Grad school problems: wait for reimbursement for academic events > $1k over 3 months.
At some point I'm paying more in interest by putting this on a credit card than I'm getting back in the reimbursement.
This isn't right.
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In perspective, most stipends for grad students are like $25k, so fronting $3k for travel and admission to a conference (remember: no registration comps for speakers at academic events with registrations > $300) and then waiting months for reimbursement.
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Yeah, OK, we work for free and spend our own money for professional advancement.
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Counterpoint: when I was in industry, we could get fully-paid travel, sometimes business class flights with hotel expenses paid for and conference tickets free.
Nowadays, in academia, we are *paying* to to talk about our work.
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Note to academics: it's really expensive personally to talk about your own work, so have someone else do it, they'll do it for free.
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Do I have a problem with the conference model? You bet.
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We emphasize short-term, big-bang results. We don't incentivize long-term work. We don't emphasize fundamental language development because the next Apache project (from an academic) will come along, and work itself into the lexicon of the modern developer.
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We need a sea change: as languages like Rust showed systems developers there was a better way, we need languages for distributed computing to show there is another way for building safe, distributed applications.
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Where’s are the distributed type systems?! Need them badly. The Rust comparison is apt.
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We're working on it!
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Exciting! Had a feeling the was work going on. But it’s a shame there’s not much industry support...
Having type systems for global, stateful systems that never turn off would be kind of incredible.