gyulai

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by gyulai 4y ago
Kudos, if you actually did that rewrite. ...if only I had a cent for every time I've had this conversation with an engineering manager: Manager: "Just live with the mess for now. We'll fix it later when we have money."
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by gyulai 4y ago
I wonder if this development process is also something that bankers don't want you to know about.
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by gyulai 4y ago
My own personal webpage, which I made 5 years ago and which no one really ever looks at, is fully static. I just dropped mp4 files on my server, along with the other files and embedded them through HTML5's regular media tags. The who
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by gyulai 4y ago
...I agree, it's pretty obvious that this thread has gotten to the point where particulars don't matter any more. As I recall, "bytes" didn't exist in Python 2.5 but were brought in in later versions of Python 2.6 a
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by gyulai 4y ago
> Eh? He's not wrong. It's wrong when stated as a blanket statement like that. It depends on the particulars of the case. I've worked in a company that's taken this dictum as gospel and took it to its absurd extreme
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by gyulai 4y ago
> To me, having to get my "house in order" without asking for it is basically non-consensual changes by the developer, and I think that is abusive. If you used Python 2 in a way where encoding errors wouldn't be an issue,
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by gyulai 4y ago
> Renamed "string" to "bytes" and "unicode" to "string". Either this is hyperbole, or you're quite mistaken on the particulars there.
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by gyulai 4y ago
But that's precisely the point: Python 2.5 realized that something was fundamentally broken and the community went through a painful transition process. Transitioning to Python 3 meant getting your house in order where string encoding
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by gyulai 4y ago
Thanks for posting the happily ignorant code snippet that I have been waiting for. The problem is that Perl internally encodes strings as sequences of numbers. Not even sequences of bytes, but sequences of numbers that could either be code
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by gyulai 4y ago
So, this is on the stack overflow blog. And Joel Spolsky famously thinks that to rewrite a codebase from scratch is the "single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make" [1]. I wonder if this is how you end up b
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by gyulai 4y ago
> What I do appreciate that's missing from many other languages and systems is the extreme committment to backwards compatibility. Is that even something they're doing on purpose? Didn't they completely botch their attemp
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by gyulai 4y ago
Getting strings to have the right encodings should be easy. On the last Perl codebase I touched it's proven impossible for all practical intents and purposes.
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by gyulai 4y ago
> ... favourite MAGMA company ... What's "MAGMA"?
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by gyulai 4y ago
> My goal is to actually use the concepts I spent so much to learn in my PhD in my career. Hmmm... That was me, 12 years ago, after having done a Ph.D. focussing on computational semantics (the nlp-kind, not the compiler-kind). Trying
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by gyulai 4y ago
> Email account deletion and recovery should be regulated by law. I think the problem goes even deeper than that. No non-state actor, who holds no democratic mandate of any kind, should hold the kind of power over citizens that Google h
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by gyulai 4y ago
...what a trip down memory lane. I wrote a program like this in roundabout 2000 for my church when it needed one after replacing their overhead slide projector with a computer-based projector. I was a high schooler back then. After that c
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by gyulai 4y ago
> [...] so complex and difficult that a genuine meritocracy ensues, one that cannot be ignored or papered over with accolades or associations. Either your code works or it doesn't. I don't think complexity automatically breeds
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by gyulai 4y ago
Some of my acquaintances work in a customized software development shop that's doing that. They have over a hundred devs working there and their business is that any client can just walk in the door, specify what they need, and then a
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by gyulai 4y ago
We seem to be in perfect agreement then. It's a good thing that these devices are still getting made. Your initial comment made it sound like you took a different view, but maybe I misunderstood.
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by gyulai 4y ago
> As a society we already processed and answered It's difficult to disentangle this from the switch to streaming and regarding the latter it is very much unclear whether this was a consumer preference or just something that one-side
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by gyulai 4y ago
> I don't see how it's possible that cronyism feeds into large public European calls that you mention I haven't directly witnessed it at the Brussels level, but certainly at national level in one European country, I have
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by gyulai 4y ago
> Author is rather idealist. Agreed. Two of these "most fundamental" questions you don't need to concern yourself with as a proposal writer: "What is the problem being tackled?" and "Why is the problem wor
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by gyulai 4y ago
Sounds like all you really want is proper enforcement of antitrust laws.
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by gyulai 4y ago
While we're doing analogies: I don't think it's like judging someone's intelligence from their accent. It's more like betting (or not) on the Jamaican bobsleigh team for an olympic medal. -- Certain programming l
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by gyulai 4y ago
> Couldn't Austria come after you and say you're running an Austrian company They would, and you would indeed have to do accounting according to Austrian rules and pay taxes in Austria, etc. ...so you wouldn't do it for
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by gyulai 4y ago
> Do you have any more details on the benefits of this operation? You'd mostly do this if you're Austrian and want to stay in Austria. The benefits are relative to starting a GmbH under Austrian law. * You won't need to p
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by gyulai 4y ago
Just noticed that I didn't finish my sentence there: Should read: "...incorporate a Ltd in the UK and operate it in Austria (similarly to how, in the U.S. you might incorporate in Delaware and do business in California) ..."
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by gyulai 4y ago
That's a pretty complex question with a lot to unpack. (Except: Minimize your contact surface vis-a-vis Germany. That part seems easy.) First off: There is no such thing as a "remote friendly" jurisdiction. Estonia is tryin
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by gyulai 4y ago
* Set up Topexpress UG (haftungsbeschränkt) with €2k in capital but no more. This needs to exceed the cost for the notary, otherwise it is technically insolvent as soon as the notary performs his services on behalf of that entity. It is 1
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by gyulai 4y ago
It's a clusterfck regardless of which way you do it. There are 3 problems with the structure he describes: (1) In the early days, you might find yourself being a 1-person business, with that 1 person living in Germany and all the busi

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