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data lake, delta lake, lake house. snowflake, snowpark. cloud, data warehouse. I just want to take a second to thank these companies for trying to turn my pro

data lake, delta lake, lake house. snowflake, snowpark. cloud, data warehouse. I just want to take a second to thank these companies for trying to turn my profession (data science + analytics) into the living hell of your every day enterprise and tech culture cluster-fuck (pun not intended). I'm still coming to terms with the fact that there's actually a technology called Kafka... /sorry, I'm just particularly bitter after having to do some databricks training yesterday... it was basically 80% trying to rote the sales literature about why they're so great/enterprisy and parroting company and platform specific jargon. I don't like seeing my profession turn into an obsession with tech and platforms when 99.9% of companies and people can't reason properly or operate their current tools/resources efficiently. obviously just my own opinion.

arafa 6y ago
The training is quite heavy on the sales pitch, I agree (and expensive). There were some useful bits if you dig around though.
MikeDelta 6y ago
I read a wonderful comment in another thread the other day. It was about the obsession of devs to collect a whole range of technologies on their resume. It went something like: "When I hire a carpenter I won't hire him for what he has in his toolbox. I want to know what he can do with only a hammer and chisel (= Linux machine). The rest he can learn." I will try to look up the link and obviously 'he' can be 'she' as well.
- dominotw 6y ago
  > I want to know what he can do with only a hammer and chisel (= Linux machine). The rest he can learn. I don't know about this, I would be a bit hesitant if the carpenter to build my kitchen cabinets only knows how to use hammer and a chisel.
kthejoker2 6y ago
I reformatted this comment as found poetry on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/overheard-hacker-news-kafkaesque-kyle-hale/?published=t https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/overheard-hacker-news-kafkaes... I hope you don't mind, it was, to my eye and ear, an instant classic.

arafa 6y ago

The training is quite heavy on the sales pitch, I agree (and expensive). There were some useful bits if you dig around though.

MikeDelta 6y ago

I read a wonderful comment in another thread the other day. It was about the obsession of devs to collect a whole range of technologies on their resume. It went something like: "When I hire a carpenter I won't hire him for what he has in his toolbox. I want to know what he can do with only a hammer and chisel (= Linux machine). The rest he can learn." I will try to look up the link and obviously 'he' can be 'she' as well.

dominotw 6y ago
> I want to know what he can do with only a hammer and chisel (= Linux machine). The rest he can learn. I don't know about this, I would be a bit hesitant if the carpenter to build my kitchen cabinets only knows how to use hammer and a chisel.

kthejoker2 6y ago

I reformatted this comment as found poetry on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/overheard-hacker-news-kafkaesque-kyle-hale/?published=t https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/overheard-hacker-news-kafkaes... I hope you don't mind, it was, to my eye and ear, an instant classic.