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| | Just a few years ago, sending encrypted messages was a challenge. Just to get started, you had to spend hours following along with jargon-filled tutorials, or be lucky enough to find a nerd friend to teach you. The few that survived this process quickly hit a second barrier: They could only encrypt with others who...
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| | An alleged outbreak of disease in Wuhan, China in late December 2019 was quickly reported as having developed into an 'epidemic' and on the 11th March 2020 the WHO declared it to be a 'pandemic'.( - I might have a total of 4 words of my own in here - thank you to the dedicated investigators - )In quick succession, countries around the world were being 'locked down' in an apparent effort to contain the disease; the phrase 'flatten the curve' was used to suggest that the numbers of cases were
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| | by Judith Curry My reflections on Climategate 10 years later, and also reflections on my reflections of 5 years ago. Last week, an email from Rob Bradley reminded me of my previous blog post The legacy of Climategate: 5 years ... Continue reading
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| The world is more complex than people like it to be. I regularly see blog posts of software experts providing us with values, principles, guidelines and practices to live our lives by. And all of them are good, and all of them are incomplete. I've seen improvements on the agile manifesto (Glen Alleman), additions to the agile manifesto (Jason Yip), conflicts over principles (Bob Martin vs. Joel Spolsky), controversy over practices (Ron Jeffries vs. me), and lots of other heated debates. Each discussion is valuable, and each is only half the story. We're all seeking simple truths where there aren't any. I believe it is time for a new manifesto. A manifesto of complexity. With this manifesto we must recognize that it is human to prefer simple solutions, but al...