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Challenge to scientists: does your ten-year-old code still run? – Nature.com
Missing documentation and obsolete environments force participants in the Ten Years Reproducibility Challenge to get creative.
What Nicolas Rougier needed was a disk. Not a pocket-sized terabyte hard drive, not a compact disc an actual floppy disk.
For those who missed the 1980s, the original floppy disk was a flexible, flimsy disk inside a square sleeve with a hole in the centre and a notch in the corner, and a couple of hundred kilobytes of storage. In the 1983 cold-war film War Games, high-school hacker David Lightman uses one to break into the schools computer and give his girlfriend top marks in biology; he later …
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