Cube Antics

There are three common issues that have been raised in my previous post that I would like to officially address concerning the CRU’s source code.

If you only get one thing from this post, please get this. I am only making a statement about the research methods of the CRU and trying to show proof that they had the means and intent to falsify data. And, until the CRU’s research results can be verified by a 3rd party, they cannot be trusted.

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I’m coming to you today as a scientist and engineer with an agnostic stand on global warming.

If you don’t know anything about “Climategate” (does anyone else hate that name?) Go ahead and read up on it before you check out this post, I’ll wait.

Back? Let’s get started.

First, let’s get this out of the way: Emails prove nothing. Sure, you can look like an unethical asshole who may have committed a felony using government funded money; but all email is, is talk, and talk is…

There’s nothing more frustrating to me than having my time wasted, especially when project deadlines are looming around every corner.  Unfortunately, most corporate-tailored training classes are just that; a waste of time.

Why is this? You may ask.  The simple answer is complacency.  Instructors are contracted out by training companies to cover cookie cutter material created by someone who doesn’t know anything about what you are working on, upper-level managers could care less about the specifics covered in a particular training class…

Here’s my take on the Google Go programming language Issue 9 fiasco.

The Background

You know that awesome new programming language Google is coming out with called Go? It turns out that Francis McCabe has already created a programming language called Go! almost 5 years ago. In fact, he even wrote a book about it that was published in February of 2007 (in addition to several articles).

Enter Issue 9

So, like any responsible member of the programming community, Francis opened up an issue in the Go issue tracking…

A very interesting open letter – written almost a decade before I was born – from Bill Gates (of Micro-Soft at the time) offering his perspective on software piracy.

Whether or not you like Bill Gates (personally, I’m a fan) you have to admire one of the last sentences of this letter when he pleads for people to buy his software instead of pirating it.

“Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten programmers and deluge the hobby market…

I work at a pretty awesome place where I actually get paid to play on a computer all day, work in a language I enjoy around smart people I enjoy even more. It seems like ever since I started this blog (which wasn’t that long ago) my head has been filled with tons of different topics that I want to share my perspective on. However, the one topic that takes up the majority of my day, is regrettably, off limits. Unfortunately (for…