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austin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻)
@thebadcode.com

i once inherited a webservice written in php that shelled out to a python script that called a haskell binary to parse, edit, commit, and push bind zone configs to svn

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alias (in chains)
@antiali.as

so a normal data pipeline

alias (in chains)@antiali.as

What did you enjoy about programming? For me it was often writing a Jenkins YAML that generates a shell script that runs a python program that generates a SQL query that runs a Spark program that generates a map reduce job that eventually runs on a cluster of computers to sort 1 gibibytes of data

austin (eeek!/ackkk! 👻)
@thebadcode.com

i was writing web-based internal tools at facebook, so it had to be in php. the requests hit timeouts so i had to wire up some async/polling thing, and i already knew how to do that in python. and i thought haskell was really neat and i wanted an excuse to use it. oh and my manager didnt stop me