Re:Neutrino experiment affirms faster-than-light claim
by rbanffy on Friday November 18, 2011 @10:52AM
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Still, this is not a good reason not to release code. We can deal with funny comments, bad jokes and dead code. Why not let people examine the code? They are not programmers who will be judged by the neatness of their code.
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Re:Neutrino experiment affirms faster-than-light claim
by jonhendry on Friday November 18, 2011 @11:17AM
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What if they don't have code, because they're using a commercial product to do the recording?
Re:Neutrino experiment affirms faster-than-light claim
by rbanffy on Friday November 18, 2011 @12:28PM
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Well... That part has to be certified as a black box, but even if your code is a Mathematica notebook, it would be useful to have it published along the raw data.
Again, there is no reason to be embarrassed of comments like "this should never happen". My own code has parts that raise "ThisShouldNeverHappenError" when something that should never happen disregards my opinion and happens anyway. ;-)