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Where is the research? I want to work in it, but every company in this 'hot' industry is too enamored with cranking out disposable apps.
by mattgreenrocks 14y ago
Where is the research? I want to work in it, but every company in this 'hot' industry is too enamored with cranking out disposable apps.
- timr 14y agoThat's my point: there isn't much going on. You can try academia, but things are pretty bleak right now. There's so much competition chasing so little money that it's hard to see a path to a career for all but the luckiest few PhD graduates. And forget it if you don't have a PhD from a top school. People put so much mental energy into pondering the lack of innovation, but we've been systematically under-funding science for more than a decade. There's not much of a puzzle here.
- yummyfajitas 14y agoThere's so much competition chasing so little money that it's hard to see a path to a career for all but the luckiest few PhD graduates. And forget it if you don't have a PhD from a top school. The problem here is that academic research (at least in math+physics, what I'm familiar with) doesn't have a place for second best. Most academic research produced by people below the top tier is worthless and will never amount to anything. It's a very different situation from technology, where yet another CRUD app can actually bring huge value to the business.