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by gaius 4665 days ago
ou can't a take a network-layer programmer who got laid-off from Cisco and ask that person to work on big data and reasonably expect success

I think you massively underestimate the complexity of routing and equally overestimate the difficulty of "data science" there. I'll wager a guy that can program router firmware can turn his hand to anything.