Re: Chuck Allison's talk is up

2014-06-05 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/5/2014 8:25 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 6/5/14, 11:15 PM, Olivier Henley wrote: I would love to spam my colleges here at Ubisoft Montreal with DConf 2014 talks ... but UStream is blocked studio wide. Is there any plans to mirror the talks somewhere else? We can stream from Vimeo and

Re: Chuck Allison's talk is up

2014-06-05 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/5/2014 7:51 PM, Olivier Henley wrote: ... Sorry I know its annoying to have someone telling you guys what to do. Not at all, it's a fair point you raise. > I would rather post a sticky thread, referencing Dicebot's channel, myself but I'm brand new here and don't have any credentials to

Re: Chuck Allison's talk is up

2014-06-05 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 23:51:42 + Olivier Henley via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > ... > > Sorry I know its annoying to have someone telling you guys what > to do. I would rather post a sticky thread, referencing Dicebot's > channel, myself but I'm brand new here and don't have any > credentia

Re: Chuck Allison's talk is up

2014-06-05 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/5/14, 11:15 PM, Olivier Henley wrote: I would love to spam my colleges here at Ubisoft Montreal with DConf 2014 talks ... but UStream is blocked studio wide. Is there any plans to mirror the talks somewhere else? We can stream from Vimeo and Youtube. Try https://archive.org/details/dconf2

Re: Chuck Allison's talk is up

2014-06-05 Thread Olivier Henley via Digitalmars-d-announce
... Sorry I know its annoying to have someone telling you guys what to do. I would rather post a sticky thread, referencing Dicebot's channel, myself but I'm brand new here and don't have any credentials to do so. Olivier

Re: Chuck Allison's talk is up

2014-06-05 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 20:24:21 UTC, Mattcoder wrote: On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 19:36:36 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: Are these eventually going to be posted for download somewhere (like last year)? Andrei said on reedit they will. My connection is just too slow for streaming. But i

Re: Chuck Allison's talk is up

2014-06-05 Thread Olivier Henley via Digitalmars-d-announce
Dicebot has been uploading them on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaYYN56VR7Z4SSoO7ws0-jA/videos I use his channel, as every web video player I've ever used blows in its own special way but youtube is the least bad. Nice! Thank you. If I may... this channel should be advertised pro

Re: Chuck Allison's talk is up

2014-06-05 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 21:15:40 UTC, Olivier Henley wrote: On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 16:33:49 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/newest http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/27e5d7/dconf_day_1_talk_3_a_real_d_in_programming/ https://www.facebook.com/dlan

Re: Chuck Allison's talk is up

2014-06-05 Thread Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 21:15:40 UTC, Olivier Henley wrote: On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 16:33:49 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/newest http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/27e5d7/dconf_day_1_talk_3_a_real_d_in_programming/ https://www.facebook.com/dlan

Re: Chuck Allison's talk is up

2014-06-05 Thread Mattcoder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 22:09:36 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Or DownloadHelper if you're on FF: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/ Nice and I learned a new trick: Scroph from reddit: "To get the direct link of a streamed video I usually open up the dev t

Re: Chuck Allison's talk is up

2014-06-05 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/5/2014 4:24 PM, Mattcoder wrote: On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 19:36:36 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: Are these eventually going to be posted for download somewhere (like last year)? Andrei said on reedit they will. My connection is just too slow for streaming. But if you not want to wa

Re: Chuck Allison's talk is up

2014-06-05 Thread Olivier Henley via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 16:33:49 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/newest http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/27e5d7/dconf_day_1_talk_3_a_real_d_in_programming/ https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/860528800627469 https://twitter.com/D_Programming/st

Re: DConf 2014 Day 1 Talk 2

2014-06-05 Thread Justin Whear via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 21:51:14 +0200, Philippe Sigaud via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 10:54 PM, Jonathan Crapuchettes >> Here is a link to the slides from the presentation. >> >> http://slides.com/jonathancrapuchettes/dconf > > > On the 'issues with D' slide, you cite 'C

Re: Chuck Allison's talk is up

2014-06-05 Thread Ben Boeckel via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 19:36:35 +, Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > Are these eventually going to be posted for download somewhere > (like last year)? My connection is just too slow for streaming. Use youtube-dl[1]. --Ben [1]http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/

Re: Chuck Allison's talk is up

2014-06-05 Thread Mattcoder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 19:36:36 UTC, Craig Dillabaugh wrote: Are these eventually going to be posted for download somewhere (like last year)? Andrei said on reedit they will. My connection is just too slow for streaming. But if you not want to wait, do this: 1) Add on your Chrome: "V

Re: DlangUI

2014-06-05 Thread via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 16:10:00 UTC, Mike James wrote: I checked the sub-directory the loading refers to and all the pngs seems to be there. I managed to get the files from github just fine, but dub says it is unable to copy a libpng file to the example case. I'm not sure what is wrong,

Re: DConf 2014 Day 1 Talk 2

2014-06-05 Thread Philippe Sigaud via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, Jun 3, 2014 at 10:54 PM, Jonathan Crapuchettes > Here is a link to the slides from the presentation. > > http://slides.com/jonathancrapuchettes/dconf On the 'issues with D' slide, you cite 'Can't get member names from Tuples'. Do you mean: alias Entry = Tuple!(int, "index", string, "valu

Re: Chuck Allison's talk is up

2014-06-05 Thread Craig Dillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 16:33:49 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/newest http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/27e5d7/dconf_day_1_talk_3_a_real_d_in_programming/ https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/860528800627469 https://twitter.com/D_Programming/st

Re: Interview at Lang.NEXT

2014-06-05 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 12:46:23 + Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 09:43:13 UTC, Jonathan M Davis via > Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > > On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 09:30:44 +0200 > > Though I confess what horrifies me the most about dynamic > > languages is c

Re: Interview at Lang.NEXT

2014-06-05 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2014-06-05 15:31, Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:42 AM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce mailto:digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com>> wrote: Though I confess what horrifies me the most about dynamic languages is code like this

Re: Chuck Allison's talk is up

2014-06-05 Thread Mattcoder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 18:40:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: "...Lessons Learned From Eight Years of Teaching D at the University" This seems to be interesting, since you can measure the pros and cons well over those years. Matheus.

Re: Interview at Lang.NEXT

2014-06-05 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/5/2014 6:31 AM, Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: But when it comes to tests, it's very convenient to just be able to fake any object by slapping some dummy functions in between curly braces. For example if I want a fake "IWidthHaver" instance, I just have to write x = { wi

Re: Chuck Allison's talk is up

2014-06-05 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/5/2014 9:34 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: https://news.ycombinator.com/newest http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/27e5d7/dconf_day_1_talk_3_a_real_d_in_programming/ https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/860528800627469 https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/474587858812948

Re: Adam D. Ruppe's "D Cookbook" now available!

2014-06-05 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2014-06-05 11:25, Chris wrote: My hard copy arrived today. Now I can read it anywhere I like ;) Funnily enough, it's only the second book about D and still I've been more productive in D than in any other language, languages for which thousands of titles are available. There's a book about

Chuck Allison's talk is up

2014-06-05 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
https://news.ycombinator.com/newest http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/27e5d7/dconf_day_1_talk_3_a_real_d_in_programming/ https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/860528800627469 https://twitter.com/D_Programming/status/474587858812948480 Andrei

Re: DlangUI

2014-06-05 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 15:15:48 UTC, Casper Færgemand wrote: On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 14:22:46 UTC, Mike James wrote: I am having problems running (debugging) the example1 program. When loading the resources it gets to tab_up_background.9.png (line 579 in file resources.d) and then fail

Re: DlangUI

2014-06-05 Thread via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 14:22:46 UTC, Mike James wrote: I am having problems running (debugging) the example1 program. When loading the resources it gets to tab_up_background.9.png (line 579 in file resources.d) and then fails with an exception: "Unhandled exception at 0x0044f932 in exampl

Re: DlangUI

2014-06-05 Thread Mike James via Digitalmars-d-announce
"Vadim Lopatin" wrote in message news:fylchhowgmwmqhkew...@forum.dlang.org... Hello! I would like to announce my project, DlangUI library - cross-platform GUI for D. https://github.com/buggins/dlangui License: Boost License 1.0 Native library written in D (not a wrapper to other GUI library)

Re: Interview at Lang.NEXT

2014-06-05 Thread Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 13:34:03 UTC, Brian Rogoff wrote: On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 12:46:24 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: I don't know, but the only language I've used with no static types that made me comfortable was Common Lisp. That was a long time ago, but I think it was the ease of manual

Re: Interview at Lang.NEXT

2014-06-05 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 6:34 AM, Brian Rogoff via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > ML is the language of the future ;-) > > Yeh, it hasn't really caught on in the first 40 years since it was invented, but I'm sure it's about to explode any day now. :-) --bb

Re: Interview at Lang.NEXT

2014-06-05 Thread Brian Rogoff via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 12:46:24 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: I don't know, but the only language I've used with no static types that made me comfortable was Common Lisp. That was a long time ago, but I think it was the ease of manually testing the code in a REPL that did it. Obviously today I'd

Re: Interview at Lang.NEXT

2014-06-05 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 2:42 AM, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > > Though I confess what horrifies me the most about dynamic languages is code > like this > > if(cond) > var = "hello world"; > else > var = 42; > > The fact that an if statement could change the type of

Re: Interview at Lang.NEXT

2014-06-05 Thread Meta via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 09:43:13 UTC, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: if(cond) var = "hello world"; else var = 42; I've sometimes wished for this functionality. It's not even a big deal in a statically typed language with built-in algebraic types and flow-based

Re: Interview at Lang.NEXT

2014-06-05 Thread Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 5 June 2014 at 09:43:13 UTC, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 09:30:44 +0200 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On 6/5/14, 7:59 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > So let me get this straight: There are programmers out there > who

Re: Interview at Lang.NEXT

2014-06-05 Thread dennis luehring via Digitalmars-d-announce
Am 05.06.2014 11:42, schrieb Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce: if(cond) var = "hello world"; else var = 42; The fact that an if statement could change the type of a variable is just atrocious IMHO. Maybe I've just spent too much of my time in statically typed languages, but

Re: Interview at Lang.NEXT

2014-06-05 Thread Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, 05 Jun 2014 09:30:44 +0200 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On 6/5/14, 7:59 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > > So let me get this straight: There are programmers out there who > > find the occasional type annotations on some declarations to be > > significantly more wor

Re: Interview at Lang.NEXT

2014-06-05 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2014-06-04 21:30, Nick Sabalausky wrote: In my experience, using heavy dynamic typing throughout a program creates far more work (mainly debugging) than it avoids. Even in tiny ~100 line programs, I've spent large amounts of time tracking down bugs a sane compiler would have immediately point

Re: Interview at Lang.NEXT

2014-06-05 Thread Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 2014-06-05 09:30, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: I have to confess this echoes a few similar confusions I have about the use and advocacy of dynamically-typed languages. One argument I've heard a while back was that static type errors are not "proportional response" and that static types only det

Re: Adam D. Ruppe's "D Cookbook" now available!

2014-06-05 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 4 June 2014 at 09:45:39 UTC, ezneh wrote: On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 18:14:28 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book http://www.amazon.com/D-Cookbook-Adam-D-Ruppe/dp/1783287217 http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/

Re: Interview at Lang.NEXT

2014-06-05 Thread bearophile via Digitalmars-d-announce
Nick Sabalausky: to three lines of tests for every one line of real code is considered rapid development, My Python development is just development, it's not meant to be particularly rapid :-) And I don't think a 3:1 ratio is too much. Among the testing code I also count the doctests, the

Re: Interview at Lang.NEXT

2014-06-05 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 6/5/14, 7:59 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: So let me get this straight: There are programmers out there who find the occasional type annotations on some declarations to be significantly more work than following a convention of nearly *quadrupling* the amount of code they have to write? Two to thr