On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 21:41:28 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
Enter DCaptcha, a question-answer challenge tailored for D
programmers. Its goals are to challenge posters of
suspicious-looking content with questions that should be easy
to answer to D programmers, and impossible for non-t
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 08:24:46 UTC, Gary Willoughby
wrote:
On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 21:41:28 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
Enter DCaptcha, a question-answer challenge tailored for D
programmers. Its goals are to challenge posters of
suspicious-looking content with questions th
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 08:28:25 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
Got it. But we're not going back to reCAPTCHA either. I'm tired
of deleting spam by hand.
Please suggest some ideas (or better, send pull requests).
I got fed up of having spam on an old blog so i implemented a
simple q
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 07:46:42 UTC, Brad Anderson
wrote:
I could add links to DPaste and the #d IRC channel.
Both good ideas.
Done. You can see this here:
http://forum.dlang.org/reply/qpfcqedcbkipjllnk...@forum.dlang.org
(just click "Send")
If it's that low than I'm not worried
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 08:51:13 UTC, Gary Willoughby
wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 08:28:25 UTC, Vladimir
Panteleev wrote:
Got it. But we're not going back to reCAPTCHA either. I'm
tired of deleting spam by hand.
Please suggest some ideas (or better, send pull requests).
I think DSource should not be shut down, but instead modernised
and open for new D-based projects. We, old D programmers, just
love DSource! :)
For an idea of what sort of questions DCaptcha asks, you can
demo it on the following page, so you don't have to clutter the
I think all code fragments should have just one exact answer
(like number or single word) a any programmer without specific D
knowledge should be able to answer them cor
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 00:56:12 UTC, Brad Anderson
wrote:
Maybe make the ones on d.learn extremely simple.
---
What does the follow program print?
void main()
{
import std.stdio : writeln;
writeln("foo");
}
---
No algorithms, no math. Just extremely basic
On 2014-12-03 14:02, Martin Krejcirik wrote:
Asking for D feature names in not good IMHO.
I agree. I try the demo at got a question about what this feature is called:
auto u = new class M {};
Exactly what is referred to here? The type inference or the anonymous
class? The answer is "anonymo
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 06:39:34 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
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
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 09:00:25 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 07:46:42 UTC, Brad Anderson
wrote:
I could add links to DPaste and the #d IRC channel.
Both good ideas.
Done. You can see this here:
http://forum.dlang.org/reply/qpfcqedcbkipjllnk...@fo
On 12/2/14, 6:41 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
Enter DCaptcha
I think this could work with just two or three variants of a question.
Always ask what's the return value of the function.
1. int foo() { return 8 % 3; }
I don't think non-programmers know what that '%' symbol is, but
programme
On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 14:47:09 +0100
Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
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> On 2014-12-03 14:02, Martin Krejcirik wrote:
>
> > Asking for D feature names in not good IMHO.
>
> I agree. I try the demo at got a question about what this feature is called:
>
> auto u = new class M {};
>
On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 09:13:12 +
Dejan Lekic via Digitalmars-d-announce
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> I think DSource should not be shut down, but instead modernised
> and open for new D-based projects. We, old D programmers, just
> love DSource! :)
the problem with current dsource is that keeps poping up in first
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 20:19:34 UTC, ketmar via
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On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 14:47:09 +0100
Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
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On 2014-12-03 14:02, Martin Krejcirik wrote:
> Asking for D feature names in not good IMHO.
I agree. I try the demo at g
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 20:24:05 UTC, ketmar via
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On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 09:13:12 +
Dejan Lekic via Digitalmars-d-announce
wrote:
I think DSource should not be shut down, but instead modernised
and open for new D-based projects. We, old D programmers, jus
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 20:42:28 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
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On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 20:24:05 UTC, ketmar via
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On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 09:13:12 +
Dejan Lekic via Digitalmars-d-announce
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I think DSource should not be shut down, but instead
On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 20:22:31 +
Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
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> On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 20:19:34 UTC, ketmar via
> Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> > On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 14:47:09 +0100
> > Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On 2014-12
On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 20:42:27 +
Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
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> On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 20:24:05 UTC, ketmar via
> Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> > On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 09:13:12 +
> > Dejan Lekic via Digitalmars-d-announce
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I think DSour
On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 20:42:27 +
Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
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> On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 20:24:05 UTC, ketmar via
> Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> > On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 09:13:12 +
> > Dejan Lekic via Digitalmars-d-announce
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I think DSour
On 12/3/2014 1:32 PM, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
thank you. but i mean that dsource.org is still poping up in results
and it contains alot of obsolete projects. some projects was forked
long time ago and their dsource pages weren't updated, some are just
dead. people keep hitting ds
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 21:26:19 UTC, ketmar via
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Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
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On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 20:19:34 UTC, ketmar via
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 14:47:0
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 21:37:33 UTC, ketmar via
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On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 20:42:27 +
Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
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On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 20:24:05 UTC, ketmar via
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> On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 09:13:1
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 21:32:27 UTC, ketmar via
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i think that the whole dsource site must be shut down and
replaced with
a stub (except planetD) to stop this disease. that site was
great, but
now it does more harm than good.
Alternatively: use robots.t
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 13:02:35 UTC, Martin Krejcirik
wrote:
I think all code fragments should have just one exact answer
(like number or single word) a any programmer without specific
D knowledge should be able to answer them correctly. Asking for
D feature names in not good IMHO.
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 22:48:50 UTC, ponce wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 21:32:27 UTC, ketmar via
Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
i think that the whole dsource site must be shut down and
replaced with
a stub (except planetD) to stop this disease. that site was
great, but
n
On 12/3/2014 2:42 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
Violence is not the answer.
I'll look into adding a warning banner to the site template.
Alternatively, replace the pages in dsource with forwarding pages. The page
forwarded to can have two links - one to the original page, the other to the
mo
On Wed, 03 Dec 2014 23:26:41 +
Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d-announce
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> The existing search result ratings for DSource are because of all
> the existing links to it, and not so much because of the content
> on DSource.
that's why it should be replaced with stub. google ranking
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 23:26:42 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
This will not help: clawling != indexing, and robots.txt only
stops crawling. robots.txt will not prevent a site from
appearing in Google search results, and it will not help in
lowering a site's search popularity. All it'
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 23:26:42 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
The existing search result ratings for DSource are because of
all the existing links to it, and not so much because of the
content on DSource.
The site owner has some control using webmaster tools:
https://support.google
This has to be a joke!
I couldn't answer a single question:
What is the name of the D language syntax feature illustrated in the following
fragment of D code?
string a = x"5095 f9 95d723c2";
Seems like hex to me
What is the name of the D language syntax feature illustrated in the following
On Tuesday, 2 December 2014 at 21:41:28 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev
wrote:
Although forum.dlang.org has had a spam check and used
reCAPTCHA since it was announced, it is only somewhat effective
against fully-automated bots - it is powerless against humans
paid to post spamverts on forums web-wide,
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 19:42:39 UTC, Ary Borenszweig
wrote:
On 12/2/14, 6:41 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
Enter DCaptcha
I think this could work with just two or three variants of a
question. Always ask what's the return value of the function.
1. int foo() { return 8 % 3; }
I d
On Saturday, 29 November 2014 at 12:24:36 UTC, Gary Willoughby
wrote:
Get the source from here:
https://github.com/d-widget-toolkit/dwt
Read the readme on that page and follow the instructions. The
source is contained in sub modules so you need checkout with
git (recursively) *not* download t
On Thursday, 4 December 2014 at 04:02:49 UTC, Mike wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 19:42:39 UTC, Ary Borenszweig
wrote:
On 12/2/14, 6:41 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
...
I had to maintain a technical forum last year that was getting
spammed like crazy. I added the question "how ma
On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 04:02:46 +
Mike via Digitalmars-d-announce
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> I had to maintain a technical forum last year that was getting
> spammed like crazy. I added the question "how many bits are in a
> byte?"
six. am i failed?
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On 4/12/2014 8:13 p.m., ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 04:02:46 +
Mike via Digitalmars-d-announce
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I had to maintain a technical forum last year that was getting
spammed like crazy. I added the question "how many bits are in a
byte?"
six. am i failed?
On 2014-12-03 23:39, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
That's the name of the parent class :)
Or interface, if I recall correctly.
--
/Jacob Carlborg
On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 20:31:47 +1300
Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce
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> On 4/12/2014 8:13 p.m., ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> > On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 04:02:46 +
> > Mike via Digitalmars-d-announce
> > wrote:
> >
> >> I had to maintain a technical forum last year th
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