Re: Facebook puts bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation

2014-02-20 Thread Baz
On Friday, 15 November 2013 at 17:51:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello, As part of a larger program to support the open source community, Facebook has is putting bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation. The initial budget is small, but if we find that it

Re: Facebook puts bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation

2014-02-20 Thread Steven Schveighoffer
On Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:25:05 -0500, Baz sf...@appixie.com wrote: Ahahahahaahhahahahahahaha$80... They just put 19 000 000 000 $ for a web app. Are you kiddin us ? JERK.MASSIVE DOUCHE.FUCK. Sorry, I know this is trolling, but I just have to respond. Fixing a bug in an open source

Re: Facebook puts bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation

2014-02-20 Thread Francesco Cattoglio
On Thursday, 20 February 2014 at 20:25:11 UTC, Baz wrote: Ahahahahaahhahahahahahaha$80... They just put 19 000 000 000 $ for a web app. Are you kiddin us ? Ok, I must say I'm shocked, and yes this 19 Billion $ spent make look bounties on D project some kind of joke. However JERK.MASSIVE

Re: Facebook puts bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation

2014-02-20 Thread Andrej Mitrovic
On 2/20/14, Steven Schveighoffer schvei...@yahoo.com wrote: Fixing a bug in an open source project with very minor implications on Facebook's code base is MASSIVELY different than having an app with half a billion users that instantly expands Facebook's potential into millions worth of

Re: Facebook puts bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation

2013-11-17 Thread John J
On 11/15/2013 12:51 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello, As part of a larger program to support the open source community, Facebook has is putting bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation. The D Programming Language on bountysource is missing Description:

Re: Facebook puts bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation

2013-11-17 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 11/17/13 9:38 AM, John J wrote: On 11/15/2013 12:51 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello, As part of a larger program to support the open source community, Facebook has is putting bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation. The D Programming Language on bountysource is

Re: Facebook puts bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation

2013-11-17 Thread John J
On 11/17/2013 08:49 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 11/17/13 9:38 AM, John J wrote: On 11/15/2013 12:51 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello, As part of a larger program to support the open source community, Facebook has is putting bounties on bugs in the D programming language

Re: Facebook puts bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation

2013-11-17 Thread eles
On Monday, 18 November 2013 at 01:49:57 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 11/17/13 9:38 AM, John J wrote: On 11/15/2013 12:51 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I see D is a language with C-like syntax and static typing. It pragmatically combines efficiency, control, and modeling power, with

Re: Facebook puts bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation

2013-11-16 Thread Raj
On Saturday, 16 November 2013 at 02:13:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 11/15/2013 5:40 PM, Brian Rogoff wrote: On Saturday, 16 November 2013 at 00:45:18 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: How do you mean that? The budget is of course much larger than that. I'd just started assigning it. Andrei

Re: Facebook puts bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation

2013-11-16 Thread Walter Bright
On 11/16/2013 1:08 AM, Raj wrote: Off Topic: Was a big fan of yours during your symantec C++ days ( spent tons of time going through the standard library implementations ). Have never heard of D before today. Will be sure to check it out. Thanks for all your contributions to the community.

Facebook puts bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation

2013-11-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
Hello, As part of a larger program to support the open source community, Facebook has is putting bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation. The initial budget is small, but if we find that it accelerates development we may add to it. As a sample we've added $80 bounties

Re: Facebook puts bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation

2013-11-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 11/15/13 9:51 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: [snip] http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1qpdil/facebook_puts_bounties_on_bugs_in_the_d/ Andrei

Re: Facebook puts bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation

2013-11-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 11/15/13 9:51 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: [snip] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6740999 Andrei

Re: Facebook puts bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation

2013-11-15 Thread Brad Anderson
On Friday, 15 November 2013 at 17:51:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello, As part of a larger program to support the open source community, Facebook has is putting bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation. The initial budget is small, but if we find that it

Re: Facebook puts bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation

2013-11-15 Thread Joseph Frank
On Friday, 15 November 2013 at 17:51:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello, As part of a larger program to support the open source community, Facebook has is putting bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation. The initial budget is small, but if we find that it

Re: Facebook puts bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation

2013-11-15 Thread Stephan Dilly
On Friday, 15 November 2013 at 21:05:56 UTC, Joseph Frank wrote: On Friday, 15 November 2013 at 17:51:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Hello, As part of a larger program to support the open source community, Facebook has is putting bounties on bugs in the D programming language

Re: Facebook puts bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation

2013-11-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 11/15/13 1:05 PM, Joseph Frank wrote: The D Programming Language? $80? Ha... Fail. How do you mean that? The budget is of course much larger than that. I'd just started assigning it. Andrei

Re: Facebook puts bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation

2013-11-15 Thread Brian Rogoff
On Saturday, 16 November 2013 at 00:45:18 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: How do you mean that? The budget is of course much larger than that. I'd just started assigning it. Andrei What's going to be the bounty for getting a precise GC in D? Is it even fair to say there's a single bounty

Re: Facebook puts bounties on bugs in the D programming language implementation

2013-11-15 Thread Walter Bright
On 11/15/2013 5:40 PM, Brian Rogoff wrote: On Saturday, 16 November 2013 at 00:45:18 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: How do you mean that? The budget is of course much larger than that. I'd just started assigning it. Andrei What's going to be the bounty for getting a precise GC in D? Is it