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digitalmars.D.announce - I'll be in Seattle at Lang.NEXT

reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
Hello,


Somewhat unexpectedly even to me, I'll be in Seattle for the Lang.NEXT 
conference together with Walter. Both of us will give talks.

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2012

Would be glad to redo a D Seattle meeting. Regardless, the conference is 
interesting and free so it's worth joining if time allows.


Thanks,

Andrei
Mar 15 2012
next sibling parent reply "David Nadlinger" <see klickverbot.at> writes:
On Thursday, 15 March 2012 at 15:38:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 Somewhat unexpectedly even to me, I'll be in Seattle for the 
 Lang.NEXT conference together with Walter. Both of us will give 
 talks.

 http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2012


Now if only all these tech conferences didn't happen to be held 
in the US and/or overseas flights from Europe were cheaper (same 
for the D conference :()…

But as the sessions will be recorded and the speaker line-up sure 
promises a lot of interesting talks, my disappointment could be 
worse. :P

David
Mar 15 2012
next sibling parent reply =?UTF-8?B?QWxleCBSw7hubmUgUGV0ZXJzZW4=?= <xtzgzorex gmail.com> writes:
On 15-03-2012 18:55, David Nadlinger wrote:

 On Thursday, 15 March 2012 at 15:38:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 Somewhat unexpectedly even to me, I'll be in Seattle for the Lang.NEXT
 conference together with Walter. Both of us will give talks.

 http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2012


 Now if only all these tech conferences didn't happen to be held in the
 US and/or overseas flights from Europe were cheaper (same for the D
 conference :()…

 But as the sessions will be recorded and the speaker line-up sure
 promises a lot of interesting talks, my disappointment could be worse. :P

 David


There's still the possibility of arranging a devroom at FOSDEM 2013...

-- 
- Alex
Mar 15 2012
parent Nicolas Silva <nical.silva gmail.com> writes:
A devroom at FOSDEM would be awesome!

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Alex R=F8nne Petersen
<xtzgzorex gmail.com> wrote:

 On 15-03-2012 18:55, David Nadlinger wrote:

 On Thursday, 15 March 2012 at 15:38:59 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 Somewhat unexpectedly even to me, I'll be in Seattle for the Lang.NEXT
 conference together with Walter. Both of us will give talks.

 http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2012



 Now if only all these tech conferences didn't happen to be held in the
 US and/or overseas flights from Europe were cheaper (same for the D
 conference :()=85

 But as the sessions will be recorded and the speaker line-up sure
 promises a lot of interesting talks, my disappointment could be worse. :=




P

 David



 There's still the possibility of arranging a devroom at FOSDEM 2013...

 --
 - Alex
Mar 15 2012
prev sibling next sibling parent James Miller <james aatch.net> writes:
On 16 March 2012 06:55, David Nadlinger <see klickverbot.at> wrote:

 Now if only all these tech conferences didn't happen to be held in the US
 and/or overseas flights from Europe were cheaper (same for the D conferen=


ce

 :()=E2=80=A6


I feel you, except I'm in New Zealand. We do get Webstock though, so
thats nice, but I can't afford to go to such things. I think the
cheapest conference I've seen here is Kiwicon, at like $50, but its a
hacker convention, not necessarily what I want to go to.

--
James Miller
Mar 15 2012
prev sibling next sibling parent Brad Anderson <eco gnuk.net> writes:
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 2:03 PM, James Miller <james aatch.net> wrote:


 On 16 March 2012 06:55, David Nadlinger <see klickverbot.at> wrote:

 Now if only all these tech conferences didn't happen to be held in the =




US

 and/or overseas flights from Europe were cheaper (same for the D


 conference

 :()=85


 I feel you, except I'm in New Zealand. We do get Webstock though, so
 thats nice, but I can't afford to go to such things. I think the
 cheapest conference I've seen here is Kiwicon, at like $50, but its a
 hacker convention, not necessarily what I want to go to.

 --
 James Miller


You and Bernard Helyer can get together and have a little D conference.
 Maybe call it D For Two.

Regards,
Brad Anderson
Mar 15 2012
prev sibling next sibling parent reply James Miller <james aatch.net> writes:
On 16 March 2012 09:33, Brad Anderson <eco gnuk.net> wrote:

 You and Bernard Helyer can get together and have a little D conference.
 =C2=A0Maybe call it D For Two.

 Regards,
 Brad Anderson


Probably not worth one of us doing a 9 hour drive, or catching a
plane, just for that.

On a similar note, I wouldn't mind trying to find more D programmers
near where I live.

--
James Miller
Mar 15 2012
next sibling parent "F i L" <witte2008 gmail.com> writes:
On Thursday, 15 March 2012 at 21:00:59 UTC, James Miller wrote:

 On 16 March 2012 09:33, Brad Anderson <eco gnuk.net> wrote:

 You and Bernard Helyer can get together and have a little D 
 conference.
  Maybe call it D For Two.

 Regards,
 Brad Anderson


 Probably not worth one of us doing a 9 hour drive, or catching a
 plane, just for that.

 On a similar note, I wouldn't mind trying to find more D 
 programmers
 near where I live.

 --
 James Miller


Could always start a D-singles.org site... ;p
Mar 15 2012
prev sibling parent Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2012-03-15 22:00, James Miller wrote:

 On 16 March 2012 09:33, Brad Anderson<eco gnuk.net>  wrote:

 You and Bernard Helyer can get together and have a little D conference.
   Maybe call it D For Two.

 Regards,
 Brad Anderson


 Probably not worth one of us doing a 9 hour drive, or catching a
 plane, just for that.


No, no, no. 4.5 hour is enough, meet half way :)

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
Mar 16 2012
prev sibling parent "bearophile" <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:
David Nadlinger:


 Now if only all these tech conferences didn't happen to be held 
 in the US and/or overseas flights from Europe were cheaper 
 (same for the D conference :()…


Being present at conferences gives you some not evident 
advantages, like talking with people when there are no 
conferences, asking questions to expert people during the 
conferences, letting people know you and your ideas in little 
unscheduled lighting talks, in small scheduled 3-minute talks, or 
in normal sized talks, and so on. Good conferences give you new 
ideas, help you meet people interested in your ideas, help you 
meet your heroes or people that think of you as their hero, etc.

On the other hand the amount of CO2 released in very long air 
travels for such purposes is not always environmentally 
justifiable, the ecological footprint of some conferences is 
ridiculous. And if you take a look at certain conferences (like 
the Google one) they ask for excessive amount of money and silly 
requirements.

Bye,
bearophile
Mar 15 2012
prev sibling parent reply Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 3/15/12 10:39 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:

 Hello,


 Somewhat unexpectedly even to me, I'll be in Seattle for the Lang.NEXT
 conference together with Walter. Both of us will give talks.

 http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2012

 Would be glad to redo a D Seattle meeting. Regardless, the conference is
 interesting and free so it's worth joining if time allows.


Slides are online:

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2012/Three-Unlikely-Successful-Features-of-D

Talk will be up in due time, probably Monday. Philippe and Dmitry, you 
have a lot of work to do :o).


Andrei
Apr 06 2012
next sibling parent Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> writes:
On 4/7/12, Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> wrote:

 Slides are online:

 http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2012/Three-Unlikely-Successful-Features-of-D


I don't know if Walter opened another thread for his presentation, but
his slides are online now too:

http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2012/The-D-Programming-Language
Apr 07 2012
prev sibling next sibling parent Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> writes:
On 4/7/12, Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> wrote:

 I don't know if Walter opened another thread for his presentation, but
 his slides are online now too:

 http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2012/The-D-Programming-Language


Heheh, I've noticed Walter is using FIle.byLine to demonstrate RAII on
page 24. I guess he didn't run into this yet:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7022
Apr 07 2012
prev sibling next sibling parent reply bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:
Andrei Alexandrescu:


 Slides are online:
 http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2012/Three-Unlikely-Successful-Features-of-D


Putting the slides online before the talk is a very good idea, thank you.

Page 31: the title of this slide is "D array = pointer + length", but the image
shows two pointers inside the array struct/fat pointer. Walter has said several
times his desire to replace the pointer + length with two pointers. Are those
desires going to produce a change?
And even if this is a bit OT: why aren't D array fat references composed by 3
fields: pointer + length + capacity? I think Go slices are like this.


Page 34, "Convenient": I don't know how well DMD will optimize this code, but
it's one of the simplest to read array-twiddling palindrome functions I've seen.
But probably I write:
!a.empty
Instead of:
a.length


Page 36, "Palindrome generalized": unfortunately D doesn't map syntaxes like
a[1..$-1] to range functions :-)


Page 51: An horizontal line needs to be at 1.0 too. But I prefer a graph that
shows run-time seconds.

Very nice slides pack.
Bye,
bearophile
Apr 08 2012
parent Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 4/8/12 11:31 AM, bearophile wrote:

 Andrei Alexandrescu:


 Slides are online:
 http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2012/Three-Unlikely-Successful-Features-of-D




 Putting the slides online before the talk is a very good idea, thank
 you.

 Page 31: the title of this slide is "D array = pointer + length", but
 the image shows two pointers inside the array struct/fat pointer.


I mention during the talk that the concept is the same regardless of 
that representation detail.

Andrei



 Apr 08 2012



prev sibling next sibling parent  "Kagamin" <spam here.lot>  writes:


On Saturday, 7 April 2012 at 06:33:03 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 Slides are online:

 http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2012/Three-Unlikely-Successful-Features-of-D



trace.



 Apr 11 2012



prev sibling  parent reply "Kagamin" <spam here.lot>  writes:


On Saturday, 7 April 2012 at 06:33:03 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:

 Slides are online:

 http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Lang-NEXT/Lang-NEXT-2012/Three-Unlikely-Successful-Features-of-D


rollback1 seems to be missing on slide 15. You probably need 3 of 
them there.



 Apr 11 2012



  parent  "Kagamin" <spam here.lot>  writes:


And you probably need to check if error==nil instead of 
error!=nil... Sorry, if I say nonsense, I don't know Go.



 Apr 11 2012