Cool Stuff for D that we keep Secret

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 03:53:19PM -0400, Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 7/14/2014 3:51 PM, Meta wrote:
> >On Monday, 14 July 2014 at 19:40:53 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> >>[2] 4k: Can screens EVER standardize on fucking ANYTHING anymore?!?
> >>Pick a fucking notation for describing resolutions and STICK WITH
> >>IT!!! It's like the freaking "Lenny"/"Mountain Lion"/"Ice Cream
> >>Sandwich" bullshit here. I don't *want* to know the correct ordering
> >>of snacks/cats/toy story characters, and I'm *certainly* not going
> >>to memorize which idiotic (and completely unnecessary) name refers
> >>to WHAT freaking version. Idiotic unnecessary indirection.
> >>
> >>"Woody/Sarge???" WTF? "SD/1080p/4k???" WTF? Enough redundant naming
> >>conventions already.
> >
> >You think this is bad? Just wait until 4K really gets going in the
> >mainstream and every manufacturer under the sun comes up with their
> >own unique term to differentiate themselves. It'll be 2008 all over
> >again.
> 
> 2008? That stuff's been going on *much* longer than that ;)

My favorite version numbering scheme is Knuth's scheme of incremental
convergence onto an irrational number, like TeX version 3, followed by
3.1, then 3.14, then 3.141, then 3.1415, then 3.14159, etc.. :-)

For me, my favorite irrational number is (1+√5)/2. So I'd number my
versions 1, 1.6, 1.61, 1.618, 1.6180, 1.61803, ... etc..


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