As a scientific programmer/data scientist at a university, I wish I could upvote this twice. I'll be forwarding this one around my lab. Another issue well as c

As a scientific programmer/data scientist at a university, I wish I could upvote this twice. I'll be forwarding this one around my lab. Another issue well as code quality, transparency, reproducibility etc. is simply reuse. There's a lot of wasted effort in academia where people are constantly reimplementing simple things from scratch that do basically the same thing as their peers' code does. Okay, this is true in other fields too, but in our field it's public money getting wasted.