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by fijal 14y ago
I'm essentially doing it. It's hard. You have to quit your job and organize income. For me it's a combination of open source donations and consulting with living in a relatively low income (and low cost) country, so consulting can pay for a
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by fijal 14y ago
any hope for us poor souls that dwell outside of the United States?
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by fijal 14y ago
yeah, working on it, sorry :/
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by fijal 14y ago
topaz probably has a pretty slow IO (for bad reasons, it's an RPython problem)
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by fijal 14y ago
RPython is generally language-agnostic, although dynamic langauges are much better suited for this sort of transformations. So it makes sense for any kind of dynamic language (like prolog even), but makes less sense for say Java or C.
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by fijal 14y ago
in other words - if you can run it today, you should believe numbers. if you cannot run it, then well, you cannot.
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by fijal 14y ago
we removed that from the docs, it's kinda stable by now (but it's still an atrocious language to use, just beats C/C++ for that particular task by a lot)
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by fijal 14y ago
the idea was to implement enough of "hard stuff". So it should not change. but hello world is not a good idea (this one also might actually change due to library loading, but please don't benchmark it like that)
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by fijal 14y ago
Absolutely not. RPython is a language to write dynamic languages virtual machines. That's a much less broad scope than C aims at (and achieves).
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by fijal 14y ago
So that would be a very cool project to merge python <-> ruby (or any other interpreter written in RPython). It requires quite a bit of work to pull it off the ground though. I would be happy to provide guidance on that, but I defin
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by fijal 14y ago
I'm actually not a native speaker, so indeed, I might not know. I checked in the dictionary though. This is an analogy, but not a very good analogy, because of the reasons that I pointed out. Are you disagreeing with any particular reasonin
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by fijal 14y ago
PyPy is totally not like LLVM in many regards. It targets a very different demographics. Some differences: * RPython comes with a good garbage collector * the language where you specify what's going on is RPython in which you write an inter
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by fijal 14y ago
I think you're missing the point. It's not written in Python . It's written i RPython, which is vastly different. Technology behind this and PyPy is the same, however there is no Python usage here. Additionally, erlang has avoided scaling
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by fijal 14y ago
vanilla CPython to be precise. PyPy is drastically faster on stuff like that.
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by fijal 14y ago
If they really cost only 300k USD/lifetime (does not sound that big), they definitely pay over 110k USD/lifetime. 56k is GDP, but that's divided by all (elderly and children too), so a dane is earning like 90k USD/year, out of which he pays
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by fijal 14y ago
How did you end up with 110k USD? GDP per person is ~56k (assuming 0% growth over lifetime), which means with danish taxes there is quite a bit over 100k USD contributed to the government on average. Your numbers sound incredibly fishy (and
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by fijal 14y ago
This table sounds incredibly fishy. Bankrupt Ireland one below Germany?
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by fijal 14y ago
I really like the "all things equal" part. Usually all other things are far from equal. You have companies having the entire culture of remote work, availability of skills that's not willing/able to relocate to wherever your company is loca
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by fijal 14y ago
About 6km, for non-americans.
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by fijal 14y ago
you should always check the length of lists before zip, otherwise you end up with surprises (try running zip with unequal lengths)
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GCC plugin overview (mostly politics)(gcc.gnu.org)
3 points by fijal 14y ago|0 comments
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by fijal 14y ago
Great. So what's wrong? Is the job market rigged? Do you suggest niche specialists get underpaid?
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by fijal 14y ago
I have no idea about the work areas where I don't happen to work. Maybe retraining people for doing PHP stuff is actually a very good idea. Some company (I lost the link) recently posted "$5000 for a month-long training and we guarantee you
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by fijal 14y ago
Well. It's really the only work visa that's really available to anyone who is a highly skilled professional and wants to move to states. It's a de-facto "get on the path to citizenship" visa and it's the only possibility for people like me
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by fijal 14y ago
Well, while a step in the right direction, it definitely does not answer most serious questions. The points that stand out for me: * High bureaucracy levels while dealing with it, which means cost, which means most small companies won't do
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by fijal 14y ago
Porting is a mess. For starters, the list of employers willing to deal with your visa is limited (most startups are too small and moving too fast). Second, you can't quite your job, without having secured a visa transfer first. I mean of co
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by fijal 14y ago
Ok, fine. Assuming this analysis is correct (and I really lack the legal background to asses this), it does not really change that Aarons accusations was in the mind of people who know what they're talking about utter nonsense. Hence the lo
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2 Years Into Its Turnaround, Nokia Shows Promise(nytimes.com)
2 points by fijal 14y ago|0 comments
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by fijal 14y ago
If you can work from outside of the US (technically), what sort of requirements for working legally for a US based company are? As far as I understand, you can just send them an invoice as a contractor and be happy, no?
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by fijal 14y ago
have you ever tried living outside of the united states of america or europe? most content owners or distributors (music, books, movies) will tell you "fuck you, you're too far and too small for us to bother". Anything but blockbusters that

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