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Comment disciplining academic code (Score 1) 220

I see a fair number of academic and government codes now appearing in github. That puts them under source control and make files. Sometimes bug management and documentation. These are all items mandatory in the software industry and used to sparse in crappy student code. It can also be good publicity for code authors in future job hunts.

Comment Earthquake people prefer short direct messages (Score 1) 232

At the AGU meeting meeting last month a talk said that 75 character message was optimal. Some ancient computers still have 80 character buffer. A short, direct message like "A nearby earthquake has just occurred. Take cover." Messages with more details could be broadcast later. Damaging earthquakes have shorter warnings versus ballistic missles- 5 to 120 seconds vesus 17 minutes. It is based only a single station impulse be interpreted as an earthquake with a rough magnitude estimated. More precise determinations of quakes like at the NEIC require hitting several stations across the world. This is too late for a warning in most cases. The US is fourth country to implement a quake alert system. (Painfully slow due to low funding.)

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