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gwern comments on Quixey is hiring a writer - Less Wrong Discussion

10 Post author: Liron 05 January 2012 06:22AM

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Comment author: gwern 07 January 2012 03:04:22PM 0 points [-]

Because my best language is Haskell, and when I compare my Haskell skills to Haskellers I know who got jobs doing Haskell, I come off very badly.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 07 January 2012 09:57:11PM 0 points [-]

Haskell programmers have a reputation for being very smart. Feels like you could learn Python or Scala, be at least a medium sized fish in that pond, and get paid twice as much as writing would get you.

Comment author: gwern 07 January 2012 11:01:42PM *  0 points [-]

You aren't saying anything I haven't told myself many times. But if I had fixed my akrasia and learned Python, do you think I'd still be busy here? Writing is at least something I don't have much problem doing.

Comment author: John_Maxwell_IV 08 January 2012 01:16:59AM 0 points [-]

Gotcha.