Emacs D-Mode [was Like Go/Rust, why not to have "func" keyword before function declaration]

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 1/21/15 1:14 AM, Joakim wrote:
> On Wednesday, 21 January 2015 at 08:41:47 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 1/21/2015 12:19 AM, Russel Winder via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> The Emacs D-Mode will only improve if people provide bug reports and
>>> fixes. A number of people are doing this for their "pain points". If the
>>> Emacs D-Mode is substandard for you, can you at least submit issues
>>> presenting the problems.
>>
>> I wonder why software companies still make it impossible to submit bug
>> reports. For example, google:
>>
>> "submit windows movie maker bug report"
>>
>> Click on "Reporting and solving computer problems - Windows":
>>
>> http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/reporting-and-solving-computer-problems
>>
>>
>> Note that there is actually no way to report a problem to Microsoft,
>> in spite of what the headings say.
>
> Heh, considering Bill Gates couldn't even figure out how to _download_
> Movie Maker a decade ago, you're way ahead of the game: ;)
>
> http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/2008/06/24/full-text-an-epic-bill-gates-e-mail-rant/

Yah, that's a good read. FWIW the right answer here is to vote with 
one's feet - there's plenty of video processing software in the free world.

>> I find this utterly baffling. Why make it so difficult to report a
>> bug? Microsoft has always been like this, the only way I've ever been
>> able to submit a bug report was if I had a friend on the inside who'd
>> carry it in for me.
>>
>> This is probably why Windows Movie Maker is such a buggy program. It
>> hangs constantly, generates corrupt files when creating a movie file
>> longer than 2G (about 2 hours), etc.
>
> Probably because Microsoft has so many millions of users that their bug
> tracker would be awash with noise.

Even better. At Facebook we use statistics and machine learning to 
derive excellent signal from large inputs.


Andrei