave

2014-12-01 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 1 December 2014 at 04:07:06 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: http://code.dlang.org/packages/undead https://github.com/DigitalMars/undeaD [snip] This was a great idea.

Re: d-apt source changed!

2014-12-01 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 30 November 2014 at 02:20:04 UTC, Jordi Sayol via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: d-apt http://d-apt.sourceforge.net/ changed the distribution name from dmd to d-apt. Download the last d-apt.list to update: $ sudo wget http://master.dl.sourceforge.net/project/d-apt/files/d-apt.list

Re: DMD and dub available via chocolatey

2014-11-01 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 2 November 2014 at 01:52:27 UTC, Daniel Jost wrote: From the homepage[1]: Chocolatey is a Machine Package Manager, somewhat like apt-get, but built with Windows in mind. I have added dmd[2] and dub[3] as packages. This means you can do command line installation and have them ready

Re: Despiker 0.1: a GUI real-time profiler for game development

2014-10-11 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 10 October 2014 at 23:55:03 UTC, Kiith-Sa wrote: -- Announcing Despiker, a GUI real time profiler for game development -- Very cool. Tharsis looks very

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-20 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 20 August 2014 at 09:15:54 UTC, disapointed user wrote: thank you general for your selfish and user considered release. the lieutenants probably feel kind of really taken care of - as well as D users. how do you test and release at facebook. i am a user that considers to leave

Re: D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

2014-08-19 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 19 August 2014 at 11:12:25 UTC, Andrew Edwards wrote: [...] In essence, it was always this big, just you never saw it because it got downloaded during the installation process. It was also significantly bigger before because the download it did was the 30MB dmd zip that contained

Re: Dutyl - a Vim plugin for running D tools

2014-08-15 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 14 August 2014 at 22:20:52 UTC, Idan Arye wrote: GitHub repo: https://github.com/idanarye/vim-dutyl vim.org page: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=5003 The main problem with my Vim plugin for DCD(placed inside the DCD repo) is the need to set the import paths

Re: DMD v2.066.0-rc2

2014-08-11 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 11 August 2014 at 15:51:16 UTC, dnewbie wrote: On Friday, 8 August 2014 at 12:01:43 UTC, Andrew Edwards wrote: DMD v2.066.0-rc2 binaries are available for testing: http://wiki.dlang.org/Beta_Testing curl.lib not found in dmd.2.066.0-rc2.windows.zip\dmd2\windows\lib Should be

Re: DMD v2.066.0-rc2

2014-08-11 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 11 August 2014 at 19:02:18 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote: On Monday, 11 August 2014 at 15:51:16 UTC, dnewbie wrote: On Friday, 8 August 2014 at 12:01:43 UTC, Andrew Edwards wrote: DMD v2.066.0-rc2 binaries are available for testing: http://wiki.dlang.org/Beta_Testing curl.lib not

Re: DMD v2.066.0-rc1

2014-08-09 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 9 August 2014 at 15:35:08 UTC, Maxim Fomin wrote: On Thursday, 31 July 2014 at 12:51:53 UTC, Andrew Edwards wrote: DMD v2.066.0-rc1 binaries are available for testing: http://wiki.dlang.org/Beta_Testing What about changelog? http://dlang.org/changelog.html In past it was

Re: DMD v2.066.0-rc1

2014-08-06 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 6 August 2014 at 05:20:27 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 8/3/2014 8:51 PM, Manu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: This windiows installer went wrong on me. First, it tried to uninstall, it offered to uninstall from 'C:\D'. My DMD install is 'C:\dev\D'... The path was presented in a

Re: DMD v2.066.0-b6

2014-07-27 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 27 July 2014 at 12:22:59 UTC, Andrew Edwards wrote: DMD v2.066.0-b6 binaries are available for testing: http://wiki.dlang.org/Beta_Testing Note that Linux installers are not yet available due to https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13210. The Windows installer is

Re: D Hackday this Friday

2014-06-06 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 2 June 2014 at 17:41:10 UTC, Jonathan Crapuchettes wrote: After Andrei's call for reducing pull requests and current issues associated with D, the data department at EMSI is doing a Fix D Issues Day this Friday and we would like to invite the D community to join us. Let's get

Re: D Hackday this Friday

2014-06-06 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 6 June 2014 at 16:29:13 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote: On Monday, 2 June 2014 at 17:41:10 UTC, Jonathan Crapuchettes wrote: After Andrei's call for reducing pull requests and current issues associated with D, the data department at EMSI is doing a Fix D Issues Day this Friday and we

Re: Video of my LDC talk @ FOSDEM'14

2014-05-26 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 26 May 2014 at 20:35:50 UTC, Andrzej Dwojczynski wrote: On Monday, 26 May 2014 at 16:28:08 UTC, bearophile wrote: Sigh, Windows can't open that file type. Install this: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html I am on a tablet. What do I install? A Android?

Re: Video of my LDC talk @ FOSDEM'14

2014-05-26 Thread Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 00:30:48 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: It won't play on my Apple iPod nor on my Windows 8 laptop. It does work in my Samsung tablet. Chrome on your Samsung tablet should play it fine. There is also VLC for Android: