Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

@owl Thanks, hadn't heard of this one before!

I'm not a fan of the syntax and semantics at first glance (bad experiences with readability of single-paradigm strictly-functional languages...) but it does indeed seem to otherwise match what I'm looking for, so I'll give it a closer look anyway.

@balrogboogie (Reason: having to wire up a runtime for using some code in the-language-I'm-looking-for would all but guarantee that nobody would use libraries in said language in any codebase that's written in something different, because it looks like a really big pile of complexity. That's mostly a problem of prejudice, but it's still a problem nevertheless)

@balrogboogie Doesn't LuaJIT require basically wiring in a Lua runtime into the 'host' codebase? What I'm thinking of is something that integrates cleanly enough that you could simply hand someone a .so and say "here you go" and it looks like any other C-style library, and similarly 'obvious' integration for other languages.

@pascaline Oef, ja, dat is wel wat intenser dan mijn geval. In mijn geval was het alleen maar een onredelijk veeleisende klant.

Wel bijzonder. Heb dat inderdaad nog nooit eerder gehoord! Maar ik snap de keus van die jurist wel helemaal, ethisch gezien is het zeker de juiste keuze geweest.

@vlrny Thinking about it a bit more, I guess this could be summarized as "place an ad that asks exactly the thing you're looking for, particularly with the details people wouldn't normally assume".

It'll lower the response rate, but also means the people responding will be those who are already on board with the idea. Saves a lot of spoons in negotiating afterwards.

@pascaline Yep, zelfde verhaal hier. Dan twijfel je toch even, ben ik nu te paranoide? Moet ik ze niet toch een kans geven, en kijken waar het schip strandt?

Maar nee hoor, het liep uit op eindeloos gezeik en onredelijke eisen die buiten het contract gingen, en niet veel later heb ik het contract opgezegd. Had blijkbaar gewoon naar m'n intuitie moeten luisteren 🙂

@vlrny (The only personal related experience I have here is in hiring a cleaner; I just placed a classified ad, and made it explicit in the ad that it is needed for health reasons, and that wearing a mask is a requirement.

Second response to the ad was a 'hit', and I had them name a reasonable price and ensured it was higher than a cleaning company would pay. I usually round up the payments.)

@vlrny I've seen the term 'buddy' used (often prefixed with the specific condition/disability/circumstance/etc. it applies to) in some social programs in NL for a very similar concept, although they are usually paid by the local government rather than by the person receiving help.

The "walks in the trees" would be the defining line here between "personal assistant" and "buddy" I think, here, as it highlights that the intention is social/mental support rather than outsourcing boring stuff by wealthy folks.

@pascaline Heh, als ik de horrorverhalen van een hoop andere mensen hoor, is dat bij professionele klanten zeker niet altijd anders, helaas... ligt er denk ik ook vooral aan hoe goed de klant/vereniging/etc. snapt hoe je een samenwerking soepel laat verlopen!

(Zelf ben ik freelancer en filter ik doorgaans vooraf op klanten die dit soort zaken niet op orde hebben. Is meestal al heel vroeg in het proces duidelijk.)

@clarfonthey AFAIK for the license evaluation they consider the entirety of the codebase (including dependencies) so "other licenses" should already be covered, though it's been a while since I've looked at this in detail.

The maintenance/support status would certainly be useful information. I can see why they haven't done that yet - unlike license information, it's a moving target that changes over time and keeps changing in sometimes hard-to-track ways. I'm not sure that I consider that a good enough reason not to do it.