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Last time your build failed because you made a typo, did you package it up and release that version anyway?

• wyager 11y ago
  Bad analogy. There's a lot more to learn from a failed medical experiment than a failed build.
  • cryoshon 11y ago
    Depends on whether the lessons have already been learned or not. For stuff like "we fucked up our culture, therefore our cells couldn't do whatever we wanted" is well understood. In clinical trials where some patients may respond to a treatment and others not, there's definitely a lot more to learn there, if you have a large enough data set and a plurality of controls.
• wlesieutre 11y ago
  This could be useful information to someone learning not to make typos! Or it could not. Probably that one.
• catshirt 11y ago
  a paper is not a black box with inputs and outputs. would i release a package? no. would i release the source code? why not? code isn't irrelevant or useless just because it can't build. this is why we can teach code on a whiteboard.
• TeMPOraL 11y ago
  Except in this case your build system is configured in such a way that a failed build triggers bundling your /usr/bin as a release. The result is mostly the same everywhere, with slight differences per programmer, and is utterly worthless for anyone.