All the reasons I dislike programming boil down to "acquiring and importing data into a form where I can do something fun with it"
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Every programming idea I want to try that stalls tends to stall on the data acquisition step. It's pure schlep I'm only willing to do for $
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I suspect it would be more valuable to interview programmers on variety of data sources/formats they can wrangle rather than langs/algos
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In research computing, data science, et al., finding or building good data sets, data munging huge fraction of work nytimes.com/2014/08/18/tec
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Lots of 'I would stack overflow the shit out of that' for technical questions and 'I would ask business good questions'. Right approach.



