Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-09-12 Thread Bahman Movaqar via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 09/13/2015 08:51 AM, Meta wrote: > It's funny, people are willing to suspend their disbelief for demons > from hell, but not for the lack of a flashlight and duct tape. It's > probably because it was an annoying game mechanic, and taping a > flashlight to a gun is something so simple and mundane

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-09-12 Thread Meta via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 12 September 2015 at 14:25:46 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: That's pretty similar to how I felt about Doom3: People complained how "unrealistic" it was to not be able to duct tape the flashlight to the gun, but...For crap's sake, it's a game about a demon invasion from hell and one g

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-09-12 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 09/11/2015 01:59 PM, Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: To be fair, wasn't the movie talking about dead baseball player ghosts coming? For people to take that example and apply it to other endeavors in life is a bit ridiculous. That's pretty similar to how I felt about Doom3: Peo

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-09-11 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
To be fair, wasn't the movie talking about dead baseball player ghosts coming? For people to take that example and apply it to other endeavors in life is a bit ridiculous. But maybe I'm misremembering. Saw it a long time ago. On Sep 11, 2015 4:00 AM, "Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce" < digitalmar

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-09-11 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 19:35:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I hate the movie "Field of Dreams" where they push the idiotic idea of "Build it and they will come." No, they won't. There's a blizzard of stuff competing for their attention out there, why should they invest the time looking at

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-20 Thread Lars T. Kyllingstad via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 19:35:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Here's the pattern that works a lot better: 1. spend hundreds if not thousands of hours developing something really cool Check! 2. spend 10 minutes writing the announcement to D.announce. Be sure to include: who, what, whe

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-20 Thread Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, 2015-08-20 at 14:59 +, Daniel via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > […] > > Oh, an official Docker image would also help. Look at Go's: > https://hub.docker.com/_/golang/ Go 1.3, how appallingly out of date, it's 1.5 now. -- Russel. ===

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-20 Thread anonymous via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday 20 August 2015 17:18, Daniel wrote: > Anyway, I didn't know about Ali's book. Maybe it could be linked > at dlang.org's left menu? It's the first link on the "Getting Started" page (added somewhat recently). And it's the first link in the "Books & Articles" section. I wouldn't oppose

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-20 Thread Daniel via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 20 August 2015 at 14:59:33 UTC, bachmeier wrote: On Thursday, 20 August 2015 at 14:45:24 UTC, Daniel wrote: One thing that always comes to mind is that D does not have a free, extensive, structured good reference as Go (https://www.golang-book.com/books/intro) and Rust (https://do

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-20 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 20 August 2015 at 14:45:24 UTC, Daniel wrote: One thing that always comes to mind is that D does not have a free, extensive, structured good reference as Go (https://www.golang-book.com/books/intro) and Rust (https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/index.html) do. I mean, compare D's learn

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-20 Thread Daniel via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 19:35:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I hate the movie "Field of Dreams" where they push the idiotic idea of "Build it and they will come." No, they won't. There's a blizzard of stuff competing for their attention out there, why should they invest the time looking at

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-20 Thread Daniel via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 19:35:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I hate the movie "Field of Dreams" where they push the idiotic idea of "Build it and they will come." No, they won't. There's a blizzard of stuff competing for their attention out there, why should they invest the time looking at

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-20 Thread Mike via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thursday, 20 August 2015 at 06:50:51 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: Humm, I wonder if we could strip it out before the final link. I tried a number of things, all discussed on the D.gnu forum (http://forum.dlang.org/post/quemhwpgijwmqtpxu...@forum.dlang.org). The only hack that worked some

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-19 Thread Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/20/2015 6:25 PM, Mike wrote: On Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 19:35:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I hate the movie "Field of Dreams" where they push the idiotic idea of "Build it and they will come." No, they won't. There's a blizzard of stuff competing for their attention out there, why should

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-19 Thread Mike via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 18 August 2015 at 19:35:02 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: I hate the movie "Field of Dreams" where they push the idiotic idea of "Build it and they will come." No, they won't. There's a blizzard of stuff competing for their attention out there, why should they invest the time looking at

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-19 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 8/19/2015 12:59 AM, Laeeth Isharc wrote: Sage words quickly forgotten, so: http://wiki.dlang.org/How_You_Can_Help Feel free too move somewhere more fitting. Thanks! Now I can just regularly point to that.

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-19 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d-announce
Sage words quickly forgotten, so: http://wiki.dlang.org/How_You_Can_Help Feel free too move somewhere more fitting.

Re: Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-18 Thread Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 19/08/2015 7:35 a.m., Walter Bright wrote: I hate the movie "Field of Dreams" where they push the idiotic idea of "Build it and they will come." No, they won't. There's a blizzard of stuff competing for their attention out there, why should they invest the time looking at your stuff? You need

Build It And They Will Not Come

2015-08-18 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
I hate the movie "Field of Dreams" where they push the idiotic idea of "Build it and they will come." No, they won't. There's a blizzard of stuff competing for their attention out there, why should they invest the time looking at your stuff? You need to tell them why! Here's the frustrating ty