Re: d-apt source changed!

2014-12-02 Thread Jordi Sayol via Digitalmars-d-announce
El 02/12/14 a les 07:41, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce ha escrit: I do wonder though if d-apt is actually a bad idea as the main resource and we should package directly into Debian? d-apt allows to instant update on dmd releases, not on Debian official repositories. Anyway,

Re: German D Community?

2014-12-02 Thread Tobias Pankrath via Digitalmars-d-announce
It might make sense for the few companies to stir up some community. Promote D to students and get job candidates in return. Build a website mostly consisting of a job board and events calendar. Integrate Twitter, mailing list, etc to keep low-traffic connections to people. Wouldn't use it. If

forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-02 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
I'm sure you all are as tired of the occasional spam that hits these lists as I was deleting it. (Mailing list users in particular, I guess, since we can't delete an email once it was sent out.) Most of the spam was coming in through the forum, so I suppose I was responsible for [not] keeping

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-02 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/02/2014 01:41 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: impossible for non-technical people with no incentive to learn or research stuff I hope this will not alienate complete beginners. They should be able to talk to us on the D.learn newsgroup. For an idea of what sort of questions DCaptcha

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-02 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 21:53:15 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: On 12/02/2014 01:41 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: impossible for non-technical people with no incentive to learn or research stuff I hope this will not alienate complete beginners. They should be able to talk to us on the

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-02 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/02/2014 01:56 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: The CAPTCHA only triggers on a spam check fail, which should not occur for normal forum content. Ok, that sounds great. Ouch. I could pass the first question in two tries but I can't pass the second one. :) They're randomly generated, so

dsource.org moved

2014-12-02 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
DSource in the headlines? In 2014? Shocking, I know. Since Brad is no longer an active D user, and the website has had spotty uptime lately, I've offered to take over the hosting and any maintenance. Although opinions exist that the site should simply be shut down, I think archiving it

Re: dsource.org moved

2014-12-02 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 22:20:29 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: DSource in the headlines? In 2014? Shocking, I know. Since Brad is no longer an active D user, and the website has had spotty uptime lately, I've offered to take over the hosting and any maintenance. Although opinions

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-02 Thread Eric via Digitalmars-d-announce
I got stumped on the delimited string question, but I was able to get the answer by viewing the page source in my web browser. -Eric On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 21:41:28 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: I'm sure you all are as tired of the occasional spam that hits these lists as I was

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-02 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
I suppose one way to cheat is to just compile and run the code.

Re: dsource.org moved

2014-12-02 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 12/2/2014 2:20 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: DSource in the headlines? In 2014? Shocking, I know. Since Brad is no longer an active D user, and the website has had spotty uptime lately, I've offered to take over the hosting and any maintenance. Although opinions exist that the site should

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-02 Thread bearophile via Digitalmars-d-announce
Vladimir Panteleev: http://wiki.dlang.org/extensions/DCaptcha/demo.php Very nice, we can help spammers learn some D and become some day valid D developers :-) Bye, bearophile

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 krzaq via Digitalmars-d-announce
Asking for feature names is a very bad choice, you're essentially excluding all beginners and it's almost impossible to google the answers (you want to exclude lazy uninterested humans, not all of them, right?). Besides, I thought D was supposed to be the type of language one should be able to

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-02 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 01:48:55 + krzaq via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com wrote: Sure, this will eliminate spammers. But I wonder what the word of mouth will be: A Have you tried asking on the D forum? B Yeah, but they thought I was a spammer and wouldn't let

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-02 Thread Dylan Allbee via Digitalmars-d-announce
string k = x2e dd 203F; This seems severely punishing to people trying to learn D, especially as a first programming language. Is that really the right approach?

Re: d-apt source changed!

2014-12-02 Thread deadalnix 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: dsource.org moved

2014-12-02 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 23:02:32 UTC, Kiith-Sa wrote: On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 22:20:29 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: DSource in the headlines? In 2014? Shocking, I know. Since Brad is no longer an active D user, and the website has had spotty uptime lately, I've offered to take

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-02 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 00:56:12 UTC, Brad Anderson wrote: 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

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-02 Thread Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 01:48:57 UTC, krzaq wrote: Asking for feature names is a very bad choice, you're essentially excluding all beginners and it's almost impossible to google the answers (you want to exclude lazy uninterested humans, not all of them, right?). The answers not

Re: dsource.org moved

2014-12-02 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2014-12-02 23:20, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: DSource in the headlines? In 2014? Shocking, I know. Since Brad is no longer an active D user, and the website has had spotty uptime lately, I've offered to take over the hosting and any maintenance. Although opinions exist that the site should

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-02 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2014-12-02 22:41, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: I'm sure you all are as tired of the occasional spam that hits these lists as I was deleting it. (Mailing list users in particular, I guess, since we can't delete an email once it was sent out.) Most of the spam was coming in through the forum, so I

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: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-02 Thread novice2 via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 07:29:25 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: The anonymous class feature question, I was a bit stunned at first, before I saw what it actually was. i can't pass it too - only looking to sources. i tried auto type deduction, type deduction etc... imho, name of feature -