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Re:Edsger Dijkstra – The Man Who Carried Computer Science on... by terse_malvolio on Saturday October 31, 2020 @05:49AM (#24950114)
You don't always get to work on what you want. Especially if it's outside what's expected in your field.
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Re:Edsger Dijkstra – The Man Who Carried Computer Science on... by Laakeri on Saturday October 31, 2020 @06:09AM (#24950201)
This is just life in general. Some people get funding/support for their own ideas and some people do not. I don't think it is specific to academia.
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Re:Edsger Dijkstra – The Man Who Carried Computer Science on... by terse_malvolio on Saturday October 31, 2020 @06:25AM (#24950265)
Correct. The complete quote:

> (waste years and years of their lives) sort of pretending to do research for which they’re not at all well-suited

Suggesting that incentives to do research that follows academic tradition do not aligign with the best possible outcomes of independent investigation.

Which is what we both point out.

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