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by rdtsc 971 days ago
> * Devops folks don't seem to tend to like math and often got there by practicing, "computers, IT, having fun hooking things together and getting them running." * Data science folks don't tend to like devops and prefer to bash around on a jupyter notebook that's already given to them and then maybe extract that python and see if it runs, but they tend to come from more of a science background and got into python as a hobby or incidentally. They do not like bashing around and getting things running.

Everyone likes cool sounding terms though! Any such term will eventually end up being co-opted. We have isomorphic Javascript and all kinds of stuff like that.

Not saying it’s good or bad, it will just happen.

Are customers really going to be confusing a CI system vs a data statistic? It’s a bit like being confused about apple the fruit and an Apple iPhone. The confusion will clear up pretty quickly.