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Comment Re:Ha! I have you all beat! (Score 1) 1127

by carrowood on Monday April 13, 2009 @08:17PM (#27565025) Attached to: Worst Working Conditions You Had To Write Code In?

Agreed. Although it is only a crude form of programming, I wrote "ladder logic" for PLC's in waste water treatment plants back in '95 or so. Nasty! Oh, and watch those methane detectors!

Submission + - Does Wikipedia Suck on Science Stories?

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 11, 2007 @09:39PM

An anonymous reader writes: An editor from Wired writes on his blog that Wikipedia sucks for science stories — not because they are inaccurate, but because of what he calls the "tragedy of the uncommon": Too many experts writing about subjects in ways that no non-expert can understand. Would this be the dumbing-down of Wikipedia — or would it be a better resource for everyone?