On: How to write a PhD thesis your committee will not approve

[angersock]

All of the PhD students I know are constantly under "publish or perish" pressure, in addition to the open-ended research work--which usually is only as open as their advisor's pedigree and experience will allow.

Industry seems to be much easier to get crazy ideas done in.

[tedks → angersock]

And this is why academics are busy stomping out 3% speedups in arcane bullshit nobody cares about while startups and BigCorps are getting actual research done and pushing computing in new, exciting directions.