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Can't these people just go to facebook and get like a 300k salary for a few years?

• cotelletta 7y ago
  They are academics, so likely, no. Notoriously bad at actually accomplishing something with real world constraints, an actual timeline, and customer requirements.
  • mratsim 7y ago
    While I have a lot of critics for Academia in particular regarding code publication or reproducibility or the chase for the next conference paper, this is completely uncalled for. Their real world constraint is publish or perish, and they do have a timeline: the next conference. And their requirements does not include usability and maintenance. Also writing a good paper is a long endeavor, often frustrating, sometimes with politics involved.
    • kiliantics 7y ago
      Yeah but all of that actual work is typically done by grad students and then professors just put their name on the top of it. (Even the grant proposals are often written by grad students.)
• ghaff 7y ago
  Maybe that's not their goal in life? Tenured professors do sometimes take leaves of absence to work for a period with some company on a problem they think is interesting. And many do consulting on the side. Tenured professor at an elite school certainly isn't a bad gig. But compensation isn't mostly at the senior engineer FAANG levels that people like to throw around. But then LOTS of jobs that people both enjoy and are useful to society aren't.