Re: Per popular demand, here are Adam D Ruppe's presentation slides

2014-05-28 Thread Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 May 2014 at 19:29:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Adam graciously shared the slides of his DConf 2014 talk with us: http://imgur.com/hHCN3OL Andrei This was best marketing for Adam book possible :) Someone who can talk for an hour without any visual helpers while still

Re: Per popular demand, here are Adam D Ruppe's presentation slides

2014-05-28 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 05:23:03 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: I always chalked it up to the whole nerd thing: Inverse relationship in outgoingness between in-person vs semi-anonymous. I don't think I'm /that/ much different; I rarely start threads, for example, but will talk in replies,

Re: Per popular demand, here are Adam D Ruppe's presentation slides

2014-05-26 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Sunday, 25 May 2014 at 05:18:39 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Similarly, mixed cussing is golly good f**king fun. heh yeah, but I've been trying to quit cussing entirely. Which is harder than you might think, even though I didn't even go that wild with it before, it is still a bit of a

Re: Per popular demand, here are Adam D Ruppe's presentation slides

2014-05-26 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 01:42:27 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: heh yeah, but I've been trying to quit cussing entirely. oh a fun addendum to this, I told a friend of mine (whom I haven't actually known that long) that I was trying to quit, and she was incredulous that I even swore at all. She

Re: Per popular demand, here are Adam D Ruppe's presentation slides

2014-05-26 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/26/2014 9:57 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Tuesday, 27 May 2014 at 01:42:27 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: heh yeah, but I've been trying to quit cussing entirely. oh a fun addendum to this, I told a friend of mine (whom I haven't actually known that long) that I was trying to quit, and she was

Re: Per popular demand, here are Adam D Ruppe's presentation slides

2014-05-24 Thread Tolga Cakiroglu via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 May 2014 at 23:56:39 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Friday, 23 May 2014 at 19:59:23 UTC, Mattcoder wrote: Hehe, I'm just imagining what Walter will say: Lack of images! Heh, I actually went through a few idea stages here: 1) I'd list the druntime functions. I determined this to

Re: Per popular demand, here are Adam D Ruppe's presentation slides

2014-05-24 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 24 May 2014 at 18:12:40 UTC, Tolga Cakiroglu wrote: When you started talking about writing your Floppy Disk driver for your kernel without using BIOS or DOS, Aye, programming on DOS was cool (and of course, so was programming without DOS too!) It is actually frustrating to know

Re: Per popular demand, here are Adam D Ruppe's presentation slides

2014-05-24 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 24 May 2014 at 00:36:31 UTC, John wrote: I wish there was more time available. My poor throat was getting dry near the end anyway... But I was kinda worried that I was getting too negative at times. My theme was supposed to be encouraging, go ahead and try it, and instead I

Re: Per popular demand, here are Adam D Ruppe's presentation slides

2014-05-24 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 24 May 2014 at 20:46:30 UTC, sclytrack wrote: Were there actual slides? Nope, I never actually got around to creating any. I just had an outline on my desktop of stuff I was thinking about creating, but just didn't finish it. The paper was my recreation of that outline from

Re: Per popular demand, here are Adam D Ruppe's presentation slides

2014-05-24 Thread sclytrack via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 24 May 2014 at 20:53:18 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Saturday, 24 May 2014 at 20:46:30 UTC, sclytrack wrote: Were there actual slides? Nope, I never actually got around to creating any. Okay, busy guy. I just had an outline on my desktop of stuff I was thinking about

Re: Per popular demand, here are Adam D Ruppe's presentation slides

2014-05-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/24/2014 3:49 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: thanks! Part of that was that I wanted to be deliberately counter-culture. I almost never see anyone in these tech videos wearing a tie, and while in the facebook building I think I was the only one there too. (the irony, a conservative business suit

Re: Per popular demand, here are Adam D Ruppe's presentation slides

2014-05-24 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 24 May 2014 at 21:01:13 UTC, sclytrack wrote: I would have preferred slides though. I'm not so good at listening. The visual impact helps ME better at remembering. Yea, they were on my todo list, I was just too lazy and/or distracted to do it. But I'm not sure they would have

Re: Per popular demand, here are Adam D Ruppe's presentation slides

2014-05-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/24/2014 3:41 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: And good old mode 13h! Real programmers used Mode X! (I mainly used 13h though ;) )

Re: Per popular demand, here are Adam D Ruppe's presentation slides

2014-05-24 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Saturday, 24 May 2014 at 23:47:58 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Real programmers used Mode X! Yea! ...I never really got into it tho and kept going back to 13 for the plain simplicity.

Re: Per popular demand, here are Adam D Ruppe's presentation slides

2014-05-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/24/2014 3:49 PM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: thanks! Part of that was that I wanted to be deliberately counter-culture. I almost never see anyone in these tech videos wearing a tie, and while in the facebook building I think I was the only one there too. (the irony, a conservative business suit

Re: Per popular demand, here are Adam D Ruppe's presentation slides

2014-05-24 Thread Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d-announce
On 5/25/2014 1:18 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: Similarly, mixed cussing is golly... s/golly/jolly/ Ugh...

Re: Per popular demand, here are Adam D Ruppe's presentation slides

2014-05-23 Thread Mattcoder via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 May 2014 at 19:29:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Adam graciously shared the slides of his DConf 2014 talk with us: http://imgur.com/hHCN3OL Andrei Hehe, I'm just imagining what Walter will say: Lack of images! Matheus.

Re: Per popular demand, here are Adam D Ruppe's presentation slides

2014-05-23 Thread Piotrek via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 May 2014 at 19:29:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Adam graciously shared the slides of his DConf 2014 talk with us: http://imgur.com/hHCN3OL Andrei I didn't know zipped pesentasion file can be still readable ;)

Re: Per popular demand, here are Adam D Ruppe's presentation slides

2014-05-23 Thread Steven Schveighoffer via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Fri, 23 May 2014 12:29:12 -0700, Andrei Alexandrescu seewebsiteforem...@erdani.org wrote: Adam graciously shared the slides of his DConf 2014 talk with us: http://imgur.com/hHCN3OL Oh cool! finally the conference-goers can see the slides :) -Steve

Re: Per popular demand, here are Adam D Ruppe's presentation slides

2014-05-23 Thread Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 May 2014 at 19:29:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: Adam graciously shared the slides of his DConf 2014 talk with us: http://imgur.com/hHCN3OL Andrei Ha, I really liked his talk :)

Re: Per popular demand, here are Adam D Ruppe's presentation slides

2014-05-23 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
You can see some margin notes I added this morning about stuff I was thinking about saying to fill time! For example, being willing to experiment helps with speed, like Walter said. It also applies here: disassemblies might be scary the first time, but if you dive into it and see about toying

Re: Per popular demand, here are Adam D Ruppe's presentation slides

2014-05-23 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-announce
On Friday, 23 May 2014 at 19:59:23 UTC, Mattcoder wrote: Hehe, I'm just imagining what Walter will say: Lack of images! Heh, I actually went through a few idea stages here: 1) I'd list the druntime functions. I determined this to be boring and subject to change anyway. But I spent like a