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This article seems to conflate a passion for engineering with a passion for one's employer. The two are quite orthogonal.


True, but neither should be a job requirement. I don't need to be a domain expert in marketing to write a relatively simple SPA and API over your "big data" idea, and whether or not I know Go or ES6 (or any other "bleeding edge" technology) has extraordinarily little impact on my value to the organization.




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