In How crowdfunding and the JOBS Act will shape open source companies, Fred Trotter proposes that crowdfunding a la Kickstarter and IndieGoGo is going to displace venture capitalists as the normal engine of funding for open-source tech startups, and that this development will be a tremendous enabler. Trotter paints a rosy picture of idealistic geeks… Continue reading What does crowdfunding replace or displace?
Month: March 2013
Python speed optimization in the real world
I shipped reposurgeon 2.29 a few minutes ago. The main improvement in this version is speed – it now reads in and analyzes Subversion repositories at a clip of more than 11,000 commits per minute. This, is, in case you are in any doubt, ridiculously fast – faster than the native Subversion tools do it,… Continue reading Python speed optimization in the real world