The flight of the Weird Nerd from academia

Re:The flight of the Weird Nerd from academia by dev_slash_null on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @06:03PM (#38944771)

How did you get started in R&D? I've always wanted to get into "exploratory" software development.

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Re:The flight of the Weird Nerd from academia by jvanderbot on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @07:37PM (#38945742)

Learn to work on code that nobody else wants to touch.

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Re:The flight of the Weird Nerd from academia by the_only_law on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @09:30PM (#38946699)

Tried that and ended up stuck with legacy enterprise software.

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Re:The flight of the Weird Nerd from academia by jvanderbot on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @09:36PM (#38946744)

Have you asked for a raise lately?

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Re:The flight of the Weird Nerd from academia by dharmab on Wednesday January 10, 2024 @10:38PM (#38947235)

Instructions unclear, have career in infrastructure now.

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Re:The flight of the Weird Nerd from academia by mnky9800n on Thursday January 11, 2024 @04:51AM (#38950013)

I did a PhD in physics/ml and slowly since then my work has become more and more software development.

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