Hello,


We are happy to announce the DConf 2014 conference to be held on May 21-23, 2014 in Menlo Park, CA.

The call for submissions is now open at http://dconf.org. Share away and get ideas rolling. Looking forward to your submissions!


Hope to see you soon,

Andrei

On 11/25/13 11:25 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Hello,
>
>
> We are happy to announce the DConf 2014 conference to be held on May
> 21-23, 2014 in Menlo Park, CA.
>
> The call for submissions is now open at http://dconf.org. Share away and
> get ideas rolling. Looking forward to your submissions!
>
>
> Hope to see you soon,
>
> Andrei

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Andrei

On Monday, 25 November 2013 at 19:31:45 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> Share away and
>> get ideas rolling. Looking forward to your submissions!

I wonder if some kind of podium discussion on memory management would be a nice idea? Manu "ARC" Evans vs Walter "never-free" Bright vs Andrei "allocator" Alexandrescu vs Rainer "Precise" Schütze.

On the other hand, I do not know what kind of conclusion could be expected of this discussion.

On Tuesday, 26 November 2013 at 08:16:05 UTC, qznc wrote:
> On Monday, 25 November 2013 at 19:31:45 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> Share away and
>>> get ideas rolling. Looking forward to your submissions!
>
> I wonder if some kind of podium discussion on memory management would be a nice idea? Manu "ARC" Evans vs Walter "never-free" Bright vs Andrei "allocator" Alexandrescu vs Rainer "Precise" Schütze.
>
> On the other hand, I do not know what kind of conclusion could be expected of this discussion.

We have this podium discussion pretty often here in NG :P

On Monday, November 25, 2013 11:25:44 Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> We are happy to announce the DConf 2014 conference to be held on May 21-23, 2014 in Menlo Park, CA.

Yay!

> The call for submissions is now open at http://dconf.org. Share away and get ideas rolling. Looking forward to your submissions!

And now I have to wrack my brain for ideas. :) I could probably answer questions about D all day, but coming up with something useful to talk about on my own never seems to be as easy as it should be...

- Jonathan M Davis

On Wednesday, 27 November 2013 at 05:44:36 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> And now I have to wrack my brain for ideas. :) I could probably answer
> questions about D all day, but coming up with something useful to talk about
> on my own never seems to be as easy as it should be...

Well, you have 'til the end of January ... :-)

Why not talk about exactly that -- about providing effective on-list guidance, the kind of things that are simple or tricky to deal with, the kind of supporting infrastructure that might be helpful for minimizing the number of repeat questions .... I'm sure you can extend this list.

On Wednesday, 27 November 2013 at 05:44:36 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> I could probably answer questions about D all day, but
> coming up with something useful to talk about on my own
> never seems to be as easy as it should be...

Me too. I was asked to write a D book recently, and to make the list of topics, I just looked over the forums and stack overflow questions to see what people were asking about...

On Wednesday, 27 November 2013 at 05:44:36 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> And now I have to wrack my brain for ideas. :) I could probably answer
> questions about D all day, but coming up with something useful to talk about
> on my own never seems to be as easy as it should be...

I had some until I have started to think about "Credentials: What qualifies you to talk on the topic of choice?". Have honestly answered "Nothing" and closed the page. :)

Will try my best to get there as a visitor this time though.

On Wednesday, 27 November 2013 at 14:37:11 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> I had some until I have started to think about "Credentials: What qualifies you to talk on the topic of choice?".

The fact that you are curious about the topic in question, have given it some thought and come up with something interesting to say? :-) It's not all about degrees and job titles.

On 11/27/2013 11:37 PM, Dicebot wrote:
>
> I had some until I have started to think about "Credentials: What
> qualifies you to talk on the topic of choice?". Have honestly answered
> "Nothing" and closed the page. :)
>
> Will try my best to get there as a visitor this time though.

I'm sure your standing in the community and your experience with the language would be qualification enough. I think, in your particular case, you shouldn't let that one field discourage you from submitting :)