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Whether they'd make the argument publicly or not, it's still true that it is the reality, and the company I currently work for is better than a lot I've seen.

Point taken about active malice... but I've also seen companies with mostly in-house code cover up instances of rootkits on production servers and malfeasance related to credit cards.

I'd rather companies use third party open source crypto, for instance, even if it sometimes gets compromised, because it's a lot more likely to come to light.

kodon Software Security Is a Programming Languages Issue (2018)

I work for a 10,000+ person public company that just outsourced critical business functions via a 5 year contract that doesn't have any meaningfully enforceable description of the work to be done.

If you're trying to talk about hiring for full time employment as opposed to contract work... what happens there is as long as people are able to get through whatever idiosyncratic hazing process was involved in hiring, they're going to be at the company for at least a year. It's perceived as hard / risky to fire people, even if they can't program their way out of a wet paper bag.

This stuff happens all the time, it's not that different from evaluation and use of third party code. "This project has 500 stars on github, it must be good." "This guy used to work for Google, he must be good." Now you're stuck.

kodon Software Security Is a Programming Languages Issue (2018)

On the contrary, you'd be asked what the cost benefit analysis was vs doing it in house, then told to continue.

CEOs outsource critical things without meaningful oversight all the time.

kodon Java switch – 4 wrongs don't make a right

Maybe I wasn't clear enough.

Kotlin checks exhaustivity of when only if it is used as an expression, not as a statement.

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/control-flow.html#when...

Kotlin doesn't allow destructuring in when:

https://discuss.kotlinlang.org/t/destructuring-in-when/2391

This is just straight up weak coming from any reasonable ML derived language with real pattern matching.

kodon Java switch – 4 wrongs don't make a right

Kotlin has the extremely dubious behavior of not checking exhuastivity when it's a statement. And it doesn't have destructuring, not for principled reasons but because the developers thought it would be too much work.

How is this more powerful than rust match?

kodon Ask HN: Is there a better employment route to high earnings than FAANG?

No, they were introduced by the founder, and were getting the job done, just not anywhere near as efficiently.

kodon Ask HN: Is there a better employment route to high earnings than FAANG?

> I don't know how you could expect to be even that valuable

I've had roles where I changed ~5 lines of code that resulted in at least my yearly salary worth of reduced operating costs. Programming can be a high-leverage activity, FAANG salaries aren't necessarily irrational.

kodon Writing An Interpreter In Go (2016)

I've never done F# professionally so I can't speak to how idiomatic it is, but it gets the job done from a learning point of view.

kodon Writing An Interpreter In Go (2016)

https://www.itu.dk/people/sestoft/plc/

Sestoft is a very clear writer, and F# is a better language than most for writing interpreters or compilers.

kodon Today’s Top Tech Skills

https://h1bdata.info/topjobs.php

Software engineer and senior software engineer are 100k+, among many others.

kodon Pointless work meetings 'really a form of therapy'

No one is going to admit in writing on slack that they are stuck. In person it's a lot easier to call people out.

kodon Switzerland vs Silicon Valley for Software Developers

78704 is still the best zip code in the country though

kodon We decided to go for the big rewrite

It's not "my" flavor of Scala, it's what it's designed for. It's a pragmatic, ML family language.

Read Odersky's book, write code, still have access to all JVM libraries and a lot less brain damage.

There are people that try to write worse Haskell in everything from Perl to Kotlin too. The reputation is overblown and has little to do with the actual language.

kodon We decided to go for the big rewrite

Doing real work in Scala for a decade. Never argued about any of that.

kodon We decided to go for the big rewrite

> "Sure, Scala will work great! It's future-proof and everyone will love it!"

Scala is still the least-bad option for a JVM language.

Anyone who can't be productive in Scala (not "better java", not "worse haskell", Scala) isn't someone you want on your team anyway.

kodon The Myth of the Wealthy Welder

email ckoeninger@nexstardigital.com for more info

kodon Why Go and Not Rust?

"Rust is a better C++"

Rust is very clearly an ML derivative, not (just) a better C++

kodon The Myth of the Wealthy Welder

I'd hire pretty much anyone who actually did most of the exercises in How to Design Programs + Types and Programming Languages.

kodon What a Senior Staff Software Engineer Does

I've definitely seen individual contributor salaries in the 170-190 range in Austin.

kodon A+, the Programming Language of Morgan Stanley

I'm not sure Mason is the best example here. It had an O'Reilly book http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596002251.do and was used by the RT bugtracker, as well as non-Amazon businesses, including the largest Usenet provider in the world.

kodon What’s New in ES2019

Or y'know, someone who doesn't see a reason to purchase a new Apple device every N years of forced obsolescence.

kodon Ballista: Distributed Compute with Rust, Apache Arrow, and Kubernetes

One of the creators of Spark apparently thinks Rust is worth pursuing:

https://www.weld.rs/