Re:Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code stil...
by jnxx on Monday August 24, 2020 @02:06PM
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> I'm an accelerator physicist and I wouldn't want my code to end up on acceleratorskeptics.com with people that don't understand the material making low effort critiques of minor technical points. I'm here to turn out science, not production ready code.
Specifically, to that point, I want to cite the saying:
"The dogs bark, but the caravan passes."
(There is a more colorful German variant which is, translated: "What does it bother the mighty old oak tree if a dog takes a piss...").
Of course, if you publish your code, you expose it to critics. Some of this will be unqualified. And as we have seen in the case e.g. of climate scientists, some might be even nasty. But who cares? What matters is open discussion which is a core value of science.
Specifically, to that point, I want to cite the saying:
"The dogs bark, but the caravan passes."
(There is a more colorful German variant which is, translated: "What does it bother the mighty old oak tree if a dog takes a piss...").
Of course, if you publish your code, you expose it to critics. Some of this will be unqualified. And as we have seen in the case e.g. of climate scientists, some might be even nasty. But who cares? What matters is open discussion which is a core value of science.