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If I were involved in this project, I'd be sitting around saying "please don't let it be my fault, please don't let it be my fault". Somewhere, somebody screwe
by hugh3 15y ago
If I were involved in this project, I'd be sitting around saying "please don't let it be my fault, please don't let it be my fault".
Somewhere, somebody screwed up... and if the problem is in my code then I want to find it and correct it myself, rather than have it found and corrected by some random stranger who emailed me, and will then post the bug all over the internet so the world can point and laugh at the exact line of my source code that sent the world on a wild goose chase for FTL neutrinos.
So I don't blame this guy for not sending you his source code.
- jgrahamc 15y agoI don't blame him either. Random British guy writes to you in French and ask for your source code. Sure I'd be skeptical too (although personally I err on the side of releasing all my code). The problem is that suppose it is a bug and suppose the code is being kept behind so they can find the bug themselves. A huge amount of time and money is wasted whereas a programmer could look at the code and compare with the paper pretty quickly. Also in the case of high-energy physics its not exactly easy to duplicate experiments because of the eye-watering cost of the equipment.
- jonhendry 15y ago"A huge amount of time and money is wasted whereas a programmer could look at the code and compare with the paper pretty quickly." Maybe. It might be faster and easier to analyze the data using their described methods and your own code and see if the results are the same.