Some questions on latest work

[Jeremy DeHaan via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 27 April 2016 at 17:57:55 UTC, Bill Hicks wrote:
> On Wednesday, 27 April 2016 at 15:28:37 UTC, Meta wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 26 April 2016 at 21:49:33 UTC, Bill Hicks wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, 26 April 2016 at 02:33:41 UTC, Andrei 
>>> Alexandrescu wrote:
>>>>
>>>> That's a pretty awesome rant! Bill, could you please email 
>>>> me your mailing address? I'd be glad to send you a DConf 
>>>> T-shirt. Thanks! -- Andrei
>>>
>>> Quitting a well paying job at Facebook to peruse a hobby 
>>> sounds like something a person going through midlife crisis 
>>> would do.  You may keep the T-shirt.  I suggest you smoke 
>>> some DMT (and have a breakthrough), or have a few Ayahuasca 
>>> sessions.  If that doesn't set you off on a path to the 
>>> greatest positive impact, then nothing ever will.  Everything 
>>> you've desired to achieve with D is a construct of your ego, 
>>> and nothing more.
>>
>> This is completely over the line. Personal attacks of this 
>> nature are absolutely unwarranted and unwelcome here.
>
> He started it.
>
> If I get up on a stage with a grin splitting my face and talk 
> about how great D is, I'm considered a hero.  But if I 
> criticize D for it's flaws, then I'm a troll or someone who is 
> just ranting.  Anybody has the right to criticize D, just as 
> people have the right to praise it.  If D is part of your 
> identity to the point where you can't stand hearing people 
> criticize it and then get offended, then you have issues.  Grow 
> up.

Look, no one here thinks D is perfect. There are some things that 
I don't like about it myself, but I like it more than everything 
else. Unless you have criticism that you want to bring up for the 
sake of discussion, then you *are* ranting.


If you take your first post in this thread and rewrite it so that 
it starts discussion about those topics, it could be valuable. 
Nothing is going to be changed unless people start talking about 
them.