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ben_vulpes is unsure if
this is wankery or pricing exercise
ben_vulpes: also worth mentioning
that gracefully handling rapidly shifting requirements is core
to how
the business operates.
ben_vulpes: much like picking up chixx, it's easier if you have a few in
tow already.
ben_vulpes: operating as a corporation rather
than an individual has benefits like
that.
ben_vulpes: d'you know? i only landed my first of
those within
the past month.
ben_vulpes: 220V, 3 phase, a poured pad, and nobody would bat an eye if you weather-proofed
the ADU.
ben_vulpes: not eager
to do it, i misspoke. eager
to spend
time in our mines rather
than wherever
they slave normally.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform knows: life in
the galleys is marginally less miserable with phri3ndz
ben_vulpes: as it stands, he hates
the kind of work my shop does, and i have a list of people who also hate
the kind of work
that we do but also find
the company company so beguiling
that
they're willing and sometimes even eager
to do it anyways.
ben_vulpes: well should i need someone
to port eulora
to ipad i'll ring him up
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: you're familiar with stan's line about "working on anything not of my own mind is only slightly better
than suicide"?
mircea_popescu: alfie grew an extra hand, was looking for exactly
this
type of flexible deal
to help pay for his latest nuclear missile arrangement.
ben_vulpes: i can always cook up work for people
to do on my own
tooling.
ben_vulpes: re
technologies, we do mobile in obj-c, swift (i guess
theoretically), java, server stuff in python/django/whatever, ruby/rails/whatever, java/clojure/{it's all algol you know}, and actual web stuff in whatever hodgepodge of html/css and js is already in place or pretty well-curated
tools
that...abstract over
the hodgepodge
to one degree or another.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes and do you have workload
they can actually work 35 hour weeks every week ? and doing what,
tech wise ? js ? ruby ? py ? perl ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla listen, im running into a whole fucking list of problems with all
the shitty dust people send
to bitbet. do you suppose we put in a progressive fee structure ? like "fee is a minimum of 0.0001, + 10% of everything under 0.01 + 1% of rest ?
☟︎ ben_vulpes: i pay
technical staff hourly rates such
that should staff choose
to work a 35+ hour week,
they'd make depending on
their value
to my org ±10% of a bigcorp salary.
ben_vulpes: "employ" in
the states is a peculiar contractual arrangement where
the employer agrees
to remit
taxes on behalf of
the employed.
mircea_popescu: there should, i imagine, be a way
to extract significant cheating out of
the fact
that we don't intend
to support random gunk.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: myes, although mayhap we
talk of different
things
mircea_popescu: "this very
this" lol. i'm not going
to even research it. i know it's what
the nexus of all diddlery would have
to be if i was running
the diddle department.
mircea_popescu: but dollars
to donuts
that is pointedly not what malloc actuyally is.
mircea_popescu: but
that aside : if you build your own allocator you can do a lot of
things you wish you could have done.
mircea_popescu: "
the challenge would be
to not write
the worst piece of
the completed assemblage."
mircea_popescu: seems
this v6
thing would be a great starting point for a great many
things.
mircea_popescu: these aren't abstractions as much as
they are infections.
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 05:37:58; mircea_popescu: you know
this actually sounds rather interesting. why is it
that it's not good for us ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> adding
tcp would prolly double or
triple
the mass,
though <<
the challenge would be
to not write
the worst piece of
the completed assemblage.
mircea_popescu: you know
this actually sounds rather interesting. why is it
that it's not good for us ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: " It compiles in a couple of seconds and is
trivial
to boot up in QEMU." o.O
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: i'm still waiting for
the magical 1986 or so of our day, when
thinking people stop even recreationally giving a shit about
the stuffed shirts <<
Too late BitBet exists
BingoBoingo: Democrats on
the other hand quit well in advance because getting appointed
to various offices is
the way of
their people