Comment by IshKebab
4 hours ago
"Huh never heard of Bellroy... I wonder what they're using Haskell for..."
Turns out it's some kind of bags and accessories brand!
4 hours ago
"Huh never heard of Bellroy... I wonder what they're using Haskell for..."
Turns out it's some kind of bags and accessories brand!
I've had a Bellroy bag, they're not the most fashionable but super high quality and well thought-out. Just like Haskell code—maybe that's why they like it.
In the backpack community bellroy is often seen as “meh”. Eg. they frequently don’t live up to the guarantees they give and to the quality they promise. Also overpriced.
I bought a leather wallet from them in 2016 (the Hide & Seek) and it is still holding up well despite a few loose stitches. It’s much slimmer than my older wallet.
I pondered for a while, it IS the company I used to know
I once saw a job ad for a company selling a horoscope app that required Haskell. An unusual conjunction for sure.
Astrology and Haskell are quite similar in that both are much much easier to do if you have a math degree.
Ok, I'll bite. How does a math degree help with astrology?
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Are you sure? I can see for Astronomy that's a branch of physics so sure, there's loads of tricky practical mathematics so if you're bad at mathematics you'll get stuff wrong, but surely for Astrology since it's just bullshit anyway you don't need to do mathematics as it wouldn't make a difference?
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Using Haskell for a horoscope app is like hiring a mathematician to read tea leaves
Astrology is a mixture of factual verifiable information (such as apparent positions of celestial bodies at the time and location a certain person was born) and random baseless divinations.
The "whale" users who account for a disproportionately large percentage of an astrologer's revenue tend to know the factual information surrounding their birth fairly well. An app/astrologer who doesn't get these facts right, even for a handful of clients, will get a bad reputation fairly quickly.
I reckon the same principle would hold in cultural bubbles where reading tea leaves is a customary means of divination. If the client recognizes recognize black tea, but the fortuneteller insists it is rooibos, there won't be much trust in the rest of the prophecy.
Advertising that the horoscope shop uses Haskell is actually a solid business idea. It pre-filters for the sort of dev who will be able to do the math.
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