On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 09:30:47 UTC, aberba wrote:
> On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 07:35:17 UTC, JN wrote:
>> [...]
>
> For a while I thought it was just me but the D blog posts addressing D specific nifty tricks mostly don't interest me. Benchmarks, const, etc... :(. Probably it's just because of my area of interest or how they're articulated.
>
> But stuff about a companies using D for this and that or a community member sharing their thing comes out very interesting.
>
> I myself will be interested in doing some less technical but more practical posts. Probably comparing and contrasting packages, tools, community and stuff.
>
> I'm curious what's happening in those D meetups. Are they still happening (online)?

The Munich D meetup has been quite inactive during recent times. The last event was on 16.07.2019, almost a year ago. To be honest, I think the problem is that it’s a bit difficult to find topics that we have presenters for and that enough people are interested in.

On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 05:37:13 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote:
> On Thursday, 25 June 2020 at 11:55:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>>
>> I've also submitted it to HN (please use the search box):
>>
>> https://news.ycombinator.com/newest
>
> This is a very interesting post. But this strategy with HN is clearly not working. 5 upvotes after 17 hours and 0 comments. Please paste the direct link in future even if the ranking goes down after a few hours. Some publicity is better than nothing at all.

Here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23639552

It says a lot about the priorities when you can't even get a simple link, community comes last.

On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 08:36:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> I wouldn't be so sure. See the "Anti-Voting Manipulation" section here:

you telling us to vote in a specific way is already gaming the system.

stop trying to manipulate their idiotic algorithm and just focus on delivering value to the community.

if the HN crowd likes it, there will be plenty of organic votes from their front page and the tiny handful you get from the D forum who actually manage to find the thing will be irrelevantly small.

if the HN crowd doesn't like it, our tiny handful isn't going to change anything.

Either way, the value of our manipulated votes is massively smaller than the value of us being able to participate in the comments in the event people there do say something.

On 6/26/20 9:03 AM, Avrina wrote:
> On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 05:37:13 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote:
>> On Thursday, 25 June 2020 at 11:55:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>>>
>>> I've also submitted it to HN (please use the search box):
>>>
>>> https://news.ycombinator.com/newest
>>
>> This is a very interesting post. But this strategy with HN is clearly not working. 5 upvotes after 17 hours and 0 comments. Please paste the direct link in future even if the ranking goes down after a few hours. Some publicity is better than nothing at all.
> 
> Here.
> 
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23639552
> 
> It says a lot about the priorities when you can't even get a simple link, community comes last.

From https://wiredcraft.com/blog/how-to-post-on-hacker-news/:

"Direct links to the post don’t allow people to vote. The link we have at the bottom of the post for example (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5200847) won’t work for upvoting. We need upvotes to be made from the newest page or the front page."

On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 13:04:27 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 08:36:06 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> I wouldn't be so sure. See the "Anti-Voting Manipulation" section here:
>
> you telling us to vote in a specific way is already gaming the system.
>
> stop trying to manipulate their idiotic algorithm and just focus on delivering value to the community.

I'm not telling you to vote a specific way. But if you do want to vote, I'd like your vote to count. I always type the blog post title in the search bar. Is it really that difficult?

On Thursday, 25 June 2020 at 11:55:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> Simen Kjærås outlines an approach to supporting head-mutable types in D without the need for compiler or language changes.
>
> The blog:
> https://dlang.org/blog/2020/06/25/a-pattern-for-head-mutable-structures/

This is a brilliant potential improvement to D that's gonna make it even more usable especially for newcomers. What about adding and using headMutable in Phobos ranges?

On Thursday, 25 June 2020 at 11:55:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> Simen Kjærås outlines an approach to supporting head-mutable types in D without the need for compiler or language changes.
>
> The blog:
> https://dlang.org/blog/2020/06/25/a-pattern-for-head-mutable-structures/
>
> Reddit:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/hfkq5e/a_pattern_for_headmutable_structures_in_d/
>
> I've also submitted it to HN (please use the search box):
>
> https://news.ycombinator.com/newest

What's so problematic about adding compiler support for implicit cast to head mutable for range-style structs?

On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 13:35:20 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> On 6/26/20 9:03 AM, Avrina wrote:
>> On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 05:37:13 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 25 June 2020 at 11:55:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I've also submitted it to HN (please use the search box):
>>>>
>>>> https://news.ycombinator.com/newest
>>>
>>> This is a very interesting post. But this strategy with HN is clearly not working. 5 upvotes after 17 hours and 0 comments. Please paste the direct link in future even if the ranking goes down after a few hours. Some publicity is better than nothing at all.
>> 
>> Here.
>> 
>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23639552
>> 
>> It says a lot about the priorities when you can't even get a simple link, community comes last.
>
> From https://wiredcraft.com/blog/how-to-post-on-hacker-news/:
>
> "Direct links to the post don’t allow people to vote. The link we have at the bottom of the post for example (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5200847) won’t work for upvoting. We need upvotes to be made from the newest page or the front page."

"It says a lot about the priorities when you can't even get a simple link, community comes last."

On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 17:02:05 UTC, Avrina wrote:

> "It says a lot about the priorities when you can't even get a simple link, community comes last."

If the community came last for me, I wouldn't be doing the work I do. I'd be focusing on my own projects. So try again.

On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 13:03:01 UTC, Avrina wrote:
> On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 05:37:13 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote:
>> On Thursday, 25 June 2020 at 11:55:14 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>>>
>>> I've also submitted it to HN (please use the search box):
>>>
>>> https://news.ycombinator.com/newest
>>
>> This is a very interesting post. But this strategy with HN is clearly not working. 5 upvotes after 17 hours and 0 comments. Please paste the direct link in future even if the ranking goes down after a few hours. Some publicity is better than nothing at all.
>
> Here.
>
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23639552
>
> It says a lot about the priorities when you can't even get a simple link, community comes last.

No, that's not right to say just for a hyperlink! Show some appreciation and kindness please. If we don't have anything nice to say, it's better not to say anything at all.