Re: Funny coverage of the recent reddit/hackernews chatter

2013-10-16 Thread Sönke Ludwig

Am 15.10.2013 23:17, schrieb Iain Buclaw:

On 15 October 2013 18:59, Tourist grava...@gravatar.com wrote:

On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 17:47:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:



http://www.fastcolabs.com/3019948/more-about-d-language-and-why-facebook-is-experimenting-with-it

Andrei



Google shows a rise in interest as well:
http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=d+language#q=d%20languagecmpt=q



Google shows a rise of interest... from Nigeria.




This one seems to be more interesting:
http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=dlang#q=dlangcmpt=q


Re: Funny coverage of the recent reddit/hackernews chatter

2013-10-16 Thread simendsjo

On Wednesday, 16 October 2013 at 07:52:06 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:

Am 15.10.2013 23:17, schrieb Iain Buclaw:
On 15 October 2013 18:59, Tourist grava...@gravatar.com 
wrote:
On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 17:47:54 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:



http://www.fastcolabs.com/3019948/more-about-d-language-and-why-facebook-is-experimenting-with-it

Andrei



Google shows a rise in interest as well:
http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=d+language#q=d%20languagecmpt=q



Google shows a rise of interest... from Nigeria.




This one seems to be more interesting:
http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=dlang#q=dlangcmpt=q


Another funny thing: I couldn't get the page to work in Chromium 
and had to use FF :)


Re: Funny coverage of the recent reddit/hackernews chatter

2013-10-16 Thread Jacob Carlborg

On 2013-10-16 10:01, simendsjo wrote:


Another funny thing: I couldn't get the page to work in Chromium and had
to use FF :)


Did you try Chrome :)

--
/Jacob Carlborg


Re: Funny coverage of the recent reddit/hackernews chatter

2013-10-16 Thread Jonathan M Davis
On Tuesday, October 15, 2013 10:48:12 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
 http://www.fastcolabs.com/3019948/more-about-d-language-and-why-facebook-is- 
 experimenting-with-it

I was not expecting to be quoted from there. Well, it's sometimes surprising 
where stuff pops up. At least I didn't get quoted for saying something stupid. 
:)

- Jonathan M Davis


Funny coverage of the recent reddit/hackernews chatter

2013-10-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3019948/more-about-d-language-and-why-facebook-is-experimenting-with-it

Andrei


Re: Funny coverage of the recent reddit/hackernews chatter

2013-10-15 Thread Tourist
On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 17:47:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3019948/more-about-d-language-and-why-facebook-is-experimenting-with-it

Andrei


Google shows a rise in interest as well:
http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=d+language#q=d%20languagecmpt=q


Re: Funny coverage of the recent reddit/hackernews chatter

2013-10-15 Thread Walter Bright

On 10/15/2013 10:48 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3019948/more-about-d-language-and-why-facebook-is-experimenting-with-it


geeky optimism (!)

And a companion article:

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3019887/facebook-adds-5000-lines-of-d-language-code-whats-that-mean


Re: Funny coverage of the recent reddit/hackernews chatter

2013-10-15 Thread qznc

On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 17:59:38 UTC, Tourist wrote:
On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 17:47:54 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3019948/more-about-d-language-and-why-facebook-is-experimenting-with-it

Andrei


Google shows a rise in interest as well:
http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=d+language#q=d%20languagecmpt=q


A steady stream of news which hits Reddit and Hacker News front 
pages every few days certainly helps. We had the Facebook 
announcement and my tutorial. Who is responsible for tomorrow? ;)


Re: Funny coverage of the recent reddit/hackernews chatter

2013-10-15 Thread Iain Buclaw
On 15 October 2013 18:59, Tourist grava...@gravatar.com wrote:
 On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 17:47:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:


 http://www.fastcolabs.com/3019948/more-about-d-language-and-why-facebook-is-experimenting-with-it

 Andrei


 Google shows a rise in interest as well:
 http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=d+language#q=d%20languagecmpt=q


Google shows a rise of interest... from Nigeria.


-- 
Iain Buclaw

*(p  e ? p++ : p) = (c  0x0f) + '0';


Re: Funny coverage of the recent reddit/hackernews chatter

2013-10-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu

On 10/15/13 2:08 PM, qznc wrote:

On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 17:59:38 UTC, Tourist wrote:

On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 17:47:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3019948/more-about-d-language-and-why-facebook-is-experimenting-with-it


Andrei


Google shows a rise in interest as well:
http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=d+language#q=d%20languagecmpt=q


A steady stream of news which hits Reddit and Hacker News front pages
every few days certainly helps. We had the Facebook announcement and my
tutorial. Who is responsible for tomorrow? ;)


Oh, could you please make a pull request to add a link to the tutorial 
on the front page? Probably right under Documentation before Book.


And, Ali, Ali, Ali, when's your book going to be ready?


Andrei



Re: Funny coverage of the recent reddit/hackernews chatter

2013-10-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu

On 10/15/13 2:08 PM, qznc wrote:

On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 17:59:38 UTC, Tourist wrote:

On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 17:47:54 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3019948/more-about-d-language-and-why-facebook-is-experimenting-with-it


Andrei


Google shows a rise in interest as well:
http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=d+language#q=d%20languagecmpt=q


A steady stream of news which hits Reddit and Hacker News front pages
every few days certainly helps. We had the Facebook announcement and my
tutorial. Who is responsible for tomorrow? ;)


Thanks again for the tutorial. People love it and the timing couldn't be 
better!


Andrei



Re: Funny coverage of the recent reddit/hackernews chatter

2013-10-15 Thread Tourist
On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 21:17:15 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

On 10/15/13 2:08 PM, qznc wrote:

On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 17:59:38 UTC, Tourist wrote:
On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 17:47:54 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3019948/more-about-d-language-and-why-facebook-is-experimenting-with-it


Andrei


Google shows a rise in interest as well:
http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=d+language#q=d%20languagecmpt=q


A steady stream of news which hits Reddit and Hacker News 
front pages
every few days certainly helps. We had the Facebook 
announcement and my

tutorial. Who is responsible for tomorrow? ;)


Thanks again for the tutorial. People love it and the timing 
couldn't be better!


Andrei


Can't wait for the blog post on Facebook Engineering. Any hints? 
:)


Re: Funny coverage of the recent reddit/hackernews chatter

2013-10-15 Thread qznc
On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 21:18:27 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
Oh, could you please make a pull request to add a link to the 
tutorial on the front page? Probably right under 
Documentation before Book.


Requested a pull. Further discussion over there: 
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/394


Re: Funny coverage of the recent reddit/hackernews chatter

2013-10-15 Thread Jesse Phillips

On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 17:59:38 UTC, Tourist wrote:
On Tuesday, 15 October 2013 at 17:47:54 UTC, Andrei 
Alexandrescu wrote:

http://www.fastcolabs.com/3019948/more-about-d-language-and-why-facebook-is-experimenting-with-it

Andrei


Google shows a rise in interest as well:
http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=d+language#q=d%20languagecmpt=q


And the dlang search:
http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=d+language#q=dlangcmpt=q

Great article!


Re: Funny coverage of the recent reddit/hackernews chatter

2013-10-15 Thread Ali Çehreli

On 10/15/2013 02:18 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 And, Ali, Ali, Ali, when's your book going to be ready?

I am guessing another two months. (I have valid excuses. :-/)

Ali