Re: Video of my LDC talk @ FOSDEM'14

2014-05-27 Thread Arjan via Digitalmars-d-announce
Enjoy! Besides the noise, I did! Great talk! And thanks for your efforts to make LDC a success.

Re: Dconf 2014 talks - when to be available

2014-05-27 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 02:51:51 UTC, Nick B wrote: Hi Can any one advise when we can expect the conference talks (and perhaps the slides as well) to available to download or via Utube ? I saw some of the streamed talks, but would love to view the rest. The MC said initially that

Re: DirectX bindings

2014-05-27 Thread evilrat via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 3 November 2013 at 05:27:24 UTC, evilrat wrote: https://github.com/evilrat666/directx-d this is it. i think i can't continue on this one anymore, nor do i have time, nor passion. i've made a lot of work and meet (almost) no interest. i will be stay in contact, so any pull request

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-27 Thread Szymon Gatner via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 19:58:10 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 5/6/2014 9:11 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 12:40:48 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: Any way to see the TOC? Hmm, not on the website yet but here it is. [snip] Sounds awesome! Jus got mail from PacktPub: D

Re: Video of my LDC talk @ FOSDEM'14

2014-05-27 Thread Leandro Lucarella via Digitalmars-d-announce
Walter Bright, el 26 de May a las 11:09 me escribiste: On 5/26/2014 10:30 AM, w0rp wrote: On Monday, 26 May 2014 at 17:06:27 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: Youtube has solved all these problems - why not use it? You can view .webm directly in recent Firefox or Chrome versions on Windows, you an

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-27 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 10:00:01 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 19:58:10 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 5/6/2014 9:11 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 12:40:48 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: Any way to see the TOC? Hmm, not on the website yet but here it

Re: Video of my LDC talk @ FOSDEM'14

2014-05-27 Thread bearophile via Digitalmars-d-announce
Kai Nacke: In the same folder are also the videos of the other LLVM related talk. I have appreciated the An approach for energy consumption analysis of programs using LLVM talk, they even have an annotation that statically enforces a certain function to consume less than a specified amount

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-27 Thread Kozzi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 10:00:01 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 19:58:10 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: On 5/6/2014 9:11 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 12:40:48 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: Any way to see the TOC? Hmm, not on the website yet but here it

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-27 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 11:43:32 UTC, Kozzi wrote: I am reading it now, but there is a lot of errata :(. What do you mean?

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-27 Thread Mattcoder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 11:43:32 UTC, Kozzi wrote: I am reading it now, but there is a lot of errata :(. Well that's a good thing about PDF, because you can fix it and update the version online. Matheus.

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-27 Thread Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-announce
I mean there is a lot of typo (for e.g. multiple ';' chars at the end of line, import std.stdio : writeln;;;) on page 2,6,8,10,14 ... On page 19: static Vector fromPoint(float[2] point) { import std.math; Vector v; float x = point[0]; float y= point[1]; v.magnitude = sqrt(x ^^ 2 + y ^^ 2);

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-27 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 11:57:05 UTC, Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: I mean there is a lot of typo (for e.g. multiple ';' chars at the end of line, import std.stdio : writeln;;;) Blargh, the code got screwed up something nasty through the revision process (chapter 6

Re: Video of my LDC talk @ FOSDEM'14

2014-05-27 Thread Tommi via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Monday, 26 May 2014 at 05:59:35 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote: [..] http://video.fosdem.org/2014/K4401/Sunday/LDC_the_LLVMbased_D_compiler.webm I can't watch this on my iPhone.

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-27 Thread Chris via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 12:05:43 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 11:57:05 UTC, Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: I mean there is a lot of typo (for e.g. multiple ';' chars at the end of line, import std.stdio : writeln;;;) Blargh, the code got screwed up

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-27 Thread Szymon Gatner via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 12:59:59 UTC, Chris wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 12:05:43 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 11:57:05 UTC, Daniel Kozak via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: I mean there is a lot of typo (for e.g. multiple ';' chars at the end of line, import

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-27 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 13:27:56 UTC, Szymon Gatner wrote: Will epub version be available too? Yeah, I think it is already on the packt website.

Re: Dconf 2014 talks - when to be available

2014-05-27 Thread Suliman via Digitalmars-d-announce
apparently to stay on top of reddit for awhile. Explain plz

Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/26m8hy/scott_meyers_dconf_2014_keynote_the_last_thing_d/ https://news.ycombinator.com/newest (search that page, if not found click More and search again) https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org/posts/855022447844771

Re: Dconf 2014 talks - when to be available

2014-05-27 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/27/14, 12:41 AM, Nick B wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 07:14:54 UTC, Joakim wrote: The MC said initially that they'd have them up in a day or two most likely, then Andrei said he wanted to stagger their release over a couple weeks like he did last time, apparently to stay on top of

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-27 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/27/2014 12:42 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/26m8hy/scott_meyers_dconf_2014_keynote_the_last_thing_d/ https://news.ycombinator.com/newest (search that page, if not found click More and search again)

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-27 Thread via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 16:42:35 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/26m8hy/scott_meyers_dconf_2014_keynote_the_last_thing_d/ Thanks, is it possible to put it on Youtube as well? Ustream stutters every second from where I am which makes me feel

Re: My D book is now officially coming soon

2014-05-27 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 6 May 2014 at 16:38:51 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.packtpub.com/discover-advantages-of-programming-in-d-cookbook/book I just agreed with Packt to write a foreword for the book. -- Andrei I just read the foreword. It's great!

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-27 Thread Mattcoder via Digitalmars-d-announce
Great, but I think this should be on youtube too, reasons for this is the possibility to change resolution and other features like subtitles for foreigners etc. Matheus.

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-27 Thread w0rp via Digitalmars-d-announce
That was brilliant. I think Scott made two very good points. D needs people like himself to educate others, and that D should focus on behaviour which makes sense not only in a particular context, but with respect to the other contexts. (Which is what C++ lacks greatly.)

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-27 Thread Andrew Edwards via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/27/14, 2:57 PM, w0rp wrote: That was brilliant. I think Scott made two very good points. D needs people like himself to educate others, and that D should focus on behaviour which makes sense not only in a particular context, but with respect to the other contexts. (Which is what C++ lacks

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-27 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, 27 May 2014 14:57:46 -0400, w0rp devw...@gmail.com wrote: That was brilliant. I think Scott made two very good points. D needs people like himself to educate others I think you misunderstood that point ;) He was saying to make D so that we DON'T need specialists like himself that

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-27 Thread Brian Schott via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 19:44:01 UTC, Andrew Edwards wrote: Really? What I got out of it was that D doesn't need people like him because his job is to explain the inconsistencies of the language. By designing a consistent language in the first place, people can readily understand it in all

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-27 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, 27 May 2014 16:11:12 -0400, w0rp devw...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 19:43:57 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On Tue, 27 May 2014 14:57:46 -0400, w0rp devw...@gmail.com wrote: That was brilliant. I think Scott made two very good points. D needs people like himself

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-27 Thread Chris Nicholson-Sauls via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 20:11:13 UTC, w0rp wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 19:43:57 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On Tue, 27 May 2014 14:57:46 -0400, w0rp devw...@gmail.com wrote: That was brilliant. I think Scott made two very good points. D needs people like himself to educate

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-27 Thread w0rp via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 21:16:34 UTC, Chris Nicholson-Sauls wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 20:11:13 UTC, w0rp wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 19:43:57 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On Tue, 27 May 2014 14:57:46 -0400, w0rp devw...@gmail.com wrote: That was brilliant. I think Scott

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-27 Thread Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/27/2014 2:22 PM, w0rp wrote: I'm actually a native speaker of 25 years and I didn't get it at first. Natural language communicates ideas approximately. What bugs me is when people say: I could care less. when they mean: I couldn't care less. and: If you think that, you have

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-27 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/27/2014 6:10 PM, Johannes Totz wrote: On 27/05/2014 18:43, Ola Fosheim Grøstad ola.fosheim.grostad+dl...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 16:42:35 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

Re: Dconf 2014 talks - when to be available

2014-05-27 Thread Leandro Lucarella via Digitalmars-d-announce
Ali Çehreli, el 27 de May a las 10:40 me escribiste: On 05/27/2014 09:18 AM, Suliman wrote: apparently to stay on top of reddit for awhile. Explain plz A benefit of releasing the presentations slowly is to enable constant exposure to DConf in the coming weeks, as opposed to making all

Re: Dconf 2014 talks - when to be available

2014-05-27 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 23:08:01 UTC, Leandro Lucarella wrote: I think they should be uploaded all ASAP and then you can do official announcements in reddit or wherever you thinks it's best to promote the language. Aye, we could also, if we want some new thing to post to reddit each time,

Re: Dconf 2014 talks - when to be available

2014-05-27 Thread currysoup via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 23:08:01 UTC, Leandro Lucarella wrote: Ali Çehreli, el 27 de May a las 10:40 me escribiste: On 05/27/2014 09:18 AM, Suliman wrote: apparently to stay on top of reddit for awhile. Explain plz A benefit of releasing the presentations slowly is to enable constant

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-27 Thread Leandro Lucarella via Digitalmars-d-announce
Brian Schott, el 27 de May a las 20:03 me escribiste: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 19:44:01 UTC, Andrew Edwards wrote: Really? What I got out of it was that D doesn't need people like him because his job is to explain the inconsistencies of the language. By designing a consistent language in the

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-27 Thread John via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 22:10:02 UTC, Johannes Totz wrote: Thanks, is it possible to put it on Youtube as well? Ustream stutters every second from where I am which makes me feel sorry for the speaker… http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ helps with the stutter. +1

Re: Dconf 2014 talks - when to be available

2014-05-27 Thread Saurabh Das via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 23:48:44 UTC, currysoup wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 23:08:01 UTC, Leandro Lucarella wrote: Ali Çehreli, el 27 de May a las 10:40 me escribiste: On 05/27/2014 09:18 AM, Suliman wrote: apparently to stay on top of reddit for awhile. Explain plz A benefit of

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-27 Thread Jesse Phillips via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 16:42:35 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/26m8hy/scott_meyers_dconf_2014_keynote_the_last_thing_d/ https://news.ycombinator.com/newest (search that page, if not found click More and search again)

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-27 Thread Philippe Sigaud via Digitalmars-d-announce
I did a translation of most of the code in the slides. http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/72b5cfcb72e4 I'm planning to transform it into blog post (or series). Right now it just has some scratch notes. Feel free to let me know everything I got wrong. That's a good idea. I think most of us did that while

Re: Scott Meyers' DConf 2014 keynote The Last Thing D Needs

2014-05-27 Thread Jesse Phillips via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wednesday, 28 May 2014 at 05:30:18 UTC, Philippe Sigaud via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: I did a translation of most of the code in the slides. http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/72b5cfcb72e4 I'm planning to transform it into blog post (or series). Right now it just has some scratch notes. Feel free