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The oddities of being a scientist-programmer

Monday, March 16th, 2009

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Photo by jurvetson"][/caption] The scientist-programmer is in many ways a peculiar being.  Most of what you do each day is programming, yet the reason for your (professional) existence is to produce good science.  We think it's worth just taking a moment to think about this. Lots of prototyping ...