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thirdtruck on Jan 6, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Write You a Haskell: Building a modern functional ...

Part and parcel of "There are not enough programmers [willing to work long hours for low pay]!"

seanmcdirmid on Jan 6, 2015 [–]

For that talent, it might even be that the work is too boring regardless of the hours or pay.

thirdtruck on Jan 6, 2015 | [–]

Very true. I'm running into that right now: humdrum legacy CRUD apps, where the only challenge lies in being allowed* to refactor the code into decent shape.

*I wish I could put that in sarcastic quotes.

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