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Goodcover | SF, CA | Full-time | REMOTE, On-site

Goodcover is building an insurance company because insurance companies have backwards incentive structures. There are two ways to make money in insurance, provide a service (we like this way), and bet against your customers (we don't like this way). So we are applying technology chops to try and make money in a fair way for our customers.

We want to be: A refreshingly fair approach to home, condo and renter's insurance where coverage is clear and certain.

About Goodcover:

We have seed funding and are looking to bring on some senior backend Scala developers, we also happen to use Scala.js in the frontend, so its Scala top to bottom. Right now the team is entirely remote except for the two founders in SF, we are small at the moment.

Email jobs@goodcover.com if you are interested!

I think you missed the joke.

Goodcover | Frontend/Backend Dev (Scala)/Claims Manager | San Francisco, CA | Full Time

Goodcover is starting a new insurance carrier. There are lots of systems to be built in both the front and backend. We started this because we were tired of how insurance profits from misfortune and waste. We've raised a small round and are still a tiny team. So come join something where you can make an impact.

We are a Scala shop that uses functional programming to make this all work. We are also looking for hungry claims folks, so if you fit the bill, drop me an email if you're interested dan at goodcover.com or jobs at goodcover.com.

Goodcover | Frontend/Backend Dev | San Francisco, CA | Scala

Goodcover is starting a new insurance carrier. There are lots of systems to be built in both the front and backend. We started this because we were tired of how insurance profits from misfortune and waste. We've raised a small round but are still a tiny team. Ideally we keep it that way.

We are a Scala shop that uses FP to make this all work. Drop me an email if you're interested dan@goodcover.com

I always thought it was because they branched out from just doing payroll.

I completely agree, what a blessing in disguise. Scala wouldn't be possible without it.

Sangria over on the Scala side is really nice. http://sangria-graphql.org/

This is probably one of my favorite blog posts ever.

This was by far one of my favorite games of all time. I hope this succeeds!

"We support the whole language including the more advanced features such as method dispatch via structural types and even macros."

Yeah it uses the Boehm garbage collector.

Honestly, most of the conversation is a lot more genuine than most interactions as seen on the internet. Most execs would have shut up and avoided any discussion. I am not saying that I agree with everything, but of all the Uber news, this is the least worrying.

I guess as a lay person, I meant both. Makes sense, so does that effectively reduce the volume of pesticides/herbicides, or does it just allow you to lay it on with less precision?

Isn't the point of GMO to reduce reliance on pesticides?

Yeah, I came here to say that as well. It's amazing what clear and concise communication can make something so much more palatable. It's probably for lack of conflicting business interests forcing you to water down your message.

Good luck with your next adventure.

SemVar is alive and well for hardware, every revision is incompatible with the previous.

In my opinion there are two big reasons. Most open source software are building blocks, versus an end product, so it's seen as helping the ecosystem forward. Secondly, atoms are more costly than electrons to copy.

He said 100% overhead on top of salary

How does it compare to Clickhouse, recently released from Yandex [0]?

[0] https://clickhouse.yandex/

How much of this is still relevant with the upcoming 2.0 structured streams?

Yeah that is pretty ridiculous, it is non-obvious that the scale changed.

Scala: I love the mix of FP with OO all on the JVM with access to battle-tested Java libraries. I can also use it on the frontend with https://www.scala-js.org/ and potentially as a lower level system language with http://www.scala-native.org/

You should also check out the "AutoExec Wheelmate Steering Wheel Attachable Work Surface Tray"

Where'd you read this, I'd love to take a look.

This java project gives you a glimpse at how it all works. It was extracted out of a now defunkt db vendor (I think?). https://calcite.apache.org/

Yeah mission creep would be the best way to describe what I'd be afraid of with geofencing.

You have to ban things that are outright bad for athletes. You also have to remember, given a competition people will do whatever it takes to win, because someone else will. So you have to draw the line somewhere.

Yeah I think that is a tough one, but I do think what they are trying to do is not a bad thing, especially since they are specifically skipping advertising. Bottom line, if books were more searchable I think it makes the world a better and more accessible place.

Agreed, I think a good postmortem distinguishes great companies from just good companies. The depth on philosophy, reasoning and then action is very digestible.

My personal favorite is HOCON from Typesafe, https://github.com/typesafehub/config#examples-of-hocon