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My experience is that this may be illustrative of academic programmers. People working in industry are expected to produce something, regardless of the language
by kreetx 3y ago
My experience is that this may be illustrative of academic programmers. People working in industry are expected to produce something, regardless of the language. This is why I'd recommend academics to spend a bit of time in the industry, regardless of it feeling awkward/inconvenient, of not being given time to go deep in any specific subject.
- pyrale 3y ago> People working in industry are expected to produce something, Yeah, academics are only interested in producing silly papers to justify expensive trips to exotic conference locations. Meanwhile, industry produces important and useful stuff like Scrum™ Poker-planning estimates and Jira®-powered burndown charts to track completion of their Confluence© fully-documented user-stories.
- whiterknight 3y agoBoth are indeed ridiculous organizations. Best not to find yourself a true believer on either side.
- Kototama 3y agoDon't forget LEGO® Serious Play®.
- pyrale 3y agoShit, TIL. I can now become a Certified Lego® Serious Play® facilitator [1], with a certificate delivered by none other than: > The Authority on Professional LEGO Serious Play. [1]: https://www.serious.global/ https://www.serious.global/
- kreetx 3y agoSure, bigger companies have "molded" corners like that, too. But plenty of companies are small, where there there isn't much space in getting nothing practical done.
- im3w1l 3y agoAnd yet big companies somehow pay higher wages. My hunch is that they can afford to pay higher wages because while big-tech employees may spend 7:30 a day on scrum poker or whatever, those last 30 minutes they are actually chipping away at some real problem that bothers 100s of millions of people. Whereas startups employees spend 10 hours a day reinventing "Wheels for Dogs"