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The more data will be published, the more we'll understand the need for a data curation process.


I can see something similar exists for PHP/WordPress https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer


According to Wiktionary [1]: "Usage in reference to the global network is normally capitalised, reserving internet with a lower-case i for any other set of computer networks connected by internetworking. However, popular usage (e.g. BBC and Timesonline) increasingly spells it with a lower-case i."

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Internet#Usage_notes


I wonder how they increase the version numbers. A couple of years ago weren't they around version 6?


Yes, I was thinking about Chrome, it's at 34, and Firefox is following.

It just popped in my mind Terminator (although it's a hardware), like the T1000 :-)


Since the T1000 is from the future, that's cheating. In the near future Chrome will be version 10^100 at least.



Yes, especially for comments like this.


It's because they're using Scala :-)


Today we could be using Chaosnet and writing Lisp.


My curiosity is, what leads people to spend time and effort to analyze millions of universe pictures to identify stars without any specific reward (they can't even name new discoveries)?


This may sound like a cliche, but the discovery is the reward. Everything else is just icing on the cake, may make your life more comfortable, may make you feel appreciated, but it's optional. I mean, your question actually says "why would anyone do any science?", because have in mind that doing fundamental science is not that lucrative in terms of pay compared to the value it brings, and only a vanishingly small percentage of scientists actually get some kind of a recognition, and of those who do a vanishingly small percentage is even mentioned to general public.


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