Slides from my ACCU Silicon Valley talk

[Andrej Mitrovic]

Why do /you/ take it personally?

On 12/14/10, retard <re at tard.com.invalid> wrote:
> Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:44:36 -0500, snk_kid wrote:
>
>> Gary Whatmore Wrote:
>>
>>> Simen kjaeraas Wrote:
>>>
>>> > Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> > >> Compared to the talk at Google, I changed one of the "cool things"
>>> > >> from threading to operator overloading. Didn't manage to talk
>>> > >> about that - there were a million questions - although I think
>>> > >> it's a great topic.
>>> > >>  http://erdani.com/tdpl/2010-12-08-ACCU.pdf
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > Anyone care to do the honors and post this to reddit programming?
>>> >
>>> > Done.
>>> >
>>> > http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/eklq0/
> andrei_alexandrescus_talk_at_accu_silicon_valley/
>>>
>>> Guys, I made several sockpuppet reddit accounts to mod down the two
>>> guys >criticising this thread. I recommend everyone to help us improve
>>> D's publicity by >ignoring these trolls and voting them down. It has
>>> worked before, too -- reddit >seems to fold the subthreads that get too
>>> many negative votes. This makes it >look much better than it is.
>>>
>>>  - G.W.
>>
>> That's absolutely pathetic, you're actually doing the community a
>> disservice.
>
> I really don't know what to say. Take a look at
>
> 0 points: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/eklq0/
> andrei_alexandrescus_talk_at_accu_silicon_valley/c18swbi
>
> or
>
> -1 points: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/eklq0/
> andrei_alexandrescus_talk_at_accu_silicon_valley/c18sz8n
>
> These say nothing against D. Why does one take them personally? They are
> both also highly informative. As far as I can tell, these two comments go
> much deeper in operator semantics theory than the combined effort of 68
> other threads by Walter, Andrei et al. For example the precedence of
> operators can get problematic when using several libraries from various
> vendors.
>
> Then you have:
>
> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/eklq0/
> andrei_alexandrescus_talk_at_accu_silicon_valley/c18t1d5
>
> "I really like D (2.0) and I wish it would take off."
>
> 7 points? WTF? What is the value of this reply? It's a purely subjective
> opinion and doesn't necessarily even beg for further discussion.
>