forum.dlang.org is now using DCaptcha
Mike James via Digitalmars-d-announce
digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Wed Dec 3 23:04:47 PST 2014
On Thursday, 4 December 2014 at 04:02:49 UTC, Mike wrote:
> On Wednesday, 3 December 2014 at 19:42:39 UTC, Ary Borenszweig
> wrote:
>> On 12/2/14, 6:41 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>
>...
> I had to maintain a technical forum last year that was getting
> spammed like crazy. I added the question "how many bits are in
> a byte?", and the spam vanished. Based on that experience, I
> think the bar can be set very low.
>
Surely you mean "how many bits in an octet" ;-)
> I prefer something like the examples above. Honestly, I don't
> know what the names of many syntax features are, but I usually
> know how to use and interpret them. But, one positive side
> effect of this is that if I ever do get challenged with a "what
> is the name of this feature?" question, I will finally be
> motivated to go look it up.
>
> Mike
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