[ampdepolymerase]

There is no reason computer science needs to be steeped in academia. The only reason why it is so popular in the first place is because it is so practical and applied. Easy to profit from. If you worship your ivory towers, feel free to become a mathematician.

[dang]

Please don't take HN threads into flamewar. It leads to predictable places, therefore tedious ones, therefore off-topic ones.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

[wodenokoto]

I think computer science has every reason to be steeped in academia.

[ampdepolymerase]

By your logic, the creators of PageRank should have chased after the tenureship rat race like every upstanding academic instead of trying to commercialise.

[craigsmansion]

> By your logic

That does not follow, in any shape or fashion, from what was stated.