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Re:Rise of the Scientific Programmer on Thursday January 01, 2015 @05:36PM (#8824602)
I agree that this is a serious issue in our community, but I am not sure I agree that stable libraries <=> reproducible experiments.
Re:Rise of the Scientific Programmer on Thursday January 01, 2015 @05:07PM (#8824523)
> the problem is that academia rewards producing papers, not stable software libraries.

isn't this the good thing about academia? aren't you kids getting paid the big bucks to write and maintain the software libraries, while we work on novel problems for pennies?

Re:Ph.D. 2.0: Rethinking the Ph.D. Application on Thursday November 14, 2013 @06:09PM (#6736404)
so you are saying that the only reason to do research in CS is to land a job at google? huh. strange.

also, won't google always be there?

Re:The Future of Programming in Node.js on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @03:10PM (#6207618)
sorry, why did you say that was worth a read? it doesn't appear to have any content.