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A comment on Ask HN: What’s the biggest difference between professional coding and academia?.

Re:Ask HN: What’s the biggest difference between professiona... by coherentpony on Friday July 07, 2017 @11:35PM (#14723936)
Academics aren't paid to code. Academics are paid to do research.

Professional coders are paid to code.

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Re:Ask HN: What’s the biggest difference between professiona... by threatofrain on Saturday July 08, 2017 @06:08AM (#14724843)
Maybe this is unusual, but I've seen labs hire CS grad students to write their code. I always assumed this was widespread practice.
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Re:Ask HN: What’s the biggest difference between professiona... by yamalight on Saturday July 08, 2017 @09:37AM (#14725363)
That is usually done for large research projects that collaborate with industry and require high quality code (e.g. EU-funded project "HOBBIT"; https://project-hobbit.eu/)
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