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They fear what would happen to their reputations if it were obvious how the sausage was being made. (Not unique to climate change: my academic AI research produced decent results on some data sets with code of truly abominable quality. Then again, I wasn't asking anybody to bet the economy on my results.)

Plus, if people actually provided code, someone might actually get it into their heads to run it. That can't happen. No, literally, it can't happen. The level of professionalism with regards to source control, documentation, distribution, etc in most academic labs is insufficient to allow the code to be executed outside of the environment that it actually executes on. If you put a tarball up somewhere, somebody who tries to run it is going to get a compile error because they're missing library foo or running on an architecture which doesn't match the byte lengths hardcoded into the assembly file, and then they're going to email you, and that is going to suck your time doing "customer support" when you should be doing what academics actually get paid to do: write grant proposals.

This, by the way, means that peer review by necessity consists of checking that you cited the right people, scratched the right backs, and wrote your paper in the style currently in fashion in your discipline, because reproducing calculations or data sets is virtually impossible.
You are disagreeing with an incidental comment that is not even the thrust of my argument on a FUD basis, but anyway. That article in Nature interviewed some people associated with the process who expressed not one jot of disbelief in the report. They wished the mistake hadn't happened, and had been caught sooner, and suggested ways to reduce mistakes in the future, but no-one thinks that mistake invalidates the report or the process.

I'll say it differently — if that's the biggest mistake you can find in the IPCC report (and given how much hand-wringing and complaining about it there has been, it's highly likely it was the biggest mistake), then you either have to accept climate change is real, or find a bigger mistake.

I really don't know why I'm arguing with you. Of course the IPCC regret the mistake. But they haven't all gone to commit seppuku over it. Refute the scientific basis report.
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I'm glad I read the comments. I had the same knee-jerk reaction as above. Glad to know I'm still safe :)
You raise a valid point if you're putting up a shelf. But if you're programming then you'll be at a disadvantage if you're not familiar with the tools at hand. Even a designer is going to suffer if they're made to use the Gimp when they're used to Photoshop, not because Gimp is or isn't a good tool but because the interaction is different.

Switching from Lightroom to Aperture I've noticed substantial differences in my photography, and I'm not a very good photographer. I'm considering switching back to Lightroom - I'm sure Aperture's great, but the learning curve is harder than switching from Vim to Emacs.
And I would probably not take that bet, because I am sure you are right as well.
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Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut. This was after I finished Casino Royale by Ian Fleming and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.

As far as non-fiction goes I'm reading Backgammon by Paul Magriel and Beginning iPhone Development.
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It does often hold, but to me this doesn't justify the arrogance I see so often today. If we spoke with more honest language it might head off some of the defensive responses and make it easier to pinpoint the real break downs in communication. For example, for me the problem isn't that people aren't convinced by the GW evidence accumulated so far (either side). The problem is they are actively advocating a theory based on ignorance (e.g. "it's not conclusive that the cause is X so therefor I assert it is Y").
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You do know that that's the central complaint of the lawsuit? And that had Apple stated publicly that the 3G phones were no longer supported, that would have been just fine. I own multiple apple products and the one thing that's sure to make me contemplate my choices in a less than favorable light is the idea that I can't trust an update not to break functionality.
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If there's scientific evidence against global warming, then where is it? All the evidence that I've seen - historical stuff, like core samples, and current temperature records - support it. I'm quite happy to take a look if you can find it.

The point with that link is that even when asked a straightforward question on the one piece of evidence (a non peer reviewed paper) that's been put forward so far, nobody wants to actually answer it. They'd much rather dodge and weave and pull out the same old tired talking points about how things are getting colder, we're overdue for an ice age, blah, blah, blah. Meanwhile, what does that have to do with the originally cited paper?

Not sure what makes me come across as unstructured, either. Perhaps I'm just too used to arguing these points, so I'm "talking" a bit fast?
I'm not saying that voting it down was wrong. The same would have happened if we germans hat a chance to vote on that. But it proves the point isn't it?
It's not a straight x/y calculation. For me, going through security usually takes between 40 minutes to a couple of hours depending on the air port. But the experience is so awful that I dread it for hours ahead of time and am infuriated by it for hours afterwards. I don't like driving long distances but at least I can avoid some of the stress.
Just exercise in the end of the day, and then you can sleep if you feel like.
I think pretty much everything looks more impressive before you see how it actually works.
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>and went after anyone who tried to make a clean-room implementation of it.

That doesn't sound legal. You're allowed to clean-room implement anything aren't you?
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I switched back from 3.x to 4.1 about a week after 4.1 came out, and the slowness has been almost unnoticable. And I've now been on 4.1 longer than 4.0, so I haven't degraded.
This can only end if peer-reviewed journals require source code (and if possible datasets) to be made available as well. High-impact journals have the weight to enforce such policies.

It's true that third parties can apply methods easily to new data. But it is a testimony to the method, and references will help building the reputation of the original inventor.

Another concern only addressed in the comments on this blog post is that most scientists do not produce beautiful programs. The reasons are twofold:

- Programs are hacked together as quickly as possible to produce results. Scientists are mostly concerned with testing their theories, and not so much in producing software for public consumption.

- Most scientists are not great programmers.

Consequently, scientists usually do not want to make their source code available.

This situation sucks, given that in many countries taxpayers fund science.
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But if you're really good you might not be willing to spend a big chunk of your day fighting with obsolete technologies. Unless the money makes up for it of course.
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I get what you mean.

But: You can lean back and discuss for the next decades without making a move in a direction. You can discuss and discuss and both sides will bring arguments and you will never find a conclusion. It's a sham.

On the other hand it is quite obvious (without discussions, statistics, yada yada yada) that we are polluting the planet. I don't need figures for that, i just need to look out of my window.
Germany, for example, is investing quite a lot into green energy. Just for fun? Or probably with a reason?

But, what bothers me, is the feeling that most people don't want to think about it. It's easier to accept the argument that everything is fine, not care about it and live as if nothing happened without reflecting. I guess many people are (subconsciously) thinking like that. And reading those "false" claims on twitter may be reason enough for many people to just believe it without questioning it. That's why it's good to have some "counterweight". I don't know if i made myself clear enough, but well...

The quintessence is to not look away but do something.
Look, here's the thing. We know that CO2 absorbs light energy in the frequencies reflected by the Earth more than the frequencies that arrive from the sun. That is, any CO2 that you have in your atmosphere is going to lead to an increase in the rate of absorbtion of energy from the sun on a planetary scale. The spectrum of Earth's reflected light has been confirmed by satellites, the absorbtion spectrum of CO2 has been determined in lab experiments. That means that the null hypothesis for an increase in CO2 in the atmosphere will lead to an increase in the temperature of the Earth.

The increase of CO2 in the atmosphere is also something that is directly measurable, and indeed, if you just take the scientific records from the last 50 years, you see a large increase of CO2 in the atmosphere. We can reasonably speculate that this is due to the massive increase of burning of fossil fuels, as we know that burning fossil fuels releases CO2, and we know that we have massively increased the quantity of fossil fuels burned.

That is the basic case for AGW. Afterwards, we can start to look a feedback loops, changes in albedo, effects at high altitude etc, but the basis for AGW is what I just laid out, and is confirmed by measurement. If you want to knock of AGW as a scientific hypothesis, you have to propose an alternative model that describes the same data, along with an experiment that can be conducted that will enable us to identify if your theory or AGW is correct. No-one, and I do mean no-one, has been able to meet that simple challenge. AGW is quite simply the best explanation that we have that fits the data. Come up with a better alternative, get meteorologists to agree that it's valid, and then I'll listen to what climate change deniers have to say. Until then, they've got nothing and as far as I am concerned are dangerously delaying changes to our behaviour that are urgently needed to avert a serious threat to the very survival of the human race. That is all.
Seriously. Relatedly, it is seriously impressive that systems this comprehensively screwed up seem to still converge on producing acceptable work much of the time. Big companies manage to get us all fed and fly us around the world. That scares the bejeesus out of me. I have put my lives in the hands of someone who was selected by an HR department (assisted by, even worse, a union)
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Other people have thought about, and at least started to solve the problem of academic source code being extremely proof-of-concept rather that production or resume ready pieces of software engineering art:

http://matt.might.net/articles/crapl/
I'm a huge Pratchett fan. I especially like the Watch novels, but every one of them has its merits. You might find this useful:

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Taxpayers and scientists have a deal: we provide some support for your education and research, and in return you show us how to do stuff.

If you don't like that deal, governments have an even better one: we give you patent rights on what you invent -- as long as you show us how it is done.

These deals aren't altruism on the part of the public. Nobody thinks science is a charity. It's vital to the interests of the particular nations and the species as a whole.

In my opinion, no institution of higher learning that is supported by taxpayers should be giving out credentials to people who are so insecure and unprofessional as to not be able or willing to completely describe how they reached whatever conclusions they have. And that's not even getting into the issue of taking research and making political arguments out of it. That raises the bar even higher.

It's a scandal. And the only reason it's coming out is because some people -- for whatever reason -- have a bug in their shorts about climate science.

It's time to set some ethical standards for all scientific research. Open data, open programming on standardized platforms, and elimination of scientist-as-activist. There's just too much dirt and conflict of interest in certain areas of science. Not all, by any means. But enough to leave a bad taste in the average citizen's mouth. I love science. We deserve better than this. Something needs fixing.
I think perhaps you're unaware of your emotional investment in the argument. I can tell this is something you're passionate about. Unfortunately in that argument your passion is working against you.
This dude is even crazier: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmpX4jCpbDI
If you're talking about climate models, then they fit the observed historical data pretty well. lzw is wrong on that point.
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But when it comes to hiring _good_ developers, Python/Ruby/Lisp are definitely a better option.

In my experience, while it seemed at first that hiring PHP developers would be easier, it actually proved wrong, as we had to spend way more time to find _good_ developers among the mass than we would have if we were looking for, says, Python developers.
You DO NOT have plenty of time! Kids grow up so quickly that before you know it, he'll be 18!
I am optimistic that more codes will become available soon. This subject is dear to the heart of many scientists and is often discussed -- see this recent HN item:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1789134
>Creating branches in svn is cheap, switching branches is cheap, checking out a new working copy if you want to work on two changes at once is also cheap, merging is cheap.

This is just misinformation. Merging is absolutely not cheap, how incredibly expensive it is in SVN is the reason some of the DVCSes of today even exist. Try doing some of the common Git work flows [1] in SVN and let us know how well that works out. I've done it. Once. After that we adopted a methodology to ensure we'd never have to do it again.

[1] Pretty much anything where you are moving change sets between multiple branches before pushing back to main. Trivial in a DVCS, a nightmare in SVN.
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> Creating branches in svn is cheap, switching branches is cheap, checking out a new working copy if you want to work on two changes at once is also cheap, merging is cheap.

I think then the problem is our definitions of 'cheap'.

A typical switch command on a working copy of our codebase at work (20,000 + files) takes 1-2 minutes, and its a lot longer for creating a new branch. In a git version of the same repository both these operations are comparatively instantaneous. YMMV.

Also, regarding merging, I believe that in new versions of the svn client there is mergeinfo, however older repositories without this metadata will give you issues when you for example create a branch, merge changes from trunk into your branch and then subsequently attempt to merge that branch back into trunk.

This is the classic 'svn sucks at merging' problem and to me, its complexity overhead that would deter me from branching, i.e. not 'cheap'. I normally get around this by remembering the revision number of the last 'rebase' from trunk (or give it an easily greppable commit message) and then when I do the merge back into trunk I specify that I only want changes from the last rebase to HEAD.

The internal model of git makes this a non-issue, i.e. each commit has a parent commit, and for any given commit on two separate branches, git just walks the tree up to the nearest common ancestor.
i googled but unable to find link. Can you provide a link where they stated the iphone 3G is no longer supported, they stated features would not be supported but not the phone itself. Major release features of 4.1 was to support 3G.
Sure, but just because something isn't completely conclusive, doesn't mean that it's wrong, or that you shouldn't start taking action based on it. And where do you draw the line? If something's 99% certain, or 99.9% certain, at what point do you stop arguing and take it as fact? When are you allowed to start actively advocating a particular theory?
"Then again, I wasn't asking anybody to bet the economy on my results."

To be fair, no climate scientist is asking anyone to bet the economy on their results, it's the various interest groups that pressure scientists into giving an answer that is less nuanced as they would have liked and then blame them when things go wrong. (at least for the 10 or so I know personally, but I'm pretty sure no others do, either). Actually this is true for all scientists I know in field that have political relevance.
Does anyone have ballpark numbers for what a non gpl encumbered mysql licence used to cost before this announcement? I assume Sun and/or Mysql ab used to offer a similar range of mysql based licences?
True, but most people aren't successful. Sadly.
Pretty much what ycombinator funded "the fridge" tries to achieve. The problem is the best tool is probably a hybrid between full segregation and full connectedness. Problem is that in this kind of territory your application becomes harder for the user who has to think more about who is going to see which piece of content.
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I thought the same thing when I first upgraded my 3G. "Hmm, performance seems similar to 3.1.3, wonder what people were talking about".

Then apps started crashing on a daily basis:

-Camera sometimes would take a LONG time to boot up

-Phone somehow corrupted recent calls

-Would sometimes need to open an app 2-3 times for it to finally work

-Even unlocking the screen sometimes would lag while I tried swiping 1,2,5,7 times on the screen, thinking it didn't register.

I tried downgrading, but the different guides didn't help me (kept getting different iTunes errors even with using iReb). Guess I may be stuck or have to restore every few weeks or so to get it to work well :-|
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I don't buy the point that once source code is published, you have to do all the "customer support" stuff. You don't have any obligation to do customer support so that you should be able to decide when you'd like to reply the request or whether reply it at all.

Source code is a very precise way to exhibit the work you have done. It is so precise that even particular machine can understand it. I am really happy to see that recently in NIPS more and more people published their MATLAB code along with their papers.
I travel a lot to the DC area and although I am with the both of you when it comes to the paltry food selection, I think 2 Amys is probably one of the best pizza places (non chains
) south of Maryland. In general the food is pretty "dingy" in DC.

However, you are never too far from a good slice of apple pie and cheddar cheese.
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Can you give us some insights about how exactly are you modeling Posterous around the experience at Apple?
Thanks, your answer is informative enough that I can google for more answers.
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Publicly available statements and evidence of past behavior has led me to reject my default charitable supposition that climate scientists and interests groups are disjoint sets.
Wow, do people really not get that?

MySQL, including InnoDB, is dual-licensed, and has been for a while. So unless you want to package MySQL/InnoDB with a commercial product, nothing has changed.

http://www.innodb.com/products/innodb/license/
As with most thing balance is required, spend to long looking at competition and you will probably lose cohesion in your app as you struggle to find ways to keep up on the feature curve, don't spend enough time and you risk being late to the game on something big thats changed in your space.
I'm cooking up a Twitter Recommendation Engine for users, hashtags, and links etc.

For example: http://tagwalk.com/tag/MySQL
If your process isn't sufficiently documented so that your professional peers could reproduce your results with your data, then your process is unreliable. We berate academics all the time for improper or incomplete documentation of manual experiments. I can't see any reason why source code should be held to a lesser standard.
I'd not come across the term 'comparative advantage' before. Not thought of it from that angle. You want the freedom to turn pot into a commodity?

Growing the plant, a weed is pretty trivial. Anyone could do it. Which means those barriers are not in place. However, I appreciate some people might not have the time and energy - how about additionally making it okay to give to your friends?

The recreational drug I do frequently is alcohol just because it's legally and sociably acceptable - given a free choice it certainly wouldn't be my first.
Got confused until I read the legend at the bottom. Everything with a 1 next to it is commercial edition only. This does not include InnoDB thus, it's available in the community edition. Which is good, who uses MyISAM anyway?
> use IPython, not just python shell for interactivity.

or bpython
Thats not gits fault. It would need to know how the programm that preduced the file does updates or some professor somewere has to figure it out on bitlevel.
It looks like, though, that just getting MySQL from Oracle and wanting the annual support contract for a version with innodb will cost $2k/year. The page says that you can't get support for 'classic' MySQL. I can't find an earlier version of that page with pricing, so perhaps this has changed a bit?

Doesn't look like this has affected the 'Community Edition' (yet?)
That's strange, I can't even see a difference in the url of my submission and the first dup you pointed out.
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