Signs that a startup is focused on stuff that doesn’t matter

Re:Signs that a startup is focused on stuff that doesn’t matter by raverbashing on Thursday November 03, 2016 @11:02AM (#12864496)

Yes

Or they are using $(Obscure new Functional Programming thing) which makes Haskell look like VB in ease of use and only two people on the team know how to use it (kind of)

Or using (invented here thing that could be replaced by regular DB/other existing system) but since it was one of the founders that did it nobody is allowed to touch it or fix bugs

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Re:Signs that a startup is focused on stuff that doesn’t matter by StavrosK on Thursday November 03, 2016 @01:10PM (#12865844)

I had a gig once where my predecessor was a Haskell guy and had written Haskell-in-Javascript :( The comments were things like "this is a simple functor that produces a monad that, when curried to a function, will return a lambda that will do what we need".

Needless to say, I wrote zero lines of code during those two weeks, and the company shut down shortly after that.

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Re:Signs that a startup is focused on stuff that doesn’t matter by thatcat on Thursday November 03, 2016 @03:14PM (#12867032)

So even if js is capable of being written with the structure of a functional language, doing so renders it incomprehensible to other js programmers?

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Re:Signs that a startup is focused on stuff that doesn’t matter by StavrosK on Friday November 04, 2016 @09:26AM (#12872329)

Eh, most languages are capable of being written functionally, but bringing a completely different language's idioms in results in unmaintainable code.

At the very least they needed to hire a Haskell dev, not a JS dev, even if the language itself was JS.

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Re:Signs that a startup is focused on stuff that doesn’t matter by dozzie on Thursday November 03, 2016 @04:54PM (#12867857)

A sign of a good programmer is that he can write in Fortran in any language at hand.

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