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Re:Everyone Does Everything: How To Work on Teams of General... by twistedpair on Friday May 31, 2013 @09:53AM (#5798568)
"Master" is a bit of a baroque moniker. Can we agree that a "master" ought to be much further along than a "specialist?" i.e. the Java master should understand byte code and personally know folks of the original Sun Java team?

Otherwise it just sounds like I can become a Javascript Master in a few months.

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Re:Everyone Does Everything: How To Work on Teams of General... by realrocker on Friday May 31, 2013 @10:02AM (#5798628)
I prefer the phrase "experienced in x". In my opinion specialist and master should have the same weight. Calling someone "specialist" can be a misnomer for a master if the scale for measurement is not agreed upon.
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