Re: D-lighted, I'm Sure
On Saturday, 19 January 2019 at 22:07:47 UTC, Ron Tarrant wrote: On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 18:59:59 UTC, JN wrote: Just add a line in your dub.json file and you have the library. Need to upgrade to newer version? Just change the version in dub.json file. Need to download the problem from scratch? No problem, dub can use the json file to download all the dependencies in proper versions. Any idea where we can find a gentle intro to dub? It looks like the best one is the "Getting Started" page on code.dlang.org: https://dub.pm/getting_started
Re: D-lighted, I'm Sure
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 20:30:25 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote: Regarding Dub. [stuff deleted] [1] https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc [2] https://dlang.org/spec/expression.html#import_expressions [3] https://travis-ci.com/ [4] https://blog.travis-ci.com/2018-10-11-windows-early-release [5] https://www.appveyor.com [6] https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/docker-ldc-darwin/blob/master/Dockerfile [7] https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/docker-ldc-windows/blob/master/Dockerfile Wow. That's a lot to think about. Thanks, Jacob. Looks like I've got my weekend reading all lined up. :)
Re: D-lighted, I'm Sure
On Saturday, 19 January 2019 at 20:12:04 UTC, Jon Degenhardt wrote: Nicely done. Very enjoyable, thanks for publishing this! Thanks, Jon. Glad you enjoyed it.
Re: D-lighted, I'm Sure
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 18:48:00 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: Very nice indeed! Welcome aboard, Ron! Thanks, H.S. I used to remember most of the opcodes by heart... though nowadays that memory has mostly faded away. I used to write 6502 in my head while riding my bike to school, then write it out, do up a poke statement to jam it into RAM, and most of the time it worked first try. I was so impressed with myself. I won't bore you with my boring editor, vim (with no syntax highlighting -- yes I've been told I'm crazy, and in fact I agree I read somewhere recently that syntax highlighting is considered a distraction, so you're not the only one. I use it mainly as a spellchecker. If it lights up, I know I spelled it right! :) Linux is my IDE, the whole of it :-P). And I thought Atom had overhead! :) I do hope you know I'm kidding. I have been working up to installing Linux on something around here, too. And FreeBSD. I'm seriously short of hardware and space to set up other machines ATM, so it's going to have to wait.
Re: D-lighted, I'm Sure
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 19:55:34 UTC, Meta wrote: Great read Ron. Can I ask which town in Newfoundland it was where you stayed back in 1985? Sure. I was in St. Lawrence on the Burin Peninsula. Do you know it?
Re: D-lighted, I'm Sure
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 18:59:59 UTC, JN wrote: Just add a line in your dub.json file and you have the library. Need to upgrade to newer version? Just change the version in dub.json file. Need to download the problem from scratch? No problem, dub can use the json file to download all the dependencies in proper versions. Any idea where we can find a gentle intro to dub?
Re: D-lighted, I'm Sure
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 17:06:54 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: I had to use my parents' TV in the living room :) And I was made to learn typing before I could play games on it, so cruel... LOL! (Ahem) I feel your pain, sir.
Re: D-lighted, I'm Sure
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 14:29:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Not long ago, in my retrospective on the D Blog in 2018, I invited folks to write about their first impressions of D. Ron Tarrant, who you may have seen in the Lear forum, answered the call. The result is the latest post on the blog, the first guest post of 2019. Thanks, Ron! As a reminder, I'm still looking for new-user impressions and guest posts on any D-related topic. Please contact me if you're interested. And don't forget, there's a bounty for guest posts, so you can make a bit of extra cash in the process. The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2019/01/18/d-lighted-im-sure/ Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ahawhz/dlighted_im_sure_the_first_two_months_with_d/ Nicely done. Very enjoyable, thanks for publishing this! --Jon
Re: Musicpulator - Library for analyzing and manipulating music - 0.0.2
On Saturday, 19 January 2019 at 10:35:52 UTC, bauss wrote: Happy to announce the first version of Musicpulator. An open-source library for analyzing and manipulating music. As of now only manual analysis and manipulation is possible, but in future versions this will change. Please see the README.md for examples as there are a lot! Github: https://github.com/UndergroundRekordz/Musicpulator DUB: https://code.dlang.org/packages/musicpulator Cool! Thanks for sharing.
Re: Musicpulator - Library for analyzing and manipulating music - 0.0.2
On Saturday, 19 January 2019 at 16:11:33 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 10:35:52AM +, bauss via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: Happy to announce the first version of Musicpulator. An open-source library for analyzing and manipulating music. As of now only manual analysis and manipulation is possible, but in future versions this will change. Please see the README.md for examples as there are a lot! Github: https://github.com/UndergroundRekordz/Musicpulator DUB: https://code.dlang.org/packages/musicpulator Interesting. Is there a way to import music, say from XML, for analysis? Or is only internal analysis available currently? T Not as of now, but that's the next step to load from json, xml and midi import/export as well!
Re: The New Fundraising Campaign
On Saturday, 19 January 2019 at 16:15:21 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: I wonder if it's worth it to split the database into an active part (for recent threads) and an archive part (for older threads that are unlikely to change). Most of the lookups will be in the smaller active part, which hopefully will be more performant, and old posts will be migrated to the archive to maintain a maximum active size. Whatever the problem, it's reasonable to raise money to fix it. We shouldn't expect Vladimir to do all the work for something like this.
Re: The New Fundraising Campaign
On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 03:28:12PM +, user1234 via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Saturday, 19 January 2019 at 14:14:32 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 08:17:30AM +, Anonymouse via > > Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > > > On Saturday, 19 January 2019 at 06:43:34 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > > > [...] > > [...] > > > For us on the browser pages don't always load, though. > > > > That's a valid complaint. It would serve us well if the Foundation > > can pay for dedicated hardware for the forum, instead of the current > > machine that seems to get overloaded every so often. > > > > Or if the problem is software, pay for someone to fix it or replace > > it with something that doesn't have this problem. [...] > Yeah, I think the main problem is the database locks. > People discussed about the that previously. Yeah I vaguely remember that. I wonder if it's worth it to split the database into an active part (for recent threads) and an archive part (for older threads that are unlikely to change). Most of the lookups will be in the smaller active part, which hopefully will be more performant, and old posts will be migrated to the archive to maintain a maximum active size. But I could be misunderstanding the problem. T -- The right half of the brain controls the left half of the body. This means that only left-handed people are in their right mind. -- Manoj Srivastava
Re: Musicpulator - Library for analyzing and manipulating music - 0.0.2
On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 10:35:52AM +, bauss via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > Happy to announce the first version of Musicpulator. > > An open-source library for analyzing and manipulating music. > > As of now only manual analysis and manipulation is possible, but in > future versions this will change. > > Please see the README.md for examples as there are a lot! > > Github: https://github.com/UndergroundRekordz/Musicpulator > > DUB: https://code.dlang.org/packages/musicpulator Interesting. Is there a way to import music, say from XML, for analysis? Or is only internal analysis available currently? T -- One reason that few people are aware there are programs running the internet is that they never crash in any significant way: the free software underlying the internet is reliable to the point of invisibility. -- Glyn Moody, from the article "Giving it all away"
Re: The New Fundraising Campaign
On Saturday, 19 January 2019 at 14:14:32 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 08:17:30AM +, Anonymouse via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: On Saturday, 19 January 2019 at 06:43:34 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > [...] [...] For us on the browser pages don't always load, though. That's a valid complaint. It would serve us well if the Foundation can pay for dedicated hardware for the forum, instead of the current machine that seems to get overloaded every so often. Or if the problem is software, pay for someone to fix it or replace it with something that doesn't have this problem. T Yeah, I think the main problem is the database locks. People discussed about the that previously.
Re: The New Fundraising Campaign
On Sat, Jan 19, 2019 at 08:17:30AM +, Anonymouse via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Saturday, 19 January 2019 at 06:43:34 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > This forum is very functional. I would participate less in a forum > > that requires loading up a browser to use. But then again, maybe > > people would be happier if I wasn't around to blab about vim and > > symmetry and why dub sux, so perhaps that might be for the better. > > :-P [...] > For us on the browser pages don't always load, though. That's a valid complaint. It would serve us well if the Foundation can pay for dedicated hardware for the forum, instead of the current machine that seems to get overloaded every so often. Or if the problem is software, pay for someone to fix it or replace it with something that doesn't have this problem. T -- All problems are easy in retrospect.
Re: The New Fundraising Campaign
On Saturday, 19 January 2019 at 12:38:48 UTC, bachmeier wrote: The norm is for pages to not load in the browser. I don't think it's necessary to elaborate on the impression this creates on potential users. Yes. Unfortunately I encounter it quite often. Just now the loading of the forum has stalled for me for like 20 seconds until it finally loaded. I have mixed feelings about this forum. I understand it's just a facade over email. I think it works quite well, and I prefer it to traditional email newsgroups. But sometimes you'd like fancy stuff like embedding images into your post, especially when showing off a project. What I'd really like to see though is an additional section in the "D Programming Language - Ecosystem". Something like "Projects". Where you can create threads for projects that you have started, are working on etc. Something like the old dsource forums http://dsource.org/forums/ . Right now there's no place for that. You have General, but it's for language discussion. Learn is for learning. Announce might work for that, but in general it's for release announcements, rather than continued discussion on the project, also it doesn't work for work in progress projects. I think if such section existed, with subsections for notable projects, it'd greatly boost the community. Look at projects like GtkD or VibeD - they have their own forums. Most people frequent both their forums and here, but I imagine there are some people that only hang out on GtkD or VibeD forums. I think it would be beneficial to bring those people here.
Re: The New Fundraising Campaign
On Saturday, 19 January 2019 at 08:17:30 UTC, Anonymouse wrote: On Saturday, 19 January 2019 at 06:43:34 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: This forum is very functional. I would participate less in a forum that requires loading up a browser to use. But then again, maybe people would be happier if I wasn't around to blab about vim and symmetry and why dub sux, so perhaps that might be for the better. :-P T For us on the browser pages don't always load, though. The norm is for pages to not load in the browser. I don't think it's necessary to elaborate on the impression this creates on potential users.
Re: B Revzin - if const expr isn't broken (was Re: My Meeting C++ Keynote video is now available)
On Friday, 18 January 2019 at 20:29:08 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: That would work, but it would also suffer from all the same problems as macro-based programming in C. The compiler would be unable to detect when you accidentally pasted type names together where you intended to be separate, the strings may not actually represent real types, and generating code from pasting / manipulating strings is very error-prone. And you could write very unmaintainable code like pasting partial tokens together as strings, etc., which makes it hard for anyone else (including yourself after 3 months) to understand just what the code is trying to do. Generally, you want some level of syntactic / semantic enforcement by the compiler when you manipulate lists (or whatever other structures) of types. T Well, it's the approach Andrei laid out in his DConf 2018 talk: https://youtu.be/-0jcE9B5kjs?t=2641 The advantage is how simple it is, and that it only uses existing language constructs. But, indeed, the problems you mention are not insignificant.
Musicpulator - Library for analyzing and manipulating music - 0.0.2
Happy to announce the first version of Musicpulator. An open-source library for analyzing and manipulating music. As of now only manual analysis and manipulation is possible, but in future versions this will change. Please see the README.md for examples as there are a lot! Github: https://github.com/UndergroundRekordz/Musicpulator DUB: https://code.dlang.org/packages/musicpulator
Re: The New Fundraising Campaign
On Saturday, 19 January 2019 at 06:43:34 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: This forum is very functional. I would participate less in a forum that requires loading up a browser to use. But then again, maybe people would be happier if I wasn't around to blab about vim and symmetry and why dub sux, so perhaps that might be for the better. :-P T For us on the browser pages don't always load, though.
