Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-22 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/21/14, 1:02 PM, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/21/2014 6:15 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: Youtube supports 4k resolution, is that good enough :). All videos from RailsConf 2014 was uploaded to youtube in 1080p resolution. For presentation videos, I don't see any point to hi res. DVD quality is

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-21 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2014-06-20 23:48, Dicebot wrote: I always upload highest quality available on archive.org (634.3 MB for this one), YouTube re-encoding must be pretty good :) I have no idea. I'm using the video downloader add-on in Firefox and I chose HD mp4. But even if it was 634.3 MB it's still quite

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-21 Thread ed via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 20 June 2014 at 22:04:37 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I use archive.org because it's the only I found that accepts full-resolution videos. -- Andrei A bit off-topic but I just found this while searching around archive.org with `subject:D Programming`

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-21 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2014-06-21 00:04, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I use archive.org because it's the only I found that accepts full-resolution videos. -- Andrei Youtube supports 4k resolution, is that good enough :). All videos from RailsConf 2014 was uploaded to youtube in 1080p resolution. -- /Jacob

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-21 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/21/2014 6:15 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: Youtube supports 4k resolution, is that good enough :). All videos from RailsConf 2014 was uploaded to youtube in 1080p resolution. For presentation videos, I don't see any point to hi res. DVD quality is more than good enough.

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-21 Thread Tofu Ninja via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 21 June 2014 at 20:02:56 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 6/21/2014 6:15 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: Youtube supports 4k resolution, is that good enough :). All videos from RailsConf 2014 was uploaded to youtube in 1080p resolution. For presentation videos, I don't see any point to hi

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-20 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2014-06-19 14:16, Joakim wrote: Sorry, I just noticed that you were only talking about HD quality. I don't know where you're getting the 350 MB figure, as all the HD recordings on archive.org are about 6-800 GB, but yeah, file sizes will vary based on the type of HD resolution and encoding

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-20 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 20 June 2014 at 21:44:16 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2014-06-19 14:16, Joakim wrote: Sorry, I just noticed that you were only talking about HD quality. I don't know where you're getting the 350 MB figure, as all the HD recordings on archive.org are about 6-800 GB, but yeah, file

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-20 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/19/14, 5:16 AM, Joakim wrote: On Thursday, 19 June 2014 at 11:04:25 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: My connection is specified to 10 Mbps. But it depends on how large the files are. Most of the files from DConf are under around 350MB in HD quality. On the other hand, Andrei's talk from LangNext

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-19 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2014-06-18 21:45, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: Your internet must be a lot faster than mine :P I only get about 2 Mbps down so I like to get a lower quality file that downloads faster but still plays reliably... youtube seems to handle it well automatically. My connection is specified to 10 Mbps.

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-19 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 19 June 2014 at 03:23:15 UTC, Saurabh Das wrote: I find it impossible to even find the posts on HN. Within a few hours of them being posted by Andrei, they are buried 4-5 pages deep in the 'new' section with very few upvotes. This search for DConf finds 5 of the 7 talks posted so

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-19 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 19 June 2014 at 11:04:25 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: My connection is specified to 10 Mbps. But it depends on how large the files are. Most of the files from DConf are under around 350MB in HD quality. On the other hand, Andrei's talk from LangNext 2014 is 1.3 GB and 48 minutes

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-19 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 19 June 2014 at 12:16:20 UTC, Joakim wrote: Sorry, I just noticed that you were only talking about HD quality. I don't know where you're getting the 350 MB figure, as all the HD recordings on archive.org are about 6-800 GB, but 600 to 800 MB, not GB. :)

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-19 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 19 June 2014 at 12:08:39 UTC, Joakim wrote: There has been some suggestion that they are being moderated down. The Reddit postings get about a hundred votes, not sure if that's much on their site, as I don't use it. If you're aware of this forum, not sure why you're going there

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-19 Thread Ben Boeckel via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 17:14:54 +, Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: I'd say this is typical vote count for something that no one really cares about but is not considered crappy waste of time :) Top 20 of a months ends with ~700 points right now.

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-18 Thread Kapps via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 17 June 2014 at 22:00:42 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote: On Tuesday, 17 June 2014 at 17:10:16 UTC, Mengu wrote: and also the genius idea to post each talk seperately instead of having a nice talks page on dconf.org and providing a link for that. i'd understand the keynotes but for the rest

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-18 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2014-06-17 05:38, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Monday, 16 June 2014 at 22:23:31 UTC, Dicebot wrote: I have found many of talks this year incredibly interesting for actual D users but not as catchy for something that passes by. Also lot of stuff has been discussed live in #d and ustream chat room.

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-18 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 17 June 2014 at 22:09:06 UTC, Joakim wrote: Nobody paid attention to ruby for a decade, until David Hansson built rails with it. I am hoping the vibe.d will do that magic to D. I need support for MS SQL Server to use it in production though.

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-18 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 18 June 2014 at 18:50:40 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: Downloading from youtube takes around a minute (HD quality). Your internet must be a lot faster than mine :P I only get about 2 Mbps down so I like to get a lower quality file that downloads faster but still plays reliably...

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-18 Thread Saurabh Das via Digitalmars-d-announce
I find it impossible to even find the posts on HN. Within a few hours of them being posted by Andrei, they are buried 4-5 pages deep in the 'new' section with very few upvotes. Last year I saw most of the talks (DConf13) on HN and r/programming. This year I find them only on this forum

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-17 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 16 June 2014 at 17:26:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/newest https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/867399893273693 https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/478588866321203200

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-17 Thread Mengu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 16 June 2014 at 22:14:01 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: The reddit response this year hasn't been particularly impressive it seems to me compared to last year :( r/programming and hn is all about rust and go. on hn many d posts are invisible after some time. i believe mods are taking

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-17 Thread Tofu Ninja via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 16 June 2014 at 17:26:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/newest https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/867399893273693 https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/478588866321203200

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-17 Thread Tofu Ninja via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 17 June 2014 at 17:10:16 UTC, Mengu wrote: and also the genius idea to post each talk seperately instead of having a nice talks page on dconf.org and providing a link for that. i'd understand the keynotes but for the rest of the talks this is / was not a good idea. I think the

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-17 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 17 June 2014 at 17:10:16 UTC, Mengu wrote: On Monday, 16 June 2014 at 22:14:01 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: The reddit response this year hasn't been particularly impressive it seems to me compared to last year :( r/programming and hn is all about rust and go. on hn many d posts are

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-17 Thread safety0ff via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 17 June 2014 at 22:09:06 UTC, Joakim wrote: I don't mind it as much, because I'm not bingeing on the talks and spreading out watching them instead, but it'd be nice to see the talks I missed on the livestream and want to watch now, rather than at some indeterminate date in the

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-17 Thread Meta via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 17 June 2014 at 22:09:06 UTC, Joakim wrote: Don't you know that it's better to maintain a steady stream of publicity for D on sites full of people who always dismiss it, rather than making the talks available immediately to the people who actually use D and want to watch them?

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-16 Thread simendsjo via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 06/16/2014 07:27 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/newest Why not put DConf 2014 in the title too?

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-16 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
The reddit response this year hasn't been particularly impressive it seems to me compared to last year :(

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-16 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 16 June 2014 at 22:14:01 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: The reddit response this year hasn't been particularly impressive it seems to me compared to last year :( I have found many of talks this year incredibly interesting for actual D users but not as catchy for something that passes

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-16 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 16 June 2014 at 17:26:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/newest https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/867399893273693 https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/478588866321203200

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-16 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 16 June 2014 at 22:23:31 UTC, Dicebot wrote: I have found many of talks this year incredibly interesting for actual D users but not as catchy for something that passes by. Also lot of stuff has been discussed live in #d and ustream chat room. Yeah. Or r/programming is just so

Re: DConf Day 1 Talk 6: Case Studies in Simplifying Code with Compile-Time Reflection by Atila Neves

2014-06-16 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/16/2014 8:38 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: BTW I tried posting the link to the sample chapter of my book in this too since it talks about reflection and the post seems to have just disappeared. I think I triggered reddits comment spam filter :( I gave up posting links on reddit years ago -