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   by fijal 5d ago

   This is quite fascinating as it looks like the esteemed professors run into a problem of runaway capitalism for the first time. Guess what? The corporations involved don't really care about your feelings or how pursuing their goals aff
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   by fijal 3y ago

   Location: Cape Town, RSA Remote: YES Willing to relocate: NO Technologies: Python, C, assembler (x86, ARM), C#, unity, C++, JS, kinda anything Résumé/CV: - Portfolio: PyPy project (https://pypy.org), VR Sketch
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   by fijal 3y ago

   Is there a single error bar in the paper? It seems like a guess
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   by fijal 6y ago

   Hi Dmitry, Hi Ryan I love the fact that this is out! I have been the original author of vmprof and I have been working on profilers for quite some time. I'm also one of the people who worked on PyPy. We never managed to launch a SaaS p
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   by fijal 6y ago

   All who live in silicon Valley of course. You seem to have forgotten that "making world a better place" is a mantra repeated across the entire IT. I presume if Facebook employees actively think that, so can RIAA lawyers
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   by fijal 6y ago

   That will likely be the contents of the next blog post
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   by fijal 7y ago

   It did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybus
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   by fijal 8y ago

   If you want to see an advanced Python compiler, have a look at PyPy. While CPython bytecode compiler is "dump", it's as smart as it can be. You can do crazy stuff with speculative replacing of bytecodes with guards and type-s
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   by fijal 8y ago

   Thanks! I'm glad to hear your company is also incorporated in Estonia. How well has it been working for you?
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    by fijal 8y ago

    Hi I suggest you don't write down in gray on white "by the way, we will also store your email". Put it somewhere either prominent or maybe outright have and opt in button for that? It's an industry wide practice, but tha
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    by fijal 8y ago

    There are two things in play here - one is that pypy is a large py2-only codebase that is unlikely to be ported. Second is that maintaining python 2 both does not cost much and it's used by the majority of our users, despite of what yo
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    by fijal 8y ago

    While I agree with you, pypy already runs cffi fast and we are thinking how to run cython fast. That would cover a large subset of using C API I think.
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    by fijal 8y ago

    I live in Cape Town where I can do surfing a bit better than in Munich ;-)
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    by fijal 8y ago

    I think you are confusing CFFI (which is massively faster under pypy) with CPython C API calls (which is both slower under pypy and ones used by numpy)
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    by fijal 8y ago

    The main way big corpos are sponsoring os is hiring the developers typically. That comes with a whole lot of things that some people don't want to deal with, like changing your place of residence
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    by fijal 8y ago

    3.7 (or maybe even 3.8) support will start as soon as we can have a "final" 3.6 - which might be couple months from now. I think 3.7 won't be done in 2019, unless some magic source of funding pops up.
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    by fijal 8y ago

    numpy works on pypy these days. You have to install it via pip and it does not have wheels, so it takes a few minutes to install, otherwise works. The numpy-heavy workloads will not be sped up by pypy, but depending on what you are exactly
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    by fijal 8y ago

    And the website reporting it blatantly violates GDPR by making it hard to opt-out from tracking (which should be opt-in or not at all)... We really need to change the way we monetize internet
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    by fijal 8y ago

    According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unity_Technologies they're based in San Francisco these days (but were founded in Denmark).
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    by fijal 8y ago

    There are protections against that in the EU - you can reverse engineer and otherwise circumvent all the protections for the sake of making things interoperable.
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    by fijal 8y ago

    So the good news is that after SV/SF, everything is cheap! Well, mostly.... I would personally suggest Cape Town, South Africa, if you're a bit adventurous. Lovely weather, good people, cheap, excellent food. It's a bit out o
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    by fijal 8y ago

    Would be really cool if you could just, you know, download the program and run it, not have to go through Viveport at all.
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    by fijal 8y ago

    Hi! Thanks! Feel free to hit me up if you want to chat, some parts of the UI are or can be OS. Email in profile.
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    by fijal 8y ago

    Hi Excellent job! We have been working quite a bit in UI/UX of VR editing. You might be keen to look at what we've done here: https://vrsketch.eu (it's a tool for architects, but shares a lot of problems)
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    by fijal 8y ago

    I enjoy how "EU" means "outside of us". I'm in South Africa and it's blocked for the eu
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    by fijal 8y ago

    We have been addressing that for the last 3 years. Which CPython modules it does not work with for you? That comment was about something slightly different though - even though richards is 40x faster, pypy still is not faster on some worklo
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    by fijal 8y ago

    FYI numpy both works these days and it's officially supported
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    by fijal 8y ago

    I believe the article is a more or less verbatim transcript of what happened. I wasn't there and I don't really want to speculate, but I would expect LWN to mention everything important that was mentioned and not add their own int
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    by fijal 8y ago

    The barriers are nearly purely social - the unwillingness to drop C API (or to have a phase out plan) and to declare certain kinds of behaviors as "implementation dependent" make it very hard for any meaningful competition to emer
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    by fijal 8y ago

    It's maybe worth noting that richards is an "easy" benchmark. PyPy has been speeding it up quite significantly by about 40x for a long time. Those changes are necessary for improved performance, but not nearly good enough. Py