Re: DConf 2019 Livestream

2019-05-08 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 5:15 AM Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, 8 May 2019 at 10:13:35 UTC, Ethan wrote: > > > > > > Good news everyone! A Youtube stream will be arriving after the > > lunch break. > > > > Cheers for your patienc

Re: DConf 2019 Livestream

2019-05-09 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 1:00 AM rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > On 09/05/2019 9:19 AM, Bill Baxter wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 5:15 AM Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce > > >

Re: GSOC 2020 projects

2020-02-24 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
The full list is here and there are lots of them: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/?sp-page=2 I think gamefromscratch.com just pulled out a short list of ones that were game-related there. --bb On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 10:05 AM rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:

Re: Origins of the D Programming Language now published by ACM!

2020-06-20 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
Whoa! Page 23 -- a wild Bill Baxter appears! That was unexpected. :-D --bb On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 9:00 PM Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > On 6/18/2020 1:53 PM, tastyminerals wrote: > > On Saturday, 13 June 2020 at 03:16:05 UTC, Walter Br

Re: New library: argparse, for parsing CLI arguments

2021-10-13 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 5:30 PM Andrey Zherikov via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, 13 October 2021 at 19:26:49 UTC, Andrei > Alexandrescu wrote: > > Cool! > > > > One note - gflags (https://opensource.google/projects/gflags) > > allows modules

Re: New library: argparse, for parsing CLI arguments

2021-10-13 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 6:15 PM Andrey Zherikov via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Thursday, 14 October 2021 at 00:35:11 UTC, Bill Baxter wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 13, 2021 at 5:30 PM Andrey Zherikov via > > Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@p

Re: Skia library for D, porting from SkiaSharp API.

2021-12-08 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, Dec 7, 2021 at 6:40 PM Imperatorn via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Monday, 6 December 2021 at 09:08:20 UTC, zoujiaqing wrote: > > SkiaD is a cross-platform 2D graphics API for D based on Mono's > > SkiaSharp. Which in turn is "based on Google

Re: Inochi2D - Realtime 2D Animation written in D

2022-09-17 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
That's very cool! I did these back in the day using D. Glad to see nice 2D animation tools in D! https://vimeo.com/3065068 https://vimeo.com/9703263 https://vimeo.com/3116117 --bb On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 11:30 AM Luna via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > T

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 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: DConf 2014: SDC, a D Compiler as a Library

2014-07-25 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
In the YouTube interface, click on the pencil icon (Info & Settings) and there's a place to set what frame to use as a thumbnail there. --bb On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On 7/25/14, 9:03 AM, David Nadlinger wrote: > >> On Friday, 25 Ju

Re: forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha

2014-12-11 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
""" What will be the return value of the following function? int y() { int d = 31, baz = 5; baz--; d /= baz; return d; } """ Oh, the irony! Asking people to prove they're human by making them to complete a task that is usually done by machines. :-) --bb On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 4:26 AM,

Re: DConf 2015 Second call for proposals

2015-02-12 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > Hi everyone, > > > The call for proposals for DConf 2015 has had scarce response until now. > Please consider submitting before the deadline on February 28. > > There's a lot of interesting recent work on D

Re: quick-and-dirty minimalistic LISP engine

2015-02-19 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
If you weren't deliberately making a joke, you might want to google "milf". And if you were... Hmm interesting sense of humor you have there. On Feb 18, 2015 11:40 PM, "via Digitalmars-d-announce" < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, 18 February 2015 at 22:37:34 UTC, ketm

Re: quick-and-dirty minimalistic LISP engine

2015-02-19 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 8:30 AM, ketmar via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 06:50:29 -0800, Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce > wrote: > > > If you weren't deliberately making a joke, you might want to

Re: BLAS implementation for D

2017-04-13 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
I would probably call it gnublas or gplblas something to make it clear that it's got that aspect to it. It can't ever really be "the one true" blas lib for all D users with that license. Re: merging with Mir GLAS, that seems very tricky without changing Mir GLAS's license to GPL. --bb On Thu, Apr

Re: BLAS implementation for D

2017-04-15 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 12:18 PM, bachmeier via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Friday, 14 April 2017 at 16:31:24 UTC, jmh530 wrote: > > Not a lawyer, but I think if you just port it to another language it is a >> derived work in GPL and the ported projec

Re: NWCPP (and D) Meeting at Microsoft Wednesday Evening

2018-02-21 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
Where do you go now that the Celtic Bayou is closed? --bb On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 7:37 PM, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > http://nwcpp.org/ > > I plan to be there; a bunch of Seattle area D folks come regularly. We > hear the presentation

Re: NWCPP (and D) Meeting at Microsoft Wednesday Evening

2018-02-21 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
Oh, forgot . :-) On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 11:04 AM, Bill Baxter wrote: > Where do you go now that the Celtic Bayou is closed? > --bb > > On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 7:37 PM, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce > wrote: > >> http://nwcpp.org/ >> >> I plan to be there; a bunch of Seattle area D

Re: State of D 2018 Survey

2018-03-01 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
Just don't overlook the fact that people who fill out 30 minute surveys right away after being told about them are a self-selected group of people who apparently have way too much time on their hands. Which also suggests they would likely also have more free time to go chase down and fix breaks in

Re: State of D 2018 Survey

2018-03-02 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
italmars-d-announce wrote: > On Thursday, March 01, 2018 13:24:29 Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce > wrote: > > Just don't overlook the fact that people who fill out 30 minute surveys > > right away after being told about them are a self-selected group of > people > >

Re: DWT API Documentation now on dpldocs.info

2018-03-07 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
Cool! I used to love using DWT back in the day. Yeh the Eclipse ones look like they were written by someone trying very hard to make you think you were using a native app on some platform with a horrible UI from the 90s. --bb On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 5:28 PM, Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-annou

Re: DWT API Documentation now on dpldocs.info

2018-03-07 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
The logo in the corner - http://dwt.dpldocs.info/d-logo.png -- is a 404 btw. On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 5:32 PM, Bill Baxter wrote: > Cool! I used to love using DWT back in the day. > > Yeh the Eclipse ones look like they were written by someone trying very > hard to make you think you were using a

Re: Follow @dlangconf and use #dconf on twitter

2018-05-01 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
They're calling it "dconf" as short for the "Digital Health and Well-being Conference". Really?! Why wouldn't you use something less generic like "dhealth2018"? They're tweeting from the handle @dconf2018. I guess you should go ahead and sign up for the @dconf2019 and on accounts now. Maybe that

Re: A facebook group for D programmers

2018-09-17 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
Here's the link : https://www.facebook.com/dlang.org . ;-) On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 11:31 PM Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > And there is a Facebook group D Programming Language already. > > On Sun, 2018-09-16 at 16:36 -0700, Steven Schvei

Re: Top Five World’s Most Underrated Programming Languages

2019-01-17 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
Gotta laugh at Ruby being listed as "Underrated", though. --bb On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 12:25 PM Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > Of possible interest: > > > https://www.technotification.com/2019/01/most-underrated-programming-languages.html >

Re: Found on Reddit: It's time for D to own up

2015-04-21 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
Anyone mentioned Automatic Reference Counting yet? Works pretty well for ObjC from what I've seen. On Apr 21, 2015 11:27 AM, "Ali Çehreli" < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > > > http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/33dccx/its_time_for_d_to_own_up/ > > Ali >

Re: Found on Reddit: It's time for D to own up

2015-04-21 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 3:50 PM, Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, 21 April 2015 at 22:41:38 UTC, Bill Baxter wrote: > >> Anyone mentioned Automatic Reference Counting yet? Works pretty well for >> ObjC from what I've seen. >> > >

Re: Now official: we are livestreaming DConf 2015

2015-05-27 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
Awesome. Thanks for doing the streaming! --bb On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 2:20 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On 5/27/15 1:01 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > >> Thanks to John Colvin! He rigged his webcam centrally so we can >> livestream DConf 2015 in passable qualit

Re: Summer cleanup on https://issues.dlang.org

2015-06-09 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 2:41 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On 6/9/15 1:54 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: > >> On Tuesday, 9 June 2015 at 05:33:24 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: >> >>> I just made a pass through https://issues.dlang.org for a cleanup. >>> >> >> Next ti

Re: D Conf 2015: Memory Models and D (deadalnix)

2015-06-25 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
Fyi - Someone is posting similar stuff to the G+ D community under the name "Mike Rotch". The posts are links to serious talks about D. But that account name lends a pretty unprofessional air to it. --bb On Jun 24, 2015 4:00 PM, "Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce" < digitalmars-d-announce@p

Re: Release D 2.068.0

2015-08-11 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:52 AM, John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Monday, 10 August 2015 at 08:48:52 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote: > >> Glad to announce D 2.068.0. >> >> http://downloads.dlang.org/releases/2.x/2.068.0/ >> >> This release comes

Re: Release D 2.068.0

2015-08-11 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 3:28 PM, John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Tuesday, 11 August 2015 at 22:08:50 UTC, Bill Baxter wrote: > >> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:52 AM, John Colvin via Digitalmars-d-announce >> < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagi

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

2015-08-24 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Joseph Cassman via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> >> Following an increasing desire to focus on working on the D language and >> foundation, I have recently made the

Re: Moving forward with work on the D language and foundation

2015-08-25 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 6:06 PM, welkam via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Monday, 24 August 2015 at 18:43:01 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: > >> to fully focus on pushing D forward. >> > > > That would be pushing ===D forward.

Re: 1st Ever Artificial Consciousness to be Written in D Language

2015-09-02 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 10:10 AM, GrandAxe via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, 2 September 2015 at 15:14:12 UTC, Martin Drašar wrote: > >> Dne 2.9.2015 v 16:41 GrandAxe via Digitalmars-d-announce napsal(a): >> >>> This is to inform the D Languag

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: Silicon Valley D Meetup November 19, 2015

2015-11-19 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
If you set up what's called a Hangout On Air then anyone can join in and you can have it recorded to YouTube as well. https://support.google.com/plus/answer/2553119?hl=en On Nov 18, 2015 10:25 PM, "Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce" < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, 1

Re: The D Language Foundation has $5000 to its name

2015-11-22 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
It doesn't require a system change to run unsigned stuff on the Mac, it just requires knowing the trick: open by ctrl-clicking on the icon and choosing "Open" from the pop-up menu. If you open it that way then it will ask you if you really really want to open it, and there you can say yes. If you,

Re: Dconf gets a new logo

2016-03-02 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
The other one was classy, but this one is energetic and fun. +1. --bb On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 7:37 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > Many thanks to https://github.com/aG0aep6G who contributed the DConf 2016 > logo (the Berlin tower > https://github.com/D-Programming-La

Re: Computer Vision Library in D

2016-04-21 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:26 PM, rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On 20/04/2016 7:46 PM, Relja Ljubobratovic wrote: > >> On Wednesday, 20 April 2016 at 06:14:58 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: >> >>> I was thinking std.math.linalg kinda seems like the right place once >>> std.mat

Re: Google Summer of Code

2016-04-22 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
Well done! Congrats to you all! --bb On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 3:43 PM, CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > I am pleased to announce that the D Foundation has been awarded 4 slots > for the 2016 Google Summer of Code. > > https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/50782560

Re: D-Man culture

2016-06-19 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
Whew! I thought this was going to be a scathing critique of some lurking anti-feministic culture in the D world. Glad to see it's just about some cute D-shaped characters! On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d-announce < digitalmars-d-announce@puremagic.com> wrote: >

Re: DIP1000: Scoped Pointers

2016-08-10 Thread Bill Baxter via Digitalmars-d-announce
This bit seems odd: T func(T* t) { return t; // ok } Is there an implicit conversion from T* to T? On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 10:05 PM, rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote: > On 11/08/2016 8:35 AM, Dicebot wrote: > >> The first DIP has just landed into the new queue. It is a prop