Comments on: Quick Quiz to Measure What Scientists Know http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/1694.html Data is ones and zeroes | Software is ones and zeroes and hard work. Tue, 22 May 2012 16:23:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Sam Penrose http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/1694.html#comment-1964 Sam Penrose Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:09:16 +0000 http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/archives/1694.html#comment-1964 This post is also a high Google hit for "Variant digression". define:"variant digression" and define:"variant regression" return nothing. Yahoo returns little of interest. So ... what is it? This post is also a high Google hit for “Variant digression”.

define:”variant digression” and define:”variant regression” return nothing.

Yahoo returns little of interest. So … what is it?

]]> By: Michael Tobis http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/1694.html#comment-1963 Michael Tobis Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:36:25 +0000 http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/archives/1694.html#comment-1963 "I know all about it and you couldn't pay me enough to use it again". “I know all about it and you couldn’t pay me enough to use it again”.

]]> By: JohnMc http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/1694.html#comment-1962 JohnMc Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:18:49 +0000 http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/archives/1694.html#comment-1962 Your first order question is define 'scientist'. I would hazard that there are many disciplines that not pass any of these tests. eg. Medical researcher. But that does not mean that they aren't a scientist. Fact much of this I would pose to the team IT guy not the Principal Investigator. Just an observation. Your first order question is define ‘scientist’. I would hazard that there are many disciplines that not pass any of these tests. eg. Medical researcher. But that does not mean that they aren’t a scientist.

Fact much of this I would pose to the team IT guy not the Principal Investigator.

Just an observation.

]]> By: Paddy3118 http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/1694.html#comment-1961 Paddy3118 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:48:13 +0000 http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/archives/1694.html#comment-1961 For the first list you've missed out: 14. Computerised Simulation e.g. Monte Carlo methods, discrete event simulations. 15. Computerised visualization software e.g. Thermal analysis. On the second list, you could add: * Recursion * OO * functional programming style. * declarative programming style. * Profiling. * Refactoring. The last list doesn't address the team management side of software development though. - Paddy. * Style guides * For the first list you’ve missed out:

14. Computerised Simulation e.g. Monte Carlo methods, discrete event simulations.
15. Computerised visualization software e.g. Thermal analysis.

On the second list, you could add:

* Recursion
* OO
* functional programming style.
* declarative programming style.
* Profiling.
* Refactoring.

The last list doesn’t address the team management side of software development though.

- Paddy.

* Style guides
*

]]> By: Matt Doar http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/1694.html#comment-1960 Matt Doar Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:49:02 +0000 http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/archives/1694.html#comment-1960 Some trick questions could be useful for filtering bozo responses. "And all of you who said that they used back-scattering inheritance in their code are big ol' liars!" ~Matt Some trick questions could be useful for filtering bozo responses. “And all of you who said that they used back-scattering inheritance in their code are big ol’ liars!”

~Matt

]]> By: Matt Doar http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/1694.html#comment-1959 Matt Doar Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:47:42 +0000 http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/archives/1694.html#comment-1959 > Perhaps something like “I know what it is, but I don’t use it” Or even, "I don't know what it is, but Greg told me I need to use it" ;-) > Perhaps something like “I know what it is, but I don’t use it”

Or even, “I don’t know what it is, but Greg told me I need to use it” ;-)

]]> By: Matt Doar http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/1694.html#comment-1958 Matt Doar Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:45:54 +0000 http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/archives/1694.html#comment-1958 I might add something like "automated builds" to the first list. And perhaps release management or "how do you deploy the software?" I might add something like “automated builds” to the first list. And perhaps release management or “how do you deploy the software?”

]]> By: Nick Radcliffe http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/1694.html#comment-1957 Nick Radcliffe Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:18:58 +0000 http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/archives/1694.html#comment-1957 What I don't like about your scale is that it's loaded and doesn't cover all the options. There's pretty much a built-in assumption that if you know about this stuff you will use it. What about people who have good knowledge of something but either have chosen not to use it or have used it a lot and stopped because it was bad (or bad for them)? For example, I've not only lived in debuggers, I've written them; but I haven't used one for years. Personally, I think the most obvious missing thing on the (first) list is a text editor...but I know you think emacs users would still be using punched card if only there decent readers available :-) (And on a different note, I can't resist asking, if Word is WYSIWYG system, why does it have a preview button?) What I don’t like about your scale is that it’s loaded and doesn’t cover all the options. There’s pretty much a built-in assumption that if you know about this stuff you will use it. What about people who have good knowledge of something but either have chosen not to use it or have used it a lot and stopped because it was bad (or bad for them)? For example, I’ve not only lived in debuggers, I’ve written them; but I haven’t used one for years.

Personally, I think the most obvious missing thing on the (first) list is a text editor…but I know you think emacs users would still be using punched card if only there decent readers available :-)

(And on a different note, I can’t resist asking, if Word is WYSIWYG system, why does it have a preview button?)

]]> By: Matt http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/1694.html#comment-1956 Matt Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:04:58 +0000 http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/archives/1694.html#comment-1956 I'd suggest that you add a number into your first scale: 0. No idea what it is. 1. Know what it is, but never used it. 2. Use it/have used it infrequently. 3. Use it regularly. 4. Couldn’t get through the day without it. I’d suggest that you add a number into your first scale:

0. No idea what it is.
1. Know what it is, but never used it.
2. Use it/have used it infrequently.
3. Use it regularly.
4. Couldn’t get through the day without it.

]]> By: Matthew Woodcraft http://third-bit.com/blog/archives/1694.html#comment-1955 Matthew Woodcraft Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:52:45 +0000 http://pyre.third-bit.com/blog/archives/1694.html#comment-1955 The upper scale doesn't have a good response if they know perfectly well what X is, but have never used it. The upper scale doesn’t have a good response if they know perfectly well what X is, but have never used it.

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