Hacker News: RayDonnelly

New comment by RayDonnelly in "Setup Anaconda, Jupyter, and Rust"

RayDonnelly — Thu, 28 Jan 2021 15:23:12 +0000

conda, although written in Python, is language (and somewhat OS) agnostic. We provide lots of C, C++, R and Rust packages as well as Python ones.

New comment by RayDonnelly in "Bazel 1.0"

RayDonnelly — Fri, 18 Oct 2019 12:47:43 +0000

Bazel is the bane of every software packager who needs to use it and who does not work for Google. GN (or whatever it's actually called) is a close second in terms of horridness and NIH-ness, then GYP (and depot_tools too, may as well chuck that in there). Guess which company foisted all this on us?

New comment by RayDonnelly in "Future versions of macOS won’t include scripting language runtimes by default"

RayDonnelly — Wed, 05 Jun 2019 12:57:31 +0000

And that is also awful in so many other ways.

New comment by RayDonnelly in "“Python's batteries are leaking”"

RayDonnelly — Sun, 19 May 2019 14:02:42 +0000

I disagree. tcl/tk is written in C and C can be compiled in very very badly indeed (from a security perspective).

New comment by RayDonnelly in "“Python's batteries are leaking”"

RayDonnelly — Sun, 19 May 2019 13:59:17 +0000

You can use `conda install rust_osx-64` on macOS and `conda install rust_linux-64` to use `cargo` with the Anaconda Distribution libraries and tools (including its compilers).

New comment by RayDonnelly in "Modern C++ Won't Save Us"

RayDonnelly — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 11:50:00 +0000

.. because it's (relatively speaking) brand new?

New comment by RayDonnelly in "Python for Reverse Engineering 1: ELF Binaries"

RayDonnelly — Fri, 22 Mar 2019 20:44:34 +0000

If you haven't seen it, also checkout Project LIEF. It is very good indeed. We use it for a lot of post-build binary verification in the conda ecosystem.

Windows, macOS and Linux are all supported.

https://lief.quarkslab.com/

New comment by RayDonnelly in "Inkscape launches versions 0.92.4 and 1.0 alpha"

RayDonnelly — Fri, 18 Jan 2019 21:43:28 +0000

A lot of the credit for the Windows version should go to MSYS2. They provide all the libraries used here (including GTK).

New comment by RayDonnelly in "Ask HN: Is GWT/Google Web Toolkit still being used today?"

RayDonnelly — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 16:31:41 +0000

RStudio uses it.

New comment by RayDonnelly in "Pipenv: promises a lot, delivers very little"

RayDonnelly — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 18:21:32 +0000

There's no such requirement at all, but it's a noble goal and one every package developer should strive for.

New comment by RayDonnelly in "Pipenv: promises a lot, delivers very little"

RayDonnelly — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 09:13:24 +0000

Great I'll try it out, I always meant to but never got round to it. Does it work on macOS or Windows yet? What's the oldest Linux distro upon which it will run?

Not sure we constantly try to sell our Enterprise product. You could look at it less cynically as we sell an Enterprise product to allow us to provide the Anaconda Distribution for free.

New comment by RayDonnelly in "Pipenv: promises a lot, delivers very little"

RayDonnelly — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 02:48:26 +0000

I agree that providing toolchains is very important.

The only non-system package manager that provides Python and its own toolchains - for Linux and macOS presently - which are used to compile every C, C++ and Fortran package, including Python itself is conda and the Anaconda Distribution.

Not doing this leads to static linking and that's inefficient and insecure.

Disclaimer: I work for Anaconda Inc.

New comment by RayDonnelly in "Slow Software"

RayDonnelly — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 23:15:57 +0000

You are completely right. I apologize.

New comment by RayDonnelly in "Slow Software"

RayDonnelly — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 23:08:38 +0000

ggreer: I have no grudge, hopefully ag will continue to be a success for its users but it'd be lovely if people could contribute to making it even more of a success. I believe there are some easy ways to achieve that (expanding the core team if you were ameanable or somewhere or shomehow ossasionally explaining why PRs are not getting looked at), and some not so easy ways (CI with good testsuites and benchmarks).

I apologise for my overly aggressive comments, I did not handle the fact I really hoped to help out on ag and got frustrated by the experience very well (at all).

Have a nice weekend.

New comment by RayDonnelly in "Slow Software"

RayDonnelly — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 21:29:08 +0000

OK sure, but would you consider merging one PR that explains that people should not expect PRs to get reviewed? I'm happy to do the work if you'll review and merge it.

That way we can avoid unfortunate incidents such as this in future.

New comment by RayDonnelly in "Slow Software"

RayDonnelly — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 21:18:24 +0000

In what way is updating README.md difficult? Please have as much respect for contributors and potential contributors as you seem to have for maintainers. They're all people after all and their free time is equally important.

New comment by RayDonnelly in "Slow Software"

RayDonnelly — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 21:05:59 +0000

I respectfully disagree with you. I wasted perhap 10 hours of my life or more on this PR (pointlessly rebasing it a few times). 95 other PRs are outstanding. There are many ways to improve this situation. I pointed two of them out:

    1. Declare that you won't accept (or even review) them, preferably at the top of README.md *
    2. Give a second person merge status.

I have some empathy for the maintainer but I also have empathy for the prospective contributors who spent a chunk of their free time working on https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/pulls

I've done my bit here to stop wasting people's time globally, I don't consider a maintainer's time more valuable than a contributor's time. That's elitest nonsense.

https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/issues/1284

* The likely side-effect is a unblessed fork (or people not wasting their time, or if they do, well, they didn't read the README.md and cannot be too annoyed at anyone but themselves).

New comment by RayDonnelly in "Slow Software"

RayDonnelly — Fri, 23 Nov 2018 19:34:30 +0000

You don't want to waste your own precious time but are more than happy for many other people to waste theirs?

Also you merged commits starting from 24 Dec 2011 and ending on 18th August. Presumably you saw value in those commits?

New comment by RayDonnelly in "Ask HN: Data scientists, what does your workflow look like?"

RayDonnelly — Mon, 05 Nov 2018 14:36:20 +0000

Do you use Anaconda's R. If so I'd like to know of any rough edges (package count being a known one we're looking to address).

Thanks.

New comment by RayDonnelly in "GitHub: sysget – A front-end for every package manager"

RayDonnelly — Sun, 07 Oct 2018 08:42:02 +0000

Packages installed from different distros will conflict all over the place, this is silly, please don't add conda despite my other comment!