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Some work as TAs. It is done part-time for funding (tuition waiver, monthly stipend, and insurance). It is not usually a requirement in US schools, although I recommend my students do it for at least a semester to get the experience. Otherwise they are funded as RAs.

A PhD is about doing research.

Only a minority of CS PhDs pursue a tenure-track position. I have found academia to be more laid back than big tech companies, but you are still expected to produce (e.g., a paper or two a year). The top programs probably have a more competitive culture than state schools. If you don’t want to produce research, then I don’t see the point in enrolling.

I [luckily] haven’t experienced the scary stuff that people talk about, but a major barrier for students is that PhDs are largely unstructured and require you to take the initiative. Not everyone does well in that environment.

It was my reality and my current grad students seem to agree. Do you have evidence or are you just “throwing advice around”?

My advice: pursue a PhD. If you can find the right advisor, then you will have almost complete creative freedom to pursue interesting projects while getting paid to do it.

Couldn't he be hired as an engineer or technical staff?

Weeder classes mean less tuition dollars flowing in...

As a prof, I'm terrified of the exploding enrollment in CS. My 2021 enrollment for a juniors/seniors course is up 70% from recent years and still growing.

Can't imagine what it'll look like in two or three years.

Would be curious to see the uptick you get from being on HN again!

Can I go ahead and reserve the U+1F60E programming language?

Would you ever start over and try again? :)

The author’s blog is also good, though it’s been several years since the last post:

http://evincarofautumn.blogspot.com

Guess I'll switch to teaching COBOL in my undergrad courses!

Interestingly, there is a AI startup that focuses on dev tools for COBOL: https://www.phasechange.ai/

Lecturer at a small university.

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April Fools?

I discuss that incident every semester in my courses. Most of the students remember it and we aren't in Hawaii.

How does it compare to I Am A Strange Loop? All 3 are on my list but I found GEB very difficult to get started.

We aren't incentivized to maintain research prototypes. On the flip side, industry seems to have very little interest in adopting our findings into products.

My research is also on dev tools, and I have tried to get my research findings adopted. It is hard. Companies often want to release incremental, small features, not major UI overhauls.

Even when I've done research at companies or been funded by them to study their products, it is virtually impossible to get it adopted into the product. Again, the incentives and motivations of PMs are very different than researchers.

Amy Ko's Whyline is heavily based on slicing.

https://faculty.washington.edu/ajko/papers/Ko2009JavaWhyline...

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Why? It would have helped me a lot when I was younger if more “successful” people shared this info.

I never thought I was bad at my job and I have equal/higher acceptance rates than my friends, but thanks for the vote of confidence! Rejection is very common in academia and I wish people talked about it more.

The readme doesn't show any example visualizations...

Is this still true of GitHub's pull requests? Does Linus still not use them?

VS Code doesn’t allow plugins to access the DOM. I wish it did!

Can I get this for AWS?

Someone hire this person!

Wow, that is expensive! $16 a month for analytics.

I switched! Thank you.