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by adwf 14y ago
I'll have to give up here. My personal experience is therefore colliding with forum experience, and my anecdotal evidence should never be given too much sway if so. It's a tricky dilemma trying to work out whether background affects people
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by adwf 14y ago
Perhaps, but unless my personal definition of meritocracy is quite off (definitely possible), the general perception of a meritocracy - now - in the IT/CS terms that are being considered, is that we are talking about raw practically verif
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>A meritocracy is a system for centralizing authority in the hands of those who already have it, and ensuring that authority is only distributed to others like them or those who aren’t but are willing to play by their rules. This is qui
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by adwf 14y ago
I agree that data scientist does smell a lot like recruiter/marketing speak. But on the other hand, just because it's a new title doesn't mean it isn't valid. Reducing everyone down to "Scientist" is no more helpful than saying a physicis
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by adwf 14y ago
Unfortunately it's a bit tough for Facebook to do that, given that Zynga make up something like 15-20% of their total revenue. They probably should do; but it's a tough decision to make now that they are answerable to shareholders.
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by adwf 14y ago
I've always felt that it's a language designed to help eliminate the worst of programming, which has the side-effect of limiting some of the best programming. So great for big businesses, but poor for hackers wanting to do cool stuff.
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by adwf 14y ago
I wouldn't necessarily say that the FoundationDB site is bad styling, more that every single info page seems to be a massive wall of text. Could do with some pruning.