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Re:My Mid-Career Job-Hunt: A Data Point for Job-Seeking Devs by soneca on Sunday May 10, 2020 @10:45PM (#23138422)
The title says ”a data point”. This kind of nullify all of your rant for me.

You can’t say ”it’s not a data point”, it makes no sense. You could argue it’s an outlier, but it is a data point.

I am actually glad that it is not someone pretending to have good advice that might fool me into thinking it is actually good advice. It is refreshing to read just one account that I learn what I want from, without been tricked in to believe it’s anything more than that.

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Re:My Mid-Career Job-Hunt: A Data Point for Job-Seeking Devs by mlthoughts2018 on Thursday May 14, 2020 @05:33PM (#23185794)
I think you’re wrong. Being a data point isn’t the same thing as just existing. There has to be some space of models or information that can potentially be different because of the example. If it’s not possible for other people’s models to be different as a result, then it’s not data.
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