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> "it’s charming in a way that only academic software can be." I remember experiencing this as an undergraduate CS student with a bioinformatics research posit
by tegiddrone 6y ago
> "it’s charming in a way that only academic software can be."
I remember experiencing this as an undergraduate CS student with a bioinformatics research position. At the time I felt like I was too stupid to understand the code.
After I struggled with that, the professor reassigned me to making their software available for web use and wanted me to take over some PHP shell_exec rollercoaster for handling job submissions.
Your NSF funds hard at work.
- lostdog 6y agoIf only grants were big enough (and permissive enough) to hire professional SWEs. It's as if we sent a bunch of theoretical physics PhD's out to Geneva, gave them garden trowels, and let them break ground on a particle accelerator themselves.
- LunaSea 6y agoThe word "informatics" is included in the "bioinformatics" field name so I would expect them to know how to program. Reality is that academics are bad at programming because academia is bad a teaching it and doesn't prioritise it.