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Re:Is “data scientist” the new “programmer”? by alvis on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @05:27AM (#18022959)
Never. I'm a data scientist myself and know many other so-called data scientists. But coming from an engineering background, I pretty much agree with you. & interestingly, all of the ppl I know who claim they want to write an OS one day are all data scientist. Seriously! They don't even know what's unit testing!!!
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Re:Is “data scientist” the new “programmer”? by serversystem on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @05:43AM (#18023017)
Why would data scientists aspire to write an OS? Sounds puzzling.
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Re:Is “data scientist” the new “programmer”? by 3chelon on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @05:45AM (#18023031)
I was talking from the viewpoint of the OP who was asking if data scientists were replacing programmers.
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Re:Is “data scientist” the new “programmer”? by yorwba on Wednesday September 19, 2018 @05:53AM (#18023060)
The OP is explicitly about the kind of programming work where "An entire interesting application may fit in one file.", which doesn't tend to apply to OS's nowadays.
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