Ask HN: Am I too late for the “Data Science” wave?

Re:Ask HN: Am I too late for the “Data Science” wave? by dmurray on Sunday November 15, 2020 @11:11AM (#25102212)

These replies both don't seem like they describe someone with "excellent" C++ skills. Sounds more like someone who knows a lot of advanced features of the language, but doesn't make the correct tradeoffs considering portability and/or performance.

Maybe it could be that he didn't know all the requirements up front and his mediocre colleague accidentally wrote code that better suited the company's unstated requirements (e.g. portability to niche systems). But that's hardly the most likely explanation.

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Re:Ask HN: Am I too late for the “Data Science” wave? by jeffreygoesto on Tuesday November 17, 2020 @01:33PM (#25127635)

Ah, ok. In my head I do have a distinction between excellent C++ and excellent domain skills. So that person had excellent C++ skills but did not properly choose which C++ subset to use for the domain. From your comment I think you would say "excellent" implies "in all relevant aspects", whereas I just meant the pure programming language. What I tried to write in my first comment is that it is more and more difficult to find both combined in one person.

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