02:07 <Pyrrh> jfhbrook: I finally did the things to get back on irc

02:14 <jfhbrook> nice!

02:14 <jfhbrook> welcome back

02:17 <Pyrrh> why thank you :3 I can't remember the other channel I was chillin' in before though

21:04 <ec> Pyrrh!

21:04 <ec> Pyrrh: you don't need any other channel.

21:04 <ec> this is the ~Superior Channel.~

21:05 <Pyrrh> ec while that is true I like a well-rounded internet diet and I can't help it

21:05 <Pyrrh> YOU CAN'T HOLD ME BACK

21:05 <Pyrrh> i can't be tamed

21:10 <pikajude> I like a poorly rounded internet diet myself

21:10 <pikajude> like, real shit

21:11 <jfhbrook> In real life I eat exclusively super burritos

21:11 <jfhbrook> I like to think my internet habits mirror that

21:18 <Pyrrh> mmmmmmm burritos

21:18 <Pyrrh> I eat a LOT of vegetables

21:19 <Pyrrh> way more than I want to

21:24 <pikajude> don't you mean monads, jfhbrook

21:26 <jfhbrook> definitely not

21:26 <jfhbrook> I've spent the last week porting scala code to python and have at least 2 more weeks of that in my future

21:26 <jfhbrook> so monads functors and anything along those lines, are all on my shit list right now

21:27 <pikajude> oh

21:27 <pikajude> scala has monads+

21:27 <pikajude> ?

21:27 <jfhbrook> scala has everything

21:27 <pikajude> that's funny

21:27 <pikajude> i remember that about scala-

21:27 <pikajude> jesus christ

21:27 <pikajude> this keyboard is killing me

21:27 <jfhbrook> but on friday for instance I was dealing a lot with JsValue thingers

21:28 <jfhbrook> I think they're monads

21:28 <jfhbrook> they can either represent a json parsed thing or an error of some kinda

21:29 <pikajude> sounds ideal for monads

21:29 <pikajude> or applicatives

21:29 <jfhbrook> almost definitely a monad

21:30 <jfhbrook> either way, I think scala is awful and bad

21:31 <pikajude> might have been an applicative

21:31 <jfhbrook> not only is it way too complicated, but it's like the perfect storm of jvm assholes and fp assholes all in a convenient one-stop shop

21:31 <pikajude> yeah i hate scala

21:31 <pikajude> it's a mess

21:31 <pikajude> it's the voynich manuscript of languages

21:31 <jfhbrook> I'd forgotten about that

21:31 <jfhbrook> had to look it up

21:32 <jfhbrook> yeah so like

21:32 <jfhbrook> ugh I can't tell if this project is awesome or stupid

21:32 <jfhbrook> so kinja has a data pipeline that they use for internal comment and pageview counts, and somehow it's also driving recommendations

21:32 <jfhbrook> haven't pieced the whole thing together yet

21:33 <jfhbrook> but it's a scala/play app hosted in their DC writing to a kinesis queue, with a custom pipeline for writing to s3 and redshift that could be completely replaced with kinesis firehose but they don't want to

21:33 <jfhbrook> and then a bunch of spark jobs, of course also written in scala, on EMR

21:34 <jfhbrook> there's one person that fully understands it, and one other that's made minor tweaks, and that's claire and my boss respectively

21:34 <jfhbrook> claire always seems irritated at my questions, like I'm thick or something; doesn't seem to trust us (can't replace the thing with firehose, can't rewrite the play app)

21:35 <jfhbrook> my boss is insisting that my team works in python and not scala, so anything we take over gets ported to python

21:35 <jfhbrook> aaaand yeah, now I'm trying to port a bunch of spark jobs from scala to python

21:35 <jfhbrook> with a chance of taking over the ingestion pipeline and the app if we do a stellar job, I guess

21:35 <jfhbrook> it's stupid, I feel like claire's trying to hand off the part she doesn't like

21:36 <jfhbrook> buuut this is also legitimately difficult to work with, the spark jobs I mean

21:36 <jfhbrook> claire also wants to move off EMR and onto hand-managed ec2 boxes, which is fine, ok

21:36 <jfhbrook> I'd probably feel better about this if the spark stuff wasn't legitimately hard