December 13, 2013
On Friday, 13 December 2013 at 13:52:16 UTC, eles wrote:
> On Friday, 13 December 2013 at 12:07:36 UTC, Chris wrote:
>> On Thursday, 12 December 2013 at 17:55:19 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>>> On 12/12/13, Dicebot <public@dicebot.lv> wrote:
>
>> music. We could strike up a band "The D Strings"*. Honestly, I
>
> ;)
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_(physics)
>
>> – Sorry, bad pun.
>
> :P
> alike :)

"Strings can be either open or closed." Or immutable strings.

Seriously, I think that all those theories about quarks and strings are the equivalent of pointers in programming. A pointer is a reference and the universe is full of pointers. That's how things can interact over long distances. I know I'm weird :D

December 13, 2013
On Friday, 13 December 2013 at 14:00:10 UTC, Chris wrote:
> On Friday, 13 December 2013 at 13:52:16 UTC, eles wrote:
>> On Friday, 13 December 2013 at 12:07:36 UTC, Chris wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 12 December 2013 at 17:55:19 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>>>> On 12/12/13, Dicebot <public@dicebot.lv> wrote:

> pointer is a reference and the universe is full of pointers.

No wonder why the garbage collector performs so poorly.
December 13, 2013
On Thursday, 12 December 2013 at 17:55:19 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> On 12/12/13, Dicebot <public@dicebot.lv> wrote:
>> surprisingly got accepted. Moved to Berlin. Have discovered that
>> I completely dislike Germany / Berlin but working with D is just
>> too good to just move somewhere else :)
>
> What didn't you like about Berlin?

Amount of smoking people in the streets and famous German bureaucracy is definitely too much for me (I am allergic to the former). Nothing insane, just not a place where I want to settle down in the long term.
December 13, 2013
On 13/12/13 13:07, Chris wrote:
> What I get from this thread is that a lot of guys are into music. We could
> strike up a band "The D Strings"*.

Thank God they didn't call the language G ... :-P

> *How much will we dchar-ge for the first gig? – Sorry, bad pun.

A stack allocation of money. :-)

December 13, 2013
On Friday, 13 December 2013 at 12:07:36 UTC, Chris wrote:
> @Dicebot
>
> You may check out Ireland. Google are in Dublin and a lot of other IT companies come to Ireland too. Or you set up your own company and program in D. Game development is big in Dublin, I've heard.

AFAIK companies are often registered in Ireland because of some nice tax hack possible there, not much actual development goes there. Also Google nowadays is one of those companies where people actually bother about a degree - not my type for sure ;)

I hope to eventually get remote contract and move to Iceland at some distant point of my life :) This country has done a lot of stuff right.
December 13, 2013
On Friday, 13 December 2013 at 14:15:04 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Friday, 13 December 2013 at 12:07:36 UTC, Chris wrote:
>> @Dicebot
>>
>> You may check out Ireland. Google are in Dublin and a lot of other IT companies come to Ireland too. Or you set up your own company and program in D. Game development is big in Dublin, I've heard.
>
> AFAIK companies are often registered in Ireland because of some nice tax hack possible there, not much actual development goes there.

I know people who work in IT companies or have set up their own companies in Dublin. AFIK the general climate for this kinda stuff is good. I know a German guy who was headhunted by a company in the US while working in Dublin. The good thing about Ireland is that the connections are there and there is no language barrier.

> Also Google nowadays is one of those companies where people actually bother about a degree - not my type for sure ;)

Yeah, that's a bit weird, especially now that so many people go into programming for various reasons (e.g. app development).

> I hope to eventually get remote contract and move to Iceland at some distant point of my life :) This country has done a lot of stuff right.
.

They have, by dad, they have. You could stop over in Ireland and if it's too hot for you here, move up north to Iceland. The same only less sun and more rain :D
December 13, 2013
On Friday, 13 December 2013 at 14:05:01 UTC, eles wrote:
> On Friday, 13 December 2013 at 14:00:10 UTC, Chris wrote:
>> On Friday, 13 December 2013 at 13:52:16 UTC, eles wrote:
>>> On Friday, 13 December 2013 at 12:07:36 UTC, Chris wrote:
>>>> On Thursday, 12 December 2013 at 17:55:19 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>>>>> On 12/12/13, Dicebot <public@dicebot.lv> wrote:
>
>> pointer is a reference and the universe is full of pointers.
>
> No wonder why the garbage collector performs so poorly.

And there's loads of garbage in the universe. Planet earth seems to gather most of it. Imagine implementing a GC for TV programs. :)

December 13, 2013
On Friday, 13 December 2013 at 15:09:03 UTC, Chris wrote:
> On Friday, 13 December 2013 at 14:05:01 UTC, eles wrote:
>> On Friday, 13 December 2013 at 14:00:10 UTC, Chris wrote:
>>> On Friday, 13 December 2013 at 13:52:16 UTC, eles wrote:
>>>> On Friday, 13 December 2013 at 12:07:36 UTC, Chris wrote:
>>>>> On Thursday, 12 December 2013 at 17:55:19 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>>>>>> On 12/12/13, Dicebot <public@dicebot.lv> wrote:

>
> And there's loads of garbage in the universe. Planet earth seems to gather most of it. Imagine implementing a GC for TV programs. :)

That would be only a stop-the-world GC. Imagine a stop-the-universe GC :)
December 13, 2013
On Friday, 13 December 2013 at 15:09:03 UTC, Chris wrote:
> And there's loads of garbage in the universe. Planet earth seems to gather most of it. Imagine implementing a GC for TV programs. :)

Reminds me of "If Java had true garbage collection, most programs
would delete themselves upon execution." :)
December 13, 2013
On Friday, 13 December 2013 at 10:40:56 UTC, Francesco Cattoglio wrote:
> On Thursday, 12 December 2013 at 21:26:58 UTC, Paolo Invernizzi wrote:
>> Doh, there's also some company (*cough cough*) that is actively using D in production right here in Milan... *grin*
>> ---
>> Paolo
> Ok... E non mi dici nemmeno il nome? :D
> (In English: well, care to tell me the company's name?)

Sure: www.srlabs.it
We do nice things with eye-trackers...

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Paolo