 Utilization of funding in FOSS projects are magintudes higher than in commercial products. Amount of work and things achieved per $ (€ or whatever) seems literally 1000x bigger comparing to modern proprietary sofware. At least I have such perception at the moment from looking at various FOSS projects and their accounting data and comparing it with salaries and fundings/investments in companies I know about. I'm not sure if it's still a scrumble eggs or it already became a salad. My morning "ship of Thesius" phylosophy routine here. Accidentally broke through 95 WPM. How much time will it take to go from 75 (my current average) to 100 WPM? I do my 6-minutes typing workouts in between other tasks, so my brain get confused which of the activities is work and which is rest, so I mostly recieve a feeling of pleasure and satisfaction out of typing practice.  @mianmoreno made a thread on real-world rde configurations examples. Don't hesitate to press reply to thread button and share your. There is a config by authors of dwl-guile and a few more quite interesting ones. Talking today about Concurrency in Scheme and Fibers. Starting in 3 hours. https://youtu.be/jrwfl_hIcS4 Kudos to @wingo, @aconchillo, @civodul and all other people working on https://github.com/wingo/fibers. I noticed it only recently, but somebody radically improved guix profiles build time and now I can enjoy rebuilding my home environment. Kudos to him! Almost made guile-nrepl work with Rail Emacs nREPL client. It evaluates expressions, but doesn't print the prompt yet. https://git.sr.ht/~abcdw/guile-nrepl  @abcdw my legacy lives! :ablobcatattentionreverse: The ultimate productivity tip: Add a task to your day agenda that you really don't want to do, and all other tasks will turn into a pure joy. What should I use for binary ports in scheme? (scheme base), (ice-9 binary-ports) or something else? The same question about (rnrs conditions) and (ice-9 exceptions).  @abcdw for ports in general I use (rnrs io ports), but with exceptions you get the weird the r6rs error messages, which while fine on their own & r6rs providing the superior conditional system, they are disjoint from Guile's style which feels a little clunky I went with (scheme base) aka r7rs for binary port and (ice-9 exceptions) aka guile exceptions, but this fragmentation of ecosystem is not cool at all and raises learning curve to the sky. https://git.sr.ht/~abcdw/guile-nrepl/commit/fc2559710ce489d1e5922c6c5916675d67ee15bd  @abcdw My personal preference: (ice-9 binary-ports) if you’re writing Guile-only code, or (rnrs io ports) if you’re aiming for R6 portability. These interfaces are roughly synonyms; the R6 one just pulls in more stuff. (I’m skeptical of R7, I think it didn’t start on the right foot.) Good video by Prot about emacs' built-in isearch, occur, grep and a few external packages for search and replace: We added EXWM to rde, so if you want to try out rde, but don't want to switch to wayland yet - you have an option now! :) Continuations Brief Summary. Studied the topic a bit and brought you a write-up. Should be interesting for people related to programming, and especially for scheme and lisp users. #programming #scheme #lisp #clojure #commonlisp #callcc #continuation In TXR Lisp I invented an alternative way to dealing with the local, scope-tied resources of blocks of code that are being entered and exited by continuations. (Like say you have a recursive walk with local resources, which is using continuations to yield incremental results elsewhere.) Bascially, I allow a Lisp form to be terminated by "absconding": a dynamic non-local return, without any unwinding. This allows continuation switches to be clean, like thread context switches. I remember watching a talk about some fancy REPL-related stuff (probably not about REPL itself, but it was extensively used in the demo) by a girl doing some R&D in this topic, but I don't remember the name and don't know how to find it :/ Share a link, please, if you accidentially know what am I talking about. Tonight a few friends sent me a message that #rde is on a front page of Hacker News. Is it something good?  @abcdw frontpage of hackernews can either be a blessing or a curse. So far the comments on this post seem complimentary of Guix, at least. Is there is a good reason to have multi-value return in #Scheme? It seems returning a vector does the trick quite well. Am I missing something? @abcdw the only thing I can think of right now is just being explicit about it. Returning a vector doesn't help anyone understand that the vector is of a fixed length, or technically a tuple. oh actually I guess one thing I like about the ability to do it in Common Lisp is that unless you explicitly need the other return values you just get the first one. Although I guess that could be seen as a downside too. anyway, that's just my speculation and opinion, I don't usually need or want it.  @abcdw I think this generally might be related to low-level optimization, like compiler being able to spill mutliple values into registers, as opposed to vector, which should be honest-to-god allocated in heap (or on stack). Guile is coming closer to web assembly. Impressive results. https://spritely.institute/news/scheme-to-wasm-lambdas-recursion.html  @abcdw It is a game changer: "the Hoot-compiled WebAssembly ... is five times faster than native Guile!"  "The web should be for everyone. We hope Hoot paves a path so that more languages may enter the web, including Python, Lua, Haskell, ML, and friends." That's what I'm eagerly waiting for :) rde Meetup #3 will take place in less than 5 hours. https://lists.sr.ht/~abcdw/rde-announce/%3C871qjmjaow.fsf%40trop.in%3E |
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Sure, efficiently using money is a nice thing. However, why are we so efficient? Are we particularly smart? I don't think so. Does removing the management layer improves the dollar-to-feature efficiency? Maybe? Sometimes?
But what if we were so much efficient because we're constantly lacking proper funding? What if most of the valuable FOSS work we're producing is done on an unpaid basis?
Looking at the NL-Net rates (which, thanks god, exists, and is definitely a very nice and important org that does tremendous work!), we're at least 1/2 of a decent EU contracting rate, almost 1/4 of a decent US contracting rate.
Some personal backstory: I'm in my 30s, I'd like to own my house and don't have a lot of money coming from my family, clearly not enough to inherit a house. Working for FOSS full time is not an option for me to reach this goal at the moment. I have to work as a contractor that sometimes ships proprietary code. And it deeply sucks.
Sure, efficiently using money is a nice thing. However, why are we so efficient? Are we particularly smart? I don't think so. Does removing the management layer improves the dollar-to-feature efficiency? Maybe? Sometimes?