On Wednesday, 8 May 2013 at 15:11:32 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
> I chose dailymotion.com because it accepts videos of the appropriate size and duration. Are there better sites I should use?

Internet Archive.
http://archive.org/details/movies

Yes, really.

On Thursday, 9 May 2013 at 07:12:42 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On Thu, 09 May 2013 08:46:01 +0200
> "Rob T" <alanb@ucora.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Here's another FF addon for video downloading (and files too), it works for me quite well.
>> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/
>
> Yea, that's the one I've been using. Fantastic add-on, and one of the
> reasons I hate to venture outside my FF ;)

I absolutely cannot use any other browser because of this addon
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/

Don't use it if you hate FF, otherwise you'll be stuck with FF until some genius on the dev team finally figures out that the horizontal tab system is a really dumb idea.

--rt

On Thursday, 9 May 2013 at 16:35:09 UTC, Rob T wrote:
>
> I absolutely cannot use any other browser because of this addon
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/

There are at least two tree-style tab addons for Chrome.  I haven't looked for the feature in any other browser though.

On Thu, 09 May 2013 10:23:41 -0400
Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail@erdani.org> wrote:

> On 5/9/13 3:39 AM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> > Thanks to Michal Minich for pointing out YouTube actually did have higher quality versions available, I'm now seeding a 720p MP4 Stereo version of the video. The torrent is available along with the old one here:
> >
> > http://semitwist.com/download/misc/dconf2013/
> >
> 
> Awesome. Do you still need the original? I have it as a 600MB mp4 file, not sure of the other details.
> 

The originals would be better since 1. they haven't been transcoded (or
at least haven't been transcoded an extra time) and 2. their
filesizes are apparently only a little bit larger than YouTube's
high-quality.

Transcoding a video just to end up with a file size that's comparable to the original (as is the case with YouTube's high-quality version) is kind of pointless since it inherently reduces quality for little-to-no benefit. YouTube's lower quality version is nice just because it's a significantly reduced filesize (even if it is in the goofy flv format), but for a high quality version their transcoding is kind of a waste.

On Thu, 09 May 2013 18:35:08 +0200
"Rob T" <alanb@ucora.com> wrote:
> 
> I absolutely cannot use any other browser because of this addon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/
> 
> Don't use it if you hate FF, otherwise you'll be stuck with FF until some genius on the dev team finally figures out that the horizontal tab system is a really dumb idea.
> 

Nice. Personally I use Tab Mix Plus (setup for a max of 3 rows of
tabs, after which the whole tab bar area scrolls vertically; along with
some various other goodies), but I'll definitely try to remember that
if I'm ever forced to use one of those awful 16:9 monitors (great for
watching widescreen videos/games - ie, the sorts of stuff I use
my TV for - and, uhh, viewing traditional-style Japanese text...and
exactly nothing else.)

These are the FF plug-ins I can't live without:

- Like I said, Tab Mix Plus
  <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-mix-plus/>

- DownloadHelper, again as mentioned before
  <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/>

- NoScript (Easy per-(sub)domain JS settings plus placeholders for
  Flash - Click when I actually want to view them)
  <http://noscript.net/>

- AdBlock Plus (I wouldn't normally mind banner ads, but my mind
  literally can't read a page if parts of it are animating. Plus
  they're giant security risks. Drive-by exploits? No thanks.)
  <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-plus/>

- AdBlock Plus's Element Hiding Helper (Great for killing
  annoying share-on-everything boxes and asinine "turn on JS" nags.)
  <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/elemhidehelper/>

- BetterPrivavy (Cookies are fine. SuperCookies must die.)
  <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterprivacy/>

- Winestripe (The real original, not the mediocre FF3.5+ remakes.)

- Disable Backspace Navigation (The only times I've ever navigated
  with backspace have been by accident while typing into a textbox)
  <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disablebackspacenavigation/>

- FavLoc <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/favloc/>

- HttpFox <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/httpfox/>

- Linkification
  <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/linkification/>

- Re-Pagination
  <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/repagination/>

About 90% of the Web would be literally unusable for me if it weren't for at least NoScript and AdBlock Plus.

If I weren't using FF2 I'd also cram in more crap to kill everything about the AwfulBar's UI and de-unify the forward/back buttons (if such a plugin existed) so their drop-downs actually make sense again (I liked the idea of unified forward/back buttons until I actually tried them).

On 5/9/13 11:23 AM, Wyatt wrote:
> On Wednesday, 8 May 2013 at 15:11:32 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
> wrote:
>> I chose dailymotion.com because it accepts videos of the appropriate
>> size and duration. Are there better sites I should use?
>
> Internet Archive.
> http://archive.org/details/movies
>
> Yes, really.

Started an upload. They allow only public domain and creative commons licenses, is that an impediment?

Andrei

On 5/9/13 11:23 AM, Wyatt wrote:
> On Wednesday, 8 May 2013 at 15:11:32 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
> wrote:
>> I chose dailymotion.com because it accepts videos of the appropriate
>> size and duration. Are there better sites I should use?
>
> Internet Archive.
> http://archive.org/details/movies
>
> Yes, really.

Done: https://archive.org/details/dconf2013-day01-talk01

Thanks for the tip!

Andrei

I'm maintaining a page with links for all known downloads/torrents/etc for the DConf 2013 presentations:

http://semitwist.com/download/misc/dconf2013/

Also, I've just started seeding a torrent (available from the
link above) of the original non-transcoded video for the keynote
(since Andrei has make it available for direct download from
archive.org).

On Thursday, 9 May 2013 at 18:49:17 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> On Thu, 09 May 2013 18:35:08 +0200
> "Rob T" <alanb@ucora.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Snipidy snip

Damn you all, now I have to go back to firefox...

Can't wait for Manu's slides/video to come up :)

I have to disagree with some of the points in the keynote though. The part with "algorithm in D" example, I don't know but map(a => a.idup) isn't exactly obvious. About the scope vs no-scope - it'd be interesting to see how try-finally version looks like in comparison.

About the IDE discussion near the end of keynote - I know a lot of you people are happy just using Vim/Emacs + command line compiling, but having a proper IDE is a big part in language adoption nowadays. I can't speak for VisualD and MonoD, but I've heard they are nice, I am using DDT which is also good, although debugging on windows with DMD isn't that fun. A good example would be Visual Basic 6.0 - everyone seems to hate it, yet a lot of people (mostly non-programmers) use it to make apps because in few clicks you can make a GUI application. Same would apply to Java too - language isn't the best there is, and coding Java without Netbeans/Eclipse/IntelliJ would be a new dimension of pain but with those IDEs writing stuff is 'fun'.

All in all, great to see D community getting together to discuss and share stuff =)