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> Is there a shortage of people with CompSci PhDs to staff universities and do research? Is there a shortage of people to present at conferences? There's a shortage of people doing top-quality work that advances the state of the art. > Just because you feel like cancel culture is cancelling people who don't deserve it, doesn't mean we need those people to fill open positions. Every time we make excuses for people lik…
> There's a shortage of people doing top-quality work that advances the state of the art. Ok. What do you have to back this up? From my perspective, a PhD is defined by making a new contribution to the field, and we're graduating lots of PhDs. Part of Butterick's ire is directed at the many other prominent members of the Racket community who have passively enabled Matthias by ignoring his bad behaviour. If Matthias w…
Re: Apology
#281My perspective is that progress feels remarkably slow (despite minting an ever-increasing number of PhDs as you say), and Racket is one of a very small number of exceptions. I hope you're right that Matthias isn't necessary for Racket to keep advancing, because I fear we're about to find out.