Some links

By stoat on June 8, 2010.

More boring links blogs stuff. But just for once I do actually have something else to say, so I'll try to clear this out asap.

* Do you need context to understand the CRU emails? Or can they be understood on their own? An analysis. No prizes for guessing the answer. But links to...
* The secret life of bugs which is a fun analysis of how much could you understand bugs from what was recorded about them? Answer, often not much. Mind you, some of the stuff in there is weird - how does The missing link to source code change-sets is one of the most problematic omissions. For the last bug of 70% of our survey respondents, the fix involved committing code to a repository. But 23% of those cases had no link from the bug record to the source make any sense in a sane system?
* Meanwhile, JA puts us all to shame by doing some science: "Assessing the consistency between short-term global temperature trends in observations and climate model projections". Lots of comments there. Possibly addressing some of JC/KK's "tribalism" problems.

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Thanks for the kind mention, William. I'm glad you thought it was good enough to mention. I put up a companion piece based on the same interviews today at S&R here too.