I haven't seen Kyle Wilson's article, Software is Hard, making the rounds yet... worth reading!
--titus
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Posted by Noah Gift on 2007-10-03 at 08:15.
Great article, at least it is a comfort that some people admit it is hard and that "software is hard" is becoming more …read more
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There's been lots of discussion recently about the global interpreter lock, and how evil it is. (I personally don't think it's evil. More on that some day when I write code again, if ever.)
Then I read this article, on parrot and Threading Building Blocks, and somethign clicked. I quote …
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Rob Campbell found me by google, and pointed me towards his blog, Science and Software. Funny, well written, and very apropos! Why isn't there more software, commercial or otherwise, for labs?
There has been a lot of local interest (i.e. two or three people have discussed it at various …
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After our long software licensing discussion on the biology-in-python list, I realized that I wanted something different in a license for scientific software.
Specifically, I would like to attach the following clause to either a BSD or L/GPL style license:
Publications relying on derivative works of this software must …read more
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This month the newly minted biology-in-python mailing list erupted into a discussion of licenses. There was some confusion about the goal of the discussion, for which I'm largely responsible: we didn't make it clear that we were talking about licenses for code and content posted on the bio.scipy.org …
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In the spirit of cleaning up my desktop... here's a PDF of my talk on Cartwheel at SciPy 2007.
--titus
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I'm now listed on the Gene Expression in Disease and Development page, as well as on the CompSci faculty page, MicroMolecularGenetics faculty page, QuantBio page, and SysBio page.
It was quite a shock to log into the CompSci cluster at MSU and see my group set as "faculty". As a …
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