Re: [Haskell-cafe] Employment

2009-01-23 Thread George Pollard
On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 16:19 +1100, Toby Hutton wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Jonathan Cast jonathancc...@fastmail.fm wrote: Not really. My company *advertises* for Haskell developers, and then when they come in to interview, informs them that the code base is actually

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Employment

2009-01-23 Thread Brent Yorgey
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 04:57:56PM -0800, Jonathan Cast wrote: On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 19:14 +, Andrew Coppin wrote: Jonathan Cast wrote: On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 21:04 +, Andrew Coppin wrote: I mean, heck, *I* use Haskell at work - and I'm not even supposed to be coding things!

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Employment

2009-01-23 Thread Bartosz Wójcik
On Monday 19 January 2009 23:26:09 Sittampalam, Ganesh wrote: We (Credit Suisse) have Haskell developers in both London and NY, although the page only listed NY (I've now corrected it). If CS had Haskell positions in Wroclaw, Poland I'd apply for it! Best, Bartek

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Employment

2009-01-23 Thread Krzysztof Skrzętnicki
There are quite a few people with working Haskell knowledge in Wroclaw. I'm sure many of my colleagues (from University of Wroclaw: http://www.ii.uni.wroc.pl/ http://www.ii.uni.wroc.pl/cms/) know Haskell and I think would enjoy working with it. All best Christopher Skrzętnicki On Fri, Jan 23,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Employment

2009-01-22 Thread Andrew Coppin
Jonathan Cast wrote: On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 21:04 +, Andrew Coppin wrote: I mean, heck, *I* use Haskell at work - and I'm not even supposed to be coding things! /me feels slightly relieved, if you'll forgive my saying so :) Damn... I didn't think I was *that* bad at using

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Employment

2009-01-22 Thread Andrew Coppin
Paul Johnson wrote: So next time I hear the you can't get the programmers line I'm going to respond with something like this: If you post an advert for a Haskell developer you will get 20 applicants. All of those people will be the kind of developer who learns new programming

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Employment

2009-01-22 Thread Jonathan Cast
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 21:01 +, Andrew Coppin wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: So next time I hear the you can't get the programmers line I'm going to respond with something like this: If you post an advert for a Haskell developer you will get 20 applicants. All of those people

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Employment

2009-01-22 Thread Jonathan Cast
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 19:14 +, Andrew Coppin wrote: Jonathan Cast wrote: On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 21:04 +, Andrew Coppin wrote: I mean, heck, *I* use Haskell at work - and I'm not even supposed to be coding things! /me feels slightly relieved, if you'll forgive my saying so :)

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Employment

2009-01-22 Thread Andrew Wagner
That's..evil On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Jonathan Cast jonathancc...@fastmail.fmwrote: On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 21:01 +, Andrew Coppin wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: So next time I hear the you can't get the programmers line I'm going to respond with something like this:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Employment

2009-01-22 Thread Jonathan Cast
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 20:02 -0500, Andrew Wagner wrote: That's..evil I know. I'm evil too, though. So it's cool. jcc ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Employment

2009-01-22 Thread Toby Hutton
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Jonathan Cast jonathancc...@fastmail.fm wrote: Not really. My company *advertises* for Haskell developers, and then when they come in to interview, informs them that the code base is actually written in Perl. Works, too --- we have several Haskellers

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Employment

2009-01-21 Thread Lionel Barret De Nazaris
That fits with our experience (gamr7). We got 20 applicants, all of them very good. L. Paul Johnson wrote: Tom Hawkins wrote: Such a database would help me counter by boss's argument that it's impossible to find and hire Haskell programmers. There was a thread last week where someone

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Employment

2009-01-20 Thread Jason Dusek
At my former employer, I wrote a couple of internal tools in Haskell that shipped to Linux, OS X and Windows. The relative ease of binary preparation was a selling point of Haskell. -- Jason Dusek ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Employment

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Johnson
Tom Hawkins wrote: Such a database would help me counter by boss's argument that it's impossible to find and hire Haskell programmers. There was a thread last week where someone asked who would be interested in a hypothetical Haskell job. He got about 20 positive responses. This agrees

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Employment

2009-01-20 Thread Creighton Hogg
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Paul Johnson p...@cogito.org.uk wrote: Tom Hawkins wrote: Such a database would help me counter by boss's argument that it's impossible to find and hire Haskell programmers. There was a thread last week where someone asked who would be interested in a

[Haskell-cafe] Employment

2009-01-19 Thread Andrew Coppin
Is it possible to earn money using Haskell? Does anybody here actually do this? Inquiring minds want to know... ;-) ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Employment

2009-01-19 Thread Andrew Wagner
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_industry could be of interest to you On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.comwrote: Is it possible to earn money using Haskell? Does anybody here actually do this? Inquiring minds want to know... ;-)

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Employment

2009-01-19 Thread David Leimbach
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:34 AM, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote: Is it possible to earn money using Haskell? Does anybody here actually do this? Inquiring minds want to know... ;-) I'm using it at work in simulations... not shipping anything with it yet, but we do ship

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Employment

2009-01-19 Thread Phil
Barclays Capital use it for Equity Derivative modeling and pricing - it's a small team at the moment, but the whole project is in Haskell. I don't work on it myself so I couldn't give you any details (plus I would get fired for blabbing!), I work in an adjacent group. Haskell certainly lends

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Employment

2009-01-19 Thread Don Stewart
And of course, there's at least half a dozen people on this list at working at Galois. And all documented on the wiki, http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_industry See you guys at CUFP 09! http://cufp.galois.com/ -- Don pbeadling: Barclays Capital use it for Equity

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Employment

2009-01-19 Thread Jeff Heard
Haskell's all I use at work, although no-one requires it. I know that Ravi Nanavati's company uses Haskell pretty exclusively, and there's also Galois and a couple of financial houses. I was pretty impressed with the professional turnout for ICFP 2008. -- Jeff On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 2:34 PM,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Employment

2009-01-19 Thread John Goerzen
Andrew Coppin wrote: Is it possible to earn money using Haskell? Does anybody here actually do this? Inquiring minds want to know... ;-) I work for a company that designs, builds, and sells lawn mowers (hustlerturf.com). We use quite a bit of Haskell, especially as a glue language for

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Employment

2009-01-19 Thread Andrew Coppin
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Its proabably a little harder to find a company that wants a Haskell hacker than it is to find a company where Haskell and other sane languages can be worked in over time. I think you're probably right about that. ;-) I mean, heck, *I* use Haskell at work - and

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Employment

2009-01-19 Thread Andrew Coppin
Andrew Wagner wrote: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_industry could be of interest to you Hmm, interesting... So lots happening in Portland, Oregon. Lots in Cambridge, MA. A few things in Europe. And nothing at all in the UK... ___

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Employment

2009-01-19 Thread Sittampalam, Ganesh
Andrew Coppin wrote: Andrew Wagner wrote: http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_industry could be of interest to you Hmm, interesting... So lots happening in Portland, Oregon. Lots in Cambridge, MA. A few things in Europe. And nothing at all in the UK... We (Credit Suisse) have

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Employment

2009-01-19 Thread Jonathan Cast
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 21:04 +, Andrew Coppin wrote: Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Its proabably a little harder to find a company that wants a Haskell hacker than it is to find a company where Haskell and other sane languages can be worked in over time. I think you're probably

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Employment

2009-01-19 Thread Thomas DuBuisson
Hmm, interesting... So lots happening in Portland, Oregon. Lots in Cambridge, MA. A few things in Europe. And nothing at all in the UK... Nothing in the UK? Lets not forget MSR and Well-Typed! ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Employment

2009-01-19 Thread Tom Hawkins
On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote: Like many people I'm sure, I'd like to get paid to code stuff in Haskell. But I can't begin to imagine how you go about doing that... At Eaton, we're using Haskell to design automotive control systems (see

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Employment

2009-01-19 Thread Andrew Wagner
Such a database would help me counter by boss's argument that it's impossible to find and hire Haskell programmers. Err, people actually say such things? And they say _we're_ out of touch with the real world? ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list