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I can't explain map reduce. I generally know what it is but I've never needed to use it or implement it. That doesn't mean I'm not a good engineer. It just mea
by RandallBrown 14y ago
I can't explain map reduce. I generally know what it is but I've never needed to use it or implement it.
That doesn't mean I'm not a good engineer. It just means I haven't done something before.
- doktrin 14y agoYeah, I agree. This is one of the pitfalls of working in a fairly unstructured and nascent industry. Everyone seemingly has their own collection of miscellany and trivia that encapsulates what a Good Engineer (tm) ought to know.
- PixelPusher 14y agoThat's great, I don't expect an academic explanation but just having heard of it is pretty good. That question by itself is not a deal breaker. An 'engineer' should at least know about things like data structures or just anything beyond Rails. Most interesting problems require more than knowing how to create CRUD apps.