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Re:OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful by yawaramin on Friday June 24, 2022 @12:59PM (#31865660)
If Jane Street can teach OCaml to traders, I can teach it to developers. That's not a concern for anyone other than a sweatshop.
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Re:OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful by akhmatova on Friday June 24, 2022 @02:31PM (#31867259)
If Jane Street can teach OCaml to traders, I can teach it to developers.

You can if they are motivated to learn. Unless you are offering Jane Street levels of compensation; and in return, the candidate is willing to believe, or pretend to believe that company's shtick about OCaml being so categorically superior as a general-purpose development language so as to leave all the others in the dust -- most likely they won't be.

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Re:OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful by yawaramin on Friday June 24, 2022 @05:21PM (#31869481)
Or if, you know, they were hired to work on a project where they get paid a salary. That seems to incentivize most devs.
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Re:OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful by akhmatova on Friday June 24, 2022 @06:43PM (#31870438)
Not "a salary", but a Jane Street salary and resume cred. Otherwise you just won't find that many takers.
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Re:OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful by yawaramin on Friday June 24, 2022 @07:11PM (#31870690)
I can assure you I will and in fact have found plenty of takers for my job postings with a niche language. You just need to word the postings appropriately and be willing to teach people what they don't know.
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Re:OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful by akhmatova on Saturday June 25, 2022 @07:09AM (#31874278)
You just need to word the postings appropriately and be willing to teach people what they don't know.

OK, I'll grant that if you have that "magic skill" then you can in fact recruit developers for niche languages.

Most companies don't, as we know, and frankly it's amazing to me how incoherent their communications are throughout their so-called hiring process.

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Re:OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful by yawaramin on Saturday June 25, 2022 @08:23PM (#31879888)
If having sensible hiring practices is a 'magic skill', then I guess call me Harry Houdini!
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Re:OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful by akhmatova on Monday June 27, 2022 @11:15PM (#31903690)
Per this person's experience (which seems sadly far from atypical), you might as well be:

https://www.benjamistan.tech/2022/06/26/wasting-time-in-tech...

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Re:OCaml Programming: Correct and Efficient and Beautiful by toolslive on Friday June 24, 2022 @02:48PM (#31867548)
Actually, what I found more impressive is that they also got them to use emacs.
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