Re: Found on proggit: Nim receives funding from a company (D should be doing something like this)

2018-08-17 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Friday, 17 August 2018 at 00:06:27 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote: On Tuesday, 14 August 2018 at 07:05:12 UTC, Joakim wrote: [...] Have you read Peter Thiel's Zero to One and seen his YouTube talks on secrets etc? [...] Nothing here contradicts my stated goals and method: increasing the

Re: Found on proggit: Nim receives funding from a company (D should be doing something like this)

2018-08-17 Thread Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 15 August 2018 at 22:12:55 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 8/15/18 5:31 PM, Matheus wrote: On Wednesday, 15 August 2018 at 20:45:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: ... We are in talks with a few more students from Romania and Brazil... I'm from Brazil and I use D for hobby

Re: Found on proggit: Nim receives funding from a company (D should be doing something like this)

2018-08-16 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 14 August 2018 at 07:05:12 UTC, Joakim wrote: On Tuesday, 14 August 2018 at 02:49:58 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote: On Monday, 13 August 2018 at 09:50:29 UTC, Joakim wrote: Announced last week, the Nim team will be adding two full-time paid devs and setting up grants for needed projects

Re: Found on proggit: Nim receives funding from a company (D should be doing something like this)

2018-08-16 Thread Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d
It's always good to steal insights from wherever you legitimately can. There's often more treasure in areas utterly different from your field of activity than in those that on the face of it fall into the same category. I think that in the hedge fund business for example I've learnt more in

Re: Found on proggit: Nim receives funding from a company (D should be doing something like this)

2018-08-16 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 15 August 2018 at 20:45:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 8/13/18 5:50 AM, Joakim wrote: [...] Thanks for the info. That's good for Nim and something we could definitely benefit from as well. Currently, Sebastian Wilzbach and Razvan Nitu, both students, are working full

Re: Found on proggit: Nim receives funding from a company (D should be doing something like this)

2018-08-15 Thread viniarck via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 15 August 2018 at 22:12:55 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: On 8/15/18 5:31 PM, Matheus wrote: On Wednesday, 15 August 2018 at 20:45:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: ... We are in talks with a few more students from Romania and Brazil... I'm from Brazil and I use D for hobby

Re: Found on proggit: Nim receives funding from a company (D should be doing something like this)

2018-08-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 8/15/18 5:31 PM, Matheus wrote: On Wednesday, 15 August 2018 at 20:45:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: ... We are in talks with a few more students from Romania and Brazil... I'm from Brazil and I use D for hobby projects. It would be nice to present them later, in fact I was interested

Re: Found on proggit: Nim receives funding from a company (D should be doing something like this)

2018-08-15 Thread Matheus via Digitalmars-d
On Wednesday, 15 August 2018 at 20:45:34 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote: ... We are in talks with a few more students from Romania and Brazil... I'm from Brazil and I use D for hobby projects. It would be nice to present them later, in fact I was interested to create D group around here and

Re: Found on proggit: Nim receives funding from a company (D should be doing something like this)

2018-08-15 Thread Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
On 8/13/18 5:50 AM, Joakim wrote: Announced last week, the Nim team will be adding two full-time paid devs and setting up grants for needed projects with this new funding: https://our.status.im/status-partners-with-the-team-behind-the-programming-language-nim/

Re: Found on proggit: Nim receives funding from a company (D should be doing something like this)

2018-08-14 Thread Mike Franklin via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 14 August 2018 at 07:05:12 UTC, Joakim wrote: if you have a bug ... This is not about me: Sorry, I mean the plural "you", as in anyone reading this thread. Mike

Re: Found on proggit: Nim receives funding from a company (D should be doing something like this)

2018-08-14 Thread Joakim via Digitalmars-d
On Tuesday, 14 August 2018 at 02:49:58 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote: On Monday, 13 August 2018 at 09:50:29 UTC, Joakim wrote: Announced last week, the Nim team will be adding two full-time paid devs and setting up grants for needed projects with this new funding: :jealous: However, there are

Re: Found on proggit: Nim receives funding from a company (D should be doing something like this)

2018-08-13 Thread Mike Franklin via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 13 August 2018 at 09:50:29 UTC, Joakim wrote: Announced last week, the Nim team will be adding two full-time paid devs and setting up grants for needed projects with this new funding: :jealous: However, there are other ways to raise funds. Companies using D could use the existing

Re: Found on proggit: Nim receives funding from a company (D should be doing something like this)

2018-08-13 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 13 August 2018 at 12:06:25 UTC, I Lindström wrote: In that case things look decent enough for me to stop worrying about this too much. And yeah, if it's a common occurance that companies try to highjack things, then it's better to be careful. Enough things have been run to the

Re: Found on proggit: Nim receives funding from a company (D should be doing something like this)

2018-08-13 Thread I Lindström via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 13 August 2018 at 11:42:57 UTC, bachmeier wrote: On Monday, 13 August 2018 at 09:50:29 UTC, Joakim wrote: Announced last week, the Nim team will be adding two full-time paid devs and setting up grants for needed projects with this new funding:

Re: Found on proggit: Nim receives funding from a company (D should be doing something like this)

2018-08-13 Thread bachmeier via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 13 August 2018 at 09:50:29 UTC, Joakim wrote: Announced last week, the Nim team will be adding two full-time paid devs and setting up grants for needed projects with this new funding: https://our.status.im/status-partners-with-the-team-behind-the-programming-language-nim/

Re: Found on proggit: Nim receives funding from a company (D should be doing something like this)

2018-08-13 Thread I Lindström via Digitalmars-d
On Monday, 13 August 2018 at 09:50:29 UTC, Joakim wrote: Announced last week, the Nim team will be adding two full-time paid devs and setting up grants for needed projects with this new funding: https://our.status.im/status-partners-with-the-team-behind-the-programming-language-nim/