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		serversystem on Sept 19, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is “data scientist” the new “programmer”? Why would data scientists aspire to write an OS? Sounds puzzling.

3chelon on Sept 19, 2018 [–]

I was talking from the viewpoint of the OP who was asking if data scientists were replacing programmers.

yorwba on Sept 19, 2018 | [–]

The OP is explicitly about the kind of programming work where "An entire interesting application may fit in one file.", which doesn't tend to apply to OS's nowadays.

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