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Being comfortable is an issue regardless of career. A self-satisfied sales guy who doesn't know the latest buzzwords and customer expectations is as useless as

• beagle3 10y ago
  > A self-satisfied sales guy who doesn't know the latest buzzwords and customer expectations is as useless as an IT guy who doesn't know the latest buzzwords and optimizations. I beg to differ. Latest buzzwords and optimizations are often detrimental. Among most important thing for a coder is (a) ability to learn, and (b) critical thinking. Following the latest buzzwords demonstrates (a) but is often a red flag for (b). E.g., for a while "hadoop" was all the buzz; I have interviewed some people who have used hadoop/spark, but not one could justify it (see e.g. [0] - which is consistent with my back-of-the-envelope calculations I made in 2010 the first time someone suggested I use hadoop). Furthermore, large scale sales do not happen because of buzzword compliance or even customer expectations. Sales happen because of compelling events and personal relationship. If buzzwords and numbers were all that mattered, engineers would be the best sales people; And yet, it is soft skills that make a good sales person. [0] http://www.frankmcsherry.org/graph/scalability/cost/2015/01/15/COST.html http://www.frankmcsherry.org/graph/scalability/cost/2015/01/...
  • gaius 10y ago
    All you need to know about Hadoop in one blog post http://aadrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-than-your-hadoop-cluster.html http://aadrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-tha...