Re: [Pharo-users] Smalltalk Programming Competition

2018-06-21 Thread Travis Ayres
It will be the most exciting $200 programming competition ever. On Thu, Jun 21, 2018, 4:41 PM horrido wrote: > Indeed, these have been the main goals of my marketing campaign: > > - spread the word through social media (word of mouth) > - try to make Smalltalk look "cool" and fascinating (pop-cu

Re: [Pharo-users] Smalltalk Programming Competition

2018-06-21 Thread Travis Ayres
You worked without pay? ...why? On Thu, Jun 21, 2018, 8:53 AM horrido wrote: > I hear what you're saying. Here's my rationale... > > #1. As far as I know, I'm the only person on the planet who has worked > full-time and without pay as a programming language advocate for nearly > four > years. Di

Re: [Pharo-users] Windows installation broken?

2018-06-18 Thread Travis Ayres
What does not talking like an asshole have to do with being white and male? ...seriously? On Mon, Jun 18, 2018, 11:31 AM Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas < offray.l...@mutabit.com> wrote: > > > On 18/06/18 09:47, Herbert Vojčík wrote: > > Do you have enough balls to call out Steph for his obviously

Re: [Pharo-users] Windows installation broken?

2018-06-18 Thread Travis Ayres
"And don’t tell me you count the windows developers that are driven away from a user program like PharoLauncher that is not working properly." Why not? On Mon, Jun 18, 2018, 11:05 AM Norbert Hartl wrote: > > > Am 18.06.2018 um 19:19 schrieb horrido : > > Developers are users, and many users are

Re: [Pharo-users] Windows installation broken?

2018-06-17 Thread Travis Ayres
I wonder how many people tried Pharo, thought "Oh this is totally broken" and are never going to give it a second (or third) chance. On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 11:26 AM, p...@highoctane.be wrote: > The current website shows the wrong link, the installer for the bleeding > edge is the wrong one in f

Re: [Pharo-users] Windows installation broken?

2018-06-16 Thread Travis Ayres
The launcher is broken for me as well. On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 8:40 PM, horrido wrote: > Someone told me that they had difficulties installing Pharo under Windows. > So > I had to see for myself. > > I booted my Mac mini into Windows 7 Ultimate (using Boot Camp), downloaded > and installed Pharo

Re: [Pharo-users] Personal Programming onPharo

2018-05-10 Thread Travis Ayres
There is no way to mark the language version, no #pragma stdc version iso99 Delphi: {$IF CompilerVersion >= 17.0} Freepascal: {$if FPC_VERSION > 2} No make files: the compiler handles that trash for you. Compatibility: Freepascal supports Delphi, Object Pascal, and has various switc

Re: [Pharo-users] Slashdot Submission

2016-12-30 Thread Travis Ayres
I would guess the conversion rate for trying out a language from a Slashdot article (or anywhere, really) would be in the 1% range - I've noticed that HN articles only occasionally get a comment from someone trying out the mentioned article. On Dec 30, 2016 12:22 PM, "horrido" wrote: > It would

Re: [Pharo-users] [Vm-dev] ptsd rage

2016-12-19 Thread Travis Ayres
Totally agreed. On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 4:17 PM, Brad wrote: > Don't know about anyone else, but I would appreciate it if this kind of > commentary never made it to this email list. This topic is so > inappropriate. Let's keep the discussion about Pharo. If you feel you must > go down the politi

Re: [Pharo-users] standalone/runtime executable

2016-08-23 Thread Travis Ayres
I don't want to present a whole application environment to the user, I want to disable everything not having to do with the task at hand. Also, it gives people with more limited bandwidth connections the options of downloading the entire thing, or a highly stripped version that is much smaller. It

Re: [Pharo-users] MOOC for English learners

2016-08-16 Thread Travis Ayres
New graphic kernel, not Athens or Bloc? Is it the Morphic replacement or something else? Very curious. On Aug 16, 2016 12:46 AM, "stepharo" wrote: > Thanks > > Do not hesitate to ask any questions you want. > > We are also checking why the web portal of the mooc does not show the > option to get