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Comment Re:Documentation can make a standrd (Score 4, Insightful) 299

K&R was a great documentation in the days where it worked best to have a book next to the keyboard - Just the function reference saved me plenty of time. I'd say a more modern equivalent is with PHP. Sure the language isn't that great - it has all sorts of weird quirks and inconsistencies- but the documentation is exceptional. Almost all of the pages have a good description, an example, links to related functions, and a comment area where other people can extend it. There's no way PHP would have become as popular with documentation like Java

Comment Re:Let's trade one priesthood for another! (Score 1) 1774

Of course I wish the original data was available, and the scientists should have made a better effort to make sure the raw materials were still around.

On the other hand, I can understand why they might get rid of boxes of data that had long since been processed after no one looking at them. It's not like anyone wanted to look at the data until they heard it was gone.

Comment Re:Let's trade one priesthood for another! (Score 1) 1774

The thing is, there isn't an alternative to science. There's science (reality), and then there's make believe. You seem to personally hold a grudge against all the scientists in the world (seems like you never interact with them), but that doesn't change that science is all there is.

Comment Re:Let's trade one priesthood for another! (Score 1) 1774

I assume you also reviewed the data yourself as well and made your own climate models that show the planet is absolutely not warming at all? Looks to me like you got the Fox News Highlights of the emails.

It must be fun living in a fantasy where millions of people are involved in a conspiracy to...improve the world?...and it's up to you to spread the truth.

Climate scientists have been wrong is the past. Models from a few decades ago predicted that the world would be cooling to a new ice age, but as more data was collected and models improved, that was reversed. According to you, they should have continued on that path and labeled the people disagreeing with them as loonbags - but they didn't because that's not how science works.

China and India obviously don't care about the environment or killing their population. Air quality is so poor that people need masks to breath outside in some areas. If you look at climate change in a pure short term economic point of view, then of course you're not going to go with it.

Take some time to learn about what science is, maybe take a class or two at your local high school. It's not like a religion at all - ask Bill Nye

Comment Re:Let's trade one priesthood for another! (Score 1) 1774

The research has been under contention in the US by oil companies for years. The big scandal of "climategate" was someone had an insecure email server.

If you yourself were to learn how climate science works and then investigate the same thing, you would come to the same conclusion. The catch is it takes some work to become educated, you can't just make guesses that you're right.

I'm guessing you're going to be defending the flat-Earth supporters next? There's evidence that the world is round, but who can really prove it! Better to just assume it's flat like the Bible says.

Comment Re:Let's trade one priesthood for another! (Score 1) 1774

Well if you claim anyone qualified to look into things science related are on the same side, then you're going to have trouble. Who else would be able to look into the research? Someone with no scientific background? It wasn't the same scientists looking into it, or even just one related group. Multiple independent groups cleared them of wrong doing.

When the critics have no idea what they're talking about, it's fine to shout them down.

Comment Re:Let's trade one priesthood for another! (Score 1) 1774

Science is just that. A tool.

Sure there are some scientists that would use it for pushing an agenda, but 99.99% of scientists are in it for the improvement of human knowledge.

The "climategate" fiasco showed this - some anti-science people looked at a few emails out of context and jumped to conclusions that the science was bad, but then there was an extensive review that found it to be valid.

The great thing about science is that it ISN'T a religion, so anyone can get the training needed and work it out for themself, they aren't demanded to be obedient to a priest or labeled as heretics if they make a breakthrough.

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