Re: D reaches 1000 questions on stackoverflow

2013-08-20 Thread Paul Jurczak
On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 22:00:10 UTC, John Colvin wrote: https://github.com/CyberShadow/DFeed/pull/15 Thank you for fixing it.

Re: D reaches 1000 questions on stackoverflow

2013-08-17 Thread Paul Jurczak
On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 01:05:18 UTC, Tyler Jameson Little wrote: [..] It's true though that there are much better answers (and questions) here than on SO, and I'm beginning to shift my search from Google to the forum search, but this isn't something a newcomer will know to do,

Re: D reaches 1000 questions on stackoverflow

2013-08-17 Thread John Colvin
On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 09:21:27 UTC, Paul Jurczak wrote: On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 01:05:18 UTC, Tyler Jameson Little wrote: [..] It's true though that there are much better answers (and questions) here than on SO, and I'm beginning to shift my search from Google to the forum

Re: D reaches 1000 questions on stackoverflow

2013-08-17 Thread Paul Jurczak
On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 11:00:20 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 09:21:27 UTC, Paul Jurczak wrote: On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 01:05:18 UTC, Tyler Jameson Little wrote: [..] It's true though that there are much better answers (and questions) here than on SO,

Re: D reaches 1000 questions on stackoverflow

2013-08-17 Thread John Colvin
On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 20:12:49 UTC, Paul Jurczak wrote: On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 11:00:20 UTC, John Colvin wrote: On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 09:21:27 UTC, Paul Jurczak wrote: On Saturday, 17 August 2013 at 01:05:18 UTC, Tyler Jameson Little wrote: [..] It's true though that

Re: D reaches 1000 questions on stackoverflow

2013-08-16 Thread Tyler Jameson Little
On Thursday, 15 August 2013 at 02:30:42 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Wednesday, August 14, 2013 22:56:30 Andre Artus wrote: As with many things it depends on what you want to achieve. Answering on SO is as much about establishing awareness as it is about answering the question. For a

Re: D reaches 1000 questions on stackoverflow

2013-08-15 Thread Walter Bright
On 8/14/2013 10:05 PM, Brad Anderson wrote: On Thursday, 15 August 2013 at 02:30:42 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Wednesday, August 14, 2013 22:56:30 Andre Artus wrote: As with many things it depends on what you want to achieve. Answering on SO is as much about establishing awareness as it

Re: D reaches 1000 questions on stackoverflow

2013-08-15 Thread Atash
On Thursday, 15 August 2013 at 05:06:48 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:56:30 +0200 Andre Artus andre.ar...@gmail.com wrote: A relatively small number of people are attracted to tools and languages that don't have broad exposure. These people are marked by dogged

Re: D reaches 1000 questions on stackoverflow

2013-08-15 Thread Walter Bright
On 8/14/2013 11:17 PM, Atash wrote: HI FIRST TIME POSTING. Just yell at me if I get too obnoxious and whatnot. I enjoyed your post. Welcome! and post more.

Re: D reaches 1000 questions on stackoverflow

2013-08-15 Thread Dicebot
On Thursday, 15 August 2013 at 17:55:38 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote: I'll chime in thanking Jonathan for this valuable contribution. I think I'll chip in by answering questions on SO too. I enjoy helping. Be warned - by the time notification about new question arrives in RSS feed, it usually

Re: D reaches 1000 questions on stackoverflow

2013-08-15 Thread monarch_dodra
On Thursday, 15 August 2013 at 06:11:32 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 8/14/2013 10:05 PM, Brad Anderson wrote: On Thursday, 15 August 2013 at 02:30:42 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Wednesday, August 14, 2013 22:56:30 Andre Artus wrote: As with many things it depends on what you want to

Re: D reaches 1000 questions on stackoverflow

2013-08-15 Thread Joseph Rushton Wakeling
On Thursday, 15 August 2013 at 00:23:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: You can define a filter that emails you whenever there are new questions on the D tag. Why not set up D.learn (or a new mailing list) to track that filter? That should help prompt the community here to engage with any

Re: D reaches 1000 questions on stackoverflow

2013-08-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 8/15/13 5:07 PM, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote: On Thursday, 15 August 2013 at 00:23:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: You can define a filter that emails you whenever there are new questions on the D tag. Why not set up D.learn (or a new mailing list) to track that filter? That should

Re: D reaches 1000 questions on stackoverflow

2013-08-14 Thread Andre Artus
On Wednesday, 14 August 2013 at 19:52:13 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote: On Tuesday, 6 August 2013 at 16:02:57 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: On Tuesday, 6 August 2013 at 01:22:29 UTC, Andre Artus wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/d Andrei Perhaps we can get it to

Re: D reaches 1000 questions on stackoverflow

2013-08-14 Thread Andre Artus
On Wednesday, 14 August 2013 at 21:03:37 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Wednesday, 14 August 2013 at 20:56:33 UTC, Andre Artus wrote: if questions go unanswered, or are answered after long delays, then the likelihood of the person persisting with D is diminished. Is this a big problem with D?

Re: D reaches 1000 questions on stackoverflow

2013-08-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 8/14/13 2:59 PM, Andre Artus wrote: On Wednesday, 14 August 2013 at 21:03:37 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Wednesday, 14 August 2013 at 20:56:33 UTC, Andre Artus wrote: if questions go unanswered, or are answered after long delays, then the likelihood of the person persisting with D is

Re: D reaches 1000 questions on stackoverflow

2013-08-14 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu
On 8/14/13 2:03 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Wednesday, 14 August 2013 at 20:56:33 UTC, Andre Artus wrote: if questions go unanswered, or are answered after long delays, then the likelihood of the person persisting with D is diminished. Is this a big problem with D? I don't do stack overflow

Re: D reaches 1000 questions on stackoverflow

2013-08-14 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Wednesday, August 14, 2013 22:56:30 Andre Artus wrote: As with many things it depends on what you want to achieve. Answering on SO is as much about establishing awareness as it is about answering the question. For a newcomer to D StackOverflow may be their first port of call, if questions

Re: D reaches 1000 questions on stackoverflow

2013-08-14 Thread Andre Artus
On Thursday, 15 August 2013 at 02:30:42 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Wednesday, August 14, 2013 22:56:30 Andre Artus wrote: As with many things it depends on what you want to achieve. Answering on SO is as much about establishing awareness as it is about answering the question. For a

Re: D reaches 1000 questions on stackoverflow

2013-08-14 Thread Nick Sabalausky
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:56:30 +0200 Andre Artus andre.ar...@gmail.com wrote: A relatively small number of people are attracted to tools and languages that don't have broad exposure. These people are marked by dogged determinism and a high tolerance for [mental] pain. Your average Joe or

Re: D reaches 1000 questions on stackoverflow

2013-08-14 Thread Brad Anderson
On Thursday, 15 August 2013 at 02:30:42 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Wednesday, August 14, 2013 22:56:30 Andre Artus wrote: As with many things it depends on what you want to achieve. Answering on SO is as much about establishing awareness as it is about answering the question. For a

Re: D reaches 1000 questions on stackoverflow

2013-08-06 Thread Atila Neves
On Tuesday, 6 August 2013 at 01:22:29 UTC, Andre Artus wrote: Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/d Andrei Perhaps we can get it to 1000 answers? I'm looking through it now to see if I can find something I can answer. I think the lack of answers is due to

Re: D reaches 1000 questions on stackoverflow

2013-08-05 Thread Andre Artus
Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/d Andrei Perhaps we can get it to 1000 answers? I'm looking through it now to see if I can find something I can answer.