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by jointpdf 2162 days ago
What you said wasn’t egregious or anything, no worries. I’ve seen some incomprehensible code from data scientists with PhDs, stuff that has no excuse. I also know of one single resource for essential coding skills specific to data scientists either.

Sometimes a rant on a topic brews in my head for weeks or months, and I will uncork it on a random passerby that brings up the subject—which happened to be you this time.

But, I’ve had coworkers who like clockwork sneer at anything a data scientist wrote. “Why did you do it that way?”. When asked for advice on how to improve it, they huffily say nevermind. It’s ingratiating as hell.