Notices by Warrick Ball (warrickball@mas.to)

@crawfordsm

I'll bite! 🔥

Current academic incentives are aligned *against* collaborating on software leaving us with classes of problem where no-one can afford to lay down enough infrastructure to build new software, even if we'd then make much greater research progress.

Researchers also end up frequently retreading the same ground because then they can cite *their* package rather than collaborate to improve an existing package (e.g. by making it easier to use).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R4d2E4m7tU

@powersoffour @gvwilson

Oh, I'm not actually sure. I'm hoping I'm about to learn something and would be interested to see a longer breakdown...

@gvwilson

Because Python is a short-circuiting language, right? I've seen Python coders get tripped up by languages that don't short circuit or, even more confusingly, where it depends on the compiler.

When I'm inspecting code with people and notice a short circuit, I always try to point it out, even when it isn't relevant to why we're inspecting the code.

#xkcd should make a comic about how there's always a relevant #xkcd.