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One thing that is completely omitted in the discussion here is that Outreachy is doing something based on your residency (if in US, different rules apply). This is well within their rights, but I wonder how that part affects the "diversity" stance - I would expect a black person from Africa to have generally a much harder time in tech than an African American.

On the other hand, I would prefer to not have my local supermarket sell my data, even at an extra 3% and yet I have basically no option to do that.

Shareholder value

https://vrsketch.eu/ - Editing and viewing virtual reality plugin for sketchup. It's a lot of basic research on UI/UX in VR.

http://pypy.org - Python interpreter with a just in time compiler. It's the only alternative python implementation out there, after failures of unladen swallow/pyston etc.

http://bloc11.co.za - Own climbing gym. It's cool to work directly with people and pursue own ideas in a small space.

Imagine how terrible it would be for your customers once that happened in the production....

Hi stadeshuldt

I can't find your email on your profile. Can you leave some contact details for questions?

Thank you!

Hello everyone.

This is a project by me (Maciej Fijalkowski) and Armin Rigo. We also wrote PyPy (http://pypy.org) and we got quite excited about the Virtual Reality technology. We think VR for architects is a great start for the technology as architecture is an inherently spatial discipline. We welcome any comments

We developed a product for editing architecture models in VR (VRsketch.eu). I wonder what company did you try to work with? The potential is enormous, a bit unclear how to sell those though, architecture is a tricky market :)

That's what you get for having the "green" party in power in Germany - they pushed for phasing out the nuclear and now it looks how it looks.

Personally none - I pay taxes in my home country and everyone is happy. The company rules (delayed income tax, income tax rate) might be subject to treaty that defines "command and control" - that is if the company is really located in Estonia or is it effectively in your home country? If you have an actual office or co founders from other countries or some other vague "company is actually located in estonia", then there are no tax implications of that, other than your personal income.

yes, but you cannot open a bank account. You can use holvi (https://about.holvi.com/e-residents/) but I haven't used it and don't know details on how it differs from a regular bank.

Investigating that topic, but taking card payments is not a part of my primary business.

I tried to sign up for stripe atlas in beta and they didn't want me :)

More seriously - owning shares in us companies create scary tax implications that require some advice when having us clients. US banking system is stuck is in the 1800s and dealing with it is a very serious pain. US legal system, unlike European is very unfriendly for individuals - its just infeasible to do stuff yourself on a shoestring budget, without hiring professionals.

English, stable currency, ability to do stuff online, mature and working banking system. Does not leave many interesting candidates.

Just opened a company in Estonia. The experience so far has been incredible. It's not quite the future - all the technologies should exist everywhere etc. It's the present that should have been, but somehow it's not.

Did you guys try PyPy before deciding to switch? If yes, what was the outcome? If not, why not?

It would be really good if the author actually linked to somewhere where you can reproduce the benchmark. Either way, I'm pretty sure the correct response is "use pypy", not that I can check it

Yes, I'm really sorry.

This is the usual case of budget - if I had budget to have anyone improve the website, improve the buildbot, improve the benchmark comparison, trust me I would do it. Right now there are no volunteers and the benchmark side is sort of lingering on.

I would say, if you're familiar with virtualenv and things like that, about 15 minutes

It depends: we are heavily invested in making both numpy and pandas faster, so next releases will improve that. That said, you are quite likely to find your program slower (but it really depends on what you do). It's a good time to experiment, but definitely not to fully switch just yet

Hi

We should indeed compare PyPy3.5 vs CPython 3.5.3, but having a benchmark suite that works on both continuous to be a problem.

Regarding 2.7.13 - you might find it surprising, but it's actually SLOWER than 2.7.2, there has been no speed improvements and quite a few speed decreases, so we decided to keep the faster one.

EDIT: part of the problem is that comparing PyPy 2 vs CPython 3 is apples vs oranges, but PyPy3 is not ready yet (unicode improvements I'm working on right now are missing)

Can you program it like a kine ct? Or is it essentially a kinect running one program, which makes it a lot less like a kinect (genuine question, I haven't been able to find any info)

Or just charge reasonable fees for the service provided (booking, billing etc) and not try to abuse it. If the fee is 2-5% noone would bat an eye

Hi, blog post author here. Let me put an offer here:

If you want to ask a question that warrants a response (as opposed to promoting your own effort, which is valid but does not warrant a response), please mail me, the mail is public and I'll put the responses publically on either my blog or pypy blog.

The concurrent garbage collector has been already written. It probably has bugs, but the basis has been done for the STM effort and redone now. The mess of race conditions is surely not a great place to start, which is why it would take a man year to finish :-) I don't see a much better starting point tbh, but to look at all the mutable data structures in python (of which there are too many) and try hard

C API... You can argue it's not a part of the language, but PyPy was forced to support it at the end

Maybe selling packaging is a good idea.... that said, kickstarter does not work in any jurisdiction we can use.

It removes it for pure python code. The C extensions run under the lock (which is unfair to call interpreter any more)

The main issue is that the effort it takes to setup and maintain it greatly outweighs the amount of money we get (typically). There is also complexity with taxation, jurisdictions and all kinds of mess that is usually very much not worth couple dollars (e.g. $7/week on gratipay for example)

They would run under GIL (I can't see CPython C API being thread-friendly unless gilectomy succeeds)