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		gaius on May 11, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Job hunting is a matter of Big Data, not how you p... It's worse than that. People will run Hadoop on 20 nodes to do stuff Excel could handle easily, so they can join the "big data" fun. It's just CV-padding really, ironic given the discussion.

001sky on May 11, 2014 | [–]

https://twitter.com/Lumonade/status/289171814444331008

"@DEVOPS_BORAT got heavy duty @dev ops gig available in San Mateo,ca and Seattle area! $130-$140+k doe email me Ryan.Lum@greythorn.com"

does this mean it works?

rmc on May 11, 2014 | [–]

Unfortunately, employers will treat that as big data experience, and hire that way. Employees are merely reacting to what the market tells them.

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