convore.json/groups/hacker-news/what-makes-a-great-software-engineer/messages.json

[{"user_id": 14999, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19239, "date_created": 1302715255.159878, "message": "Would be interested in getting your 2 cents on this infographic that kissmetrics put together using data from Mixtent.com (I am one of the co founders)", "group_id": 95, "id": 667994}, {"user_id": 14999, "stars": [{"date_created": 1302873369.10585, "user_id": 842}], "topic_id": 19239, "date_created": 1302716391.6434219, "message": "oopsy: http://blog.kissmetrics.com/software-engineer/", "group_id": 95, "id": 668293}, {"user_id": 12503, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19239, "date_created": 1302716313.1306429, "message": "Linky?", "group_id": 95, "id": 668271}, {"user_id": 26065, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19239, "date_created": 1302718752.489826, "message": "despite this little flaw in the calculation engine :) a really smart idea and great site. Congrats on that one.", "group_id": 95, "id": 668915}, {"user_id": 14999, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19239, "date_created": 1302718956.4887421, "message": "Thanks Martin. We will continue to share more interesting data in the future!", "group_id": 95, "id": 669009}, {"user_id": 26065, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19239, "date_created": 1302718277.2422509, "message": "Ruby engineers win only 21% of the time? Really? :P", "group_id": 95, "id": 668776}, {"user_id": 14999, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19239, "date_created": 1302718612.3001399, "message": "yup :)", "group_id": 95, "id": 668857}, {"user_id": 29621, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19239, "date_created": 1302861517.3293309, "message": "Wow, I didn't know I was such a bad engineer. Better switch to python.", "group_id": 95, "id": 698869}, {"user_id": 5136, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19239, "date_created": 1302864068.5104079, "message": "Cool inphographics ;) congrats", "group_id": 95, "id": 699117}, {"user_id": 3444, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19239, "date_created": 1302876840.4716899, "message": "Looks like I'm middle of the road as a PHP engineer...better learn Python", "group_id": 95, "id": 700491}, {"user_id": 6718, "stars": [{"date_created": 1302990840.0500469, "user_id": 4093}], "topic_id": 19239, "date_created": 1302880646.8644919, "message": "Only great engineers construct in Lisp", "group_id": 95, "id": 701455}, {"user_id": 21389, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19239, "date_created": 1302891538.719522, "message": "I don't interpret the stats as saying that Python and Java engineers are better, just that people _perceive_ them (us) as such. If I were to venture a guess, it's because Python and Java engineers _tend_ to be aware of back-end and front-end issues more than Rubyists, so they're thought to be a little better rounded.", "group_id": 95, "id": 703753}, {"user_id": 22938, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19239, "date_created": 1302961588.9702001, "message": "Sample size? How about \"33% of the engineers used python, 33% of the engineers used Java and the third guy didn't come back from lunch so we didn't get a chance to ask her.\"", "group_id": 95, "id": 710610}, {"user_id": 22938, "stars": [{"date_created": 1302984781.342344, "user_id": 28560}], "topic_id": 19239, "date_created": 1302961977.019027, "message": "But seriously: the authors claim they can rank software engineers based on a few simple decision variables such as the language used, team work skills, etc.   First: how do they decide who is the better software engineer?  This sounds like \"hot-or-not\" based on resumes. Is that really the best way to measure who is the better software engineer? I would say no.", "group_id": 95, "id": 710639}, {"user_id": 29156, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19239, "date_created": 1302962575.0511041, "message": "a great software engineer knows the problem domain ;]", "group_id": 95, "id": 710704}, {"user_id": 22938, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19239, "date_created": 1302962176.648015, "message": "However, if you can make this product compelling to hiring managers you have yourself a product.  Nice and idea and presentation.", "group_id": 95, "id": 710666}, {"user_id": 22938, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19239, "date_created": 1302962098.2874589, "message": "My question is: if the experiment was repeated with another set of software engineers, would they be able to predict the rankings?  Further, would such ranking determine conclusively which person in the study would produce most or best code?  I would say reality is more complex than the simple set-up used in this study.", "group_id": 95, "id": 710653}, {"user_id": 15929, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19239, "date_created": 1302974835.051116, "message": "@NoLongerAMember chill dude... it's like a newspaper doing a survey; only 55% London males admit to enjoy porn, or only 33% of women admits to have had sex with more than 3 men...", "group_id": 95, "id": 712422}, {"user_id": 719, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19239, "date_created": 1302977765.107389, "message": "@unwrangle Is that from a real study? Link! O_O (P.S: Are you based in London?)", "group_id": 95, "id": 712814}, {"user_id": 24951, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19239, "date_created": 1302982747.6405001, "message": "If you look at the description is that this study is based on linked in resumes. So this is not really a \"what makes a great engineer\" but \"what makes a great engineer and is also on linkedin\". This is extremely bias and is really just saying that more python and java developers are on linkedin. Also the linkedin has resumes especially if someone is looking for a job. Doesn't that imply that python and java people are looking for more jobs? So if thats the case then this study is really just saying that python and java developers are looking for jobs more? So if they are looking for jobs, does that actually mean they are great software engineers?", "group_id": 95, "id": 713218}, {"user_id": 15929, "stars": [], "topic_id": 19239, "date_created": 1303020815.5493541, "message": "@micrypt nah, i'm in Melbourne, Aus... but I've seen that number somewhere, it's been a running joke among my friends...", "group_id": 95, "id": 715683}]