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digitalmars.D.learn - NYT data article based on work of EMSI, who I think are a D shop

reply "Laeeth Isharc" <Laeeth.nospam nospam-laeeth.com> writes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/magazine/the-creative-apocalypse-that-wasnt.html

Interesting article as it corrects misconceptions of a few years 
back by looking at the data.  This is based on tools from EMSI, 
who are a D shop.

Congratulations to EMSI, and it would be great to hear more from 
them sometime about how they use D (I know they spoke at dconf 
once)
Aug 24 2015
next sibling parent reply Justin Whear <justin economicmodeling.com> writes:
On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 04:55:12 +0000, Laeeth Isharc wrote:

 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/magazine/the-creative-apocalypse-that-
wasnt.html
 
 Interesting article as it corrects misconceptions of a few years back by
 looking at the data.  This is based on tools from EMSI,
 who are a D shop.
 
 Congratulations to EMSI, and it would be great to hear more from them
 sometime about how they use D (I know they spoke at dconf once)
Hi, I'm the Data group lead at EMSI; my group is the primary user of D in the organization and I can confirm that we are doing some interesting things with it that really leverage D's strengths. I will work on putting together a piece highlighting some of those things--any suggestions for venue? We don't have a public tech blog, so the wiki is the only thing coming to mind. P.S. Lots of other great mentions if you're interested in the work we do: http://www.economicmodeling.com/press/
Aug 25 2015
parent "Laeeth Isharc" <spamnolaeeth nospamlaeeth.com> writes:
 Hi, I'm the Data group lead at EMSI; my group is the primary 
 user of D in the organization and I can confirm that we are 
 doing some interesting things with it that really leverage D's 
 strengths.  I will work on putting together a piece 
 highlighting some of those things--any suggestions for venue?  
 We don't have a public tech blog, so the wiki is the only thing 
 coming to mind.

 P.S. Lots of other great mentions if you're interested in the 
 work we do:  http://www.economicmodeling.com/press/
Hi. Nice to 'meet' you. Maybe I'll become a client some day, although I am more focused on economies at a national than a regional level. I'll check out the PR shortly. The wiki is definitely a good start. The only problem with it as an ultimate way to present things is that people are inordinately impressed by slick and shiny presentation today, and as a company I would myself prefer to shape the context in which ideas are presented. So I like what John Colvin has done here with dlangscience: https://dlangscience.github.io/ Maybe there should be a simple portal for enterprise stories (and later it can be made glossier). For example, I was talking to someone who runs a $2bn startup fund recently about D, and I had nowhere to point him other than Andy Smith's presentation. D has some really good stories to tell on the enterprise front. They don't need any marketing BS to be convincing, but at the same time when you are explaining something you can't presume people know what you know, and have to walk people through things. Technical comparisons are nice, but stories speak to peoples' imagination and actually that's important in making decisions. On the wiki we have this as a start: http://wiki.dlang.org/Current_D_Use But it really could be made more vivid. I can't see there that at Facebook, in spite of their outstanding engineering talent, nobody had been able to speed up the preprocessor, but Andrei and Walter together using D were able to get this done quite quickly. Or the appeal of working with an agreeable language in attracting talent to a perhaps dull project (Andrei spoke about this wrt ODBC drivers, I think). I can help a bit with suggestions and some writing, but I don't have the time or ability to build this myself. This was really spurred by your question, and not quite an answer to it. So for that, maybe write the slides or narrative first, put up on wiki and then let's refine the presentation. Laeeth.
Aug 25 2015
prev sibling parent reply anonymous <anonymous example.com> writes:
On Tuesday 25 August 2015 06:55, Laeeth Isharc wrote:

 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/magazine/the-creative-apocalypse-that-wasnt.html
 
 Interesting article as it corrects misconceptions of a few years
 back by looking at the data.  This is based on tools from EMSI,
 who are a D shop.
 
 Congratulations to EMSI, and it would be great to hear more from
 them sometime about how they use D (I know they spoke at dconf
 once)
This isn't really relevant to learning D. Did you mean to post to the general group?
Aug 25 2015
parent reply "Laeeth Isharc" <spamnolaeeth nospamlaeeth.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 25 August 2015 at 17:06:57 UTC, anonymous wrote:
 On Tuesday 25 August 2015 06:55, Laeeth Isharc wrote:

 http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/magazine/the-creative-apocalypse-that-wasnt.html
 
 Interesting article as it corrects misconceptions of a few 
 years back by looking at the data.  This is based on tools 
 from EMSI, who are a D shop.
 
 Congratulations to EMSI, and it would be great to hear more 
 from them sometime about how they use D (I know they spoke at 
 dconf once)
This isn't really relevant to learning D. Did you mean to post to the general group?
It seemed to me more relevant to the audience of those learning D (and therefore less committed to it) than those who already appreciate its value and have put in the effort required to master it. I didn't want to pollute the main list with something that I think is actually quite important, but that others may not. I'm open to being corrected about where the right place should be, but it wasn't an accidental decision to post here.
Aug 25 2015
parent anonymous <anonymous example.com> writes:
On Wednesday 26 August 2015 00:22, Laeeth Isharc wrote:

 I'm open to being corrected about where the right place should
 be, but it wasn't an accidental decision to post here.
I think you might find more interest over in General. Learn tends to be a question/answer kind of thing. So people probably don't come here to find articles. But I don't mean to play content police. I just thought you might have misclicked.
Aug 25 2015