I completely agree with this. I have seen papers produced by a bunch of newly minted PhD's and the first thought that came in my mind was "WTF is this? There's

I completely agree with this. I have seen papers produced by a bunch of newly minted PhD's and the first thought that came in my mind was "WTF is this? There's nothing in this that's new or makes sense". A lot of publishing, from outside the top research universities, seems to be mainly at showing a higher publication count to get more funding and impress tenure committees. Some of the professors, who do this, make you wonder how they get their PhD in the first place. Back in my masters, I was giving a presentation on a paper from FB, where they were going over scheduling policies they had been using in their hadoop clusters. The professor reviewing asked me a question "You're taking about scheduling tasks in distributed environments, you're talking about Hadoop, Hadoop is for files what scheduling does it do?". Some of us there had a big "WTF" plastered on our face. Couldn't even argue cause this prof. thought he was a hotshot and would make life hell for students who did. In his own words to a student "I can write a compiler, I can write an operating system, but I can't make head or tail of what you're doing".